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Now this is "Bringing Geeky Back!" Ben Kinney, Chris Smith, Bob Stewart, and Scott Stratten all on one call? Any agent who doesn't attend should just turn in their license!
Registration now open for RainCamp: More Social, Less Media
When: April 19th 9:00am to 12:30pm Pacific Time (12:00pm to 3:30 Eastern Time)
Where: Online, join us from your office, couch or even your bed
How much: Free (thanks to our sponsors)
What: Learning to use Social Media tools to increase your business
Who: A great lineup of speakers, check them out below
Social media is a buzz word for 2012. It was a buzz word in 2011. But how does it actually impact your business? How do you use social media to create more value for your existing clients and to potentially create new connections for your business? What Pinterest, the new emerging star in the social media sky? Do you really need to be concered with Google+?
We'll take a look at these questions and give you some solid answers and applications of how to use social media in your business to impact your bottom line. Let's figure out how to capitalize on the social part of social media and stop thinking about it as another media opportunity to cram our marketing down someone's throat (not that there's not a place for that approach in your marketing tool bag......different strokes for different folks)
We are excited to have these guys joining us:
Scott Stratten, president of Un-Marketing
Becoming a Trusted Expert using Social Media
Are you familiar with Scott? He was recently named one of the five most influential social media personalities by Forbes.com and he's created viral videos for some of his clients that have been viewed over 60 million times. His twitter ramblings go out to over 119,000 people every day. If you're not familiar with Scott, take ten minutes to check out his blog, his twitter feed, or even some videos of him presenting his thoughts on Social Media. This guy gets it. He understands how companies and small businesses can utilize social media to make real connections for their business.
As his bio states: "He is an expert in Viral, Social, and Authentic Marketing which he calls Un-Marketing. It's all about positioning yourself as a trusted expert in front of your target market, so when they have the need, they choose you." (Did he write that stuff about himself? Or have someone else write it? I always wonder when I see someone's bio......I'll have to ask him during RainCamp.) I'm super excited that he will be joining us to talk about some things real estate agents can do to to position yourself as a trusted expert in front of your target market.
**Warning: You may spend more than 10 minutes if you take the time to check those links
(All the awesomeness in his bio, combined with $5, will get him a cup of coffee anywhere in the world. I stole that from his bio page. But your ability to absorb some of the things that he's learned over the years will be way more valuable than your morning caffeine intake. And it's a webinar, so you can watch from home and get your coffee for cheaper than $5.)
Ben Kinney, REALTOR® with Keller Williams in Bellingham WA
Between 8 and 13 Practical Applications of Social Media to Increase Your Leads
If you're not familiar with Ben, he is a mega producing agent whose team did over 530 transactions in 2011. He's also the founder of IMSD, the Internet Marketing Specialist Designation, a program where he shares his entire business, the same things he's doing that lead to his team having over 530 transactions last year. The reason I love having Ben at RainCamps is because he is a practioner who is using the advice he is going to share with you to generate more leads for his business. Ben and I have been kicking a title for his presentation back and forth and it's going to be somewhere between 8 and 13 ways to use Social Media to generate leads.
If he's feeling particularly generous, it could be more than 13........and those of you that have followed Ben know that he's more than willing to share good ideas that are working in his business. He'll even share them with his competitors because it forces him to come up with more and better ideas.
We want you to walk away from RainCamp with actionable items that you can start to work on right away. No one is better at sharing actionable items that lead to more business than Ben is. He shares his ideas all the time on the success principles group (you have to ask to join the group once you land there in the top right) that he created on Facebook that now has over 3800 members sharing, getting and giving advice.
Chris Smith, Chief Evangelist for Inman News
Pinterest - Because Pretty Pictures and Real Estate Go Hand in Hand
Of course you're familiar with Chris. He's was the brain behind the wildly popular TechSavvyAgent.com blog before coming over to lead the Inman Next Community for Inman News. In some ways, he's probably a competitor to ActiveRain, but we don't care. We want to bring you great minds to help you navigate the social media landscape and he's S.M.A.R.T! Smart. A thought leader in every sense of the word for using social media in real estate. He's also passionate about helping real estate agents understand and use some of the technologies that are emerging at break neck speeds. Every day, it seems, there is another app, website, social media tool or something that you hear you should use in your business. The latest one is Pinterest.
You've surely heard of Pinterest. It's hard to have missed it the last few months as it exploded on the social media scene as a way for people to collect and share images from around the web that they enjoy. But as with all the shiny new objects we encounter, we have to figure out if these things have practical applications for our business.
Chris will be taking drilling down and focusing on how Pinterest can be more than just a collection of great images. How can you utilize this rapidly emerging medium to market your business? How can you make sure you're not just another dolt out there collecting friends for an as of yet undecided purpose? Chris will have you pinning for the right reasons in no time.
And me, Bob Stewart, Chief Evangelist for ActiveRain
I'll Let You Decide, Facebook Fan Pages or Google+
I'll be the first to admit that Google+ is something I ignored when it launched. I knew it was there, but I wasn't diving in until I knew it was going to be around for a while. But Google has been doing some interesting stuff with Google+ and it's integration with their search algorithm. Can you really afford to ignore Google+ any longer if there's a chance it could impact the search results of the people you're connected with? I don't think it's an option anymore and we're going to talk about why, as well as what can you do to make sure you're keeping the 800lb. Google beast happy as you navigate the social media highway.
(I use that picture of me and my wife because she makes me look so much better than I actually do.......)
.............or we won't talk about that at all. Maybe we'll talk about Facebook fan pages and some of the best ways that agents are connecting with people that live in their market. I'm sure many of you have a fan page for your business, but have you created any fan pages that are actually worth following and that serve a need for anyone in your community? We'd all love to think that our business is worth people following......but most of the time, it's not. Very few people of your Facebook friends care you sold a house last week, or that you have a new listing, or really about much of anything as it relates directly to you (sorry to burst your bubble, although your buddies may like to know you sold a house this week so they can collect on that bet you lost). So are there other avenues you can take that are worth connecting with? I think there are, and there are some agents out there doing a great job of connecting with their fans to bring them value, and allowing them the chance to use social media to market
Would you rather learn about Google+ or Facebook Fan Pages? You tell us what I'm going to present at RainCamp.......
A special thank you to all of our sponsors that allow us to bring this to you for free!


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In January 2013, Anne Boninsegna and Jen Lindsey, the owners of the part-restaurant, part-cooking school Kitchen in German Village, raised $45,026 from 309 people in 40 days via a Kickstarter campaign. In doing so, they joined a host of restaurateurs and food entrepreneurs turning to social-funding sites for capital, in part because traditional lenders view food businesses as ultrarisky.
In January 2013, Anne Boninsegna and Jen Lindsey, the owners of the part-restaurant, part-cooking school Kitchen in German Village, raised $45,026 from 309 people in 40 days via a Kickstarter campaign.
In doing so, they joined a host of restaurateurs and food entrepreneurs turning to social-funding sites for capital, in part because traditional lenders view food businesses as ultrarisky. Kickstarter is the most-prominent of the funding sites � others include Indiegogo, Smallknot and RocketHub � that let small businesses, artists, musicians and others raise money to fund their projects by appealing directly to friends, fans and the public.
In return, entrepreneurs offer perks and rewards for various donation levels. Most of the sites issue the project money only when the funding goal is reached. If the entrepreneur doesn�t reach the goal, the donors pay nothing.
Boninsegna and Lindsey used their Kickstarter money to cover the last round of fees for permits and architects for the Kitchen, and for construction costs. It opened in July.
�We knew going in it would be really difficult to get bank funding, and if we could do it at all, it would never be as much as we needed,� Boninsegna said. She also had seen many restaurants fail because of debt or undercapitalization, �so we knew if we could get money from as many sources as possible, we�d have a better chance to be successful.�
Many others in this area have turned to Kickstarter for a boost.
The Paddy Wagon food truck used Kickstarter to raise money to open a permanent location inside the Little Rock Bar in Italian Village.
Kingmakers, the board-game parlor that opened last month in the Short North, raised $10,151 from 206 people via a Kickstarter campaign that ended on Jan. 15. The money was used to expand the game library, pay for interior-design work and train the staff.
Owner Malika de Silva sought alternative sources of money because traditional banks wouldn�t lend to her.
Kingmakers didn�t fit neatly into a category: It�s not really a restaurant, as it has no kitchen � all the food is catered � and it�s not really a bar, serving only a handful of beers on tap.
�We sit in between, and it was hard to ask a traditional bank to try anything outside of the box,� de Silva said. �It was impossible to get a bank loan because, even though I�ve worked in the service industry, I�d never been an owner. I tried the (local Economic and Community Development Institute) and banks.�
Kingmakers, instead, was funded by loans from friends and family, de Silva�s personal credit card and the Kickstarter money.
Another Kickstarter hopeful is Joshua Jordan. The Columbus man plans to open J & J Street Eats, a Southern-themed food truck, in March. He plans to serve up New Orleans-style po� boys, plus pastries and breakfast, at festivals and in the parking lots of office buildings.
Jordan has turned to Kickstarter to raise money for the truck, hoping to raise $10,000 by Feb. 12. The combination of bankruptcy after a divorce nearly seven years ago and the fact that his is a food-service business hurt his ability to tap traditional bank funding, Jordan said.
If his campaign is successful, he will use the money to cover permit fees and part of the cost of the truck.
�I�m hoping it comes through, but I�m still going to figure it out and open either way,� he said.
Columbus restaurant broker Randy Sokol isn�t surprised that food entrepreneurs are tapping nontraditional sources for cash.
�For restaurants and bars, it�s still tough.� Sokol said. �A lot of banks tell buyers that they can finance, but once they get deeper into the process, the loan doesn�t usually happen.�
Many are financing their ventures with their own money, combined with what they can borrow from friends, relatives or private investors, Sokol said. Restaurateurs �can�t count on the bank. Getting a loan hasn�t really gotten any easier.�
Reluctance on the part of traditional lenders comes in part from the restaurant industry�s reputation for riskiness, he said. But that reputation might not be based on reality.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics says the failure rate for restaurants is about 60 percent, in line with that of most other businesses.
Social-funding sites step in to help fill the void, but they come with other perks as well.
The sites take a one-time fee off the top, so startups avoid recurring interest charges and debt, which is appealing, de Silva said. It�s also a way to test new restaurant concepts, and to gain a following, usually before the doors are even open.
�The Kitchen was a bizarre idea, and we knew if we could put it on a website and get people to buy into the idea sight unseen, that it probably had legs,� Boninsegna said. �It was happening one way or another but, at that point, we could have changed directions if we had to.�
�You�re reaching out to potential customers,� de Silva said. �When people give, they feel invested, like they own part of the startup and the experience. It�s been a great way to engage current and future customers.�
But it�s not as easy as just putting up a fundraising page and seeing what happens. Successful campaigns are, in fact, marketing campaigns.
The Kitchen and Kingmakers spent up to six months crafting their Kickstarter pages before posting them, taking time to carefully create their promotional video and write their descriptions and information pages.
�We had to be on it every single minute of every day, posting to Facebook and sending emails, and then thanking people who donated,� Boninsegna said.Off the menu
� Flyer�s Pizza�s heart-shaped pizza is back and available until Feb. 14. The one-topping, 11-inch pizza sells for $8.99, and $1 from each is donated to the nonprofit group Autism Speaks. Last year, Flyer�s sold almost 1,500 heart-shaped pizzas.
� Cameron�s American Bistro, 2185 W. Dublin-Granville Rd., reopened on Jan. 27 after a whirlwind 12-day remodeling. The restaurant, which first opened in 1993, now has new granite tops on the bar, noise-reducing ceilings, a new earth-tone color scheme and new lighting. The restaurant has an updated menu, as well. Among the new items: the Oysters Bingo appetizer, made with creamed spinach, asiago aioli, garlic and lemon; and a pork chop and clams entree that comes with garlic mashed potatoes.
� Jeff Benson, owner of G. Michael�s Bistro in German Village, plans to open a restaurant in Marysville. Benson�s Chop Shop & Bar is scheduled to open in 2015. He said that work is about to start on a new building for the restaurant, which will be at the northwest corner of Walnut and E. 5th streets.
Dispatch restaurant columnist Denise Trowbridge can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.

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Making the Switch From Disposable to Cloth Diapers
When my husband and I were expecting our first child, we discussed whether we should use disposable or cloth diapers. We liked the idea of the environmental friendliness of cloth but worried about the extra work (as in laundry) that washing and folding the diapers might require. We still hadn't decided what do by the time our daughter was born. Much to our surprise, the first diaper she ever wore was a cloth one–at the hospital!
The hospital where all three of our children were born is a "Green Hospital." It has a BPA-free Mother and Baby Wing, the cafeteria uses real silverware instead of plastic, it uses 100% biodegradable plastic cups and straws made from corn, it recycles all of its paper, plastic and metal-among other things, it composts not only food but landscaping debris, and it uses cloth instead of disposable diapers. The nurse with … Read More


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by Brian DeCandia, sports information graduate assistant
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – The Georgia College tennis program and head coach Steve Barsby were happy to help out Creekside Elementary School Thursday by volunteering at their yearly bake sale to raise money for Relay for Life.
"This was a great way for our student-athletes to give back to the community," said coach Barsby. "It's a good experience for our men and women to help out and give back to the community that supports us. A bake sale is an excellent way to raise money for Relay for Life and everyone came out a winner."
Four student-athletes participated in the event by selling baked goods and interacting with the youths. The four GC student-athletes that volunteered were women's tennis players May Johnson (Sydney, Australia), Bertille Lion (Lyon, France) and Kayla Barksdale (Augusta, Ga.). Men's tennis sophomore Wictor Andersson (Karlskoga, Sweden) also participated in the event.
Men's tennis travels to Erskine Friday, March 18 for a 1 p.m. start and women's tennis squares off against the University of Montevallo at home Sunday, March 20 at noon.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, back-to-back winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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Get a Wow Body Now: Heather Morris' Dance and Martial Arts Workout
Brian Bowen Smith
Get a Wow Body Now Workout
Glee's Heather Morris came to FITNESS to fulfill her biggest workout wish: "I want to kick some ass!" She became an insta-fan of this fat-melting mash of martial arts and sculpting dance moves at first strike. "You will firm every inch of your body and fry calories like never before," says Ary Nunez, owner of Venia East studio in New York City, who created the signature dance-ninja mix that's getting major buzz among the fitterati, including A-list client and devotee Rihanna. "The body and energy boost you get are so incredible, you won't go back to plain old squats," Nunez adds. She cherry-picked the most flab-fighting firmers from her new Nike Training Club exercise app (free at iTunes) plus other favorites to design a total-body circuit that's as fun as it is transforming. Make it your go-to workout three times a week to slim down as you shape a sexy dancer's physique.
Brian Bowen Smith
Crescent Crescendo
Targets: Abs, butt, hips, and legs
- Stand with feet slightly wider than shoulder-width apart, toes turned out. Bring right forearm in front of chest as you bend left elbow by side so that forearm points left, both palms facing forward.
- Kick straight right leg toward left hand, striking left palm with right foot. MAKE IT EASIER: Swing bent right leg at hip height across body and strike left palm with right knee.
- Return right foot to ground briefly as you bring bent right arm in front of you, elbow at shoulder height with palm facing left; put left hand by hip.
Brian Bowen Smith
Jenga Jump
Targets: Shoulders, arms, abs, and legs
- Stand with feet shoulder-width apart, elbows bent 90 degrees behind you, fists by hips.
- Lunge backward with left leg, bending both knees about 45 degrees as you bring right forearm in front of forehead, palm facing forward (as if to block).
Brian Bowen Smith
Cat's Curtsy
Targets: Shoulders, arms, abs, butt, hips, and legs
- Stand with feet shoulder-width apart, toes turned out slightly and arms by sides.
- Cross right leg behind left to step right foot on left side as you lift arms out to sides at shoulder height, palms facing forward.
- Bend knees to lower into a curtsy, hinging slightly forward from hips; simultaneously bring right forearm in front of chest, palm in. MAKE IT EASIER: Bend knees only 45 degrees.
Brian Bowen Smith
Playing Mantis
Targets: Shoulders, abs, hips, butt, and legs
- Stand with right foot slightly in front of left, right knee bent and heel lifted; bend elbows by ribs with forearms out to sides. MAKE IT HARDER: Hold a 3-pound dumbbell in each hand.
- Lift bent right knee in front of you at hip height.
Brian Bowen Smith
Agent 99
Targets: Shoulders, lower back, abs, hips, butt, and inner and outer thighs
- Stand with feet wider than shoulder-width apart, toes turned out slightly, arms by sides.
- Bend right knee 90 degrees as you lean torso right, straightening left leg; simultaneously lift arms to shoulder height, bending right elbow to bring right hand by ear and extending left arm out to side, palms down.
Brian Bowen Smith
Karate Girl
Targets: Shoulders, abs, butt, and inner and outer thighs
- Stand with feet shoulder-width apart, arms by sides.
- Pivot on both feet to right and bend both knees slightly as you lift right heel off ground; simultaneously lift right arm to shoulder level in front of you, elbow slightly bent, and bend left elbow behind you with left hand by hip, palm up.
Brian Bowen Smith
Mantis Leap
Targets: Arms, abs, butt, and legs
- Stand with feet together, then bring slightly bent left arm in front of you so that forearm is parallel to ground, palm facing up, and extend right arm behind you, palm down.
- Do 16 reps. Switch sides and repeat. Do 2 to 3 sets.
Brian Bowen Smith
Roman Rotator
Targets: Shoulders, arms, abs, and obliques
- Stand with feet shoulder-width apart, knees slightly bent, and lift bent elbows in front of you at shoulder height, palms facing each other.
- Rotate torso and arms together diagonally up toward left.
Brian Bowen Smith
Heather Morris' Workout Playlist
To get into the groove as you do these moves, download this dance-jam playlist.
"Rockstar 101" - Rihanna and Slash
"OMG" - Usher, featuring Will.i.am
"Party Rock Anthem" - LMFAO, featuring Lauren Bennett and GoonRock
"Give Me Everything" - Pitbull, featuring Ne-Yo, Afrojack, and Nayer
"Raining Men" - Rihanna and Nicki Minaj
"Let's Get This Thing Started" - Alex Kenji
"Hi 'n' Bye" - Eddie Thoneick and Till West
"All the Right Moves" (Danger Remix) - OneRepublic
"Go Ape" - Far East Movement, Lil Jon, and Colette Carr
"Where Them Girls At" - David Guetta, featuring Nicki Minaj and Flo Rida
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Beneath the Surface of the Tara Grant Case
March 5, 2007 -- Dr. Michael Welner is a forensic psychiatrist who has consulted to prosecutors, judges, and defense attorneys on hundreds of homicides around the United States, many of which involved domestic issues.
He is a special consultant to ABC News on cases of forensic interest, and has been following the investigation of Tara Grant's disappearance.
Dr. Welner, are there any causes that contribute more particularly to cases where husbands kill wives?
Several issues are particularly linked to husbands' decisions to kill their wives. Financial hardship and a humiliating prospect of ruin may often be the driving force behind such cases. Such killings, unlike the Grant killing, often target the children as well, and include a suicidal father. The despondent father feels he would not wish for his children to see him as a loser, and in suicide, for his family to grow up unsupported.
Sometimes, a husband may be maintaining a secret life that proves to be incompatible with marriage. For some husbands, it is secret homosexuality. For others, it is philandering. Such husbands kill their wives to gain their freedom without accounting for the consequences of divorce. Homicide is not then an outgrowth of his double life, it arises from the extreme conflict when the secret is revealed and the killer's choice not to abide the family, financial and legal consequences.
In other cases, a husband's morbid jealousy culminates in murder. Such tragedies bear out a history of previous accusations, infidelities real and imagined, and domestic violence. Morbid jealousy homicides distinguish themselves from double-life homicides and many financial homicides in that the homicide does follow a sequence of clear conflict and evidence for the lethality of the jealousy beforehand.
If the jealousy includes a father questioning the parentage of one of his children, a history of mistreatment of the child in question may suggest this as the root cause. In my professional experience, ferreting out this motive from killing husbands may be particularly challenging, for husbands may be too embarrassed, even in custody, to acknowledge their spouse's pregnancy out of wedlock.
Is there always a motive to spousal homicide?
Analysis of husband-wife homicide must include an appraisal of how premeditated the killing was. There is always a conflict, overt or below the surface -- even if the husband is psychotic. Some such homicides may yet occur rather unpredictably. For this reason, suspects in question should be tested as close to the time of arrest as possible, in order to screen for the presence of mind-altering substances -- methamphetamine, cocaine and alcohol in particular.
How is it that marital problems lead to murder? Whatever happened to divorce?
Spousal homicides, as well, are proprietary crimes. Namely, the husband relates to his wife as if she is his property. In so doing, he feels entitled to make the decision to take her life. We may be an enlightened society that is horrified by the notion of other cultures who throw acid on their wives for "honor," but male relatedness to their wives as property persists in different forms. If the financial issues arise after a divorce, the spousal homicide has less to do with the father's sense of failure at his role and more to do with the husband's reacting to his sense of powerlessness. A confident and desirable woman, especially in a setting of suspected infidelity, only adds to a sense of a husband's powerlessness to resolve a conflict without physical harm.
Proprietary thinking is particularly important to understanding why husbands don't just get a divorce. In current times, husbands have every reason to feel that divorce and custody disputes will wipe them out financially or estrange them from their children. For this reason, the morbidly jealous husband with a sense of dominance about relationships with women in general, and a fragile sense of self-esteem otherwise, will continue to feel powerless even after divorce. The killer's rationale, in my professional experience, is "if I can't have you, nobody can."
Spousal homicide, in the absence of a husband's deep depression or psychosis, invariably reflects the highly entitled selfishness of the killer -- whether the record reflects conflict between them or not. The double-life killer and financially driven killer will demonstrate relief in the aftermath; the morbidly jealous killer may unravel.
Do you think that the publicity of cases like Scott and Laci Peterson contribute to spousal homicide? How?
Absolutely. Husbands who see themselves in the "everyman" quality of Scott Peterson see in someone else an option that they might otherwise push out of their heads as unthinkable. In my professional opinion, killers do draw inspiration from cases in which others have made choices they fantasize about. Scott Peterson felt he could get away with a crime bearing only circumstantial evidence. Tara Grant disappeared and was killed. Her husband has not admitted responsibility and was only now arrested. My professional experience has reminded me that some husbands attract suspicion of spousal homicide, but insufficient evidence emerges to prosecute them. Police work is not so easy as paint-by-numbers.
Do you see any parallels to the Scott Peterson killing of his wife, Laci?
Conflicts about Tara Grant's business trips are quite the opposite of Scott Peterson's double life with Amber Frey and possibly others. Homicide in the Peterson case occurred in the setting of Laci Peterson's pregnancy and her inevitable discovery of his infidelity.
The circumstances here are somewhat different. Mr. Grant may have been unfaithful, or may have been making clumsy overtures as an adaptation to his own suspiciousness of his wife. But there is no indication that he was moving on to another life or had established one.
The morbidly jealous husband who kills maintains an emotional entanglement and intensity well after death. His righteous outrage is easy to tap into. Scott Peterson showed himself to be remarkably detached from Laci Peterson after the crime.
Viewers will note, however, Stephen Grant's media-friendly approach to his wife's disappearance. Scott Peterson attempted to use his charm to control the message. Grant, an experienced political operative, would not surprisingly take the same approach. Both men did not give off any sense of menace. That fact is worth remembering: There is no face of domestic homicide, no one who clearly radiates menace when the camera is on and others are watching.
What would you do, as a forensic psychiatrist, to follow up on exploring this case?
Follow the conflict and follow the timeline. Retracing her steps through his travel, the locations Ms. Grant frequented. Cell phone records are key -- including a search for the possibility of a second cell phone. Internet and chat activity reveal the extent of strands of relationships. Stephen Grant reportedly monitored her Internet activity, and the product of that monitoring relative to her disappearance will reveal important information. Retrace other aspects of his attempts to control her movements and her relationships, and what inspired such actions on his part.
In morbid jealousy cases, a husband's movements after the fact may be indistinguishable from the mourning husband and yield few clues. Occasionally, a therapist may be an important informant, but therapists are strongly discouraged from breaching confidentiality. The best witnesses to the prospect of homicide may be her co-workers, friends, or family confidantes.
Often overlooked, in my opinion, are the movements in the aftermath. Financial transactions may not hint at a reconfiguring life beforehand. But the person with the double life will make all of the moves after the fact to separate himself and wipe the decedent clean. This quality, in my professional experience, reflects a husband's shallow attachment to the decedent. As a psychiatrist who regularly engages the bereaved, I would advise that putting affairs of the deceased in order is arduous and often moves awkwardly. A spouse who sweeps his past and the decedent's traces clean inspires my suspicion for showing his attachment to be of the order of a landlord replacing a tenant. My suspicions are heightened when such occurs in the aftermath of murder.
Why is that?
Because murder is so traumatic an event, beyond even unexpected death. In my professional experience, intimates of the murdered are scarred forever -- forever. A person need not be emotional, or even visibly affected. But a person who dispenses with the life traces of the murdered may be trying to hard to let go of the past.
We've learned that Tara Grant's torso was found at their home. What questions would you have as to how that could happen?
Naturally, one would have to understand why the torso was in their home. A person with more pathological attachment would have greater difficulty dispensing with remains, or doing so without being compelled to revisit the site of body disposal. Mr. Grant had several days to remove the body before notifying police that his wife was missing on Feb. 14. Naturally, how police came to search and find the remains when they did is important to understanding how they identified Mr. Grant as a suspect.
Why does a finding of her remains at the home essentially clinch Mr. Grant as her killer?
A stranger would not conceal remains in the victim's home, particularly if the corpse was mutilated and desecrated to the end of dismemberment. Mutilation signatures are left exposed. Strangers remove mutilated remains and hide them.
Dismemberment is such a shocking circumstance to many. In your professional experience, how common is dismemberment, and what leads to it?
Dismemberment is very uncommon. The proliferation of entertainment television about organized crime has educated less-hardened criminals about why gangsters dismember. One might be tempted to interpret dismemberment as a sign of extreme emotional tension between the killer and victim, or even a perversion, but the most common reason for dismemberment is actually crime concealment. Specifically, eliminating the head and limbs eliminates the ease with which a corpse can be identified, including through dentition and fingerprints. DNA is easy enough to attempt to match. Thus, in high profile cases especially, dismemberment is thankfully obsolete, for police obtain DNA in order to better match remains later found.
Those who dismember are often found to have been under the influence of alcohol at the time. Of course, that begets the question of whether that person drank the alcohol in the first place in order to carry out such a dehumanizing exercise.
Dr. Michael Welner is chairman of the The Forensic Panel, a national forensic science practice. Dr. Welner, an associate professor of psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine, is also researching an evidence-based measure, the Depravity Scale (www.depravityscale.org ), which invites Americans to participate in surveys that are being used to help develop a legal standard of what represents the worst of crimes. Dr. Welner's analysis of important cases of the day appears exclusively on ABCnews.com.


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DETROIT -- This was definitely not the way Brennan Boesch anticipated soaking in the Tigers' home opener. It probably wasn't the way he figured on getting his first start as a Yankee, either.
Boesch sounded ready to adjust.
"It's great. It's kind of a good storyline for me," the new Yankee right fielder told reporters Friday morning from the visiting clubhouse at Comerica Park. "I'm sure when I'm older, I'll look back and kind of relish this moment, because my first start in a Yankee uniform against Detroit is pretty cool, and Opening Day for Detroit, too. It's going to be a great day, and I'm excited."
Boesch's history against Tigers starter and ex-teammate Doug Fister -- 7-for-12 with a home run and three RBIs in 2010 and '11 before Fister's trade to Detroit -- probably didn't hurt, either.
It was Boesch's third Tigers home opener, but his first time being introduced on the visiting side. He received arguably more than his fair share of boos last year during a struggling season that ended with him on the bench and eventually off the postseason roster.
When the Tigers tendered Boesch a contract last offseason, his chances of making the Opening Day roster seemed long. Still, he had no regrets over the way his spring played out, from a mid-March release from the Tigers to a one-year contract with the Yankees a couple of days later.
"It's not like I got sent to Erie. I'm playing for the Yankees," Boesch said. "Can't really ask for more than that. It's just a new chapter in my career."
Boesch echoed his remarks from last month that he appreciated the Tigers' decision to release him in mid-March rather than wait until the end of Spring Training. It was a decision that actually cost him money, since it meant the Tigers owed him just one-sixth of his salary rather than one-fourth, but his $1.5 million contract with the Yankees made up a good part of the difference from his $2.3 million salary he was due to make in Detroit.
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SALEM, Mass. – Salem State University broke a 4-4 tie with a pair of runs in the bottom of the fifth and saw its bullpen hold MIT scoreless over the last three innings as the Vikings took an 8-5 non-conference baseball win this afternoon. Senior Brian Macomber (Los Altos, Calif.) and freshman Reid Bishop (Cypress, Texas) each had three hits to lead the 12-hit MIT offense.
With the score tied at 4-4 and one out in the bottom of the fifth, Salem State (16-5) started its two-run rally with a walk to Steve Buitkus (Reading, Mass.) and a single by Kevin Salines (Melrose, Mass.) before senior Chris Cocci (Wakefield, Mass.) drove a ball into the gap in right to score both runners.
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Salem State scored first in the game, picking up a pair in the first on an RBI double from Cocci and an Engineer error. MIT got on the board in the top of the third, taking the lead with three runs. With one down a Karson single was followed by an RBI double off the bat of freshman Karl Sorensen (Blacksburg, Va.). Bishop brought Sorensen around with an RBI single but was erased on the bases on a fielder's choice play by junior James McKinney (Wakefield, R.I.), who would eventually come around to score on a Viking error.
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Salem State used six pitchers after starter Ryan Beliveau left after tossing two scoreless innings to open the game. Cory Collins (Winthrop, Mass.), who came into the game in the fifth, pitched one and one third innings of two-hit ball to earn the win. Sophomore Creed Mangrum (Sandy, Utah) started and took the loss for MIT, allowing five earned runs and eight hits over four and two-thirds innings.
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Ban's Diving Resort
Sairee Beach, Koh Tao
Koh Tao, Suratthani 84360
Koh Tao, Sairee Beach
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Ban's diving Resort is a modern resort on Koh Tao with a professional dive center.
Owned and operated by a local family Bans Diving Resort still maintains a very special family oriented hospitality that keeps customers coming back year after year. All the amenities needed to make your holiday both comfortable and fun are available and the facilities include dive center, beach front restaurant, spa and hair salon, 24 hour mini mart, 2 swimming pools and the Fish Bowl Bar. The many services on offer help making your stay at the resort as relaxed and comfortable as possible and include travel, laundry, internet and fax, kayak rentals, snorkeling trips, dive trips, etc.
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Date of stay:
Feb 22, 2017
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Loud music until 4am in the night. Good view from the room on the sea.
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Booking alright with Sawadee. good deal.
Feb 26, 2017
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ALIX Xavier
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Jul 17, 2016
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We stayed at the Hilltop deluxe. It s nice with a stunning view over the sea at Sairee beach. It is however a bit of a workout getting up the hill... Don t choose Hilltop if you re in bad physical condition. Luckily there is a pool half way up, so you can cool off... Ban s is a really good Diving resort. I highly recommend it. Great service and nice staff. I would go back any time!
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Jul 21, 2016
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Great place to stay in the heart och Sairee Beach. Main focus is diving with very good courses and instruktors.Nice big restaurant by the sea. The staff in the restaurang were not so serviceminded.
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Feb 14, 2016
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Akhila Niklasson
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Jan 06, 2016
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way too noisy
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Jan 09, 2016
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Raphael Leboucq
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Apr 22, 2015
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Belle organisation pour la plongée. Très pro. L hôtel n'a rien du petit hôtel familial annoncé c est immense. De plus les chambres les plus chères que nous avions choisi sont très éloignés de la mer . E haut d une grande côte. .. A part cela on exprès tâtions personnel charmant
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Dec 28, 2014
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Great resort, good location and friendly, helpful staff.
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All worked very well without any problem.
Dec 31, 2014
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Reiner Siebert
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Feb 24, 2013
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We are very pleased with our stay at Ban´s Diving Resort, especially with the diving course. I srtrongly recommend the Swedish guy Johan Bjurback, which has outstanding learning skills.
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Feb 27, 2013
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Olle Jarleborg
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Dec 20, 2012
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bans is an nice resort in the heart of sieria beach the resort is in the middle of a upgrade so there is a lot of building work going on so would not recommend at present but once this is completed it will be very nice.
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Jan 09, 2013
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Peter Pittman
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Nov 11, 2012
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good place deluxe bungalow hilltop is a good view and room very clean, nice balcony and nice staff I were fun diving at here and will be back when i am available see you soon!!
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Thank you Khun Kanun that she support me every time
Nov 17, 2012
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Rungnapa Chanhom
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Jan 06, 2012
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Best resort, perfect holidays.
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All supper!
Jan 17, 2012
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Stepanov Roman
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Jun 01, 2011
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the resort s decoration and location are very good,good facilities also.but the service is not good as expectation,exprecially the reception staffs
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great booking service of sawadee.com!
Jun 07, 2011
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Liang Yun Shi
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Jan 19, 2011
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This is a good hotel. The location couldnt be better. The rooms are spacious and clean. The bathroom was OK. Working Ac and a nice balcony. Downside:No breakfast and no WIFI. All and all a great hotel, mabye a bit pricy but still great.
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A professional dive center we are also one of the most popular resorts on Koh Tao. Owned and operated by a local family
Ban's Diving Resort
still maintains a very special family oriented hospitality that keeps customers coming back year after year.
Within our resort are all the amenities needed to make your holiday both comfortable and fun and our facilities include dive center, beach front restaurant, spa and hair salon, 24 hours mini mart, 2 swimming pools, and Fish Bowl bar.
We offer many services for our customers helping make their stay at our resort as relaxed and comfortable as possible, these include travel, laundry, internet and fax, kayak rentals, snorkeling trips, dive trips, etc.
We have various types of accommodation to suit all types of budgets. All customers are welcome, not only divers!
:: Superior Room ::
Our newest addition to the resort are our L-Building rooms. Designed with modern amenities, these rooms are a luxury room with a reasonable price. Room facilities: Air-Con, Satellite TV., Warm Shower, DVD Player, Tea/Coffe Facilities and Refrigerator.
:: Bungalow Hilltop View - 4 Units ::
Our 4 Bungalow Hilltop rooms are furthest on the range have the same amenities as the Deluxe Hilltop Rooms, however only have one large room instead of a bedroom and lounge.
:: Deluxe Hilltop View ::
These larger rooms have a bedroom and a separate lounge ideal for those who want a little more space or for families. Decorated in traditional Thai style they are the newest addition to our resort and each has a small balcony to sit, relax and enjoy the view.
:: Deluxe Garden View - 28 Units ::
Each of our 28 Deluxe rooms are crafted in pine wood with ceramic floor tiles and come with it's own private balcony. Mid range in price these rooms are an excellent choice in comfort and affordability.
:: Suite Hilltop View - 2 Units ::
Our 2 Suite Hilltop rooms are luxuriously designed and decorated and have a large balcony where you can enjoy the breathtaking views of Sairee Beach as well as enjoy the evening sunset.
:: Suite Garden View - 11 Units ::
Each of our 11 Suites are hand crafted with teak wood and hard wood floors. Each is uniquely decorated in traditional Thai style and is designed for those seeking to surround themselves in comfort and luxury.
:: Family Garden View - 2 Units ::
Spacious and luxurious best describes our 2 Family Garden View rooms. Each room has 2 queen size beds and small sitting area.
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:: Dive Center ::
Our priority is to provide customers with quality dive education and training with safety being our highest priority. Opened since 1993, Ban's CDC Center is recognized as a leading dive center in the world and was recently awarded by PADI,
- Best Dive Center / Resort in Thailand 2009
- Best Dive Center / Resort Asia Pacific Region 2009
:: Beachfront Restaurant ::
Surrounded by crystal clear waters, pristine reefs and a white sand beach our restaurant is a fun place to relax and spend an afternoon and evening. Enjoy being served by our friendly local staff, while relaxing in our laid back beach vibe atmosphere. We have a wide selection of both Thai and International cuisine and every evening you can feast on our special BBQ with a selection of fresh seafood, meat and vegetarian skewers and salad. Our beach bar, The Fish Bowl has happy hour daily from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm and in the evenings we have live music playing from 9:00pm.
:: Beach & Garden ::
White sand and turquoise waters best describes Sairee Beach. Our beachfront is perfect for swimming, snorkeling with our own house reef just in front of the restaurant or just enjoying the sun while relaxing in one of our lounge chairs on the beach. We have snorkeling equipment for rent as well as kayaks so you can explore the many beaches and bays around the island.
There are daily games of volleyball and with our location on the west coast we are in the ideal place to watch the spectacular sunsets while sipping cocktails at our beach front bar The Fish Bowl!! Our lush tropical gardens are the most beautiful on Koh Tao complete with waterfalls, fish pond and a gazebo creating a relaxing and tranquil environment within the resort.
:: Swimming Pools ::
We are the only resort on Koh Tao that can offer customers a choice of 2 swimming pools. By the garden view rooms and suites and the fan and standard air con rooms is our rectangular shaped pool with lounge chairs and umbrellas for you to use. Next to the suite and deluxe hilltop rooms is our kidney shaped pool complete with Jacuzzi and children's pool. Here we have, The Pool Bar which serves drinks, sandwiches and snacks.
Nestled in beautiful tropical surroundings on Sairee Beach, Koh Tao's main beach we have grown over the years we have built our resort slowly and provide our customers with all the amenities of a first class resort. Centrally located, our resort is within walking distance of restaurants, shopping, viewpoints, night life and everything else that will make your stay on Koh Tao memorable.
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This lovely, framed wedding certificate belonged to William Henry Wilkinson and was passed down in his family. I've had trouble tracing his descendants. The New Hampshire records seem to be missing quite a few of the important people needed to find someone to pass this document on to. The certificate is beautifully framed, but it is torn in a few places. It is very legible and easy to read, although the ink is fading. Someone had it professionally framed and matted, which must have cost quite a bit. This wedding document would be priceless to a family member.
The certificate was last owned by Robert Purdy of Rochester, New Hampshire and Oregon. He left the certificate and a house full of heirlooms to his neice. She would like to return this certificate to a descendant of William Henry Wilkinson. Robert Purdy was born in Rochester, and his parents were Robert Purdy and Ruth Wilkinson. I have not found any record of Ruth Wilkinson in the vital records, nor a marriage record to Robert Purdy. However I did find the following in the 1920 Federal Census of Rochester, New Hampshire:
Wilkinson, William H, head, age 70, b. NH, father b. ME, mother b. ME, baggage handler, railroad
Josephine B, wife, age 55, b. NH, father b. NH, mother b. ME
Purdy, Robert, grandson in law, age 20, b. Mass, father b. US, mother b. US
Ruth, granddaughter, age 17, b. NH, father b. Mass, mother b. NH, saleslady, newstand
William Henry Wilkinson was born in September 1849 in Rochester, New Hampshire, the son of William Henry Wilkinson and Mary Lord. He was a descendant of Thomas Wilkinson who married Elizabeth Caverly in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in 1715. His lineage is Thomas Wilkinson > James Wilkinson > William Wilkinson >William Henry Wilkinson >William Henry Wilkinson, II. This William Henry Wilkinson, Jr. (1849 - 1926) is my first cousin 4x removed. He married Josephine Berry Chase on 1872 in Conway, New Hampshire. She was the daughter of John Chase and Nancy Berry. Then had at least six children:
1. Millie A. Wilkinson, born about 1874, married Windsor Ward Berry on 8 August 1894 in Rochester, New Hampshire. They had two children: 1) Harold Edgar Berry born 8 September 1896 in Peabody, Massachusetts 2) Milton Theodore Berry born 12 March 1899 in New Hampshire m. Elizabeth Unknown.
2.) John W. Wilkinson, born 1 October 1877 in Portsmouth, died 7 July 1878 in Portsmouth
3.) Franklin Wilkinson, born 15 October 1879 in Conway, New Hampshire, died 20 April 1944 in Rochester, New Hampshire. It is unknown if he ever married or had descendants.
4.) Henry Wilkinson, born 14 October 1881 in New Hampshire, married Beatrice Muriel Fielding and had two children: 1) Mary M. Wilkinson, born about 1916 in Massachusetts 2.) A son born 2 June 1914 in Malden, Massachusetts
5.) Charles W. Wilkinson, born 7 October 1884 in Rochester, died 26 November 1884 in Rochester
6.) George H. Wilkinson, born 28 May 1886 in Rochester, died 29 March 1887 in Rochester.
From this I cannot seem to find a living descendant. Robert Purdy of Oregon did not have any children. He left a large bequest to the Rochester Congregational Church. I don't know who the granddaughter Ruth was born to, perhaps there was another daughter besides Millie? Another son? Perhaps Franklin married and was Ruth's father? Part of this mystery is that I cannot seem to find this family in the 1880 census, nor can I find Ruth in any earlier census before 1920.
I would love to reunite this framed wedding certificate to a living descendant. Are you out there?
UPDATE! - 28 August 2012 I found the obituary of Josephine Chase Wilkinson. It names descendants. Do you know any of these folks?
The Portsmouth Herald, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Tuesday, January 13, 1942, page 3
"Last Rites Held"
"Funeral Services for Mrs. Josephine Chase Wilkinson, 86 were held this afternoon with Rev. M. Ernest Hall, DD pastor of the First Church Congregational, officiating.
Mrs. Wilkinson, who died Sunday at the home of her granddaughter, Mrs. Ruth Dempsey, 27 Leonard Street, was born in Conway, the daughter of John and Nancy (Berry) Chase. She had been a resident of Rochester for 70 years.
She leaves a daughter, Mrs. Millie Berry, a brother, Horatio Chase of North Conway, two sons, Franklin Wilkinson and Henry Wilkinson of Rochester, two granddaughters, Mrs. Ruth Dempsey of Rochester and Mrs. Nancy Roy of Malden, Mass; a grandson, Milton Berry of Nashua, and three great grandchildren, Robert Purdy of Rochester, Vilma Berry of Nashua and Donald Roy of Malden, Mass.
Burial was in the family lot in Rochester cemetery."
Copyright 2012, Heather Wilkinson Rojo


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I Am Not a Number, I Am a Human Being: More Offseason Musings on Stats
I really like baseball, but I'm not a stat head. Talking about baseball outside of the blogs, I hear a lot of people add this qualifier when they talk about being a fan. Of course, then most of them go on to remark on the statistics in some way – commenting on a particular player's batting average, or their team's Ace's ERA for example. At first glance, this appears to be a contradiction.
Personally, I can no longer get away with the but I'm not a stat geek qualifier without my husband affectionately mocking me…just because I have been known to describe increased individually weighted segmentation in metrics for everything from corporate annual goals to Weight Watcher points as moving from a straight batting average to OPS. Is that any reason I ask you? Yeah, don't answer that.
Suffice to say, I do love the stats. I think they're a lot of fun and one important way to assess a player. However, the things I like the most about particular players cannot be described by stats – drive, hustle, work ethic, being a team player, guts, strategy, intelligence and the player trait that's most important to me: is the guy clutch? So I would argue that I'm not a stat head either.
I think the reason for the seeming disconnect here is a problem with language. What most of us, myself included, mean when we say I'm not a stat head is that I'm not a person who values the numbers more than the human drama on the field, I don't think that stats trump what you know with your eyes and your gut. And this is all well and good right up until we self professed non stat heads try to explain the ways in which a player we like exhibits the qualities we do admire – the guts, the hustle, the clutch. Once you've said it, how do you explain it? You either start describing a litany of specific feats of prowess during a game or you try to quantify these unquantifiable qualities with the only measure you have available, the stats. This is a conundrum only baseball could produce – even when you are absolutely not a stat head, you still embrace the statistics.
That said, has anyone else noticed how much adding in the sabermetric stats make baseball stats look an awful lot like D&D and other roleplaying game stats?
D&D Character: 17 STR mod +1, 14 DEX, -2 AC
I'm not entirely convinced this is coincidental. Many of the sabermaticians who came up with these stats were Ivy League math majors, after all. The fact that every time I read one of the more detailed free agent analyses I find myself thinking things like "It looks like a homerun? I don't think so. My 18 UZR Carl Crawford casts magic missile. Role one D20 to see if your spell was successful," however, must be entirely coincidental. Clearly I am not someone who would know anything about such things from their youth 😉


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Team Competition And Trump Visit Cap Grand Masters At Doral In Miami
Medals for open weight divisions were spread all over the map today, with Sweden, Greece, Great Britain and Brazil, among others, all claiming a top spot on the podiums, while Russia dominated team competition on the fourth and last day of the Grand Masters Judo World Championships in Miami.
This was the 4th Grand Masters under the International Judo Federation, hosted by USA Judo at the luxurious Doral Golf Resort & Spa in Miami, Fl. Nearly 50 nations were represented by almost 900 athletes.
Perhaps most amazing, and inspiring, at this event were the oldest fighters, many in their 60s and some in their 70s and 80s claiming that the rough-and-tumble throws, chokes and arm bars of the sport are exactly what keep them so youthful. Masters judo competition is for athletes 30 and older so, while many are close to their physical prime, this tournament was also open to any octogenarian with the will and the way.
The oldest man at the tournament probably was Ernest Hamsag of Switzerland, 82 years old, who fought in the 81 kg division, noting that he lost his first round to a much younger man. Then Hamsag expressed disappointment that he had no one left to fight in his division.
Another indomitable spirit was Actor Bo Svenson, 71, who played the famous Sheriff Burford Pusser in the 70s "Walking Tall" films. Like Hamsag, he led the charge on the first day of the Grand Masters. Walking to the mat with an injured knee, he, too, lost his first match but captured the admiration of many.
Another celebrity to make an appearance was famous real-estate developer Donald Trump, who recently purchased the Doral and made a visit to the Grand Masters today. Awarded a gold medal from the tournament, Trump said he was very happy to have the Grand Masters at his property.
Lots of nations were climbing the ladders to gold at this premier event, but it was Russia who most often took the top position in the regular weight divisions. Leaving a wide moat, Russian athletes took 22 gold medals, 14, silver medals and 19 bronze medals in the numerous age and weight divisions. Germany came in second with six gold, six silver and seven bronze. Host nation, the United States, took the third place in overall medals with four gold, nine silver and 21 bronze.
As one of those U.S. gold medalists pointed out, while athletes definitely converge here to compete, they leave as better friends and return again. "It's a big family," said Dr. Sandy North of Hollywood, Florida, who took gold for the U.S. He received a very special award along with his countryman and co-worker in judo, Bert Mackey of Seattle. Mackey took a silver medal at the Grand Masters. The two were honored by the International Judo Federation for their support and extensive efforts to build masters-level judo. USA Judo's CEO Jose Rodriguez noted that it was an easy decision to recommend Mackey and North when the IJF asked for selections.
Also receiving a special award from the IJF was Luis Guardia for his distinct contribution to the sport. Vladimir Barta, the IJF's Head Sports Director, presented Guardia with a gold medal for his 60 years in the development of the Sport of Judo in Cuba, Spain and the United States, and for being a pioneer in the creation of the Pan- American Judo Confederation in 1952. Guardia has authored a book that was recently translated into English, "Origins of Pan-American Judo," available at http://judostore.usjudo.org.
The Grand Masters finished today with the team competition. Most of the gold medals were taken by Russian teams.
For complete results, go to IPPON.ORG. For more stories on the event, go to USJUDO.US.


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(Reuters) - Chelsea Therapeutics Inc said its experimental hypotension drug met the main goal of a study by significantly reducing dizziness in patients at week one, but results beyond that period were not statistically significant.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration declined to approve the drug, Northera, in March, and asked for data that proved it was effective over two to three months.
The company's shares, which have lost about two-thirds of its value so far this year, fell 22 percent to $1.40 in extended trading after closing at $1.79 on Tuesday on the Nasdaq.
Chelsea said in August that it would modify the main goal of the ongoing 306B study, though the FDA had said the study was unlikely to provide sufficient data for a marketing application and had suggested the company conduct an additional trial.
The drugmaker said on Tuesday that preliminary data showed that beyond week one, dizziness/lightheadedness and standing blood pressure predominantly favored Northera-treated patients over placebo, although the results were not statistically significant.
The drug, known generically as droxidopa, is designed to treat symptomatic neurogenic orthostatic hypotension — a chronic and often debilitating drop in blood pressure on standing up that is most often associated with Parkinson's disease.
Reporting by Vidya P L Nathan in Bangalore; Editing by Anthony Kurian


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LAKE STEVENS — Chad Squire planned a trip to Maui for the last week of September because he thought the weather here would have turned wet by then.
While there, he checked the weather and saw that it was still sunny in the Northwest.
"We should have gone in January," said Squire, 25, as he walked his dog Miley on Wednesday in the sun at North Cove Park in Lake Stevens.
It will likely be another 10 days before the region sees any rain, said Dennis D'Amico, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Seattle.
This might not help with the still-burning fires east of the Cascade Mountains. Around here, though, Squire, Miley and anyone else who wants to get outside will have more chances to do so.
There's also a chance the dry weather could be a harbinger of an El Nino condition, which would mean a warmer and possibly drier winter than normal, D'Amico said.
"I'm OK with that," said Katie Uptain, 21, of Lake Stevens, also enjoying the sun at North Cove Park.
The Climate Prediction Center, a branch of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, is forecasting warmer and drier temperatures for the Northwest for the rest of this month. Through the end of the year, the center is predicting normal temperatures and below-average rainfall.
The center has issued an El Nino watch, but this doesn't necessarily mean an El Nino condition is forming, D'Amico said. It depends on the ocean temperature in the equatorial Pacific.
"It's got to go on a little bit longer and get a little bit warmer," he said. "It does look like El Nino is developing. It has not developed yet."
If it does turn into an El Nino condition, it may be a mild one.
"I don't think for this side of the Cascades it's going to be very acute," D'Amico said.
For the first three months of 2013, the Climate Prediction Center forecasts normal temperatures and above-average precipitation.
An El Nino year would be the first since the winter of 2009-10, according to the center. The past two winters were marked by a La Nina condition, in which below-average temperatures in the Pacific Ocean cause cooler and wetter weather.
A shift of some kind is clearly under way. Last month tied for the third-driest September on record in Seattle, with 0.03 inches of rain. Only 1975 and 1991, each with only a trace, were drier.
This year's dry September came on the heels of a record-setting August, in which only a trace of rain was measured, according to D'Amico.
Still, because of a wet winter and spring, 2012 is still ahead of normal in precipitation — a total 26.42 inches as of the end of last month, compared with a normal nine-month average of just over 22 inches.
Though daytime temperatures in the coming days will likely be above average, reaching into the 70s, nights are already below freezing in some areas, D'Amico said. The mercury hit a low of 30 degrees at the Arlington Municipal Airport early Wednesday morning, according to Weather Service figures.
D'Amico sees a change in the pattern about 10 days down the road.
But for now, there's plenty of time to soak up the sun.
"It's a nice start to fall," Uptain said.
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#24 Ryan Wilkins
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2008: First overall in A-Sun in fielding double plays (54). ...Second overall in A-Sun in chances (509). ...Second in A-Sun in putouts (464). ...Seventh in A-Sun games only in chances (277). ...Sixth in A-Sun games only in putouts (256). ...Tied for second in A-Sun games only in double plays (28). ...Eight multi-hit games. ...Had season high three hits twice (4/11) vs Florida Gulf Coast, (4/18) at USC Upstate. ...Six mulitple RBI games. ...Season high three RBI twice (5/3 at Winthrop, 5/30 vs Georgia in NCAA Regional). ...Fourth on team in home runs including two-run shot in first ever NCAA win for the Bisons over Georgia 10-7 May 30. ...Third on team in walks (28). ...Hit by a pitch seven times, tied for fourth on team. ...Fourth on team in both stolen bases (five) and stolen base percentage (.823).
2007: Second on the team in on base percentage (.283), triples (3), and tied for second in home runs (4)... Third in batting average (.322), runs scored (33), total bases (92), slugging percentage (.449), hits (66), walks (22) and runs batted in (35). ..Played in 57 games, starting 55. ...Recorded 17 multi-hit games with three hits in six games, tied for third best on the team. ...Season-high four hits at Georgia Southern (3/16), tyiing for the team lead in an individual game. ...Tied for first on team in multi-RBI games with 10. ...14-game hitting streak was longest on the team. ...Season high six at bats (3/24). ...Season-high two home runs at Gardner-Webb (3/24). ...Season-high three RBI at Alcorn State (3/9).
High School: Led state in batting average in 2006 (.590). ...Served as team captain in 2006. ... All-State selection in 2005 and 2006. ...All-Regional team in 2005 and 2006. ...Named first team All-Sumner County by the Hendersonville Star News. ...Also lettered in football in 2005 and 2006. ...First player from Pope John Paul II HS to sign an an NCAA Division I baseball scholarship.
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Q. Is a disconnecting means for an outdoor spa or hot tub at a single-family dwelling required to be located within sight of the unit?
A. Per 680.12 and 680.42, a maintenance disconnecting means shall be installed within sight of spa and hot tub equipment. It shall be located not less than 5 feet horizontally from the inside walls of the spa or hot tub, unless separated by a solid fence, wall, or other permanent barrier [680.22(C)].
In other than a single-family dwelling, a clearly labeled emergency spa or hot tub water recirculation and jet system shutoff shall also be supplied. The emergency shutoff shall be readily accessible to the users and located not less than 5 feet away, but adjacent to and within sight of the spa or hot tub (680.41). To meet the emergency shutoff requirement, you could use the maintenance disconnecting means required by 680.12 or a pushbutton that controls a relay and is located in accordance with 680.41.
The emergency shutoff is meant to protect equipment users. Deaths and injuries have occurred in less than 3 feet of water because individuals became stuck to the water intake opening. This requirement applies to spas and hot tubs installed indoors as well as outdoors.
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Re: Canucks News and Notes
Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2013 4:36 pm
Pom poms and teddy bear goateesArachnid wrote:Well maybe when you called out other players for not panning out and then they became successful you lost all credibility.RoyalDude wrote:When was it that Chef Boi RD started calling Booth out and all of you's got your panties bunched up because of my calling Booth out.
When was it that Chef Boi RD started calling Ballard out and all of you's got your panties bunched up because of my calling Ballard out.
Kassian is next on my list.
I freely admit that I don't care or know much about so called corporate professional hockey so I don't talk out of my ass like you do.
You, my friend, are like chicken-shit little and think the sky is falling.
You typify the Canucks Fan...fickle to the max
Do I have to remind you just how much we sucked for so long before we became a challenger, an Elite team or even a playoff contender?
Everything happens in cycles, we are a mid-tier team right now, deal with it as we recharge.
You are not the GM, you are just a fan. Choose to watch or not.
Do us all a favour though, don't act like you know or knew something we don't.
I played 6 games of a ball hockey tourney yesterday. We came in 3rd. I was the leading scorer on our team and captain. I hurt a lot of young punks and had a lot of fun. Drank some good beers afterwards with the other teams.
I may not be a 'hockey guy' but I do know one thing......