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- Does the Mets hierarchy need to see any more?
Indulge me for a moment.
Your team has lost over 90 games and is going nowhere. Winning two or three more games over the last week of the season is going to do nothing one way or the other to save or lose the job of the manager or coaches. With most organizations----even the Mets----the decision will have already been made. With a 4-3 deficit to the equally horrendous Washington Nationals in Washington and a runner on second base with two outs, why----why----would any manager in his right mind bring in his closer, Francisco Rodriguez, to record one out?
What was the plan for the bottom of the ninth had the Mets tied the game or taken the lead?
Was Mets manager Jerry Manuel going to have the audacity to have K-Rod pitch more than one inning now? Against the Nationals with both teams just running out the clock for the season to end? Was this some self-serving attempt to "win as many games as possible" for no reason whatsoever? The season's gone. Let it go. And to bring K-Rod in for more than one possible inning when: A) he simply isn't good at pitching two innings, nor is he built to pitch more than one inning in anything other than an extraordinary circumstance such as, oh I don't know, a playoff game; and B) the season is over----it's lost----risking any injury to K-Rod now is plain stupid even if not using him is Yankee-level paranoia over the innings and pitches of Joba Chamberlain.
And they lost the game anyway.
I don't want to hear stuff like "we're trying to win"; or "K-Rod hadn't pitched in four days"; or "whatever, whatever, blah, blah, blah". I'd consider shutting K-Rod down completely before I'd use him the eighth inning on the road and obviously plan to use him for more than one inning.
How much more do the Mets need to see?
Let's be pragmatic here. The coaches are going to learn their fate on Monday. It's obvious that the entire staff is either going to be fired or re-assigned within the organization. Does it make sense then to bring back the manager while firing all of his coaches? Logically, the Mets have to ask themselves a series of questions: Are they going to give Manuel a contract extension so he's not a lame duck next season? No. Are they going to fire him early if the club (presumably healthy) gets off to a bad start? Absolutely. Is he making big money to preclude the write-off from firing him now? No.
So why the vacillation?
Bobby Valentine has taken a job with ESPN to work the playoffs and possibly beyond, but there's an out to take over as some team's manager. Are the Mets going to continue down the road they're on and throw more money at their problems? Are they going to let someone else hire Valentine, who belongs in a Met uniform and wouldn't simply be taking the job for the money or because no one else has given him a chance? Or are they going to make a decisive and explosive move to ignite the fan base again, say they mean business and are no longer screwing around? Bottom line, what are the ticket sales going to look like if they bring this current field management team back without doing something drastic in acquiring players?
What more do they need to see to make the move?
- Speaking of using closers for more than one inning:
Most closers are unable to pitch more than one inning because they've been trained to only pitch one inning. Some teams overuse their closers to their eventual detriment and such appears to have been the case with the Royals, manager Trey Hillman and closer Joakim Soria.
The Royals used Kyle Farnsworth----yes really!----to try and close out a 3-2 lead over the Yankees last night and naturally, Farnsworth found a way to blow the game. (Actually, he pulled a Scott Norwood and kicked it away with two plays that were bounced right back to him and fumbled around like someone had flung a hot piece of charcoal at him.) But that's irrelevant. Farnsworth is what he is. But where was Soria?
One would assume he was unavailable after throwing 46 pitches on Tuesday and the "strategy" that Hillman has used with Soria over much of the second half has been to use him for more than one inning. Eight times since the All Star break has Soria pitched more than one inning. For what? Are the Royals in such a position that they need to be using one of their few marketable assets to such a degree? Add in that Soria has had shoulder problems and the transgression becomes far worse. You not only have your closer unavailable for stretches at a time (hence Farnsworth), but you run the risk of injuring him for subsequent seasons being overworked for a team that's lost 94 games.
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- Viewer Mail 9.30.2009:
Jane Heller at Confessions of a She-Fan writes RE Sal Fasano:
Poor Sal! And bad Rockies! That post made me even madder about the state of health insurance in this country, but I won't even start blathering about that or I'll...........
You can start blathering. The more we blather, the more we might get done. I spend the majority of my day blathering. It's not such a bad deal. Sometimes I come out with something that makes sense!
Jeff at Red State Blue State writes RE Pat Gillick:
I assume that when you say "in some capacity" in regards to Pat Gillick possibly teaming up with the Cubs, that you mean in some capacity other than GM, right? Because the talk around town here is that Hendry ain't goin' anywhere. And I may be wrong, but just judging by Lou Piniella's body language, he's outta Chicago after his contract is up... unless they miraculously put together a great season next year (they won't).
Gillick does not need the time-consuming stress of being a day-to-day GM again (especially for the Cubs), but as club president? I could absolutely see it happening. And he's a smart executive; plus he and Piniella are tight. He'd let Hendry handle the everyday stuff----like getting rid of Milton Bradley. Good luck.
Gabriel writes RE the Blue Jays:
Good reference to Dark Knight. You think that the Blue Jays would care about their "retiring" manager? The organization is a mess, and nobody has interest in being a respectful baseball organization. They're like Rachel Phelps, one would think that with the effort put into making the organization a good baseball club, they want to be moved out of Toronto. I know it might be best for the team to trade Halladay for some arms & bats with value, but come on, don't go with the "We'll let him go because he wants to win". Build the man a good lineup (like in '92 or '93) and see the man shutout his way through a pennant. I'm very disappointed with the lack of effort the Blue Jays have displayed this season.
Gaston would be doing the organization the biggest favor if he retired. It would save them from having to fire him if he refuses to leave. You can't bring in a new GM and dictate to him who the manager's going to be; it's a recipe for disaster and the club really isn't that far away from being pretty good. If they trade Halladay, it'll be due to finances and getting something for him before he ups and leaves after the season as a free agent. The club does seem to have packed it up and gone home, which is the death knell for the management team no matter who they are.
Megan writes RE a managerial candidate for the Mets:
Why can't the Mets promote from within the organization for the managerial position? Mr. Met has been there FOREVER. Give him a shot for Pete's sake. All Mr. Met has received is a mug with Rusty Staub's face on it and Certificate of Merit for his years of service.
I doubt Mr. Met needs the aggravation of dealing with Jose Reyes and Oliver Perez. He might start smoking and drinking again. And he tends to get a big head if things go well. Or poorly for that matter.


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If last week was any indication, this is an area where the Ravens can exploit Jacksonville. The Jaguars run defense last Sunday surrendered 146 yards and a touchdown to the Pittsburgh Steelers Rashard Mendenhall, who frequently was able to beat defenders to the edge. Jacksonville is giving up 115 yards a game on the ground, which is 19th in the NFL. Paul Posluszny, a free agent signing from the Buffalo Bills, is sixth in the NFL with 55 tackles. He joins veteran Daryl Smith, the Jaguars franchise leader in tackles, in forming an active linebacker tandem. The Ravens got their running game going in the second half last Sunday against the Houston Texans, rushing for 91 yards after halftime, and getting Ray Rice over the 100-yard mark. The key to the turnaround was more inside rushing behind big fullback Vonta Leach. Rice is 11th in the NFL with 398 rushing yards on 89 carries, but nine of the 10 players ahead of him have at least 10 more carries than he does. The Ravens currently average 121.6 yards a game on the ground, the 12th-best total in the NFL. That number figures to improve when guard Ben Grubbs (toe) returns. EDGE: RAVENS
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Last week, Cowboys coach Jason Garrett appeared to be leaning toward holding quarterback Tony Romo out of Sunday's Hall of Fame Game against the Dolphins.
While Garrett left the door open to a cameo appearance for a series to start things off, he intimated that the preseason opener would be quarterbacked by Nick Stephens and Alex Tanney as they battle for the third spot on the depth chart. Romo knows that such a limited appearance doesn't sound like much, but he's still hoping that Garrett decides to call his number in Canton even though he's been limited in preseason reps because of the back surgery to remove a cyst that he had this offseason.
"I don't know that first series, if I did play, it would be a series, whether you went eight plays or three plays, I'm not sure how much that is going to affect that," Romo said, via the team's website. "Saying that, I still want to play every time I suit up. Every time I step out there your juices are flowing and you want to compete. From that perspective, yeah. But whatever the coaches want."
It's hard to imagine that Romo's desire to play will sway Garrett when the Cowboys still have four more preseason games to play. That allows the team to give Romo more time to make sure all is well after surgery without altering the normal preseason schedule for their starting quarterback.


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A new Penn State Executive Programs offering for executives in the hospitality industry will help participants understand how to use Big Data and employ digital marketing strategies to increase performance on many levels. The program, Big Digital Marketing for Hospitality, will run on Oct. 2 and 3 in Philadelphia at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown.
Aimed at sales and operations executives responsible for product and service delivery as well as customer service, the program will cover Big Data basics, digital marketing strategies, online advertising methods and legal ramifications. Participants will also learn to better navigate social media to shape the organization's image and brand.
"Information technology represents one of the largest areas of capital expenditure within the hospitality industry," said Maria Taylor, managing director of Penn State Executive Programs. "Through this program, participants can begin seeing Big Data as a strategic enabler from which can come service enhancements, product differentiations and new revenue streams."
"Through this program, participants can begin seeing Big Data as a strategic enabler from which can come service enhancements, product differentiations and new revenue streams."
-- Maria Taylor, managing director, Penn State Executive Programs
To make this program possible, Penn State Executive Programs has utilized its University-wide and external networks to bring together a group of faculty leaders who are experts in their field. Pete Nyheim, senior instructor of technology in Penn State School of Hospitality Management, will serve as the program's faculty director.
Other faculty leaders include Josh McHugh, CEO of Attention Span Media and cofounder of Fanatical; Howard Foster, consultant and former CEO of Media Trust; Michael L. Pilion, founding partner of the Global Outsourcing, Technology and Commercial Transactions Practice at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP; Odia Kagan, associate in the Corporate and Securities Practice Group at Pepper Hamilton LLP; and Frederic M. Wilf, managing partner, Wilftek LLC.
Pilion, Kagan and Wilf will serve as legal experts on a panel discussing the legalities of digital marketing practice.
"Along with our partners in the Penn State Hospitality Leadership Institute, we're excited to offer this very timely program on implementing digital marketing strategies in the hospitality industry," said Taylor. "Our extensive academic and professional networks allow us to respond quickly to these kinds of niche business needs with programs that offer the latest in industry knowledge."
To learn more about the program, including how to register, visit http://www.smeal.psu.edu/psep/open/bdmh/big-digital-marketing.
About Penn State Executive Programs
As part of the Smeal College of Business, Penn State Executive Programs builds leadership and organizational capabilities to address pressing business challenges. Open-enrollment programs for executives are offered in areas such as strategy and leadership, supply chain management and finance. Penn State Executive Programs also partners with major multinational organizations to deliver customized learning solutions. Learn more at www.smeal.psu.edu/psep.


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A few months ago, I took the plunge and had my kitchen redone. For years I'd put it off because it was so expensive. Also, as a cookbook author and food writer, I spend nearly all of my waking hours in and around the kitchen. Being without one for six to eight weeks seemed unimaginable.
The one I had inherited from our house's previous owner was functional, if not my style. But after eight years of heavy-duty usage, the range and dishwasher were at death's door, and water damage had caused the laminate countertops to buckle and wave. Finally, a redo became necessary.
Now that it's over and I can think straight again, I'm passing along a few lessons learned along the way:
1. You are the boss
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For nearly the entire two-plus months my kitchen was under renovation, the project manager stopped by almost every morning to talk with the crew and get the ball rolling. And, as promised, he kept the project on schedule.
Still, it became clear to me early on that I needed to keep a close eye on things to make sure the work was being done the way I wanted and that mistakes weren't being made.
Turns out a lot were. Some were small. For example, the hood insert over the range was installed backward so that the lights shone right into your eyes. There was carpentry work that had to be redone or finessed. One mistake was egregious (see No. 5). To the contractor's credit, he addressed all the issues as they came up and followed through until they were resolved.
2. Indecision is not your friend
Throughout the life of your project, you will face choices. Many choices. Granite countertops or marble? Soapstone or limestone? Polished or honed? What about wood? Should your countertop edges be rounded or squared? How about beveled?
In my case, the toughest choice — aesthetically anyway — was deciding on a tile backsplash. In my heart of hearts, I wanted Italian ceramic tiles, to go with the Italian ceramic bowls and platters I've amassed over the years.
But in my other heart of hearts, I wanted arts-and-crafts-style tiles, so that I might put to use a collection of decorative tiles I'd accumulated during my years living near Pewabic Pottery, an arts-and-crafts studio in Detroit. However, my house is a suburban Colonial, which goes with neither.
After weeks of looking, I finally found simple handmade green subway tiles from California that somehow, magically, brought everything together. But my indecision added time to the project.
3. Get the marble
There will be times when well-meaning people — friends, designers, craftsmen — try to steer you away from something you really want, usually because it doesn't make practical sense. Despite my inherent indecisiveness, I knew from the beginning I wanted to replace the battered old laminate countertops with marble.
Nearly everyone, down to the marble purveyors themselves, tried to dissuade me, pointing out the stone's flaws: It scratches easily, it becomes etched with spots from acid spills; it's prone to chipping. I got the marble anyway, and every day I see new etches and scratches — though, thankfully, no chips.
And every day I love it more. I roll out pie crusts and sheets of pasta on it. It makes me think of the old marble-topped worktable in my grandmother's kitchen in Rome.
4. Save a little, splurge a little
Yes, material me wanted custom cabinets. But the professional cook in me wanted a heavy-duty French range I'd had my eye on for a long time. The solution? Semi-custom cabinets — not quite as top-drawer (pun intended) as the custom line, but still good construction, with a decent array of styles and finishes.
What we saved on cabinets we put toward that range, the focal point of the kitchen and, practically speaking, where I do most of my work.
5. Expect one nightmare
In my case, it was an electrician who miswired that new range. Although I felt foolish, even patronizing, I had made the electrician and project manager watch a manufacturer's video on how to uncrate, move and install the range. I was assured it was in good hands.
Even so, the electrician used the wrong electric cord, one that was way too powerful. He also broke a part trying to install it and didn't tell me about it — just wrapped it all up in electrical tape and hid the mess behind the back panel.
When I tried to ignite a burner, just about every electrical connection in the appliance got fried. It took an appliance-repair specialist many hours over three visits to fix it. The contractor apologized profusely and repeatedly and paid for all the repairs.
6. No pain, no gain
It's hard to kick yourself out of your own kitchen for two months. The kitchen truly is the heart of our home, and not having one drove the kids up to their rooms, which to me was almost as bad as the range debacle. We set up a makeshift kitchen in the garage, which was fun for about five minutes.
But in the end, the cliché is right: You'll forget (most of) the bad stuff (see No. 5) and, with a little luck, be satisfied you made the leap.


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Another great girls' night out
Hi everyone,
I am one of these people that says I don't drink. What I mean is I don't drink a lot, so when I do it only takes a couple of glasses of wine for me to get tipsy (tipsy sounds way better than drunk).
Last Friday I went out with two of my best friends Jodie and Carly. We always seem to have the most crazy nights out. The best thing about it is, all we want to do is get dolled up, find somewhere that plays good music, have a few cocktails and dance like doughnuts! Well Jodie and I dance like doughnuts while Carly normally watches and laughs at our moves!
I am obviously quite easily pleased because the highlight of my night was coming out of a nice cocktail bar to get a kebab. It is probably the tackiest thing to do but it was comical, three girls all dressed up, standing in the street eating a kebab. I knew I had a long night ahead of me and I was absolutely starving. This is normally something you would do at the end of the night but I have to say I would highly recommend it. I seemed to find a new lease of sober life once I had finished and I was ready for round two. So off we went to JJ Whispers in Crawley to dance our little socks off and have a few more drinks.
The joke of the night is that I have put on just under a stone in weight, which I am very happy about because I was way to thin before. However, the weight has gone straight to my bum!!! So of course I was shaking it as much as I could, while Jodie was doing the running man next to me… Very uncool but who cares?! Girls' nights are all about having a laugh with your girlfriends and we most certainly had a lot of that, as you can see from all of the silly pictures below.
Lastly, the icing on the cake was that I bumped into an old and special friend who I haven't seen for five years Tommy. Tommy and I lived together in Canary Wharf just before I got pregnant so we had many good times together to reminisce about.
My one mistake of the whole night was that I decided to text my ex-boyfriend on the way home in the taxi… cringe, cringe, cringe! I had so much fun in the nightclub that I originally met him in and I was desperate to tell him about my night. I didn't get a response but I am not that surprised. I wish he had sent me something in the morning to ease my embarrassment of drunk texting, but no. Oooops!
This was the best night's I have had out in ages and guess what, I didn't even have a hang over!!! I now swear by the kebab pit stop half way through the night to soak up the alcohol, which is wrong, wrong, wrong but oh so right!
I am in a very happy place right now, life seems very uncomplicated and that's just how I like it. What more can I ask for? I have a job, a home, a beautiful little girl who is extremely balanced and I have crazy nights out with my friends every so often – I'm a lucky girl!
Back soon everyone,
Nic x


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It has taken me a little too long to finally get to a short review on LotusJump SEO Software, so finally I'm getting my ass off the couch. You may have noticed the banner ads I have running for LotusJump, and thus taken it upon yourself to see what it is all about. For the rest of you I'll try and do my best to explain everything this software tries to do. I am an affiliate of theirs so I'll try and keep my opinion as nuetral as possible, but I'll still be trying to make some money.
The software is designed for the inexperienced, mostly anyway, and makes link building a little easier for people who don't have the time to learn or spend hours finding stuff to do. Once you sign up you can enter your website(s) and keywords which then gets populated with tasks via their task engine. This is where LotusJump rises above the rest of the SEO software out there and assigns easy to do tasks that will build up your backlink profile. Take a look at the video to get a visual idea of their task engine;
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Stanislaus P. Lalumiere, S.J. – President, 1887-1889
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History records Archbishop John Martin Henni as the official founder of Marquette University. But because Father Stanislaus Lalumiere secured the college charter in 1864, many regard him as the forefather of Marquette. Preceding his distinguished history at Marquette, he studied law and was admitted to the Illinois bar with Abraham Lincoln as one of his examiners. Father Lalumiere and President Lincoln became close friends and shared a career path that began with law and peaked with a presidency. Marquette's language arts building, Lalumiere Hall, is named in his honor.
Alexander J. Burrowes, S.J. – President, 1900-1908
If Father Alexander Burrowes were alive today, his resume would list presidencies at several prominent Jesuit universities and colleges, including St. Xavier College, St. Louis University and St. Ignatius College, which was chartered as Loyola University of Chicago during his term in office. But what makes him celebrated on the Marquette campus was his ability to elevate the college to a new level. During his leadership, Marquette College became Marquette University; the College of Engineering was planned; affiliations with a medical college, dental and nursing schools and also a law school were initiated; athletics were encouraged; varsity letter awards were instituted; and the move to a new campus and construction of Johnston Hall took place.
James McCabe, S.J. – President, 1908-1911
Some might say that Father James McCabe was ahead of the times. He made the decision to admit women undergraduates in 1909—just one year into his presidency—making Marquette the first Catholic university in the world to do so. Of course this decision challenged a long-held tradition of the Catholic Church, but ultimately, this change was approved and classrooms were transformed forever. During the Centennial Celebration of Women at Marquette, the university renamed its newly remodeled residence hall McCabe Hall in his honor.
Peter A. Brooks, S.J. – President, 1944-1948
Twenty-three years after graduating from Marquette with a bachelor's degree from the College of Arts & Sciences, Father Peter Brooks returned to lead his alma mater as the university's new president. He made his mark on the school as a student and leader. During his undergrad years, he realized the need for a central meeting place for Marquette students and in 1924 he helped establish a student union. When that space was replaced in 1953, it was named after Father Brooks—the Brooks Memorial Union. During his presidency, Father Brooks established the university's endowment fund and settled an outstanding debt of $2 million.


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"I love you," the 16-year-old cried out to his brother as he lay in a grassy ditch, pinned under the weight of their minivan. "I love you, Lane."
It all happened so fast.
Monday was supposed to be just like any other day. The mother spent the afternoon shopping with three of the kids, but Lane had his annual physical scheduled for 3:30 p.m. When she stopped home to pick him up, she ran inside, just for a minute. When she came out, the Dodge Caravan that she had parked at the top of her gravel driveway was 50 feet away, poking out of a steep embankment. Luca, 12, was in hysterics. Lark, 4, and Felix, 2, were in their back seats, unable to grasp what had just happened.
Lane had tried to get into the van when, with his younger brother and sisters inside, it started to creep downhill, straight toward a street humming with fast-moving cars. After grabbing the steering wheel through the driver's-side door in an attempt to pilot his siblings to safety, Lane scampered behind the hulking van, threw all his strength against two tons of automobile, but was pulled underneath. He was killed looking out for his family.
"He died a hero," said Lane's grandmother, Carolyn Bradley.
"He saved my life," Luca said.
What caused the van to roll downhill is unclear, as investigators are still sorting out how the accident unfolded, said Trooper Mark Ceipel, a State Police spokesman.
Lane ran outside to the van just as his mother went inside the house. The engine was off, the van was in park and the keys were in the ignition. The rear sliding door on the driver's side was locked, so Luca reached over from the passenger's seat and tried to turn the ignition on, thinking that would trigger the electronic door locks. When that didn't work, she turned the keys back the other way.
"That's when it started to move," Luca said.
Luca watched as her brother backpedaled down the driveway and alongside the van. She saw him pull open the driver's-side door and twist the wheel left and right, but quickly lost sight of him once the van moved toward the ditch.
"I saw him there ... it was just awful ... just awful," Reid said. "It feels like a dream. You expect to eventually lose people in your family, but not one of your younger brothers. Not like this."
Lane's family gathered Tuesday at his Blue Barns Road home to mourn. Until rain started to fall late in the afternoon, they had propped a homemade Mother's Day collage of Jennifer Rowe's kids on the front steps. Lane is pictured in the middle, sandwiched between Luca and Felix, his light-brown hair falling against his wire-rimmed glasses. He's smiling and holding up the "you" in collaborative sign that reads "We love you very much."
"I see a lot of myself in Lane," said his father, Bob Rowe. "He was funny. He would dance. He would do anything to always make you laugh. He was just a great kid. He had a lot of promise."
Lane, who started middle school this year, was third oldest of five kids. He enjoyed spending time at his grandparents' home in the Catskills. He loved basketball and looked forward to one day sprouting as tall as Reid, who taught him his jump shot in the driveway. He cracked jokes that sometimes only made sense to him, was known to spontaneously break into a dance — his energetic renditions Michael Jackson moves were well-known, Lane's father said he loved music and wanted to play the flute. He watched over his younger sister and brother like a mother hen. He had just started sixth grade.
"Sometimes we'd fight or argue about stupid stuff," Reid said. "And you look back on it now and wish you had never done it. You never know when someone's going to be gone."
Services for Lane will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday at Burnt Hills Methodist Church. In the meantime, the kids are staying home from school and Jennifer Rowe will be away from the nearby hair salon she runs. Everyone is still figuring out what comes next. No one has slept much.
Bob Rowe thinks about times like this past summer, when he took Lane out to the Cape Cod. They stayed in Dennis, a popular town that stretches from Cape Cod Bay to the Atlantic. Every summer they would spend time collecting all the bottles they could find, deposit them, split the cash and splurge. This summer, Lane spent it mostly on treats, like fudge. His father said the boy gave most of it away to his family.


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My Sunshine
Hey forum,
As a long time Saints fan, I impressed how positive many of you still are. After a lifetime of poor football, I guess Saint's fan have learned to weather the worst.
Like yall, I had high hopes this year. But the team is breaking apart at the begining of the season like how they usually break apart at the end. :casstet: But I still see the sunshine!
Under Haslett, the team has grown in talent exponentially. Unfortunatly this increase in talent also brought and increase in win-lose expectation that he didn't provide. But this years draft was pretty good. Watson is probably our best LB, and Willie Smith is a beast. The team is actually pretty talented.
This talent is my sunshine. As I was watching the Vikings (long time arch enemy of New Orleans) play offence as if no defensive players were on the field, I realized that this year is probably the worst in the Haslett term. Not raining on anyone parade, but the team fell apart on defense, penalties, you name it! But this is a good thing. Why?
Because Haslett's former inconsitancy kept him from being fired; every season he showed flashes every now and then of the Saints being an elite (at least on Offence) team. But now Haslett's team is consistantly bad, yet his tallent remains good. A perfect situtation.
If teams with less talent, such as the NY Giants, can win with simply a new coach, imagine where the Saints could be with a new coach! That means every loss (conforming to Haslett's new found consistancy) moves him closer to the door.
The real rain then (once again) becomes Benson. From experiance, we all know he just won't pay for that high dollar coach (maybe Jeff Fisher). He has always been cheap with the Saints. We might get, say, Wannstedt, in Benson's price range, but thats doubtable (the guy has a good D at least).
No, Benson will go for:
A. Somebodies coordinator. I pray to God its one of the Patriots coaches. But since they would come with a large price tag, I imagine it will be somebody with less fame. This is probably our best chance at a good year next year.
B. A college coach. No offense to you LSU boys, but the only college coach I want to come in to coach the Saints is Stoops and he wouldn't do it (why when he can have a higher profile NFL job soon?) Any other coach with have an "adjustment period" where he would suck and squander the good talent we have right now!
C. A washed up coach. These guys come cheap. This might be one of the more likely choices for Benson. But without Parcells (think what he could do with the Saints!) or Gibbs's kind in the market, this might not be the best option. Maybe Benson learned his lesson with the Ditka thing. Maybe.
And so my sunshine belongs to option A. I gleefully watch other teams like a kid in a candy store, dreaming that the (Patriots, Broncos, Eagles) defensive coordinator is coaching my team.
And with every loss this comes closer to fruitation. I'm not saying that I rooting for the Saints to lose, I'm just saying losing hurts less for the first time in a while.
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area surface conversion
Amount: 1 square inch (sq in, in2) of area
Equals: 0.000026 square rods (rd2, sq rd) in area
Converting square inch to square rods value in the area surface units scale.
TOGGLE : from square rods into square inches in the other way around.
CONVERT : between other area surface measuring units - complete list.
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This online area surface from sq in, in2 into rd2, sq rd converter is a handy tool not just for certified or experienced professionals.
First unit: square inch (sq in, in2) is used for measuring area.
Second: square rod (rd2, sq rd) is unit of area.
0.000026 rd2, sq rd is converted to 1 of what?
The square rods unit number 0.000026 rd2, sq rd converts to 1 sq in, in2, one square inch. It is the EQUAL area value of 1 square inch but in the square rods area unit alternative.
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First divide the two units variables. Then multiply the result by 2 - for example:
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1 sq in, in2 = ? rd2, sq rd
1 sq in, in2 = 0.000026 rd2, sq rd
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International unit symbols for these two area surface measurements are:
Abbreviation or prefix ( abbr. short brevis ), unit symbol, for square inch is:
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What if they were changed to Garages? Cars? You could say that each garage can attack each other, and even throw in some "drive-by" bombardments if you wanted.
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A thorough discussion about bonuses is needed... but I don't have it in me right now.
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There are a lot of rules, but not so many that it isn't playable. For me what is making this map a bit hard to follow is that the legend is still a work in progress. Once some elements of the legend are cleaned up I think the rules will be easier to follow... e.g. the line breaks, words bleeding over lines, extraneous information like the date and time, clunky font, the block in the middle breaking it up, the symbols that get a bit lost in the background, etc.


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In the latest season of Project Grow, we talk to experts about the challenges of growing a business.
Steve Blank, the professor who popularized the "lean" startup movement, talks about the Lean LaunchPad course that he teaches at Stanford, Berkeley and other schools. The class puts a focus on testing ideas before jumping in. A free online version of Lean LaunchPad is now offered on the site Udacity.
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To win in the NFL, you have to pass the ball and be able to stop the pass.
You were expecting "run, and stop the run?" Welcome to the 21st century. If you liked three-yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust tactics, watch "Knute Rockne, All American."
Just about every coach will tell you that running and stopping the run are the keys to winning. They say this because a) that's what their coaches, and their coaches' coaches, told them, and b) they think it is what you want to hear. But instead of listening to what coaches say, let's look at what coaches do. And with the help of the Football Outsiders' database, let's really break things down so we can see how coaches and teams really try to win games.
Here's a hint: It involves neither three yards nor dust clouds.
Spread Out and Shotgunned: Let's start with the run-pass breakdown for 2011: Teams ran on 39.6 percent of snaps and passed on 60.4 percent of snaps.
You may see slightly different percentages in the official tallies, but these figures list quarterback scrambles as passing plays, because that's what the coaches called. So your favorite head coach may stress "balance" at every single press conference, but if balance means a 50-50 run-pass split, he is doing a lousy job of finding it.
The following table separates runs and passes by down and distance.
Table 1: Run and Pass Percentages by Down
|Run %
|Pass %
|First Down
|Second Down
|Third-and-Short (0-2 yards)
|Third-and-Medium (3 to 7)
|Third-and-Long (8-plus)
Coaches still vie for a 50-50 split on first down, and they still prefer handing off (very slightly) on third-and-short. On other downs, get ready for a pass. Overall, a team is nearly five times more likely to pass than throw on third down.
The supremacy of the passing game is most obvious when a team lines up in shotgun, which some teams now do just about all the time. Fans of a certain age can remember that when Roger Staubach dropped into shotgun on third-and-10 for the 1970s Cowboys, it was as exotic as taking a snap on Jupiter. Well, not anymore:
Table 2: Shotgun vs. Under Center Play Percentages
|% of Snaps
|Shotgun, Pass
|Shotgun, Run
|Under center, Pass
|Under center, Run
A modern NFL team is more likely to line up in shotgun and throw than it is to line up in traditional formation and hand off. And the percentages are deflated by a handful of coaches who are shotgun holdouts; while the Texans used the shotgun only 19 percent of the time, the Lions used it for 68 percent of snaps, the Bills 58 percent and the Panthers 57 percent. (The Patriots have an all-shotgun, all-the-time reputation but used it for "only" 51 percent of snaps last year.) For many teams, shotgun formations are base formations.
With all of those shotgun formations come three-to-four wideout sets, empty backfields and other tactics that make fullbacks update their LinkedIn accounts. We think of two receivers, two backs and a tight end as "base" personnel, but that perception is increasingly off-base:
Table 3: Play Percentages by Formation
|% of Snaps
|Empty Backfield
|2 RB, 2 or 3 TEs
|3 RBs (Full House)
These percentages are based on the formation, not the players. So if Matt Forte was in the slot, he was counted as a receiver, not a running back. The numbers do not add up to 100 percent because of fake punts and field goals, wildcat plays and other exotica. Oh, and don't worry about end-of-game kneels or spikes to stop the clock; they were purged from the data before we started.
The numbers show that the base personnel package in the NFL is a three-receiver set, which is more common than the traditional package and the two-tight end, one-back look combined. When the starters are introduced at the beginning of a telecast, the slot receiver should be listed, not the fullback, for all but a handful of teams. (Many telecasts already do this.)
Different teams have different tendencies, of course. The Ravens still used a two-back backfield 59 percent of the time last year, more than twice the league average. The Bills use an empty backfield 18 percent of the time and three or more receivers on 82 percent of snaps. The trend clearly points to more spread formations and more passing. Even the Ravens appear to be opening things up with a no-huddle offense. Running backs must be ready to line up in the slot. Fullbacks should consider rugby.
Throw More, Throw Shorter. Ah, but where are all of these passes going? Do quarterbacks throw deep anymore? Or are all of these passes mamby-pamby tunnel screens that look great on the stat sheet but amount to little more than a bunch of three-yard gains?
Let's break down NFL passes by length and chunk them into five categories: Screen (behind the line, whether it is a true screen or not), Smash (zero to five yards), Short (six to 10), Medium (11 to 20) and Long (20-plus). These breakdowns are based on air lengths of passes, not yardage results; a two-yard pass with a 60-yard run after the catch is a two-yard pass. As you might expect, quarterbacks throw a lot of passes that might not travel across your living room. But there are still plenty of old-fashioned bombs in the air.
Table 4: Passes and Results By Length
|% of Passes
|Completion %
|Yards Per Attempt
Teams may pass 60 percent of the time, but two-thirds of those passes travel 10 yards or fewer down the field. If you want to be a curmudgeon, you can gripe about how today's quarterbacks only have to throw Pop Warner passes, when ol' Slingin' Sammy Baugh had to fire the ball 40 yards through a hailstorm every time he dropped back. Here's a more forward-thinking interpretation of the data: Those short passes have become so important that quarterbacks have no margin for error. Every screen must be timed perfectly, every slant must hit the receiver on the hands in stride and the reads must be as accurate as the throws. Old quarterbacks were muscle cars. Modern quarterbacks are supercomputers. Traditionalists can take heart that, while the NFL may be pass-oriented, it is not gadget-oriented. Spread offensive principles may have brought more six-yard passes, but few of the playground tactics that now dominate college football have found their way into the NFL.
Here's a breakdown of how often several strategies, including several gimmick plays, are called in the NFL:
Table 5: Play-Action, Screens, Draws, Miscellanea
|Play Type
|% of Snaps
|Play Action Pass
|Play Action "Bomb"
|Running back Screen
|Draw Play
|WR-TE Screen
|Designed QB Run
|Reverse/End Around
|Shovel Pass
College quarterbacks in spread-option offenses might carry the ball a dozen times per game, scrambles not included. They then arrive in the NFL and discover that designed keepers account for less than one percent of all plays, and that's with Tim Tebow's 20-carry adventures in Denver factored in. The wildcat lives on in New York and Buffalo, but nowhere else. "Tunnel" and "bubble" screens to receivers, which have become as ubiquitous on autumn Saturdays as leaf raking, are not nearly as common at the NFL level.
Play-action, screens and draw plays are time-honored techniques for catching defenses off guard, but the only tactic that constitutes a major element of most game plans is the play-action pass. Teams may not hand off much anymore, but they still fake a lot of handoffs, which is ironic until you realize how little offensive strategy has changed under the hood. Shotgun sets and spread formations are mostly bells and whistles attached to the same concepts, blocking schemes and pass patterns that Vince Lombardi and Paul Brown used.
And if Brown or Lombardi got a look at today's quarterbacks and pass-friendly rules, he would throw the ball 60 percent of the time, too.
Air Defense Capability. Now that we know the exact scope of the aerial assault offenses are unleashing, let's take a look at how defenses are trying to stop it.
As you know, there are two primary base defenses in the NFL: the 4-3 and the 3-4. As you probably also know, those labels are nearly meaningless. Most coaches use a variety of defensive fronts during the course of a game, and pass-happy offenses force defenses to use five or more defensive backs for a high percentage of snaps.
Here's a breakdown of the most common personnel groupings in the NFL. There's a little bit of guesswork here, because some teams have "linebackers" who are 270 pounds and line up with their hands on the dirt for most plays. But if a coach says he's a linebacker, he's a linebacker. Also, goal-line plays were removed from the data; otherwise you might see a misleading number of five- or six-linemen formations.
Table 6: Defensive Formations
|% of Snaps
|7 or more DBs
Teams use five or more defensive backs on 41.7 percent of snaps. A few tables ago, we saw that offenses use three or four wide receivers on … 41.7 percent of snaps. If only all of life's percentages worked out so neatly.
As with offensive formations, defensive strategies vary from team to team. The Giants have a "heavy nickel" package, which they used on 59 percent of snaps last year. The Packers used their 2-4-5 defense on 61 percent of snaps. The super-conservative Bears used a 4-2-5 defense 52 percent of the time, a 4-3-4 defense 47 percent of the time, and other formations exclusively at the goal line or in Hail Mary situations. Unlike offensive formations, though, defensive sets are dictated by opponents. Lovie Smith would have kept the Bears in a 4-3-4 set 100 percent of the time if he did not have to contend with the wide-open passing of the Packers and Lions.
No matter what personnel they deploy, defensive coaches must decide how many defenders will rush the passer and how many will drop into coverage. With receivers spread all over the field, defensive coaches must weigh the merits of the pass rush with the risk of leaving defenders in one-on-one matchups. After careful weighing, most defensive coaches do what coaches have been doing for the last five decades or so: rush four and drop seven.
Table 7: Pass Rush and Blitz Frequencies
|# of Rushers
|% of Pass Plays
|Sack %
Again, goal-to-go data was removed so we don't have to worry about a desperate defense rushing 10 guys from the one-yard line. The data reveals that most 3-4 defenses send at least one linebacker to blitz on passing downs. Anyone who has ever watched the Steelers should not be surprised. The data also shows sack percentages increasing with the number of pass rushers, which again is no surprise.
Not shown in the table is the yards-per-pass data. Opponents average 6.8 yards per pass play against both three- and four-man rushes. Opponents average 6.3 yards per pass play against both five- and six-man rushes. In other words, a well-timed blitz cuts about a half-yard per play off the passing game. Opponents average 7.1 yards per pass against seven or more pass rushers, but coaches call such "jailbreaks" only when they can trade the high risk for the potential high reward.
Go For It! There's one last bit of strategy to break down, and you may want to send this segment along to the Falcons fan in your life. Teams have become more aggressive in recent years about "going for it" on fourth downs. There's a good reason why coaches are gambling more: the odds are in their favor.
This final table (hooray!) shows fourth-down percentages broken down in three different ways. The first is the overall fourth-down percentage across the NFL. The second shows the fourth-down percentage in the first three quarters only. Why leave out the fourth quarter? That's when teams that are desperately behind start going for it on fourth-and-15 because they have no choice. Those crossed-finger attempts skew the results in favor of the defense. The final breakdown is for fourth-and-one, Mike Smith's favorite down and distance.
Table 8: Fourth Down Conversion Rates
|First 3 Quarters
Once desperation strategies are filtered out, teams have a better than 50 percent chance of converting on fourth down.
Still, some coaches are more risk averse than others. Football Outsiders keeps track of how often coaches go for it in likely situations: fourth-and-short, in opponent's territory, game still undecided. Bill Belichick has gone for the conversion 21.4 percent of the time in those circumstances in his career, making him one of the most aggressive coaches in history. His mentor, Bill Parcells, tops him by going for it 23.4 percent of the time in favorable situations. Our pal Mike Smith is rising through the ranks by going for it 21.0 percent of the time, and some failed conversions in the playoffs probably won't shake his resolve. On the other side of the coin, Ron Rivera of the Panthers went for the conversion just twice in favorable circumstances last year. Somebody should remind him that no one wants to try to defend Cam Newton on fourth-and-one.
No matter how aggressive Smith or Belichick are, most research indicates that teams should go for it far more often on fourth down than they currently do. But just as spread formations and shotgun offenses hide an undeniable conservative streak in offensive strategies (lots of engineering to produce six-yard passes) and the four-man pass rush still dominates defensive thinking, fourth-down tactics are still rooted in the era of muddy fields and quarterbacks who doubled as punters.
Strategy evolves slowly in the NFL. A decade from now, we will be watching a game with a little more passing, a little more defensive diversity and a little more fourth-down gambling. But not much.


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Bennett shows FIBA resurgence | Suns players begin unofficial workouts, without Morris | The Warriors are winning Silicon Valley
No. 1: Bennett shows FIBA resurgence — The Cleveland Cavaliers drafted Anthony Bennett out of UNLV with the first overall pick of the 2013 NBA Draft, but the expected development once he reached the NBA has yet to fully occur. A change of NBA environment via a trade to Minnesota hasn't had the desired effect, either. Yet playing for his native Canada this summer in international competition, Bennett has nearly averaged a double-double. As Josh Lewenberg writes for TSN, Bennett has finally found his swagger…
Seated in the front row, an international reporter searched for the appropriate words to make an uncomfortable but fair observation, one that caught others off guard but hardly made Bennett flinch.
"You play so different in the NBA and in FIBA," the reporter pointed out. "You are a lot better in FIBA. Why?"
The answer isn't nearly as straight forward as the question. There are a number of factors that contributed to Bennett's forgettable rookie and sophomore seasons, health and conditioning among them, but the word he frequently uses to explain his improved play this summer should not be overlooked. Confidence.
"[I'm] just playing with confidence, pretty much," the 22-year-old forward responded. "Just going out there, playing defence, running the court. Just doing the little things first and trying to make offence come to me."
Exactly 366 days – a year and one day – earlier, Bennett was traded to the Minnesota Timberwolves, along with fellow Canadian and good friend Andrew Wiggins, in the deal that sent Kevin Love to Cleveland.
Certainly, Bennett's debut campaign with the Cavaliers did not go as anticipated. A shoulder injury derailed his progress in training camp and, out of shape to begin the season, he missed the first 16 shots of his pro career. The end result was one of the worst ever rookie seasons by a No. 1 overall pick. Plagued by a series of ailments again in year two, he was only moderately better with the Wolves last season. Understandably, he had a hard time hiding his frustration.
"I saw him play a little bit," said Jay Triano, head coach of the Canadian senior men's team and assistant with the Portland Trail Blazers. "Whether there were injuries or not getting a chance in the NBA, he was always grumpy and never smiling. And I remember him as a guy who was vocal, smiling, having fun playing the game."
Free from the pressure and scrutiny that had consumed him as a young player in the NBA, Bennett has resembled his old self with the national team this summer.
Making his debut with the senior club at the Pan American games last month, where Canada won silver, Bennett averaged 15.6 points and a tournament-high 9.4 rebounds. He was also a standout starting for a much deeper team in their tuneup games this past week, running the floor with purpose and playing above the rim in San Juan.
The smile has returned – you'll rarely catch him without it. He's healthy, he's slimmed down considerably and he has that bounce in his step again.
"It feels great," Bennett told TSN in a sit-down interview earlier this month. "My body feels great. I feel like I'm 100 per cent right now. Just getting out and running like I did at UNLV."
"It looks like he's loving basketball again," Triano added. "And I think that was the big thing for us. We try to make it fun for him, try to simplify it. He's so talented in a variety of areas that we needed to just simplify what we expect of him. If he does that, the rest of it is gonna fall into place."
No. 2: Suns players begin unofficial workouts, without Morris — NBA training camps are still a few weeks from tipping off, but in Phoenix there are multiple Suns players already gathered in the Valley to begin workouts. One notable absence is Markieff Morris, the Suns' terrific forward who has expressed his desire to be traded after the Suns traded his brother, Marcus. As Paul Coro writes in the Arizona Republic, the Suns may be hoping hard feelings have subsided by the time training camp officially tips off…
Eric Bledsoe, Devin Booker, Archie Goodwin, Brandon Knight, Alex Len, Jon Leuer, Ronnie Price, P.J. Tucker, T.J. Warren and Sonny Weems have been playing at US Airways Center since Monday.
There is no surprise that Markieff Morris is missing from that list, given his "Keef beef" with the franchise. His trade request fell on deaf ears. The other absent contract players, Tyson Chandler and Mirza Teletovic, are expected to join their new teammates in Phoenix over the next 10 days.
The early team chemistry sessions are important for a roster that will have at least six new players for the regular season. That does not include Brandon Knight, a key cog to this season's plans after playing only 11 games last season with the Suns.
It would be ideal for Knight to spend September working with his starting power forward but a Morris early arrival is about as likely as a fulfillment of his trade wish.
The Suns need and want Morris. They would not stand much of a chance to replace him by trade. They would have no chance to replace him by free agency. They do not have an adequate existing roster option.
Reasonably, hard feelings should subside by the time he must report to Phoenix on Sept. 28. However, he was steaming six weeks after the trade when he went public to the Philadelphia Inquirer this month. Another six weeks might not help but being around his teammate friends again and meeting a respected frontcourt partner such as Chandler should help him recommit, even if Morris returns to being the quieter person he was before Marcus joined Phoenix.
Morris never planned to publicly lash out at the Suns, coincidentally running into a familiar reporter at a Philadelphia-area gym with small talk that became a stage for his discontent.
The expressed source of the twins' anger was that Marcus was told he was traded while on vacation. The issues must extend beyond that because even superstars are rarely told of trades before they happen, although Markieff did call himself "the premier player of the team."
The twins were miffed because they gave the Suns a contract extension break last year in hopes of staying together. Markieff's salary still will jump from $3 million last season to $8 million this season. The unstated factor is that Marcus' trade was made, in part, to clear salary-cap space for LaMarcus Aldridge, a free agency target who would have replaced Markieff. Marcus' behavior last season, including yelling at coach Jeff Hornacek during a game, also played a role.
Markieff's previous criticism of Suns fans only worsens his reputation but the start of a make-up process is only a sincere statement of regret and a few double-doubles away.
His teammates made the first statement to win over playoff-starved fans by committing themselves to workouts before other teams start congregating.
No. 3: The Warriors are winning Silicon Valley — Plenty of NBA teams are based in their city without necessarily being an embedded part of their area's business community. But the Golden State Warriors, based in the Bay Area, have managed to mix with Silicon Valley and become allies, in many ways, writes Nina Mandell for USA Today…
The Lakers and the Knicks have movie stars on their sidelines. The Clippers and Mavericks have their celebrity owners. But when many of the Warriors players look around the front row at the Golden State Warriors games, many of the players see something else notable: Startup capital.
With their surge to a NBA title and guard who earned a regular season MVP award, a number of Warriors players have been involved in the Silicon Valley culture that their team attracts to games and will likely continue to bring in when they move to their new arena in San Francisco.
"You'll see Larry Ellison, you'll see Jack Dorsey, you'll see Adam Bain," said Harrison Barnes, listing off the names of the co-founder of Oracle and Twitter executives. "You'll see all these guys courtside that they're walking down the street people might not say 'oh my god that's so-and-so' but if you know who they are and you know what they do, there's obviously well-respected in their fields."
Barnes works as a consultant at Facebook on the side when he's not playing basketball. Andre Iguodala had a role in a startup that recently got acquired by eBay. And Stephen Curry partnered with CoachUp, a private coaching website and app matching service that its founder describes as the "Uber or AirBNB" of the private and semi-private sports coaching industry.
Curry said that he got involved with the Boston-based CoachUp because he thinks that private coaching was crucial to his success as a player, and likely would have done it without the Silicon Valley influence. Private coaching is something, he stressed, he really believes in. "I had a coach I worked with starting at the age of 13 in lieu of playing AAU basketball and traveling all over the country I stayed in Charlotte and to have the one-on-one experience … I benefited so much from it," he said.
The service, which matches athletes with private coaches for everything from triathlon training for adults to soccer for kids, he hopes, will make that type of coaching more accessible for future generations, which is something he'd want to do whether he was in the tech capital of the world or not.
Jordan Fliegel, the co-founder of CoachUp said that there were a million reasons they partnered with Curry – after all he's marketable on his own personality and what seems like a sincere dedication to the company. But playing in the Bay Area is helpful. "I think as we go, if we need introductions to various people, Stephen's offered to help however he can," Fliegel said. "He's a huge part of our team."
Curry is also involved in another company that's "in the social media space that talks about athletes and fan engagement, especially on the professional level," he said, that will hopefully be coming out in the next year. His agent, Jeff Austin, said that playing in the Bay Area definitely influenced the opportunities sent his way, even as a high-profile player.
"Interest has certainly been high from Silicon Valley start-ups and investors. We have evaluated various opportunities to see which match best with Stephen's overall career plan and off the court passions," he said. "It's great that the team is located so close to the area, it gives these companies a chance to see the full impact Stephen and the Warriors have had on the community."
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Aikido and Visualization: Part 2 by Jim Lahue
Jack Nicklaus said that he never hit the ball until he first visualized where he wanted it to go. He saw his swing, he felt the connection, he pictured the ball's path. And, as a result, the ball very often went exactly where he intended.
On the previous page, I wrote about how you can use visualization to improve your skills at Aikido. The same is true with other aspects of your life. If you see something first in your mind, it is much easier to achieve in reality.
But while the practice of visualization is available to all people, there is an idea from Aikido that can make it much more powerful: Positive Mind. For visualization to really work, you not only have to see what it is you want to achieve. You must apply your positive mind, and truly believe that you will achieve it.
For example, you can say to yourself, "I will be the President of the United States." You can see yourself at the inauguration. You can picture yourself in the Oval Office. But if you don't really believe you'll become president, you probably won't.
The difference between idle daydreaming and effective visualization practice is the belief that something is going to happen. With effective visualization, you feel a sense of confidence that what you are imagining will actually come to pass.
Jonathan Bannister (founder of the Rochester dojo) once recounted to me how Sensei had given him a Koan, or question for meditation. He asked Jonathan, "How do you beat the man in the mirror?" The answer, Jonathan told me, was "I already won." By having the belief that you will win from the beginning, you accomplish the real victory.
Kokyu Dosa teaches you this. If you practice Kokyu Dosa with someone much stronger or more accomplished than yourself, it can be very frustrating. You start to think, "I will never beat this guy." But that is exactly the opposite of what you need to be thinking! Instead, every time you fail to push that person over, tell yourself, "I will beat him next time." See yourself pushing him over. Believe it. Fail again, then believe it more. Faith is strengthened more by hardship than it is by success. This is how your positive mind, and your ability to make things happen in your life, progresses.
So here are some ideas for getting started with visualization.
First, you have to figure out what it is you want to achieve. It could be something short- term, like getting through a presentation that's been worrying you, or more long-term, like climbing Mount Everest. Don't worry about whether you think your goal is achievable. In fact, you should ignore those things that are clearly possible, and just write down those that seem beyond your reach.
Next, you have to work on visualizing what you want to achieve. Your practice of Aikido can help. For if you can learn to watch an Aikido technique, replay it in your head, then see it from the eyes of your instructor, you already have the skills you need. You just have to apply them to your goals outside the dojo.
If you want to be a lion tamer, for example, then go see the best lion tamer in the world. See him every chance you get. Replay in your head what you saw him do. Then practice putting yourself in his place, in your head. See things from his point of view. Assemble a whole collection of videos in your head, of yourself as the world's greatest lion tamer.
(Some people say they can't create pictures in their head. If this sounds like you, I suggest you look at a book called The Einstein Factor. It has an entire chapter of exercises for people who have trouble getting their internal videos playing.)
Now here's the critical part: You have to believe what you see. You have to train yourself to have a feeling of confidence that what you see in your mind will actually come to pass in your life. This is the most difficult part of the visualization process, and the part, therefore, that is most often left out. But this is also where Aikido training can help the most.
The very practice of Aikido helps you develop your positive mind. You can't avoid it. So, for starters, you may try to practice visualization right after Aikido practice, or after you do ki exercises at home. But regardless of when you do it, the gradual, long-term changes that Aikido practice brings about in your mind and body make your visualization practice stronger.
Still, I have found that it is sometimes so hard to believe you will achieve something that's very important to you, that the very act of visualizing it increases your doubt that it will ever come to pass. So, here are some ideas for you.
As you imagine yourself being the world's greatest chef (or running the fastest mile ever, or doing three cartwheels in a row, or riding an elephant across the Sahara desert), do a ki exercise, too. I've found that wrist exercises work best. They offer a little distraction to keep your mind off of your doubts. But more significantly, these exercises reinforce your feeling of one-point and positive mind. So if you say to yourself, "I will be the first person to walk on stilts on a tightrope between the World Trade Center towers," doing ki exercise simultaneously will help you feel more positive and believe it more.
You can also make your visualization training an adjunct to your meditation practice. Sit in seiza and practice keeping one-point for a little while. Enjoy that feeling for itself. Then, as you maintain the same posture and keep the same feeling, work on running those mental videos. See yourself winning your race, but not with an excited, exhausted feeling, but with calmness and confidence, like there was never any doubt.
I recently saw the documentary on Muhammad Ali, "When We Were Kings". It reminded me how Ali used to talk so confidently about being The Greatest. Though it often came off as arrogance, by talking this way he was giving himself the confidence he needed in the face of a daunting task - in this case, beating George Foreman. By saying he was the best, he not only convinced others, but himself. It was his positive mind, I believe, that truly made him The Greatest.


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Author Notes: I decided to consider these as fried cookies, since I thought that Hanukkah also deserves some representation. Why churros? Because traditionally we make doughnuts for Hanukkah and I fell in love with churros when I went to Mexico. Also,though it messy I like to play with pastry piping bags. So why not churros? The home made ones are so fluffy. I don't try to fill them with jam like traditional Hanukkah doughnuts, but I do make even tastier sauces on the side. But watch it, they are really impossible to stop eating. And yes, you have to fry them right before serving. - Cordelia —Cordelia
Food52 Review: We first fell in love with the concept of churros for Hanukkah -- a spicy-sweet twist on the traditional doughnuts, or sufganiyot. Then we tasted Cordelia's version and decided we needed this recipe around for the other 357 days of the year. A light, golden shell and eggy sponge-like interior, swabbed in any of Cordelia's festive trio of sauces, will make you forget every leaden state fair churro you've ever met. Note: Our Nutella seized in the microwave, but heating slowly on the stovetop, stirring occasionally, worked like a charm. - A&M —The Editors
Makes: 20-25 churros
1 cup of all purpose flour
3 eggs
1 cup of water
2 teaspoons of vanilla extract
2 tablespoons of sugar
1/2 stick of butter
1/2 cup of sugar for dusting the churros
2 teaspoons of cinnamon for dusting
Vegetable oil for frying (about 3 cups)
3/4 cup of Nutella
1/4 cup heavy cream
1.5 cup of frozen strawberries (or fresh)
2 tablespoons of sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Juice from half a lemon
Small can of sweet condensed milk
- Put the water, 2 tablespoons of sugar and the butter in a sauce pan. Bring to a boil. Reduce the heat and add the flour and mix quickly and firmly with a whisk until ball is formed.
- Take of the heat and mix in the eggs one at a time. Mix in the vanilla extract.
- Let the dough cool down a bit and then transfer to a pastry piping bag with a big star tip. Heat the oil in a medium sauce pan (oil should be about 2 inch deep) until very hot, but not smoking. Squeeze the dough into the hot oil in sections of about 4 inches. Fry the churros for 2-3 minutes on each side until they puff up and deep golden brown on the outside. Fry 4-5 doughnuts at the time, do not crowd the pan too much.
- Spread the 1/2 cup of sugar (and the cinnamon if you want) in a shallow dish. Take the churros out of the oil, let them drip the excess oil for a little bit on a plate with a paper-towel and then transfer to the sugar and roll the churros in it until cover well. Serve immediately with the sauces on the side.
- Nutella sauce: Warm the Nutella and the heavy cream in a microwave for 2 minutes until the Nutella is soft and melted. Mix well before serving.
- Strawberry sauce: put the strawberries and sugar in a small saucepan and cook on medium heat for about 10 minutes. The sugar should caramelize a bit and the strawberries are soft and break down. Put in a food processor with vanilla and lemon juice and process until very smooth.
- You can serve the sweet condensed milk as is or cook on medium heat for about 10-15 minutes while mixing until reduced down and caramelize.
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- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Holiday Cookie
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Britney Graff redshirted for the Matadors as a sophomore in 2010.
Graff appeared in 28 matches as a true freshman ... was one of seven freshen named to the 2009 Big West All-Freshman Team, the sixth straight season a Northridge freshman was selected to the team ... was second on the Matadors in kills with 287 and was third on the team averaging 2.66 k/s ... took 886 swings in hitting .184 for the season ... wound up second on the squad in digs with 262 (2.43 d/s) and aces with 21 (0.19 sa/s) ... was also sixth in blocks with 45 (0.42 b/s) ... had eight double-doubles which was third-best on the team and had double figures in kills 16 times ... knocked down a career-high 17 kills while hitting .235 against Fresno State (Sept. 18) ... reached 16 kills on three different occasions ... pounded 16 kills to go with a career-best 18 digs and three aces in Northridge's 3-2 win over Northern Arizona (Aug. 29) ... was named All-Tournament at the Bronco Invitational (Aug. 28-29) ... added 17 digs, to go with nine kills and two aces, in the Matadors' 3-1 win at Cal State Fullerton (Oct. 16) ... also served a season-high three aces against Idaho (Sept. 12).
Earned four varsity letters at Temescal Canyon High School in Lake Elsinore, Calif. ... was named MVP of the Southwestern League as well as named to the North County Times All-Valley Team as a senior in 2008 ... posted 358 kills (5.1 kps) and led the league in hitting percentage in 2008 ... set the school record for kills in a match with 31 ... the Titans won the league title in 2008 with a perfect 10-0 record ... also earned all-league and all-county honors in 2006 and 2007 ... graduated in 2009 with a 3.7 grade point average.
Born December 16, 1990 ... parents are Coreen and Chris Graff ... has one sister, Amber ... favorites include the Green Bay Packers, quarterback Brett Favre and the TV show "House" ... says the toughest thing about being an athlete is the "time commitment" ... likes to go the beach in her spare time ... couldn't imagine going a week without her phone ... major is Kinesiology.


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Tris Vonna-Michell
Tris Vonna-Michell (born 1982) is a British artist who performs narratives and constructs installations through the layering of these narratives, photographs and mementos, presented using antiquated technologies and slide projection. Vonna-Michell lives in Southend, UK, and Stockholm, Sweden. He graduated from the Glasgow School of Artin 2005 and continued studies at the Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main.
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