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The 2011-2012 NBA season was an utter disaster for Amar'e Stoudemire. Whether it was on the court or off the court, the Knicks $100 million man could not seem to catch a break. Between the chronic back injuries, the death of his older brother, his sub-par performance on the court or his karate chopping of a fire extinguisher, nothing went right for Stoudemire in 2011. Across the board, his statistics fell to their lowest figures since the 2004-2005 season (I am discounting the 2005-2006 season in which Stoudemire played 3 games). Stoudemire averaged just 17.5 points per game, his lowest since his rookie season, and shot just 48.3%, his third lowest percentage of his career. More frightening than those statistics were the fact that Stoudemire averaged a career low 7.9 rebounds per game. However, I believe 2012 will be different for the Knick power forward and I'll tell you why.
The crux of Stoudemire's problems has been his health. The Knicks star was hampered with various medical deficiencies in Phoenix and they have carried over to New York. Whether it has been due to the pulled muscle in his back suffered in Boston, the bulging disc in his back from this season or his going Kung Foo Panda on a fire extinguisher, Stoudemire has missed 15 games due to injury in the two seasons he has dawned the orange and blue (playoffs included). In each of the Knicks two playoff appearances during Stoudemire's tenure, he has been hampered with injuries, one self inflicted and one freak injury. So why should things be different this season?
During the 2010-2011 season, Stoudemire's inaugural season with the team, he participated in 78 of New York's 82 regular season contests. Although he played in 78 games, it was quite obvious that head coach Mike D'Antoni's speed ball offense combined with Stoudemire's average of 36.8 minutes per game wore Stoudemire down. In the season prior, his final season in Phoenix, Stoudemire played a full 82 game slate and played big minutes in each of the Suns 16 playoff games. The 2009 Phoenix Suns were coached by Alvin Gentry, not Mike D'Antoni. Gentry played Stoudemire 34.6 minutes per game and as a result Stoudemire participated in all 82 regular season games. Obviously there are other factors involved, but I do think Stoudemire will benefit from not having D'Antoni as a coach. Not that D'Antoni's style is detrimental to players, but the coaching change may benefit Stoudemire's health.
Amar'e Stoudemire had the best seasons of his career playing in Mike D'Antoni's offense. However, at age 29, I believe a slower paced system would be preferable in keeping Stoudemire healthy. D'Antoni is also notorious for riding his stars for big minutes, which also does not benefit a 29 year old Stoudemire. Not only is Woodson's system slower paced than D'Antoni's speedball offense, but Woodson did well to manage Stoudemire's minutes during the 11 regular season games and 4 post season games he coached him. In the 11 regular season games where Stoudemire was healthy under Woodson as the coach, he averaged 29.9 minutes per game (MPG). In the playoffs, Stoudemire averaged 34.8 MPG in 4 games. Next season, I expect his MPG to be at about 32-33, which is less than the 36.8 he played in 2010 under D'Antoni.
I believe that if Woodson keeps Stoudemire under 35 MPG next season, STAT can have a very productive season. In 4 seasons in which Stoudemire has averaged more than 35 MPG, he has averaged 66.5 games played out of an 82 game season. In 4 seasons in which he has averaged less than 35 MPG, Stoudemire has averaged 81.25 games played out of an 82 game season. *In those numbers, I chose not to include this past season's numbers due to the factors of a shortened schedule, his missing of games due to his brother's health and the impending impact of the lockout*. Again, there are other factors involved when determining his health, but Stoudemire's minutes are going to be a big factor in his success next season.
In addition to regaining his health, Stoudemire must also improve his game on the court. His effort on defense and on the glass were very poor, as was his mid-range jump shooting. Not to beat a dead horse, but I believe that these will all improve if Stoudemire can increase his health.
Is he ever going to be a great defender/rebounder? No. That isn't who he is and that has never been a strong part of his game. I think he can improve in both those areas with some hard offseason training, something he was devoid of last season due to the lockout. We saw flashes of improvement in his rebounding/defense under Woodson's first 7 games as coach, prior to Stoudemire's bulging disc injury. His effort was clearly more focused and he was actually productive on the glass and adequate defensively. I'll be pleasantly surprised if Stoudemire can turn himself into an above average rebounder/defender, but we have definitely seen flashes that he can at least help the team in those departments. I'd be satisfied with a more focused effort on the glass and defensively from Stoudemire. I think he has to find other ways to help the team win other than scoring and grabbing a few more boards and blocking a few shots would go a long way in helping the Knicks win games.
The Knicks pay Amar'e Stoudemire to put the ball in the net. Honestly, if Stoudemire isn't scoring at a high level than he's pretty much useless, given the fact that he is below average in defending and rebounding. Last season, Amar'e Stoudemire did not score at a high level which contributed to many of New York's problems.
First off, Stoudemire seemingly forgot how to shoot a mid-range jump shot, one of the staples of his offensive game. According to Hoopdata, Stoudemire's percentage on jump shots 10-15 feet away from the rim dropped from 38.3% in 2010 to 30.9% in 2011. His field goal percentage on shots 16-23 feet dropped from 44% to 35%. In layman's terms, the guy couldn't shoot last season. Without his jump shot, life was very difficult for Stoudemire with Tyson Chandler in the fold. Stoudemire is best at the center position where he has the room to roam around the paint area without much interference. With Chandler on the team playing center, Stoudemire was forced to play the power forward spot. It isn't that Stoudemire is a bad power forward, but with Chandler in the mix Stoudemire had to rely more on his mid-range game. Chandler is not a shooter and therefore does not space the floor all that well, leaving Stoudemire less operating room to get to the rim. With many of his driving lanes taken away, Stoudemire had to shoot jump shots. Obviously that did not work out well for him and the Knicks offense struggled. So how can this be changed?
I think this all has to go back to his health. It clearly took Stoudemire most the season to regain his legs and his explosiveness. He never regained his 2010 form, but as the season progressed there were clear signs that Stoudemire was beginning to regain his athleticism. Thanks to hoopdata, we can see Stoudemire's splits from each of the months this season. Notice how his FG% increased as the season wore on:
Here are the numbers for his FG% as it pertains to shot locations
These two sets of data indicate a few things to me. To me, it is obvious that Stoudemire's body was not in basketball playing condition heading into this season. His legs were not underneath him and his mid-range shot, actually his entire offensive game, was horrible because of it. These numbers above, as well as my own eyes, indicate to me that Stoudemire did regain athleticism throughout the duration of the regular season.
Now, he never found his jump shot, but his FG% at the rim improved as the season wore on. This indicates two things to me. The first is that he was more explosive. With his increased explosion, not only getting to the rim was easier for Stoudemire, but so was finishing at the rim at that elite level that had made him a great player in this league. His higher percentage of shots at the rim also indicate to me that Stoudemire had better adjusted his game to play with Chandler. The fact that his mid-range shots decreased while his shot attempts at the rim increased shows me that he was able to find room to operate in the paint even with Chandler on the floor. Don't get me wrong, Stoudemire is still going to have to re-learn that jump shot, but these numbers give me some hope that he and Chandler will be able to co-exist together on the court.
In conclusion, Stoudemire's health dictated his entire season in 2011. His body was never in prime condition and he was never able to perform at the MVP level we saw in 2010. Given Stoudemire's rash history of injuries, one can assume that this problem will only persist on and plague the former all-star in the future. However, I think if Mike Woodson can effectively manage Stoudemire's minutes and not run him into the ground, Stoudemire can have a very productive season. Given the fact that he'll have a full off-season to improve both his health and his game, Stoudemire should be a much improved player than what we saw last season. If Stoudemire can improve that mid-range jump shot, its hard for him to get any worse at it, then he can be that dominant 2nd fiddle to Carmelo Anthony. Will we ever see the MVP caliber 2010 Stoudemire? Probably not. But I still think he's got enough spring in those legs to be successful and I think he'll work as hard as anyone this off-season to improve his game. I haven't given up on Stoudemire and I think he is poised to have a strong comeback 2012 season.
… And also, Toney Douglas not being the starting point guard will probably help as well.
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PROS: Has good size and nice hands. Has good speed to make plays downfield. Is capable after the catch, who doesn't hesitate to turn upfield and not shy about contact. Uses his size well to shield defender and make catch in traffic. Has good body control, laying out for the ball, and does a nice job adjusting to the throw in the air.
CONS: Doesn't consistently show the burst and quickness to get good separation. Is not a true burner and won't run past NFL corners as easily he does college ones.
OVERVIEW: Cooper has a good, although not great combination of size, speed, and hands. But he's a fairly natural receiver. Really blossomed as Tebow's No. 1 target as a senior. Started as a junior, but saw his production rise from 18 catches to 55, and 3 touchdowns to 9. Had a knack for making plays downfield, averaging 18.8 yards per reception. He missed two games as a sophomore with a broken finger. Had a few off-field issues. As a freshman, he suffered a cut on his right arm after putting his fist through a car window. Also was cited for misdemeanor resisting arrest last February, but the charges were dropped. He was drafted in the 2006 MLB draft, but opted to go ahead this off-season with his football career rather than play for the Texas Rangers who gave him a $250K signing bonus.
NFL FORECAST: Cooper reminds me of Kevin Walter because he has good, but not great speed. I think he'll fit very well as a reserve, that will be good off the bench. He has the tools to be an effective starter, but won't be a star. And will be a guy like Walter that is a capable complement to a No. 1 guy like Andre Johnson, which gives him opportunities. The only question I have is whether he has the ideal burst to consistently get separation. But if he can polish up his route-running, that concern isn't going to be major. I'm confident he'll stick in the pros as a receiver, just not sure how good he's going to be. He's either going to be one of those reliable backups or a decent starter. But I would guess his maximum production will probably be 40-50 catches each year. He'll definitely help someone's offense and at the very least add good depth. Seems like the type of player that can contribute on special teams like Finneran and Walter did early in their careers, before they were able to start to make significant contributions offensively.
ATL FORECAST: I like his chances in Atlanta to develop, because early on he's only going to be asked to play special teams, and depending on how good he is there, can immediately push Finneran off the roster as the No. 4 guy. After two or so years, he could start to move up the depth chart and potentially challenge Jenkins for the starting job. I'm not sure he'll be a better playmaker than Jenkins, but could be a more reliable guy in terms of his ability not to drop passes. Even if he doesn't win the starting job, could have a long career as a productive reserve for the Falcons.
VALUE: He's a nice pickup in the fourth round because he definitely can contribute on an NFL roster, just not sure he possesses great upside for the next level.
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Bill Clinton: Israel must make peace to survive
Today's news from the Associated Press was selected by Media Writing student Alexandria Rogers.
By Diaa Hadid and Ian Deitch, Associated Press —
JERUSALEM (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton urged Israel to make peace with Palestinians in order to survive as a Jewish and democratic state at a conference Monday evening, adding his voice to a chorus of prominent pro-Israel figures warning of the urgency of peacemaking for the country's own survival.
Clinton spoke hours after an Israeli Cabinet minister declared that the Palestinians would not establish a state in territory Israel controls.
It underscored a chasm between the country's official support for creating an independent Palestinian state and the hard-line opponents who dominate Israel's ruling coalition.
Repeating arguments made for years by Israeli doves and centrists, Clinton warned that increasing numbers of Palestinians under Israeli rule will ultimately force the country to lose either its Jewish majority or its democratic nature if Palestinians are not given equal rights as citizens.
"Is it really okay with you if Israel has a majority of its people living within your territory who are not now, and never will be, allowed to vote?" Clinton asked at a conference in central Israel honoring President Shimon Peres, who is turning 90.
"If it is, can you say with a straight face that you'll be a democracy? If you let them vote, can you live with not being a Jewish state? And if you can't live with one of those things, then you are left with trying to cobble together some theory of a two-state solution," he said, with a Palestinian state next to Israel.
Clinton was referring to the 4.4 million Palestinians who live in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem, territories that Israel conquered in the 1967 Mideast war. Another 1.4 million live inside Israel, alongside about 6.5 million Jews.
Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005, but it retains significant control over movement of goods and people. Israel has built more than 100 settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, where some 500,000 of its citizens live. Israel annexed east Jerusalem and sees its settlements there as neighborhoods. The international community does not recognize the annexation.
Peace negotiations have repeatedly stalled in recent years. Palestinians say they will not negotiate while Israel builds in Jewish settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, which they claim for their future state, along with Gaza. Israel insists talks must resume without conditions.
Clinton criticized Palestinians for not negotiating with Israel in 2010, when there was a months-long settlement building slowdown.
The ex-President's comments came after Cabinet minister Naftali Bennett said the Palestinians' hopes of creating a state in territories controlled by Israel had reached a "dead end."
Bennett, leader of the Jewish Home Party, echoed ideas expressed by other officials in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition government.
"The idea that a Palestinian state will arise inside the Land of Israel has reached a dead end," Bennett said Monday at a meeting of the Yesha settler group.
"Never in the history of Israel have so many people dealt with so much energy with something so pointless," he said.
The statements came as the U.S. is trying to build momentum for peace talks to resume.
Many Israelis don't want their country to withdraw from the West Bank or parts of east Jerusalem because they have deep religious significance for many devout Jews, who see it as their biblical heartland and heritage.
Other Israelis worry that violent groups will fill the vacuum if they withdraw from areas under its control. They cite the case of the Gaza Strip, where the Palestinian militant Hamas seized control after Israel pulled out.
Hamas has killed hundreds of Israelis in suicide bombings, shootings and rocket attacks.
Bennett said that the policy of Israeli land concessions and withdrawals has failed. "Terrorists entered everywhere that Israel withdrew from," he said.
Last week, Netanyahu's deputy defense minister and member of his own Likud party, Danny Danon, said "there is certainly no majority" in the Likud for establishing a Palestinian state based on Israel's borders before the 1967 Mideast war.
Last month, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry shuttled between Israel and the Palestinians to try to restart talks. His return to the region has been postponed.
The Palestinians' chief negotiator, Saeb Erekat, condemned Bennett's remarks. "These are not isolated events, but a reaffirmation of political platforms and radical beliefs," he said. "Israel has officially declared the death of the two-state solution."


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Rosemary Jolly and Stevenson Fergus
Tackling HIV and gender-based violence in South Africa
Physically, the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa is a diverse place. Located in the northeastern quadrant of the country, it has a long subtropical coastline on the Indian Ocean where you'll find Durban, one of South Africa's major cities and one of the continent's busiest ports. The inland regions consist of grassy rolling hills, home to farmers and world-class wildlife preserves.
The countryside may be picturesque, but the natural beauty masks some disturbing human realities. Because little paid employment exists in the rural areas – the traditional territory of the once-mighty Zulu kingdom – family life in the villages has been disrupted by men leaving their families for weeks and months at a time to work in the cities. KwaZulu-Natal has one of the world's highest rates of HIV infection; approximately one-third of its population carries the virus. Despite the abolition of apartheid in 1991, the violent legacies of that practice continue to have extensive effects. Violence against women and children is commonplace.
The social and health issues in KwaZulu-Natal are complex, interrelated and intergenerational, and governments and social agencies at all levels are hard pressed to cope with them. Among those on the front lines is a multidisciplinary research team from Queen's University that has been working at the grassroots level in the Sisonke District Municipality of KwaZulu-Natal to help devise solutions to some of the region's most intractable problems: HIV infection and gender-based violence, and the relationship between the two.
Jointly led by Queen's professor Rosemary Jolly, a native South African who is cross-appointed to the Department of English and the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, and Stevenson Fergus, an associate professor who is cross-appointed to the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies and the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, the project is funded by a five-year, $1.5 million grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).
"[...] you don't just go in and tell people what to do. You actually work with them to uncover goals and solutions to what people are facing," says Fergus.
Their work has two main, but interrelated objectives. The first involves bringing men and women together in workshops and other activities to talk frankly and openly about the roots of family violence – primarily, but not exclusively, against women – and HIV infection. In this part of the world, providing a forum for discussion about such taboo subjects is itself a novel measure – though it's not without precedent. South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, on which Jolly has published extensively, heard victims' stories of abuse and state-sanctioned torture during the apartheid era. What she heard there formed part of her motivation for her later field work.
The "community mobilization" activities inform the project's second objective, which is to recommend and support ways to enhance existing government and NGO health services, or interventions, that address both HIV and gender-based violence. Jolly helped found two rape crisis centres in the study region, which nevertheless remains dramatically underserviced.
Although the current project is new, Jolly and Alan Jeeves, an emeritus history professor from Queen's, have been working in KwaZulu-Natal since 1998. Fergus, who joined the team in 2007, says their longtime presence among the people they're researching helps distinguish them from so-called "helicopter researchers" who simply visit a study area for a few weeks to gather data from the inhabitants and then head home, never to return.
"As someone with my training in public health, I was really convinced that you don't just go in and tell people what to do. You actually work with them to uncover goals and solutions to what people are facing," says Fergus, who has brought a set of quantitative research design components to the table that have been key to the development of the project's goals. "It was clear to me that since Rose and Alan had been there for such a long time, they were in a really good place to do that."
That trust relationship is important, because the topics under the microscope are incredibly sensitive. Jolly and Fergus are asking men and women to talk about abusive relationships, about their sex lives, about rape and incest, about the frustrations of unemployment, disempowerment and discrimination. "No one will open up if they don't feel that the environment is safe and that they can trust the people hearing their stories," says Fergus.
Zulu men, the most frequent – but not the only – perpetrators of violence, are struggling to deal with a new South African constitution that guarantees equality and liberal rights for women, ones that are at odds with apartheid's patriarchal structuring of male-female roles. The migrant worker scenario also poses challenges for spousal relationships: if a woman asks that her migrant-worker husband use a condom when he comes home after weeks or months away, her request might be interpreted by her husband as implying that he had had other sexual partners, or that she herself had had other partners. In either case, the husband may take offense and become violent.
"I like to think that we're contributing research to inform strategies that will help in the long term," says Jolly.
"The relationship between HIV, gender-based violence and coercion is very close here," says Jolly.
The women's stories are often the most poignant and troubling. Poverty is such that, to support their family, women sometimes turn to "transactional sex" – a sort of barter that uses consensual sex as currency, as when a woman sleeps with a man in a position of power (such as her teacher) in exchange for money, food, or other commodities.
In some ways, these and a host in of other structural social problems mimic some conditions in Canadian native communities – which is why Jolly's research team includes a group of Aboriginal observers from Canada. Their role is to take notes on the final stages of the project with an aim to assess the resulting intervention techniques for their applicability in the Canadian context.
"I don't expect to see the problems in South Africa disappear in my lifetime," says Jolly. "But you have to work towards that goal. I like to think that we're contributing research to inform strategies that will help in the long term."
Profile by Alec Ross
(e)Affect Issue 2, Fall 2012
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Gluten Free Japanese Recipes: Avocado Onigiri Rice Ball Recipes
As you may know, the DH and I are expecting a "Baby Yum" in mid July and so have been doing all sorts of things to prepare for her, including attending childbirth classes. I had always imagined that these classes would be cuddly events involving yoga mats and back massages and spouses, so I was a little disappointed with the rather clinical, hospital-themed lectures we ended up attending. I also found myself more than a little hungry at the first one as it took place directly after the DH got home from work during our typical dinner hour. We sped over to a nearby PF Chang's for a late dinner, but after that I wanted to bring our own dinner. (This was encouraged by the class leader/nurse.) The next class, I brought tasty spring rolls. The week after, though, I was inspired to make another international portable snack, Onigiri, or Japanese rice balls.
First I prepped the ingredients and set them out on a plate, and then I made a bunch of different types in small triangular molds:
Vegetarian Sesame Spinach Onigiri (a Book of Yum favorite)
Vegetarian fresh basil and sweet egg onigiri (a Japanese omelette made with 1 small beaten egg, 2 tsp. sugar and salt fried and then minced) with both ingredients mixed into the rice.
Cream cheese, avocado, and cucumber onigiri
Peanut Sauce Onigiri (recipe below)
The latter recipe was inspired by an earlier recipe I'd never gotten around to blog, where I used very yummy gluten-free miso mayo with avocado and pine nuts for a fusion nigiri. This time I didn't have any on hand but I did have some of the new gluten-free San-J peanut sauce in my pantry, so I used that. It was delicious and ended up being one of my favorite rolls, next to the sesame spinach onigiri. The rolls traveled beautifully and made a very tasty and hearty dinner during our class. They would be perfect for a picnic lunch or a Fourth of July celebration as well! If you haven't tried making vegetarian onigiri, I highly recommend it as a portable and delicious, easily gluten-free meal.
This time I used onigiri rice triangle molds similar to these above. Besides Amazon, you can find onigiri molds at specialty online shops, Japanese markets, and Japanese dollar stores (hyaku en Shoppu) like Daiso.
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Fusion Avocado Basil Vegetarian Onigiri Recipe
2 rice cooker scoops of White Sushi Rice
Nori Seaweed sheets, either square cut in half or onigiri size
1/2 fresh avocado, chopped in large, thick chunks
Miso Mayo or your favorite GF mayonnaise with a touch of salt or GF soy sauce added (if soy is ok for you)
Handful of Pine Nuts, toasted or not to taste
Julienned fresh basil OR fresh shiso leaf (I prefer basil)
kosher salt flakes
black sesame seeds
Rinse your (uncooked) sushi rice until the water runs clean with no cloudiness. Drain and cook your sushi rice in your rice cooker according to machine's directions OR, if you don't have a rice cooker, prepare on the stove according to rice directions. When cooked, fluff rice and let cool slightly.
Prepare your ingredients and set up an onigiri station with a rice bowl, saran wrap and ingredients. Line rice bowl with saran wrap. Sprinkle saran wrap with kosher salt flakes. Place layer of sushi rice in the bowl on top of the saran wrap, press a few pine nuts into the center of the bowl and rice, top with a little fresh basil and then add your piece of avocado to the center on top of basil and pine nuts. top with a little miso mayo, a little more julienned fresh basil and then cover with a layer of rice. Sprinkle rice on top with kosher salt. Wrap saran around the whole rice ball and remove from bowl. Compress with hands until you have a nice, tight triangle. Gently remove from saran wrap and wrap in nori seaweed so nori is open towards the top of the triangle. Sprinkle with black sesame seeds if desired.
Make more until you run out of rice. Enjoy this easy lunchbox treat. :)
*Will need to be refrigerated, especially if you use an egg based mayonnaise.
Gluten Free Vegan Peanut Avocado Onigiri Recipe
San-J peanut sauce or homemade peanut sauce
1/2 cubed avocado
1/4 sliced, cubed peeled cucumber
pine nuts
Julienned fresh basil OR fresh shiso leaf (I prefer basil)
black sesame seeds
Rinse your (uncooked) sushi rice until the water runs clean with no cloudiness. Drain and cook your sushi rice in your rice cooker according to machine's directions OR, if you don't have a rice cooker, prepare on the stove according to rice directions. When cooked, fluff rice and let cool slightly.
Prepare your ingredients and set up an onigiri station with a small triangular onigiri mold, saran wrap and ingredients. Line onigiri mold with a small piece of saran wrap. Place layer of sushi rice in the mold on top of the saran wrap and drizzle a small amount of peanut sauce on the rice and add avocado, cucumber, and a few pine nuts in the center of the rice mold. Top with a little fresh basil or shiso. Then cover with a layer of rice and press into a nice triangular onigiri. Wrap saran around the whole rice ball and remove from mold. Compress with hands and gently remove from saran wrap and sprinkle with black sesame seeds.
San-J peanut sauce is very liquid, so it will seep into the top of the onigiri. Homemade peanut sauce can be thicker so will not necessarily leak.
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Francesc - Bruno put in 6 laps in the 1:41s at the end. Pastor's best was 1:42.2 on lap 51
That's not "Much slower than Pastor". (sorry)
I agree that Bruno still needs to improve in qually etc. But the dry pace at the end of the race was fine.
Edit - Hold on a minute. I'm going to total up the relevent lap times on the last stint. I think Pastor might have been faster overall... OK. Senna looks like he was bringing the tyres in slower. His first 2 laps were 2 seconds slower each!
Including those 2 odd laps, from lap 41 to 53 Maldonado's average lap was .4 sec per lap quicker. Though he was chasing points and Senna was holding position.
Interesting... Or not, you decide...
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Japanese car giants Toyota and Nissan are recalling a total of 6.5 million cars to replace potentially faulty airbag inflators made by Takata.
Toyota is recalling just under five million cars, including the Corolla, Vitz and other models made between March 2003 and November 2007.
Nissan is recalling 1.56 million cars over the same issue.
Both carmakers said the recall was for investigative purposes and no accidents or injuries have been reported.
Toyota, the world's biggest carmaker, said the recall affected 35 of its models made around the world.
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Illinois lawmakers face a deadline this week to approve a bill that will prevent severe cuts to this year�s horse racing schedule.
The problem is lawmakers are only scheduled to be in session one day, Wednesday, and that is primarily to hear Gov. Pat Quinn deliver his state of the state speech.
�My hope is we will call it for a vote on Wednesday,� said Rep. Robert Rita, D-Blue Island, sponsor of the advance deposit wagering bill in the House. �I haven�t heard either way here. We were prepared to do it (in December) when we were down there last time, but it just didn�t get called.�
The bill provides for continuation of advance deposit wagering beyond Jan. 31. Advance deposit wagering is a form on online betting on horses.
Horse racing interests have agreed on a plan that calls for a surcharge on all wagers made in the state and allows for additional off-track betting parlors. It would provide sufficient money to the Illinois Racing Board so that a full schedule of horse races could be run this year.
Without the extra revenue, the Racing Board says it cannot afford the manpower needed to monitor a full slate of racing. The board supplies stewards and veterinarians at tracks to ensure the safety of participants and that the races are fair.
The Racing Board is scheduled to meet Friday to approve racing dates for this upcoming season. It has developed four different racing schedules based on various actions lawmakers could take. The worst-case scenario is that nothing happens, which would result in an 81 percent reduction in racing dates.
The Illinois Harness Horseman�s Association last week issued a statement warning that no action by lawmakers could result in 95 percent fewer harness racing dates this year, from 251 days to 13.
�Such dramatic cuts will effectively kill Illinois horse racing and the thousands of jobs it creates,� the association said, noting that 15,000 jobs are tied to the horse racing industry.
Senate Bill 66 must not only be approved by the House, but must return to the Senate for final approval. While Rita wants to call the bill for a vote, he acknowledged attendance of lawmakers could be an issue, with only a one-day session planned and weather a possible issue.
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The Benefits and Costs of the Clean Air Act, 1970 to 1990
Final report to Congress prepared in response to Section 812 of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments addressing the question of how the overall health, welfare, ecological, and economic benefits of Clean Air Act Programs compare to the costs of these programs in the period 1970-90. This final report has been approved by an advisory committee formed to review it, and has been transmitted to Congress.
This retrospective analysis focuses on the National Ambient Air Quality criteria pollutants sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, particulate matter, ozone, and lead. The report compares and contrasts two regulatory scenarios. The "control scenario" reflects the actual conditions resulting from the historical implementation of the 1970 and 1977 Clean Air Acts. In contrast, the "no-control" scenario reflects expected conditions under the assumption that, absent the passage of the 1970 Clean Air Act, the scope, form, and stringency of air pollution control programs would have remained as they were in 1970. The "no-control" scenario represents a hypothesized "baseline" against which to measure the effects of the Clean Air Act. The differences between the public health, air quality, and economic and environmental conditions resulting from these two scenarios represent the benefits and costs of the Act's implementation from 1970 to 1990.
The retrospective study was designed and developed over a six year period, and received extensive outside peer review. This outside peer review, conducted on an ongoing basis throughout the full six-year period of study design and implementation, was provided by the EPA Science Advisory Board (SAB) Council on Clean Air Act Compliance Analysis (Council), an independent panel of distinguished economists, scientists and public health experts chaired by Dr. Richard Schmalensee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In a July 8, 1997 letter to EPA concluding its review of the retrospective study, the SAB Council summarized its findings as follows: "The Council finds that the Retrospective Study Report to Congress by the Agency is a serious, careful study and employs sound methods along with the best data available. While we do not necessarily endorse all details of this study's findings, we believe that as a general matter that they are consistent with the weight of available evidence."
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Abstract--summarizes the overall study and its findings in two pages.
Table of Contents--table of contents, acronyms and abbreviations, table of figures, table of tables, and acknowledgments.
Executive Summary--ten page more detailed summary, including graphical representations of the historical benefits and costs of Clean Air Act programs.
Chapter 1: Introduction.
Chapter 2: Cost and Macroeconomic Effects.
Chapter 3: Emissions.
Chapter 4: Air Quality.
Chapter 5: Physical Effects.
Chapter 6: Economic Valuation.
Chapter 7: Results and Uncertainty.
Appendix A: Cost and Macroeconomic Modeling--estimation of direct compliance costs and the macroeconomic modeling of the effects of those expenditures.
Appendix B: Emissions Modeling--methodologies used to estimate control and no-control scenario emissions and the results obtained by these methods.
Appendix C: Air Quality Modeling--methodologies used to translate differences in emissions under the control and no-controls scenarios into changes in air quality conditions; includes summary characterizations of the results for target year 1990.
Appendix D: Human Health and Visibility Effects of Criteria Pollutants--overview of the approach used to model human health and welfare effects of criteria pollutants; outlines the principles used to design and implement the physical effects analysis, presents the specific concentration-response functions used for each pollutant-endpoint combination (e.g., particulate matter-related premature mortality), and describes the physical incidence outcomes of the modeling.
Appendix E: Ecological Effects of Criteria Pollutants--potential ecological benefits of Clean Air Act program criteria pollutant controls in the context of three types of ecosystems: aquatic, wetland, and forest.
Appendix F: Effects of Criteria Pollutants on Agriculture--economic value of the differences in yields of some agricultural crops between the control and no-control scenarios.
Appendix G: Lead Benefits Analysis--benefits resulting from the estimated reductions in lead in gasoline and from stationary sources achieved pursuant to the Clean Air Act.
Appendix H: Air Toxics--quantitative estimates of the benefits of Clean Air act-related control of hazardous air pollutants for nonutility stationary source and mobile source categories. Noncancer effects and ecological effects are described qualitatively.
Appendix I: Valuation of Human Health and Welfare Effects of Criteria Pollutants--the basis for the methods and coefficients used to translate most of the quantified human health, welfare, and environmental effect incidences into measures of economic value, and presents the results of those calculations by individual endpoint.
Appendix J: Future Directions--examples of research topics which, if pursued, might improve the certainty and/or comprehensiveness of future section 812 benefit-cost studies of the Clean Air Act.