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Looking At Franchises' Best Players - American League Central
I had honestly almost forgotten I was doing this. Let's move on to the AL Central, a division with a few more teams with long histories than the AL West. So expect deeper lists here.
Chicago White Sox (existed since 1901):
Top Player: Luke Appling (74 WAR)
#24 Player: Gary Peters (26 WAR)
# of Players with >30 WAR: 19
# of Players with >50 WAR: 8 (Appling, Ted Lyons, Frank Thomas, Eddie Collins, Ed Walsh, Red Faber, Wilbur Wood, Eddie Cicotte)
# of Players with >100 WAR: 0
Can you make a starting line up of the Top 9? Well, six of their Top 9 are pitchers (Appling, Eddie Collins, and the Big Hurt being the exceptions), so no.
Notes: I expected the White Sox would have someone with a higher total, but they're like the Athletics: deep, but not a real high peak. Frank Thomas (34d, 68 WAR) and Mark Buerhle (in 9th at 48 WAR) are the only two players from the last 50 years, maybe longer than that, in the Top 10.
Eddie Collins comes in slightly higher (#4) on the White Sox list than he did the A's (#5), but he also has 9 more WAR for the ChiSox.
Going by the picture Baseball-Reference used, Ed Walsh had seen some shit. Guy looks scary intense.
Shoeless Joe came in at #23. Paul Konerko finished tied at 28 WAR with Carlton Fisk and Ray Schalk. Luis Aparicio is in 15th place, and Minnie Minoso is 12th, with 41 WAR. I know Fisk was in the later days of his career by his time in Chicago, but I'd pictured him having more in the tank than that.
Chris Sale is the only player currently active on the list. He was 18th, at 31 WAR.
Minnesota Twins (existed since 1901, cripes we're giving them credit for the Washington Senators?):
Top Player: Walter Johnson (165 WAR).
#24 Player: Frank Viola (27 WAR).
# of Players >30 WAR: 20.
# of Players >50 WAR: 6. (Johnson, Rod Carew, Harmon Killebrew, Joe Mauer, Sam Rice, Kirby Puckett)
# of Players >100 WAR: 1
Can you make a starting lineup of the Top 9? Close. Don't know what the defense would be like, but put Killebrew at 3rd and Carew at 2nd, you're only missing a SS and LF. 3 pitchers, though.
Notes: Walter Johnson is over 100 WAR ahead of Carew, which is staggering. Carew is a Hall of Famer, and the gap between him and Johnson is an equal to an even better Hall of Famer. Probably that gap in the level of competition rearing its head again. But regardless, you've got to be damn good for a long time to accumulate that kind of value.
Brad Radke was the 3rd pitcher in the Top 9 besides Johnson and Blyleven.
Johan Santana came in 19th at 35 WAR, just behind Jim Kaat. My dad's a big fan of Kaat, who spent the last four seasons of his 25-year career with the Cardinals. As B-R lists him as below replacement level for those years, he will not be making the Cardinals' list.
Joe Mauer is the only currently active player. He's 7 WAR behind Killebrew, so I'm not sure he can catch him. Two more years like last year would do it, but if he regresses to his 2016 performance, it'll take 4 more years.
There's a clump of 7 guys in the 40s, which isn't too shabby. I thought having the Senators' history as part of theirs would give the Twins a deeper list, but I think I underestimated how miserable the Senators were for most of their history. The Twins' players account for 15 of the 24 on the list, even though they've existed for a few years (57) less than the Senators (60).
Kansas City Royals (existed since 1969):
Top Player: George Brett (88 WAR).
#24 Player: Johnny Damon (17 WAR).
# Players >30 WAR: 8
# Players >50 WAR: 1. Brett, obviously.
# Players >100 WAR: 0
Can you make a starting lineup of the Top 9? The 3 pitchers (Appier, Saberhagen, Gubicza) say no, but you could get close if you were willing to play Alex Gordon at 3rd and Brett at 1st. Still no C or SS, though.
Notes: The Royals do have 4 (Appier, Saberhagen, Willie Wilson, Amos Otis) players in the 40s, which isn't terrible. It isn't great, either. The Mariners have more guys above 50 WAR than KC, and they've existed 10 years less. Although the Mariners beat the Angels and Rangers on that score, too, and they both predate the Royals.
Only having 3 players in the 30s is unimpressive, though. Really fast drop off on this list.
I've read a lot of Royals' fans over the years talk about how underappreciated Kevin Appier is. I hadn't ever really bought in, but 47 WAR is pretty good.
Dan Quisenberry is 12th with 25 WAR. He spent a couple years near the end with the Cardinals, where I really dug that submarine delivery.
As far as currently active players go, there are quite a few. Alex Gordon, obviously, although maybe for not much longer if he doesn't regain the ability to hit. Zack Greinke is in 10th, Lorenzo Cain is tied with Quisenberry right behind him. Recently retired Carlos Beltran is 14th with 24 WAR. Salvador Perez is in 21st with 19 WAR. Since I assume Cain is going to sign elsewhere this offseason, Perez is the only one likely to keep climbing the ladder. If he can match the ~2.5 WAR he's been worth each of the last 3 years, that should get him to 18th next year, between Charlie Liebrandt and Mike Montgomery.
Detroit Tigers (since 1901):
Top Player: Ty Cobb (144 WR)
#24 Player: Rudy York (31 WAR)
# of Players >30 WAR: More than 24, probably.
# of Players >50 WAR: 13, crap. Cobb, Al Kaline, Charlie Gehringer, Lou Whitaker, Alan Trammell, Harry Heilman, Sam Crawford, Hal Newhouser, Justin Verlander, Hank Grennburg, Norm Cash, Tommy Bridges, Miguel Cabrera
# of Players >100 WAR: 1.
Can you make a starting lineup of the Top 9? Nope, and it's not really having too many pitchers (they have two). They have 3 guys B-R lists as Rightfielder/First baseman. No catcher, no third baseman.
Notes: Now that's a deep team. 13 guys with at least 50 WAR? Damn. 8 of those guys have more than 60, and the Top 5 are all at 70 WAR or more. I had the impression Hank Greenburg was one of the greatest players in history, and he barely makes Detroit's Top 10. It's what you'd expect though. The Tigers have had a lot of stretches of being really good over their long history.
John Hiller, Chet Lemon, and Lance Parrish would all be players with more than 30 WAR who didn't make the Top 24. Parrish is at 29.9, but I assume they'd round up.
Jack Morris is on here, 21st place, with 38 WAR. So he's in the same place on this list as Salvador Perez was on the Royals', but with twice the WAR.
Mickey Lolich's (15th, 47 WAR) picture makes him look a bit like Paul Newman.
The guy just ahead of Lolich is called Dizzy Trout, which is a fantastic name. Pitch like Dizzy Dean, do everything else like Mike Trout. And if the Angels had him, they probably still couldn't make the playoffs.
Verlander and Cabrera are the only two active guys on the list. Verlander was traded away, but Cabrera's still there. Of course, he was below replacement level last year, and has 6 years left on that contract, at about $30 million per. Ouch. If he doesn't turn things around, he's going to descend the list, rather than climb it.
Cleveland Indians (existing since 1901, albeit as the Blues, Bronchos, and Naps the first 14 years):
Top Player: Nap Lajoie (79 WAR)
#24 Player: Elmer Flick (31 WAR).
# of Players >30 WAR: At least 30.
# of Players >50 WAR: 5. Lajoie, Tris Speaker, Bob Feller, Lou Boudreau, Stan Coveleski.
# of Players >100 WAR: 0
Can you make a starting lineup of the Top 9? Nope, too many outfielders. 3 CFs (Speaker, Kenny Lofton, Earl Averill), plus Lajoie (sine Thome would have to play first).
Notes: Not quite what I was expecting. It's a deep list, but a low peak, like the Athletics. They do have two players with more than 70 WAR in Lajoie and Speaker, and Feller and Boudreau are both in the 60s. 9 players between 40 and 50 WAR, though, which isn't bad. On par with the Twins. I'm guessing the 50 years of being terrible post-World War II have something to do with the state of this list.
There are at least four players who would qualify as having more than 30 WAR who didn't make the list, including Omar Vizquel and Manny Ramirez. Well, Manny's at 29.9, but as with Lance Parrish, I'm assuming they'd round up.
There's Shoeless Joe again, this time at 19th with 34 WAR. Larry Doby is 13th, at 43 WAR.
As you might have guessed from my comment about the lack of color photos, there are no active players on this list. I would have expected another couple of guys from the late '90s teams to have made it on here, at least at the bottom.
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italian dual citizenship: the d.i.y. approach/
Rob and I are DIYing (do-it-yourself, for those that aren't familiar with the acronym) most, if not all, of the tasks associatd with moving abroad. It is just a more cost-effective route for us. That being said, we are still collecting quotes for everything. Why? It's a huge shot of confidence to know that you have saved yourself X amount of dollars. Case in point? I don't want to jinx it, but last week we filed the legal papers to get my grandfather's birth certificate amended. When I say file, I mean we wrote the petition and the proposed order ourselves and then filed them ourselves. After receiving a quote from a law firm for $1,500, we knew the best route was DIY.
We went to US Legal Forms and downloaded templates for the documents we needed to file. Then, we customized them to fit our specific situation. Clearly, Rob and I both missed our callings toward legal careers, because we spent hours debating the semantics of the documents.
There is a chance when the court clerk reviews the documents that we will need to fix certain things before they go on to the judge -- in fact, we've already mentally planned for it. But even if we have to pay the filing fees again, we are still saving around $1400 doing it ourselves. Sweet!
In many states, amending vital records is a pretty straightforward process. Not in Pennsylvania! You literally need a court order to get typos fixed. We are hoping to have the amended birth record in hand and apostilled by Christmas. Cross your fingers for us!
Lessons Learned
- Get quotes for everything! It's good for budgeting, as well as knowing what you may save by doing things yourself.
- Google like crazy -- it's almost a guarantee that someone has dealt with the same exact situation. Even the tiniest bit of insight can clarify questions that you may have.

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"Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth," by Mark Hertsgaard (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 352 pp.)
How will our children – and their children – survive the environmental challenges ahead? Mark Hertsgaard's answers to that question are lucid, realistic, and offer reason for hope.
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High school football rarely has good light. Since football season is in the fall, it gets dark quickly. Plus, the stadium lighting isn't always particularly good because, well, it's high school football — not the NFL. So you do what you can and get what you get and probably shoot at 6400 ISO (not really, but, well, maybe) and you're done. So, when I was given the assignment to shoot a football game on Saturday — you know, in June — I was intrigued. The solstice just happened, so the days are super long. The game started at 7 and the entire thing was played while the sun was up — it ended around 9.
And, of course, the sun set, and there was awesome light. Super awesome. And then there was rain, and it was just light rain, not the kind that makes you want to cringe and hate your job. And then there was a rainbow. It was all very beautiful.
I kept waiting for something amazing to happen in that light. Nothing super awesome happened, and it was obviously hard to focus, so if something did I probably missed it. But I enjoyed it. God, I love nice light. It was a great day to be shooting sports.
So, I'm putting up a ton of pictures. I know none of them are particularly amazing and just pretty light for the sake of pretty light, but I don't care. Because I haven't shot sports in awhile and it was the first time in a long time that I really got into it and enjoyed it and didn't hate everything I photographed. So here it is.


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Happy International Women's Day! March 8th is all about celebrating the immense power, strength, intelligence and beauty of women around the world. It's an inspiring day as we continue to create and provoke change, especially in the workplace.
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"Some of my biggest allies have been other women — I believe that women should back other women. I think in 2018 being a woman is very powerful and there is a growing number of women who realise that they can do anything. Having your own business starts with a dream and a belief, and my belief is that people are becoming more aware about chemicals and that the demand for high performing natural haircare is growing. I believe O&M is the future of haircare and women all over the world are choosing O&M."
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Monday 7 January started out like any other day for Advocate Philip Higgo of the CapeHigh Court. A routine stop at a Woodstock hardware store, however, set in motion a chain of events that had this respected legal man questioning his own mental state. "It was simultaneously the worst day and the best day that I can recall in many years," says Higgo.
Shortly after 4pm that afternoon he parked his car directly opposite the store to purchase a metal bracket. He ensured that as he exited his car he heard the familiar sound of the remote locking even though he knew he would only be away from his vehicle for a short period.
Having completed his purchase, Advocate Higgo returned to his car and as he placed the shopping bag behind the driver's seat he noticed that his briefcase, which he had placed there when leaving home that morning, was no longer there. A thorough search of the car, including a check of the boot, produced no results. Certain that he had left the brief case there that morning, he nonetheless wondered whether he had perhaps, in a moment of absent-mindedness, taken the briefcase with him into the store. A comprehensive search of the store and questioning of sales staff also yielded no results. Still convinced that he could not have been the victim of theft, Higgo believed that his mind was playing tricks on him.
"For a moment I thought I was losing my mind," he admits. "I knew that I had placed the briefcase behind the driver's seat out of sight, concealed by a shopping bag. Yet on my return to the car, there was no sign of it, but also no sign of forced entry anywhere." A call to his wife and then his domestic worker at home and a thorough search of the house also came up empty. Subsequent calls to the local Woodstock police station, the senior management of the store and attempts to view store security footage all yielded a blank.
When all avenues of the whereabouts of his briefcase had been exhausted, "the unequivocal realisation," says Higgo, "slowly began setting in that I had probably been the victim of theft as a result of a signal jammer. While I was convinced that I had locked the car and heard the remote signal confirming this, a jammer had in all likelihood been used to block this signal."
By now frantic with worry at the potential loss, he began a mental checklist of all the contents of his briefcase. Although containing little of monetary value, beside a leather pen case and pens, as well as a leather bound cheque book, "the bag was 'chock a block' full of extremely important papers, my identity documents, invoices for my legal practice and various other project files," says Higgo.
Reluctantly Higgo returned to his office, still stymied by the incident. "I sat at my desk and felt like crying" he said. He was still sitting there in disbelief when moments later his cell phone rang. A voice at the other end, he recalls, said something about a briefcase having been found. Highly suspicious that this was yet another step in the drama of his day, Higgo thought he was possibly being set up to be lured to a destination where he would be ambushed.
At a crucial moment in the conversation, the cell signal died. Higgo called the number back and was surprised to hear the voice at the other end continue with words of GSCID and Mowbray railway terminus, still none of it quite fully making sense. After a few minutes, a glimmer of hope arose as the news that his briefcase had been found began to dawn on him.
The person calling him, who had by now identified himself as GSCID Response Officer, Luwuyiso Magobane, began to explain how, while on foot patrol over the MowbrayBridge, he had spotted a very distinctive handcrafted leather briefcase obscured behind vegetation.
"I was initially scared of opening the briefcase in case it contained a bomb", says Magobane, "and also did not want to open the case without another witness being present." He then called his supervisor to meet with him. Together they went back to the GSCID offices on Mowbray Main Road and searched the contents of the bag for a possible clue to the ownership of the case. After sifting through reams of papers, the two patrolmen eventually came upon a cell number which pointed to the possible owner, resulting in the call to Advocate Higgo.
A dash from town to Mowbray transport interchange, resulted in the by now very frazzled, yet extremely relieved Advocate meeting up with Officer Magobane. "I could have kissed him," beams Higgo. "It was miraculous! In the space of 90 minutes, Officer Magobane had turned my worst day into my best day." A quick perusal of the contents of the briefcase revealed that all was intact. Together Higgo and Magobane surmised that the "hot property" must have been hurriedly ditched for later retrieval.
Advocate Higgo, who has been in the criminal justice service for 35 years, commended Officer Magobane not only for his high level of alertness during his patrol and discovery of the briefcase, but also his mindfulness of the possible danger of a bomb and his smart action in calling his superior to witness the opening of the briefcase and its contents. Higgo further cited his conduct as highly exemplary behavior to others in the patrol industry.
A smiling Magobane said: "It's all in the line of duty," stating that he was only too happy that he was able to successfully reunite the bag with its rightful owner, particularly given the irreplaceable nature of its contents.
Officer Magobane has been awarded a GSCID Badge of Excellence for his savvy conduct. GSCID Operations Manager, CharlBrooks: "We are extremely proud to have Officer Magobane on our team and his behavior is a fine example to others."


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This blog is part 1 of a series on California's climate policies to meet its 2030 pollution reduction target and beyond. Read part 2 and part 3 here. Co-written with Colin Murphy and David Weiskopf.
California's air pollution regulators are currently writing the rules which will bring the state's world-leading climate and clean air legislation into effect. The Air Resources Board (CARB) will determine how the state meets its target to reduce heat-trapping pollution 40 percent by 2030 and whether we are positioned to reach zero net emissions by 2050, as the latest science shows is needed to prevent dangerous changes in our climate.
Recent commentary has ranged from a New York Times op-ed with a headline screaming that "A Landmark California's Climate Program Is in Jeopardy," to a blog by University of California economists arguing that the program shouldn't be called a cap at all. Dallas Burtraw, Resources for the Future's veteran climate economist, provides a more balanced assessment.
Meanwhile the California Legislature is getting serious about its oversight responsibility. The Legislative Analyst's Office issued a report noting that the Air Board has to make a number of key decisions this year that will determine how effective the program is over the next decade. Last week a hearing held by the Joint Committee on Climate Change Policies and the Assembly Natural Resources Committee delved into many of these issues, while the Senate Budget and Environmental Quality Committees are scheduled to weigh in next week.
This post and the ones that follow provide a summary of some of NextGen California's recommendations for how to get the rules right.
Building on Success
The cap and trade market is one of many tools that the Air Resources Board plans to employ in order to fulfill their statutory requirement to cut carbon pollution in California. Until now, other factors besides the carbon market have done most of the work to drive major pollution reductions here. Polluters have found low cost ways to cut carbon pollution thanks to technological advancements in clean renewable electricity, effective direct regulations on polluters, and changes in our overall economy. That is great news for everyone involved!
But going forward, the Air Resources Board expects the cap and trade market to play a much larger role in driving pollution reductions. The Board recently finalized its Scoping Plan, which represents their best estimate of how California will meet our ambitious 2030 pollution reduction target. This plan identified a set of tools and measures that will help us get 62 percent of the way there. The Air Board expects the cap and trade market to create a strong enough incentive for polluters to find enough additional, cost effective ways to cut pollution to close the remaining 38 percent gap.
We are building on a great track record here and we have reason to be optimistic, but going forward, we are asking cap and trade to do much more work to drive pollution reductions than any carbon market has ever done before. For the market to succeed at this scale, the Air Resources Board will need to adopt market rules that accelerate the progress we are already seeing in California.
We have a head start. Now what will we do with it?
We are ahead of schedule for hitting our 2020 pollution reduction target, so we have a great opportunity to leverage that head start to help achieve our (much more ambitious) 2030 target. But that also means that a large number of carbon allowances exist that no polluter has any need for: pollution in our economy is lower than the amount allowed by the current carbon market. And those extra allowances (sometimes called "overhang" allowances) could cause problems down the road.
Some economists estimate that the overhang is so significant that, if polluters buy them all up and hold onto them for too long, they could effectively erase the effect of the cap and trade market entirely. In a worst case scenario, polluters could buy allowances no one needs today and slowly turn them in later, as the cap tightens, instead of cutting emissions. If enough polluters did this, we could get to 2030 and, instead of being ahead of the game, like we are today, we could end up polluting more than our laws allow, and giving ourselves an even more difficult task cutting carbon pollution after that.
This worst case scenario need not materialize – in fact it is unlikely that it will if California continues to take more bold steps to build our clean energy economy. For example, we could adopt a 100 percent clean energy standard with SB 100, or we could transition to 100 percent clean cars with AB 1745. These and other policy changes could reduce the amount of pressure on the cap and trade market to drive additional pollution reductions, and help make reaching our targets more certain. In addition to these policy changes that may come through the legislature, the Air Resources Board also has the ability to strengthen pollution reduction standards and make changes to the cap and trade market rules as we go along.
But decisions we make about the market design today will seriously affect how difficult the challenge is in coming years. And what we do about the overhang allowances may be one of the most consequential of these decisions.
The Board should therefore take steps now to ensure that these extra allowances don't undermine the market's ability to move the needle on pollution later. These changes should include making fewer allowances available at future auctions to compensate for the overhang. In other words, CARB should set lower pollution caps for 2021 through 2030 to ensure that we build on our head start, rather than let it slip away. The rules CARB sets to govern allowance "banking" will also affect the extent to which unused allowances could come back to haunt us, as discussed in the next section.
Regulating the Bank
One important feature of California's cap and trade program is the ability to hold unused emission allowances for use in a future year. In some ways, banking rules are the other side of the same coin as the overhang issue – rules about what you can do with excess allowances matter just as much as how many excess allowances there are in the first place. The ability to bank allowances gives polluters the ability to protect themselves from carbon market volatility and schedule their allowance purchases to match their business cycle. Excessive banking, however, particularly by speculators who don't need allowances for compliance, could increase carbon market volatility and near-term prices. Excessive use of banked allowances could make it harder for us to hit our 2030 pollution reduction target and divert California from the pathway it needs to follow to get to zero net emissions by 2050.
AB 398 requires CARB to "[e]stablish allowance banking rules that discourage speculation, avoid financial windfalls, and consider the impact on complying entities and volatility in the market." CARB should meet this obligation by setting banking rules that prevent cap and trade allowances from being used as high-yield/low-risk financial instruments.
One option is to adjust the compliance value of banked allowances by an amount proportional to the rate of increase in the auction floor price. For example, if 100 allowances are purchased in 2017 when the reserve price was $14, and held until 2022 when the reserve price has risen to $28, the 100 banked allowances could be surrendered for a compliance value of 50 tons. As Dallas Burtraw of Resources for the Future points out, a similar approach was proposed by the Bush Administration in its Clean Air Interstate Rule.
Ensuring Cost-Effective Performance
The premise of any cap and trade market for carbon pollution is that competition in the market, and the desire to make a profit will drive polluters to innovate and develop better, lower-cost ways to deliver the services we rely on that produce less pollution. But the market can only drive cost-effective changes in technology when it creates a clear, strong signal to polluters. The cap and trade market drives pollution reductions by showing polluters that it is in their own financial best interest to develop new, lower-cost ways to cut pollution, rather than buy more pollution allowances in the carbon market.
The law that governs our cap and trade market, AB 398, requires the Air Resources Board to place some limits on how high allowance prices can go, and how quickly prices can change. Specifically, the Board must set a limit on how high allowance prices can go (a "price ceiling") and establish two other price containment points (sometimes called "speed bumps") that, if reached, would trigger the release of additional allowances into the market.
Done correctly, these requirements can help ensure that the cap and trade market can operate smoothly over the long term and can help protect Californians and industries from temporary price spikes in the market. But if the price ceiling and the speed bumps are set at too low a price, they can reduce the market's ability to drive technological change and pollution reductions through the price discovery process.
In addition to these measures to limit market prices, the Board also employs a price floor to ensure that polluters are forced to pay at least a portion of the costs their pollution imposes on society.
The Board should use its authority to set the price ceiling and speed bumps at high enough levels to let the market function as effectively as possible, and increase the price floor to a level that reflects the full costs imposed on society by carbon pollution – costs that we all have been bearing on polluters' behalf for the last 150 years. Conservative estimates of these costs range from $50 to $60 per ton of carbon pollution between 2020 and 2030 (in 2017 dollars), but the true costs may be between $145 and $180, or potentially much higher.The Air Resources Board should set a price floor that reflects a conservative estimate of these costs, and consider a price ceiling that is some multiple of the price floor and reflects a higher-impact estimate of the social costs of greenhouse gases.
Whatever price ceiling the Board adopts, the Board should also carefully analyze whether the ceiling price is high enough to enable the market to incentivize pollution reductions at the levels we will need in order to meet our 2030 pollution reduction targets.
Keeping it Real (as well as permanent, quantifiable, verifiable, enforceable, & additional)
Polluters regulated by California's cap and trade program may use "offsets" instead of emission allowances from within the cap to cover part of their emissions. Offsets are projects to reduce emissions from sources not covered by California's emissions cap that are supposed to represent emission reductions that are "real, permanent, quantifiable, verifiable, enforceable, and additional."
Offsets are controversial because they can substitute for direct emission reductions from pollution sources that affect local air quality and because determining whether project-based emission reductions are genuinely "additional" to what would have otherwise occurred is an inherently uncertain process. AB 398 restricts the use of offsets for compliance purposes to no more than 4 percent of each covered entity's compliance obligation from 2021 through 2025 and no more than 6 percent from 2026 through 2030, of which no more than one-half may be sourced from projects that do not provide environmental benefits in the state.
The offset provisions adopted in AB 398 reflect concern by the Legislature that the use of offsets could dilute or undermine the benefits of cap and trade in California, particularly in disadvantaged communities. CARB should respond to these concerns not simply by applying the mandated numerical limits, but also by reexamining its offset protocols to increase confidence that offsets are indeed providing benefits to California, and in particular that offset credits represent greenhouse gas emission reductions from uncapped sources that are additional to any that would occur in the absence of the offsets program. CARB also needs to ensure that the use of offsets does not interfere with its ability to enforce the 40 percent emission reduction required by SB 32, which is based on total emissions of greenhouse gases in California (without regard to how offsets are accounted for within the cap and trade program).
Getting the carbon market rules right can help ensure that we are building on the progress we have made, rather than slowing it down.
Future posts will explore what happens if allowance prices hit the ceiling CARB sets and how to build out a balanced portfolio of climate policies to avoid relying too heavily on the cap and trade program to begin with.


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It is illegal to kill or damage native flora or fauna so penguin egg omelettes and albatross chicks are off the menu.
The introduced dandelions make a good salad, washed and then tossed in oil and vinegar with beetroot and walnuts. Shooting the reindeer is prohibited except under licence from the Commissioner, but he is not likely to grant one unless you have a good reason.
You can fish with a rod and line and may catch a marbled rock cod, or possibly one of the other Antarctic fishes in the bays. Only catch enough to eat - they are protected, and while nobody minds you catching the odd one or two, you'll need to buy an expensive licence to catch commercial quantities. If you pass a commercial fishing vessel at sea, it is worth swinging by to see if they offer you any, but be very careful not to get in the way of their fishing gear.


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BEXLEY -- Although trailing by just one point at halftime, the Heidelberg University men's basketball team fell victim to a slow second half start against the nationally ranked Capital University. The hosts defended home court by a final score of 86-80.
Myron Prewitt led the Student Princes (8-14, 6-9 OAC) with a 19-point showing, including 12 in the final four and half minutes alone. Fellow bigs, Alex Arellano (14) and Connor Hutchison (10) also reached double-figures in scoring for Heidelberg.
Dylan Woods continued his efficiency shooting the ball on 60% shooting in addition to a game-high four assists.
The Berg found themselves in an uphill battle against the No. 21 Crusaders early, as Capital ran out to a 12-3 lead after connecting on their first five shot attempts. Although facing a hot-shooting offense, Heidelberg did not relent, working their way back into the fray.
The Student Princes utilized a trio of 3-balls to close the gap. Curt Jacobs, Dylan Woods and Myron Prewitt each connected from deep to give HU an avenue back into the game.
From there -- much like the reverse fixture -- a patch of seesaw scoring ensued as Heidelberg stayed toe-to-toe with the OAC leaders. After briefly leading in the first minute of play, the Tricolor retook the lead for the first time with 2:45 remaining in the first half. Alex Arellano scooped in five straight points to work a four-point advantage.
A pair of Josh Dixon free throws late in the half looked to give the Berg the lead at the break, but Dan Auble sunk a 3-pointer at the buzzer to gift the lead back to the Crusaders heading to the intermission.
Out of the break, Heidelberg looked to be on the attack, but Capital strung together a 12-2 run to distance themselves from the Student Princes.
With the game hanging in the balance and the Berg down 72-56, Myron Prewitt decided it was time to orchestrate the offense. The senior turned on the pressure by rattling off 12 points over the final 4:28 of play to narrow the deficit to as little as five points.
Unfortunately that would be as close at the Student Princes would reach, as Joey Weingartner knocked down a late free throw to cap off the game 86-80.
The Tricolor shot an astounding 56% from beyond the arc and even outshot the Crusaders from the field, but were undone, by Capital's electric free throw shooting. The hosts earned their way to the stripe 34 times and converted 30 of those opportunities.
In a rare occasion, Prewitt lost the battle on the boards to his compatriot Caleb Cox, who pulled in eight rebounds compared to Myron's seven.
For the Crusaders, Will Hannah led all scorers with 22, while Cox (17), Auble (15), and Austin Schreck (11) also chipped in heavily.
Heidelberg will host the University of Mount Union for a 3 p.m. tip off on Saturday after the women's game vs. the Purple Raiders at 1 p.m.


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Medium Fawn, 800567, Full Peruvian
Picchucha is a hidden treasure. At 12 years of age she still produces baby fine fleece with a lovely handle. This trait she passes on to her off-spring. She will bring to your herd fineness retained into maturity. Piccuchua births easily, with plenty of milk for crias that gain weight rapidly and mature early. She is a rock solid production dam who is easy to care for with many more award winning cria's to come.Picchucha was imported by Snowmass Alpacas with excellent confirmation and proven production records. She is breeding this fall to Snowmass Quechua's Contender for a fall 2010 criaCall now to add this treasure to your herd.
Wouldnt you like to have an alpacas who carried fineness well into maturity?Then Snowmass Snow Cloud is your man!When breeding to SNOW CLOUD you not only get great genetics fine fleece, density, bundling and crimp, you get fabulous personalities. Snow Clouds has a wonderful personality. Hes easy to handle and sweet to be around. He also passes on this friendly personality to his offspring. What a joy it is to go into the pasture and have the alpacas stand and interact with you.SNOW CLOUD continues to have fine fleece even as a mature breeding male. This is the result of careful breeding decision from SNOWMASS ALPACASS elite breeding program.Retained fineness is proven through several generations. Snows sire, SNOWMASS MESSIAH at age 4 had a histogram of AFD 17.1. His dam, SNOWMASS DREAM CLOUD, also has an outstanding histogram at age 6, AFD 19.3. Snow passes on this lingering fineness to his offspring.In the show ring the white class i
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Colusa Riverside Alpacas has been working very hard over the past three years to develop their breeding program with nationally ranked EPDs in their alpacas. ARAPAHO SNOW'S MACCHU PICCHU HERDSIRE IS IN THE TOP EPDs in THE NATION for all traits. Macchu Picchu's half sister Whitney Snow has been honored in the AOA Nationals for her top trait ranking in curvature for the past 3 years. It is very rare to come across a stud whose significantly better than the national herd in all 9 fleece character trait EPDs. He is below 5% in most fiber trait determination and at most 19%. Guaranteed improvement in offspring fiber trait character for all histogram fiber traits, quite an attribute for a breeding sire. Also, the relatively rare combination of fineness, fiber weight increases and staple length are indeed an even more rare combination in a sire. Macchu Picchu's AFD EPD is better then nearly 98% of the 16,828 alpacas tested by AOA in 2014. The uniformity of fiber EPD character is by far the most positive genetic attribute for Picchu. Picchu has proven over the past 6 years his fiber character also has longevity in fineness, with little change in AFD diameter with age. Though not a measurable trait on EPDs, clearly fiber longevity is a heritable trait Picchu can also pass along to offspring.Macchu Picchu is in the tradition and genetics of Hemingway and Snowmass. Arapaho Snow's Macchu Picchu has fiber luster, staple length and crimp. He is an ideal alpaca with beauty outside and desirable genetics inside. Picchu improved his placing in the showring with a 1st place at age 4, over a 3rd at age 3. Picchu's Histogram AFD is minimally changed in the past 5 years. Not only is his fiber long and luxurious, his fineness is uniform throughout with a SD of 3.9. He has a gorgeous head, appropriate bite, and appropriate conformation. Probably fiber weight gain EPD of 1/2 pound (0.529 FW) in offspring is very important.
Awards Received1st place light male age 2 & older. Gold Country Gathering 2012 - Judge remark was this boy deserves first place at age 4. The sign of quality herdsire he can place higher at age 4 than age 3 in an adult class.3rd place light male age 2 & older: California Classic 2011EPDs: Accuracy of his EPDs are greater than 0.4. Insuring his predictability of improvement to very good. His national rankings are truly remarkable, especially when you look at his rankings across all traits. Trait Value Accuracy National RankAFD -1.71 0.479 450 of 16828 3%SDAFD -0.523 0.479 274 of 16828 2%SF -1.84 0.537 344 of 16828 2%%F>30 -7.234 0.541 201 of 16828 2%MC 2.871 0.466 1452 of 16828 9%SDMC 1.35 0.501 1291 of 16828 8% %M -4.141 0.395 440 of 16828 3%MSL 1.449 0.387 3076 of 16828 19%FW 0.529 0.329 1738 of 16828 11%
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Citizens fork out 3 fils (one UAE dirham=100 fils) for each gallon and will continue on to do so as extended they don't use far more than six,000 gallons, might will then mechanism to 3.5 fils every gallon, as well as four fils per gallon for buyers who sap additional than 12,001 gallons with the tap.
There are extensive international travelers who visit this city every while. If you are one and want to fly in from the at the end of the day anyone certainly should n't have any issues in enabling the Dubai Delhi airfare tickets. There are regular flights between the two locations so you should go for flight tickets booking and that you will get to board any flight which you decide on. If you are thinking of commuting to Philippines then many airlines offer cheap Manila flights as ideally.
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Deep sea fishing in Dubai tests the skills of the angler against some extremely intrepid fish found the particular sea. The waters throughout the emirates are home but for of the biggest sail fish habitats on the planet. Besides sailfish there are also many other sorts of fish included with these seas. These include King Fish, Queen Fish, Tuna, Barracuda, and Grouper. Most fishermen returning with you should fish after every flight. A lot of tourists enjoy having a picture taken with their catch. Paying out a little extra it is usually possible to ready for chic catering on the boat the vessel.
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Pizza-making workshop
Fri 12 Jun, 3:30 - 5pm, Community Kitchen in the Linden Centre
Come and make pizzas from scratch, for all the family!
The first the female graduate and chef of Le Cordon Bleu Dione Lucas describes "the preparation of good food is merely another expression of art". Come and try making your own foodie masterpiece. For all the family!
To celebrate Anthony Schrag's departure from Huntly in style, Deveron Arts are holding a Venetian banquet on June 13. Join us the day before, in the community kitchen for an afternoon of pizza-making in preparation for the feast. Booking essential.


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Mental Imagery or Performance Imagery (PI) has been a part of my training since first introduced to it by the late Professor Wally Jay in the mid 70's. His presentation of visualization was used to explain how he could make students perform what appeared to be superhuman skills. He went on to say that visualization was a key ingredient to ALL physical performance whether it is athletic, combative, or life. Tactical Performance Imagery (TPI) is used by the military and LE as means for action preparation and after action analysis. Mental rehearsal can create the proper mindset prior to an engagement and mental review allows subjective analyzation of events following the action. For the martialist, it allows the mind to create experiences that can be used in the decision making process. When training, most martial artists normally learn from "ideal" situations. The "dummy" makes the perfect attack, holds position, and allows the defender to develop his skill set. As training progresses, the attacks become faster, more sudden, and more powerful. Given the fact that no training will ever replicate a real assault though, we must use every available method to build experiences into our decision tree. Any school serious about developing real self-defense skills will incorporate all of the following:
Working full-speed techniques in the air to target
(develops flow and speed)
Working slow-motion techniques with contact to target
(re-enforces target acquisition and weapons development
and "felt" penetration)
Working full-speed techniques with controlled power to the body
(develops flow with contact, creates "I'm going to hurt you"
mindset, allows analyzation of striking potential,
acclimatizes "dummy" to contact/pain)
Working full-speed and full-power techniques to target on an
armored body
(develops flow with contact, re-enforces target acquisitionStress Training Drills and Scenarios
and weapons development, creates "I'm going to hurt you"
mindset, allows for variables, brings "alive" techniques
and weapons development, creates "I'm going to hurt you"
mindset, allows for variables, brings "alive" techniques
Visualizing techniques that destroy an opponent as well "what ifs"
Rory Miller, Corrections Officer, Martialist, and author promotes the idea that ALL self-defense training is theoretical. Until the student applies it AND it works, he is just learning what might work based on his instructor's experience or lack thereof. My goal as in instructor is to build into my student's decision-making tree as many realistic experiences as possible. When the balloon goes up, humans will sink to the level of their training. If there is no experience to draw from when involved in an assault or action, heart rate goes up, lizard brain takes over, and all kinds of not good things can happen. Good imagery will manifest itself with physical changes, heart rate goes, breathing gets shallow, face flushes, ear's redden, etc… Thirty years later, I can still jack my heart rate to over 100bpm when I visualize a gang assault experience. We are all bad-asses in our mind but reality has a way of stomping on our bad-assness. Proper imagery training also involves "what ifs". What if you don't get the expected result of your strikes, what if you're in a toilet stall, what if you go down, what if you make a tactical room entry and face a child pointing a pistol at you, what if…..
Today I use PI regularly as a means to stay aware and to improve my skill set. Whether it's visualizing myself performing a technique or running a scenario through my head while standing in line at a Post Office, imagery is a must for those who plan on using there martial skills should the need arise. Then again, I could be a good sheeple and not worry thinking that bad things will only happen to other people.


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Small pouch in unlined Piñatex.
Exterior Color: Black Piñatex
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Size and Fit
Height: 6in
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About Piñatex
Made from pineapple leaf fibers, Piñatex is a natural and sustainable leather alternative. With time and use, the finish will burnish into a more and more beautiful patina. Piñatex is water resistant, and can be oiled and waxed in the same way animal leathers can be. Piñatex looks good new and gets even better with age
Please note - as it is made of naturally derived materials, each Piñatex pouch will vary slightly in pattern and color.


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Oh my gosh, I just realized you're not following me on Twitter.
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Crisis averted. Whew!
Oh my gosh, I just realized you're not following me on Twitter.
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Crisis averted. Whew!
I'm floored.
I'm also flabbergasted and a little flush, but most of all, flattered.
Why? Because so many of you are hopping aboard, and saying "YES!" to moving forward with your novels. Writing, as you know, is all about momentum, drive, and sheer willpower.
And now I'm looking extra-forward (can I say that?) to October's 10K Social Writing Challenge. It will be exciting to meet all the newcomers, and welcome back the talented writers who have done it before.
But the best part is that you too can meet everyone. Ready to have a slew of new writer friends? New professional contacts? New fans? All of these await you.
The part I like best about this Challenge is that we all help each other out. Feedback is asked for, feedback is given. Motivation comes not just from me—every day in your e-mail inbox—but from others who read your work, cheer you on, and participate in our Facebook discussion group.
And of course, awards are given.
Are you ready for this? Learn more and sign up
Exciting news, writers! Registration has officially opened for the ChapterBuzz 10K Social Writing Challenge.
Is October the month you start on that novel?
If your answer is a resounding "YES!", sign up today:
The Challenge kicks off October 1st, and you'll be writing 10,000 words, so bring a pen full of ink and some great ideas.
I hope you're as excited about this as I am! Get your novel on
This is your chance to shine! Join the ChapterBuzz 10K Social Writing Challenge, starting October 1st.
Awards will be given to emerging writers based on several factors: how much attention your manuscript is getting, how other participants respond to your work, and of course, raw writing ability.
Hunker down for the month of October and get a great head start on your novel. Your goal is to write 10,000 words (about 350 words a day), and don't worry—I'll send you e-mails each day to keep you motivated and make sure you are on target!
Are you the next breakout star of the writing world? Well, I suppose you'll never know unless you try. Get in on this opportunity
And happen suddenly, too: one day you're a regular writer, the next day you're an award-winning author.
How? By entering the ChapterBuzz 10K Social Writing Challenge.
Many people have it in their heads that winning an award is a long, drawn-out process that can only happen once their books are published, and involves filling out lots of applications and sending their books off to a host of organizations, just to have a shot at gaining a shred of recognition.
Not at all. The truth?
You can win an award at any stage of the writing process. And that award is yours forever—no matter what—so the cover of your book can show off this fact ("An award-winning novel"), and any book you publish from then on is "From award-winning author (insert your name here)."
And…you can have fun in the process!
I, in conjunction with ChapterBuzz, was thrilled to give awards to Liberty Henwick, Barry B. Wright, and Dacia Arnold for their amazing efforts during the last 10K Writing Challenge.
We had a blast, some genuinely incredible books emerged, awards were given.
This October, are you with us? Learn more and get reminders
The ChapterBuzz 10K Writing Challenge opens for official registration on Monday.
What is it?
It's a one-month writing extravaganza, running from October 1–October 31, where your challenge is to write 10,000 words.
Bottom line: it's your chance to start that novel you've always wanted to, or add 10,000 words to a manuscript that's already in progress.
It's also a great opportunity to get valuable feedback on what you're writing.
Registration opens Monday. You can learn more and get on the reminders list on this page.
Last time was a lot of fun for everyone involved…this time will be no different!
We writers can be a solitary bunch, no doubt. Many of us, no matter how outgoing we may be around others, still value our alone time.
Our writing time.
There's just something about retreating to a private nook—or favorite outdoor spot—and letting your mind wander into the world of your novel, knowing your story is limited only by your imagination and can go in any direction you choose.
It's your story, so you call the shots.
Unfortunately, this freedom can backfire. Many of us are happy to operate in solitude from start to finish, but at some point other people will be involved. They're called readers, and since conventional wisdom tells us no one will read the book until it's published, our readers are often the very last people we think of.
But they should be the first.
After all, why do all that work, then release your book on nothing but a wing and a prayer? After spending vast amounts of time and energy over the course of many months—or years—you don't want to just cross your fingers and hope that your intended audience will appreciate what you wrote.
You want to know for sure.
Fortunately, you can, and it's called the Early Feedback Method.
This method allows you to write in solitude and stay in touch with the outside world—that is, with those who are eventually going to read and buy your book.
Here's the underlying principle: the more feedback you get in the beginning, the better. Why? Because you want to make sure that what you're writing is resonating with your audience. That way, you can better focus your efforts.
Being open to feedback doesn't mean that just because one person doesn't like something, you have to take it out. But what you're looking for is that your story works, and the comments of your early readers will give you a feel for that. They'll point out plot holes. They'll find inconsistencies. They'll tell you the pacing is a little off. And the most astute among them will have some ideas for how to fix it.
What you'll end up with is a rock-solid foundation to build your novel on, and once you have that, writing the rest is a whole lot easier, and requires only minor adjustments.
Want to try out the Early Feedback Method? The 10K Social Writing Challenge is an excellent opportunity, and it starts October 1. Join here, and see how a "Social" month of interacting with other writers can help you improve your story!


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Rama Lama Records presents ...
Cluster - 'civic' releasefest!
Plan B - Malmö 21-03
80 kr.
Live: Cluster + Secret Band
DJs: Rama Lama
Karaoke After Live Music!
Note: Plan B is a member club. Read more here: https://www.kollektivetrecords.com/planbegin.html
On June 15, Malmö Band Kluster releases its debut album civic via Rama Lama Records. That same evening, this is celebrated on Plan B with there besides Kluster a secret act (which we dare claim is one of Malmö's best) will play! Klusters 'civic' is released on all platforms and limited red vinyl (100 ex) which will of course be available for sale in the evening.
This event will probably happen during Plan B's last weekend as we know it, read more about the situation here and continue to support Sweden's best club: https://www.kollektivetrecords.com/ett-par-punkare.html
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Kluster was formed in Malmö 2014 by four friends and a virtual drummer. They soon became five friends and have since played several times in Malmö, Berlin, Copenhagen and Stockholm, and supported Frankie Cosmos and Nicole Sabouné. During the spring, the singles of the band have been celebrated by Line of Best Fit, HYMN, P3 and others. and on June 15th it's finally time for debut album civic.
Civic is a show of Kluster's playful world, moving freely in influences from pop, punk, noise, lo-fi, indie to jazz. Parts of the band's members have a past as a school jazz musician but sought to find a collective process free of game rules and the narrow-mindedness of the academic world. Something that resulted in an erroneous and intertwined band that switches between melodious and dissonant, complex and simple, in a manner that causes clusters to protrude.
On June 15, the debut album civic is released digitally and on limited red vinyl at the Stockholm-based indie company Rama Lama Records (Steve Buscemi's Dreamy Eyes, Cat Princess, Melby, etc.), which is also the first full-length label of the label. The debut album has been recorded in well-known Tambourine Studios and is a eleven track long show of clusters how experimental and easily accessible can interact in the best possible way.
The band about civic: "The music on civic could be resembled an insight into a long process that started well before the album's appearance and still has a good deal since then - a kind of sampling of our work and our band, which works more like a catalyst than a search for a clear expression. The songs themselves deal with different situations, feelings of emotions and people who are thought of in the sound, about things that have taken the thought business occasionally, consciously or unconsciously. civic is a downturn in everyday and everyday, changing and resistant "


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Hello one and all!
Jamie Bernstein here, and if you come back again, you'll find descriptions of my many travels with "The Bernstein Beat" -- the concert for kids and families that I invented with my friend and colleague Michael Barrett. This concert is modelled after my dad's own Young People's Concerts, which were broadcast on TV for decades and set the gold standard for music education in this country -- and maybe even everywhere.
Over several decades, Leonard Bernstein covered myriad topics and composers in his concerts -- talking in his lively, personable way; going to the piano to make occasional illustrations; and conducting the New York Philharmonic in the various works under examination. But, in a rare burst of modesty, Bernstein neglected to focus on one particular composer: himself. That's where Michael and I come in.
In 1997, we began work on "The Bernstein Beat," a family concert that would introduce a new generation kids to the music of Leonard Bernstein. We decided to explore the topic of rhythm -- which automatically steered us to all the jumpingest, most kid-friendly Bernstein music, including excerpts from "On the Town," "MASS," "Fancy Free," "Candide" -- and of course, "West Side Story." Neither Mike nor I had ever written such a concert before, but we just had a feeling we'd know what to do. Mike, who was my dad's assistant conductor for several years, would be the musical expert, and I'd be the writer. He'd conduct, and I'd narrate.
It was a whole lot harder than we expected! It took us nearly two years to get our concert ready for its first performance, in April of 1998, in Salt Lake City with the Utah Symphony. We were in awe, thinking about how my dad could crank out half a dozen YPC's a YEAR, all written in longhand on yellow legal pads. And he did EVERYTHING: the writing, the narrating, the conducting.
Although well received, "The Bernstein Beat" was, we realized, a bit long and maybe still a tad earnest. It even had an intermission: way too demanding for little kids! But we adapted, refined, relaxed. Now our concert clocks in at just under an hour, and there's an even shorter version for school groups. "The Bernstein Beat" is informal and amusing and goes like the wind. We love doing it, and the kids, parents and teachers have a blast.
Two years ago, Mike and I finally hit the big time: we brought "The Bernstein Beat" to Carnegie Hall. A woman from ICM, Pat Winter, attended that concert and decided to take on the concert and me as clients. Since then, "the Beat" has gone all over the place! And that's what this blog's all about.
Since Salt Lake City, "The Beat" has been literally all over the world: from Beijing to Havana; from Sapporo to Washington D.C. to Miami, to name just a few. And many more concerts to come! It's not always Michael conducting, and it's not always me narrating. But we do it as often as we can, because it's so much fun. And that's what we most hope to convey to our audiences: the FUN of music -- which was what Leonard Bernstein excelled at doing.
It's a noble and happy task. And I'll keep you posted! So long for now...


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Michael J. Mullin, ATC, PTA, PRC
The Temporomandibular Cervical Chain (TMCC) is one of a few different polyarticular chains or groups of muscles in our bodies that work together to help guide movement. We have two of these chains—one on the left side of our body and one on the right. It essentially coordinates movement of the head (cranium), jaw (mandible) and neck (cervical spine) with each other AND between both sides of the body with each other.
For those who have taken courses through the Postural Restoration Institute®, it is discussed briefly in their primary courses, but the secondary course "Cervical Revolution" goes much more in depth about identifying, assessing and treating dysfunction in this chain. It is heavily laden with dental, maxillary-oral-facial, osteopathic and orthopaedic concepts and can be very challenging to grasp initially. While it is important information for practitioners to be aware of who utilize the PRI treatment approach, it can be hard for some to truly "get it". There are some great sources for reviews of these courses by Zac Cupples here and here, as well as the information from the Institute here.
I thought it would be helpful to share a recent visit with a patient to demonstrate the influence this chain can have on our system, as well as how small changes can have profound affects on the rest of the body.
I have been seeing a patient for a little bit for bilateral shoulder issues--ICD9 719.41: "Pain in joint involving shoulder region". As many people know who treat patients in physical therapy, the diagnosis in many cases can be largely irrelevant, much like the one this physician provided. Suffice to say there are no tears or arthritis. I could also go into all of his findings, but that is not the point of this.
He has been making steady progress, but I also knew very early on that there was a strong top-down component which was playing a role in his symptoms and recovery--facial distortion, migrating mandible when talking, cervical sidebend, bodily orientation when talking to me, etc. It could not be addressed early on for a variety of reasons—which will be part of a future post—but today the time was right and I thought I would share a few pictures I took, which was an important part of the teaching process I used with him. I had him lie on his back on the table with tongue depressor in hand. You can actually see it in his right hand—he just has no idea what he will be doing with it :) I asked that he lie comfortably, and this is the position he assumed:
His head is quite obviously laterally shifted to the left. We also tested his Humeral Glenoid Internal Rotation (HGIR—see picture) and used this as a before and after assessment (comparable sign) and while much better than previous weeks, it was somewhat limited bilaterally in this position as well.
I then manually moved his cranium and cervical spine to what was aligned and he said: "That's straight?! Really?!" That picture is here:
Pictures can be deceiving. Looks straight, but he could never sustain it.
He noted (obvious) tightness and tenderness being in this position and while it looks better, his system is not able to support it. I ask him to take a few full breaths (he has been well-trained on the breath sequence I want him to be using), lift and move his head around and lie comfortably, and he ends up back here:
So I ask him to then place the tongue depressor (i.e. crude flat plane splint) between his right upper and lower teeth, take a few breaths, move his head around and lie comfortably, and it doesn't change much at all, nor do his HGIR scores.
I then ask him to place the tongue depressor between his left top and bottom teeth, get as much balanced closure as he felt he could comfortably, and hold the tongue depressor there. (In many situations, people will know what you are asking them to do when describing this to them.) I then ask him to take a few full breaths, lift and move his head to a comfortable position and he ends up here:
His HGIR scores were completely normal in this position as well, which he could really feel. The pictures helped him see what the differences were. Two minutes of time and got 'em—hook, line and sinker. Compliance and appreciation for what we are trying to do are now more solidly ingrained. (Full disclosure: I did nothing else to influence this head position or cue him in any way. Period.)
There is a whole more to it—and him—than this article shows, but I hope this might be a helpful visual for people who have limited to no exposure to this aspect of Postural Restoration® assessments and intervention strategies. It's important to remember that it is a part of the treatment plan, not THE treatment plan. His HEP and weight bearing activities in particular will now be done with something like this to help create top-down closure, instructions on how to be more aware of tongue and jaw position with ADL's (i.e. chewing, swallowing, resting position), and further aspects of the TMCC/Cervical Revolution protocol will be introduced as well.
Here's to keeping your head on straight…..


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The Effect of Alcohol on Burning Feet
Long-term and excessive alcohol consumption can cause damage to the nerves in your feet, which can result in burning feet, according to Footneuropathy.net.
When you are experiencing peripheral neuropathy in your feet, in addition to the burning sensation, you may also experience tingling, tickling and the feeling of pins and needles.
When damage is done to the nerves that carry information to the spinal cord and brain--which can occur if you have consumed excessive quantities of alcohol over a long period of time--this leads to pain in your feet, loss of sensation or strange sensations, and an inability to control your muscles.
A condition called Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome (a neurological disorder) can develop in malnourished alcoholics, which can result in foot burning. This condition is also called cerebral beriberi.
Thiamine Deficiency
Beriberi is thiamine deficiency disease in the brain, according to Neurology.health-cares.net. Thiamin deficiency impacts the muscular system as well as your nervous-, gastrointestinal- and cardiovascular systems.
Additional Factors
Burning feet can be caused by other factors than alcohol including a trapped nerve, gout, smoking, diabetes, athlete's foot, an allergic reaction and dampness in your shoes or socks that when subjected to friction leads to the burning sensation.
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For probably most if not all of us, when we hear or see the name "Dubya" we know exactly to whom this name refers, the spirit in which it was created and the manner in which it is to be pronounced. "Dubya" refers to our 43rd President, and the exaggeration of his middle initial emphasizes his alleged considerable dim-wittedness. If you harbor strong animosity to President George W, chances are it feels good and provides an outlet for your fear and frustration to say "Dubya," and in a tone emphasizing the stupidity of the word and its subject, despite Dubya's lofty societal status.
Now, if it should happen that you weren't aware that "Dubya" is a term of derision, chances are you yourself would look like quite the dufus as you use it in earnest, straightforward fashion, as a legitimate proper name. For example:
"Dubya scares me! Dubya has a hold on me and on this country. Try as I might I cannot escape Dubya's clutches. God save me from Dubya!"
It could happen! Although of course it's highly, highly unlikely….
This is the kind of crazy, compromised position we put ourselves in, however, when we start using the name "Beelzebub" with much fear and trembling, as if we're uttering the proper name of the overwhelmingly evil one also known as "The Prince of Darkness," "The Devil," "Satan", "Ruler of Hell" and other most-ominous monikers.
The truth is, "Beelzebub" is a term of gleeful derision. "Beelzebub," or, as we first encounter it in 2 Kings 1:2-6, "Baal-zebub", is a play on the name of the main Canaanite god, Baal-Zebul (meaning, in Canaanite, "God the Exalted"). Baal-zebub means "Lord of the Flies" and here has nothing to do with the pig's-head-on-a-stick of William Golding's dystopian novel, either.
Rather, according to Dr. Yahuda T. Radday in On Humor and the Comic in the Hebrew Bible (Sheffield Academic Press, 1990, p. 65-6), the fact that there were so many Canaanite deities requiring meat sacrifices meant their temple altar was always filled to the brim with the stuff that causes flies to swarm, and by the legion. No matter what mighty acts the Canaanites might claim their gods capable of, the truth, said Israel, with a knowing, superior wink, is that the best those gods can do is attract lots of buzzing annoying vermin. Ha ha ha ha ha!
It must have felt good for Israel to mock its politically superior neighbors and the gods they boastfully paraded in this way. It must have provided an outlet for the Israelites' fear and frustration as well reminded them that even though Canaan and its gods purported to have all the power, this was all a lot of dumb hooey. Making fun of all those flies at the altar helped Israel remember the One who was really in control and, thankfully, needed relatively little sacrifice... beyond your heart, mind and soul of course.
As time passed and a variety of new influences came into Israel's culture, Baal-zebub lost its initial meaning and became a popular, horrible proper name for Evil, synonymous with the "Beelzebul, Ruler of the Demons" that Jesus is accused of being in cahoots with, in Matthew 12:24 and elsewhere.
But we want to recover Baalzebub's original meaning, because it's fun learning how Israel used the gift of mockery and for good reason. It's powerful to cleverly make fun of the forces that threaten to bring you down.
I've been playing around with a new way of dealing with my own inner demons. I've started calling them "dumb-ons". Doing so surprisingly and instantly deflates them of their influence over me and reduces them to literally non-speaking trifles that have attached themselves to my being like barnacles on a whale. Or, more to the point, like a piece of stray toilet paper to my shoe.
I invite you to try this out with your own struggles with "demons". Call 'em "dumb-ons"! Explore and enjoy victory that the comic lens (and goofy language) surprisingly avails!
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Day 173/365 - On Rose
One of the most famous flowers, in the Rose family like Hawthorn, is the Rose itself.
Rose (Rosa spp - centifolia) has long served as a symbol of love and affection among many cultures.
- Ask forgiveness
- Opens heart, comforts
- Grief, PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder), broken hearts
- As a drink (tea, brandy, wine, elixir), aromatherapy, bath
P.S. Did you know the wild rose had 5-petals but has been bred to have many more in the modern varieties?


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Up Helly Aa art to go on display in Lerwick
AN EXHIBITION showcasing artwork from the top of Up Helly Aa bills is to coincide with the start of this year's fire festival season.
Up Helly Aart! opens at Da Gadderie at the Shetland Museum and Archives on 13 January and it will run until 11 February.
Among the pieces on show will be work by Nicholas Barnham, Liam O'Neil and Ron Sandford, while local artists will of course feature too.
The bill started in 1899 to provide guizers with instructions for Up Helly Aa, but it has since been developed to include satirical jokes.
The season will kick off with the Scalloway Fire Festival on Friday, with the Lerwick Up Helly Aa following on 30 January.


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Lot Size7.58 ac
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Year Built2007
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┌── Andrew Hanshew │ 1846-1909 ┌── John Hanshaw ────────┤ │ 1887-1974 │ │ └── Angelia Johnson │ 1857-1930 Earl Clayton Hanshaw ───┤ B: 1914 │ ┌── John Nelson Lawson D: 1991 │ │ └── Winnie Bell Lawson ──┤ 1887-1970 │ └── Mary Sparks [Maxine Tackett] ├── William Clayton Hanshaw (1937-2012) 1,2 M: Myrtle Wagoner ├── Earl J. Hanshaw (1935-) 2,3 ├── Hattie A. Hanshaw (1937-) 2,3 ├── Marvin D. Hanshaw (1943-) 2 └── Shirley J. Hanshaw (1949-) 2
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Born May 25 1914, Elliott County, Kentucky.2,4,5,6 (Apr 15 1914).1
1Earl had a relationship with Maxine Tackett, but they were never married.1
He married Myrtle Wagoner, Jan 14 1935.1 Myrtle was born about 1910, Kentucky.3
Earl was shown in the 1940 census (Apr 16 1940), living with his parents, Green Bag Cement Hollow, Carter County, Kentucky:7
On May 18 1942 Earl C. Hanshaw, born 1914 in Kentucky, enlisted in Huntington, West Virginia as a private in the U.S. Army. He declared he had a grammar school education and was single, without dependents, a resident of Carter County, Kentucky. He was recorded as 64 inches tall, 122 lbs.8
Earl Clayton Hanshaw died Nov 24 1991, Olive Hill, Carter County, Kentucky; age 77.6,9 (West Virginia).9 Death certificate #1475.9
Social Security information for Earl Clayton Hanshaw: 407-01-9445
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Backworth Staff Christmas Party Festivities
The Backworth staff took a well deserved time out last week; relaxing a little, sharing a great meal, sampling a few beverages... and enjoying genuine comradery befitting the festive season!
Happy Holidays from the Backworth Team!
Farewell to Dillyn
The extended Brijlal family were invited to Backworth Stud to give our gratitudes and celebrate Dillyn's life. We will miss him.
Dhinesh 'Dillyn' Brijlal
It is with disbelief that we share the death of Dillyn, our trusted manager, after succumbing to a short illness. He will be remembered for his pride in all things Backworth, his love for the animals, his care and concern for the team, and the genuine relationships he had with many. The gentle heart beat of Backworth has stopped beating.
When God created Scottish Terriers...
The Farrier
There are always horses that need new shoes, crooked feet that need a little trim. I know a farrier that's paid his dues, although it's taken the best of him.
Winnie Todd Russon... The White Sheep of The Family
Please welcome our new puppy - Winnie (the wheaten)… the white sheep of the family. We are now a very representative, politically correct clan - 2 black, 1 brindle, 1 wheaten!
We follow a strict regime at Backworth...
The Unwritten Autobiography
"A garden that one makes oneself becomes associated with one's personal history and that of one's friends, interwoven with one's tastes, preferences and character and constitutes a sort of unwritten autobiography."
- Alfred Austin
Pretoria-bred Raphael comes to Backworth
We're fortunate at Backworth to share our lives not only with magnigicent Thoroughbreds, but also with our intelligent and dignified, yet often stubborn and hilarious, Scotties! Pretoria-bred Raphael Todd Russon is a new addition to the Backworth family.
The Scottish Terrier, also known as the Aberdeen Terrier but popularly called the Scottie, was one of the initial Scottish Highland breeds of terrier that were grouped under the name of Skye Terrier. They are one of five breeds originating in Scotland; the other four being Skye, Cairn, Dandie Dinmont, and West Highland White Terrier, and their lineage is said to be traced back to a single female, named Splinter II.
Colours of Spring
"Here are a few pics of Bella and Raphael enjoying the 'Colours of Spring'.
Spring is in the garden… but where is the rain!?"
Team at the Farm
Dillyn Brijlal has recently been promoted to Farm Manager at Backworth Stud.
Dillyn is taking the responsibility seriously and continues to maintain the Backworth property and Management of the Horses to the highest professional standard, and with the attention to detail, for which Backworth is renowned.
We look to Dillyn and his Stud team, which includes Patrick Chiutsi (Stud Foreman) and Robert Mbele (Assistant Stud Foreman), to prepare the Yearlings for various Sales this year under guidance from the experienced eye of owner Keith Russon.
Wishing you a Merry, Merry Christmas
Sad Beginnings, Happy Endings!
"Here is the wire that Dr Carla Langley removed from Skhotheni's leg!"
We shared with you yesterday the arrival at Backworth of our newest team member, Skhotheni, our new Teaser Stallion who had been rescued by the 'Out Of The Blue Animal Rescue" in Hillcrest from an abysmal life of abuse, pain and suffering at the hands of soulless tormentors.
That he found his way, via the intervention of our vet Dr Carla Langley, to the safe, happy and respect-filled environs of the Backworth paddocks, to take on the most desirable of positions, must be a matter of fate.
Skhotheni is 'Homeless' no more!
New Kid on the Block!
Our new Teaser Stallion has arrived - and we welcome "Skhotheni" to fulfil his integral part of the Backworth team, as "Teaser to the Mares".
Having lost our Welsh pony Tardee earlier in the year, our Vet, Dr Carla Langley has been looking for a replacement for us since. Carla stumbled across "Skhotheni" at the 'Out-of-the-Blue-Animal-Rescue' in Hillcrest where he had been rescued from an abused background, and the staff nick-named him Skhotheni, meaning homeless in Zulu. I am sure Backworth will restore his soul and belief in humanity.
Skhotheni was introduced to his 'girls' at the end of last week for the first time, and looks set to perform his duties admirably!
Find out more about Out Of The Blue Animal Rescue here : facebook.com/pages/Out-of-the-Blue-Animal-Rescue-Trust
The passing of Tardee
1981 - 2013
Flags flew at half mast at Backworth yesterday, in respect of our 32-year-old teaser, Welsh pony 'Tardee'.
Much loved, a character, and an integral part of Backworth, he performed his difficult and unenviable job with great efficiency!
Tardee showed wonderful health Sunday morning, enjoyed his breakfast as usual, but suffered a cardiac arrest just after being put out in the paddock.
On a magnificent autumn day in Eston, Tardee was gently laid to rest.
Farewell to Terry and Rusty!
We had a farewell tea, and story telling, with Terry and Rusty Sefton, before they left the farm last week for retirement in the Cape.
All of us at Backworth Stud, wish Terry and Rusty farewell! After some 16 years living on the farm, and working in the area, Terry has become a 'local character'. He supervised the building of our Stable set up, worked with the Stud in the early days of horses, and later took responsibility of the property caretaking, as well as the driving of mares for covers.
We hope they settle well with their family in the Cape, and embrace true retirement!
We couldn't resist this… Johan Alberts, Dillyn Brijlal and Taz brave the KZN 'early morning' winter elements as part of their daily preparation of the Backworth Stud draft for the upcoming KZN Yearling Sales at Suncoast, Durban, 5-6 July 2012. Johan and Dillyn are seen above sporting the latest in Estonian 'hat fashion'… courtesy of our recent trip to Estonia.
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- Live concert by Highest Praise Gospel Choir, "Jammonton" (see below) and refreshments at the Noyes Galleries at Kramer Hall
- A holiday make & take craft at the Noyes Shop on Second Street
- Locations: Noyes Galleries at Kramer Hall & Noyes Shop, Hammonton
Highest Praise Gospel Choir Concert: A student organization at Stockton University with a passion for gospel music. Join us for this special occasion and enjoy holiday songs and refreshments. This event is free and open to the public.
RSVP at https://praisegospel.eventbrite.com
Jammonton: Informal Jam Session
Every Third Thursday. All acoustic instruments and skill levels are welcome!