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Industrial-organizational (I-O) psychology is the scientific
study of the workplace. Rigor and methods of psychology are
applied to issues of critical relevance to business,
including talent management, coaching, assessment,
selection, training, organizational development,
performance, and work-life balance.
Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from the International Society for Intelligence Research's (ISIR) Distinguished Contributor interview with Frank Schmidt. The interview was conducted at the 2010 ISIR annual conference before a plenary session.
When you and Jack Hunter began your work, the general conception was that there was little relationship between occupational performance or occupational status and intelligence. That conception has completely changed, such that it is currently hard to believe that anyone ever thought otherwise. What were the main obstacles to changing peoples' minds, and what resistance did you encounter along the way?
I think there were at least four sources of resistance.
First, I-O psychologists were being paid to conduct situational validity studies. The concept of generalizable validity for general mental ability (GMA) was a threat to this activity because it shows such studies are unnecessary. This research also showed that situational validity studies did not "work" anyway because their statistical power to detect validity was typically about .50, meaning that only about half of such studies gave the correct answer about the presence of validity. This was also disturbing to many.
Second, many I-Os were wedded to differential aptitude theory and believed that job performance was best predicted by a job-specific weighted combination of specific aptitudes (such as spatial, verbal, numerical, etc.). They were reluctant to accept the evidence that this belief was false (but eventually did).
Third, the idea of the dominance of GMA was a threat to the equalitarian idea that the main difference between people is in their pattern of abilities, not in overall ability. This belief was common among laypeople as well as psychologists.
Fourth, it is very hard, nearly impossible, for mature scientists to change their core theories. Older people in my field found it hard to change. For example, to change meant they would have had to redo all the courses they taught. We were told many were hoping this would just be a fad (like so many other things in psychology), and they could just wait it out. Acceptance of our work greatly increased once these people retired or died off. Max Plank once said "Old scientists never change their theories, they just die and are replaced by young scientists who accept the newer theories." In our case, this process took about 20 years! The big turnaround occurred when we got the APA Distinguished Scientific Award for Applications of Psychology in 1994.
We found out that is it not true that if you build a better mouse trap people will beat a path to your door. They will, but only after about 20 years.
What is your definition or theory of intelligence (over and beyond the brief definition you and Hunter give in your articles)? Do you believe that g is sufficient to represent the intelligence domain? What is your opinion of John Carroll's analysis of the data and his proposed three-stratum model?
We have defined intelligence as the ability to learn. There are many different definitions of intelligence, but they are just different ways of describing the same ability and are all compatible with each other. I have no patience with articles that maintain that because of these minor differences in definitions, there is no agreement on what intelligence is. That is hogwash.
I accept the hierarchical models of the structure of mental abilities—the Carroll 3-stratum model, the Gustafsson model, the Bouchard-Johnson model, and others. My only complaint is about how these models are sometimes interpreted because people get causality reversed. They say that the specific abilities (level-1 tests) combine to create the general aptitudes (e.g., verbal), which then combine to produce the g-factor. In fact, causality goes in the opposite direction. GMA is the main cause of general aptitudes, which are then the main cause of performance on the specific level-1 tests (specific aptitudes).
What is your current point of view on the psychological significance of specific abilities beyond "g."
The evidence is very strong that specific aptitudes make no contribution to the prediction of complex performances (such as job performance) over and above GMA. The big research project that Jack Hunter did for the Pentagon, as well as the work of Malcolm Ree and some of my own work, shows that the whole burden of prediction of complex real-world performances is borne by the g-factor. In regression equations, adding level-1 or level-2 ability measures does not increase validity over that of GMA alone. Much of the evidence that seems to suggest otherwise is based on sloppy research in which there is no control for the biasing effects of measurement error. In our research, once we controlled for measurement error, no specific aptitude got a nonzero beta weight, but they did before this control. This finding may not hold for simple performances such as adding and subtracting numbers. But these are not the kind of performances that are of practical value and interest. Complex, multifaceted real-world performances like job performance seem to be learned over time based on GMA, in the same way the specific aptitudes like verbal, quantitative, and so on are learned.
The phrase "over time" is important here. Specific mental skills might contribute over and above GMA to individual differences in initial performance if some individuals have these skills going in and others (independent of GMA) do not. But over longer time periods, GMA swamps these initial differences in specific mental skills in the determination of real-world complex performances such as job performance.
Lloyd Humphreys liked spatial ability, perhaps because social class differences are smaller on this indicator variable for GMA than on other indicators such as verbal and quantitative. Spatial ability is a useful indicator variable (among many) for GMA, but Lloyd never presented any empirical evidence to me showing incremental validity over GMA for the prediction of complex real-world performances. He said he had such evidence but never provided any.
I endorse Cattell's investment theory of ability (although not his gc vs. gf theory). Investment theory holds that the individual's interests and values determine where each person invests his/her GMA to develop specific aptitudes (which are mental skills). For example, people with technical, scientific, and engineering interests invest GMA in the development of spatial and technical ability, which then becomes good indicators of GMA for them but which do not per se make any independent contribution to their overall professional achievement and success.
What aspects of your approach to research could be generalized to other areas with profit?
I think my most important contribution is the development of psychometric meta-analysis methods with Jack Hunter. These methods were initially developed for validity generalization purposes but over the last 30 years have spread to many other research areas, not only in I-O psychology and other areas of psychology, but also to applications in economics, political science, wildlife management, medical research, nursing research, and other areas. These methods are very widely used today, not just in the U.S. but around the world. I provide software to implement these methods. Over half the orders are from foreign countries. Usually they say they learned of the software while reading the 2004 Hunter-Schmidt meta-analysis book. About 300 copies of this software package have been distributed, which is a lot for specialized software. By contrast, in retrospect the areas of personal selection and student selection seem somewhat narrow.
What led you and Jack Hunter to the basic ideas that underlie meta-analysis (e.g., your original work on validity generalization)?
One of my professors at Purdue, Hubert Brogden, had been the research director at the Army Research Institute in Washington, DC. In 1967 in a conversation with him at Purdue, he stated that the military validity estimates were stable across samples. I asked him why this was not true for civilian estimates, and he said "sampling error." Nine years later in DC (in 1976) sitting in my office, I was looking at one of Ghiseli's highly variable validity distributions, and I remembered what Brogden had said. Then it occurred to me that you could use the sampling-error formula to estimate how much of the observed variance was due to sampling-error variance. I did some quick calculations on a calculator and found it was 70% or more. I was excited by this and called Jack. He immediately said it was a great idea and wrote a letter saying it was the best idea I had ever had. We then worked out the details of applying this idea and published it in 1977.
Why do you think this idea did not take hold much earlier, either in psychology or other disciplines?
In retrospect, we can see there were some early examples of nascent meta-analysis methods in the 1930s. People like E. L. Thorndike averaged several rs and presented the average as the best estimate. But meta-analysis was not widely adopted until the 1980s.
The decade of the 1980s was approximately the time when research literatures became so voluminous that it was clear a method was needed to make sense of them. This was the effect of the information explosion and the resulting information overload.
Before then, there were at least two reasons why there was no meta-analysis. The first is that there was a failure to appreciate how large sampling error is. Researchers believed that sampling error could be controlled with Ns of 50 or 100. This led to the false belief that you could answer a question with a single study in this sample-size range. Second is the myth of the perfect study, the belief that truth is revealed by the one perfect study and the rest should be thrown out. The prescription was to search for the one perfect study.
Some of my colleagues do not like meta-analysis. They think there is always a perfect or near-perfect experiment or study that can answer any question. Explain why this idea is wrong.
This argument is addressed in some detail in our 2004 MA book. This argument is essentially the same as the myth of the perfect study. Those advocating it usually argue that a single large N study can provide the same precision of estimation as the numerous smaller N studies that go into a meta-analysis. But with a single large N study, there is no way to estimate SD-rho or SD-delta, the variation of the population parameters. This means there is no way to demonstrate external validity. A meta-analysis based on a large number of small studies based on different populations, measurement scales, time periods, and so on, allows one to assess the effects of these methodological differences. If SD-rho is small or zero, one has demonstrated that these factors do not matter and has demonstrated external validity (generalizability of the findings). If SD-rho is not small, then one knows there may be moderators operating and can attempt to identify them. None of this is possible with a single large sample study, no matter how well conducted it is. The specific methods and sample used in a single large sample study can always be challenged as not generalizable. A single large study does not address the many questions related to generalizability of findings.
Schmidt and Hunter go together in people's minds. Could you give us an insider's perspective on this collaboration, its highs and lows?
I don't recall any lows. Jack was wonderful to work with, the smartest person I have ever known and a wonderful friend too. Lee J. Cronbach remarked that Jack was the smartest PhD student he'd ever known. Jack critiqued Cronbach's Generalizability Theory and found an important flaw, and Cronbach accepted this. Students loved Jack, but many faculty were intimidated by him and so did not work with him. I never felt intimidated by him. If I came up with an idea (for example, the idea for VG), he immediately saw the value and then made important contributions to developing and perfecting it. But he did not like administrative or editorial work, so I did almost all of that. For example, I handled journal submissions of all our joint work.
In Cronbach's (1957) presidential address he made a great deal about the importance of interactions. He followed this up in 1975 in "Beyond the Two Disciplines of Scientific Psychology." Some believe the search for interactions has been a dismal failure whereas others believe it is the future. Indeed this is now a hot topic in behavior genetics. What is your take on the importance of interactions in science generally?
I think it is important to remember that in the Cronbach (1975) article referred to here, he stated that cumulative knowledge in psychology was not possible, that there were so many complex interactions in psychological processes that we faced an impossible "hall of mirrors." Well, he was wrong, and applications of meta-analysis in many literatures have shown he was wrong and that cumulative knowledge is possible. Amazing as it seems, Cronbach seems not to have appreciated the ability of sampling error and other artifacts to create illusions of complexity where the underlying reality was actually simple.
In terms of interactions I think we have to distinguish between the detectability of interactions and their substantive scientific importance. In 1978, Jack Hunter and I published an article in Personnel Psychology entitled "Moderator Variables and the Law of Small Numbers" in which we showed that the sample sizes needed to have adequate power to detect interactions are much larger than most people believe—often requiring 10,000 or more people. We also showed that even small amounts of measurement error greatly reduce power to detect interactions. And measurement error ALWAYS exists. So detection is very difficult. If your response is don't use significance tests and you won't need to worry about power, then consider that confidence intervals are also wide for interactions unless N is very large.
What about substantive importance? Crossover (i.e., disordinal) interactions, if they exist, could have great substantive importance. (These appear as a big "X" when graphed.) But neither Cronbach nor Snow was able to demonstrate any such interactions in the area of aptitudes and learning via different presentation modes. I doubt whether there are many crossover interactions.
Now consider a typical noncrossover interaction. On the graph you see two lines that are not quite parallel. The difference in elevation between the two lines is somewhat larger on one end than on the other. To me, this suggests that what is really important is the main effect, despite the fact that there is an interaction. Possibly because I am an applied psychologist, my preference is to go after the big effects and emphasize these. I think many experimental psychologists study effects that are quite small, but they often don't realize this because they do not compute any indices of magnitude of the effects, such a d-values or correlation coefficients. They rely solely on statistical significance (p values).
You've been very involved in the use of cognitive tests for hiring. What are your ideas about how they fit into the overall hiring scheme? For instance, in some settings, notably public safety but also education and sales, it may be important that the total workforce be perceived as being part of the community they serve. Note that the issue isn't one of dealing with government-enforced quotas as targets. It's an issue of evaluating the effectiveness of the total workforce, in the setting in which they are working. Individual competencies may be only part of this. What are your thoughts on this topic?
This is an important question. As we know, there are increasingly stringent legal constraints on affirmative action attempts to increase minority representation. The recent Supreme Court decision involving firefighters is an example of this. But I will ignore this in answering this question and assume a situation in which decision makers have free rein.
There are costs and benefits to both sides of this question, but the problem is that these have never been calibrated and compared, and as a result we do not have the evidence we need to make a rational decision.
Here are the trade offs. Suppose we consider a police force in city with a large Black population. If we lower valid selection standards to get more Black police officers, then (a) the police force will look more like the community, and this is believed to have benefits. These benefits are postulated but never measured; they are hypothesized. And (b) the level of competence and performance of the police will be lowered, and because police services are used more heavily in Black areas, Black citizens will be the big losers from this. But we do not have any reliable or valid measures of this effect either, although the DC police case shows how bad this effect can be in the extreme. It is possible to use selection utility models to estimate the decline in performance in SD units, but this may not give us a picture of the real impact on the community.
If we decide to maintain police selection standards, then there is no performance decrement. But the force is mostly White and does not mirror the community in racial makeup. Some believe this leads to bad outcomes. But again, we do not have a reliable assessment of this outcome.
The upshot is that we do not have the information to answer this question. We just have to guess or use intuition—and so people will not agree.
Do you think we should find new ways for assessing g in real-life settings?
The big problem here is the assessment of adult intelligence. GMA is a latent variable that can be assessed only through its effects (verbal ability, general knowledge, etc.), that is, by measuring the areas in which people have "invested" their GMA in developing aptitudes and skills. These effects of GMA are called indictor variables. The problem is that adults differ dramatically in where they invested their GMA, and it is not practical to look in all such possible places, which is required for a perfectly construct valid GMA measure. Phil Ackerman, among others, has made this point.
For example, someone with technical interests will probably invest much GMA in the development of mechanical, spatial, electrical, and similar skills. If your GMA test does not include these domains, this is a construct deficiency for that type of person. But note that this does not imply invalidity. It just means the test is not as valid a measure of GMA as it could be. Fortunately for us, most people have invested a lot of their GMA in the development of verbal and quantitative skills, and so we rely heavily on these two indicators.
The many different possible indicator variables for the latent GMA construct sometimes have different properties. For example, perceptual speed measures favor women, whereas spatial measures favor men. As another example, measures of "fluid" ability (such as the Ravens test) favor younger individuals, whereas measures of "crystallized" ability (such as vocabulary) favor older people. Measures of "working memory" and "executive attention" are often studied as causes of GMA, when in fact they are just additional indicator variables for GMA. This is probably also true of the "elementary cognitive tasks," such as choice reaction time, that some hypothesize to be causes of GMA.
Why is personality a worse predictor of job performance than intelligence?
It could be that this is just a fact of nature and that GMA simply dominates personality in determining complex real-world performances. But it could be because self-report personality measures are not very construct valid. Recent research has shown that when personality is measured by the combined ratings of several people who know the focal people, the validities are much higher, sometimes near .50. Of course, some people then argue that ratings by others do not measure "real personality" and that only the individual can validly answer questions about his or her real personality. These critics also point out that the pattern of correlations among personality traits is very different when personality is assessed via ratings by others. This debate is still going on. It is a construct validity question.
If intelligence and educational achievement are highly related, why not use the latter for predicting job performance? It is easier for lay people to accept educational achievement as a valid predictor because it comprises intelligence plus other relevant traits such as zeal, persistence, diligence, and so on.
Grade-point average (GPA) does in fact predict job performance. This has been shown by meta-analysis for both UG GPA and graduate GPA. But the validity is not as high as that of GMA, probably because of problems in measuring academic achievement on the same scale across individuals (who have different levels of rigor in their past schools, in their majors, etc.).
We do know that high school GPA is a slightly better predictor of college performance than the SAT or ACT. We also know that the GRE Advanced score (measuring academic achievement in one's major) is a better predictor of graduate performance than GRE-V or GRE-Q. It is still true that past performance is the best predictor of future performance.
Cronbach (1957) wrote his famous paper on the two disciplines of scientific psychology over 50 years ago. He argued "Psychology continues to this day to be limited by the dedication of its investigators to one or the other method of inquiry rather than to scientific psychology as a whole." Have things improved much since Cronbach penned that statement?
I think they have in I-O psychology and educational psychology. In both these areas, there are research studies that take into account both the role of mental ability and the role of training methods. For example, in the training area of I-O, current researchers do not ignore the role of GMA when evaluating training methods.
I think there is an asymmetry here that Cronbach ignored. Differential psychologists do not deny the importance of treatment conditions. They recognize, for example, that training programs and education do have real effects on people. However, many experimentalists and experimental social psychologists flatly deny any scientific value or impact of traits, whether GMA or personality, or whatever. In fact, they often publicly decry what they call "the fallacy of dispositionalism." This includes prominent people like Philip Zimbardo and Albert Bandura. You are hoping against hope if you think these people are going to produce an integrated psychology.
Has applied psychometrics hit an asymptote in terms of future creative developments?
No. There is much room for improvement:
There is a need to learn to simultaneously control for sampling error and measurement error. Too much research focuses on one or the other but not both. Statisticians focus on sampling error and ignore measurement error. In effect, they assume perfectly reliable measurement, so they can focus only on sampling error. Psychometricians and psychometric textbooks focus on measurement error and ignore sampling error. In effect, they say "Assume a large sample, so we can ignore sampling error and focus only on measurement error." Simultaneously controlling both sampling error and measurement error is a major contribution of meta-analysis. All data sets have both kinds of error and unless both are addressed research results are distorted.
Psychometricians need to develop a substantive understanding of the different kinds of measurement error and stop just referring to "random error" or "random response error." Specific factor error and transient measurement error are important, but most psychometricians do not address them and are not interested in the substantive psychological processes that produce these errors. As an example, Le, Schmidt et al. (2010) found r = .91 between organizational commitment and job satisfaction when the correlation is properly corrected for all sources of measurement error. This sort of finding has important implications for construct redundancy and construct proliferation. Some constructs in the literature have been "shown to be distinct" by the expedient of not correcting for measurement error or not correcting fully. As a result, there is a lot of construct redundancy.
You have written a lot about how to make psychology more rigorous, and a lot of the research out there falls way short of your standards. What effect do you think this has on the likely accuracy of the things we think we know?
I see the following effects of lack of rigor:
1. People conclude that results on any given hypothesis or question vary when in fact they do not. The inconsistency illusion is created by sampling error and low statistical power (typically about .50).
2. People conclude that the relationships that are demonstrated are "small" because they do not correct for the downward biasing effects of the artifacts of measurement error, range restriction, dichotomization, and so on. In fact, these relationships are often not small at all.
3. Also contributing to false conclusions that relationships are small is reliance on indices of "percent variance accounted for," which is a biased statistic relative to what we want to know. The path coefficient, not percent variance, reveals the causal leverage of one variable on another. Substantial path coefficients can correspond to small percentages of variance accounted for. For example, 9% of variance can be a path coefficient of .30.
What areas do you see as especially fruitful for intelligence research?
Linda Gottfredson's work on the role of GMA and everyday life tasks, such as understanding bus schedules and filling out Social Security forms. This is an area of opportunity for future research that could lead to better understanding of many social phenomena. I would also include Linda's work on the role of GMA in personal health management and health outcomes. Medical researchers have repeatedly been puzzled by the fact that even when poor people get exactly the same medical care as middle class people, their health outcomes are still worse. Linda has proposed that this difference is due to average social class differences in GMA. This is an area of research opportunity for differential psychologists. Finally, I would add the revolution in developmental psychology. As the old guards of environmentalism in that field (like Maccoby and Kagan) die off or retire, opportunities are appearing for researchers who study human development from the viewpoint of individual differences in traits and behavior genetics.
Who are your heroes?
My heroes are those who defended the scientific value of traits and dispositions against the arrogant denial of their value by social and experimental psychologists, from the 1960s on. My heroes are those psychologists who kept differential psychology alive in the face of the predictions that it was an anachronism and was dying. These defenders include not only differential psychologists but also people in behavior genetics.
It is gratifying to see that neuroscience researchers now take our psychological research on traits so seriously that they use fMRI brain imaging to seek the brain differences underlying the trait differences that differential psychologists have studied.
And it is also gratifying to see molecular geneticists searching for specific genes underlying the traits elucidated by differential psychologists. I suspect the social and experimental psychologists are gritting their teeth about these developments.


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Typing a blog post at the cinema again. Not your bog standard Vue this time, but the much more sophisticated Arts Picturehouse (cue 'oohs' and 'aahs'). Why sophisticated? Well for starters, they let you bring booze into the theatre...and in glasses too (as opposed to a well-concealed brown paper bag). And then there's the reason I'm here tonight - the Cambridge Film Festival. Yes, very posh I know. Oh well, the movie's about to start so I'll type the rest from home.
Now, where was I? I suppose I'd better give a chronological account of my day. Or at least the out-of-the-ordinary bits. Was chatting with labmates in the morning, and as usual, I was accused of bullying them. I asked them why they don't bully me in return, and one of them said "but you're so lovely and nice...until we realise that you're actually not". Heh. But it's OK, we all love each other really. Honest!
In the afternoon, I helped out with the Cambridge Alumni Weekend celebrations, by taking some alumni on a tour of the department. Oh wow, I've never seen outsiders show so much interest in what we do! They asked so. many. questions. And none of them were superficial. I'm talking proper intellectual discussions. As an academic I was thrilled to see non-academics take such an interest in scientific research; as a tour-guide I was panicking that we'd be late for the post-tour presentation! It was interesting to hear these people talk amongst themselves about our research. I think when you spend enough time in a field, the 'wow factor' fades and you take things for granted. Listening to our research being called 'fantastic' and 'amazing' made me proud. Of course the post-tour talk was something else altogether. How many 83 yr-olds do you know that can give a presentation about work that they're currently involved in?! Sigh, JFD is a legend.
After the talk was done, I went back to the office to check on the cricket (more on that later) and then headed over to the cinema. The movie I was so interested in seeing was none other than Machan (to those of you who have probably seen it a million times already, yes I know I'm late, get over it :P ). In a word: wow. Had I seen the movie without the context of the film festival, I never would've guessed that the director was someone foreign to Sri Lankan culture. I suppose Ruwanthie de Chickera's script had a lot to do with that, but still. The director was present for a Q&A session after the screening, and he said that he hadn't wanted any Western influence on the narration of the story. I think he achieved that perfectly. There were parts of the movie that made me choke up, possibly due to homesickness...or maybe I'm going soft, who knows. And of course when you grow up with Doo Daruwo on in the background, Iranganie Serasinghe becomes family...I almost let out an audible 'aww' when I saw her on screen.
Machan presented a very serious problem in a very 'real' way. None of the depressing melodramatic 'woe is me'-ness that you get in a lot of 'serious' films. On the contrary, I was laughing through most of it. It reminded me a lot about how ordinary Sri Lankans deal with adversity. Our happy-go-lucky attitude is both our greatest strength and our greatest weakness. And then the tourists. During the Q&A session, someone asked why the tourists at the hotel were depicted in a purely negative light. Part of me wanted to turn around and remind him that the rest of the world doesn't necessarily see the West as the dog's bollocks, but the rest of me told me to shut up (thankfully). The director said that he merely portrayed what he had witnessed during his stay in Colombo. Nuff said.
Anyway, after being thoroughly impressed with the performance of the Sri Lanka National Handball team, I came home to be equally unimpressed with the performance of the Sri Lanka National Cricket team. Why oh why did we have to lose to England?! Now that'll be the main topic of conversation at my labmate's bbq tomorrow. Sigh...so much for not being bullied.

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THE HINKY-PINK, an old tale retold by Megan McDonald
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School Library Journal (Starred Review):
Anabel is a seamstress in Old Italy who dreams of making a dress worthy of a princess. Isabella Caramella Gorgonzola is a princess who gives the girl one week to make her a dress worthy of the Butterfly Ball. Locked in the tower sewing room, Anabel finds the finest silk, chiffon, and crepe as well as gold scissors, thread that is clear as glass, and a silver thimble. Unfortunately, she also shares the room with a Hinky-Pink that pinches her at night, steals her covers, and makes sleep impossible. When Anabel is "chill as a fish and can't sew a stitch," the nursemaid advises her to make the Hinky-Pink a bed of its own. After many unsuccessful attempts, Anabel fashions a tiny bed from her silver thimble, and the Hinky-Pink hums happily. Having slept "the sleep of a princess without a pea," she sews the perfect dress in a single day. Illustrations are done in watercolor and ink and feature a warm palette of rose, peach, and gold tones. Actual landmarks are used to make Firenze come alive, while Italian words and phrases are scattered throughout, sometimes placed in speech bubbles. McDonald's flawless storytelling melds with Floca's joyous art, bringing new life to Margery Bailey's "The Bed Just So" from Whistle for Good Fortune (Little, Brown, 1948). Girls who love princess stories will adore this lively tale.
Publishers Weekly (Starred Review):
In this small-format entry, a happy hybrid of traditional tale and quirky cartoon, McDonald (Judy Moody) and Floca (Lightship) recast a story from 1940 to tickle a contemporary fancy. Humble seamstress Anabel's dream of sewing a princess's ball gown is finally about to come true—until a Hinky-Pink, a mysterious, seemingly invisible creature begins robbing her of sleep night after night. The characters clearly inhabit fairy tale land—"back when mirrors could talk and princes were frogs"—but this particular magical realm intersects with a long-ago Florence, depicted in Floca's limber ink-and-watercolor illustrations and invoked by the occasional Italian word or phrase. Like the text, the art hits just the right tone of tongue-in-cheek earnestness: after stating that the heroine's name is Anabel the omniscient narrator adds, "Alas, not Anabella," and a speech balloon floats out of the illustration (a panorama of Florence) with an echoing "Alas." The lively design mixes full-page bleeds, pictures stretching across spreads, and tiny animated vignettes; a profusion of detail doesn't impede a spirited sense of motion. For extra fun, endnotes identify Florentine landmarks.
Kirkus Reviews:
Extraordinary seamstress Anabel wants to work for a true princess, one with beautiful features and a name ending in "ella." When Princess Isabella Caramella Gorgonzola soils her dress before the ball, she gives Anabel a week to create a designer gown while working in the princess's tower. Each night, an unknown creature pinches the seamstress and interrupts her slumber. Nursemaid Mag advises the girl that the Hinky-Pink goblin causes her unrest and will only end her torment-and give her the chance to finish the dress-if Anabel makes the creature a bed of its own, but each attempt dramatically fails. McDonald's storytelling excels through flavorful language, controlled pacing and a delightful conclusion. Floca displays the charm of Old World Florence through soft watercolor-and-ink illustrations that fill the pages, capturing the city's world-renowned landmarks. His delicate lines, full of vitality, enhance the retelling of this tale, which was inspired by Margery Bailey's 1940 story, The Bed Just So. Fairy-tale enthusiasts will delight in this fanciful story.
In old-time Florence, Anabel the seamstress is thrilled when she is summoned to the palace to produce a sumptuous gown for the princess. Every night, though, she is mysteriously awakened when her blankets fly off. "You have a Hinky-Pink," says the maid. "You must make [it] a bed of its own. Then it [won't] steal your covers." Too tired to sew, Anabel tries, and fails, to make the sprite happy. Then she lines a tiny thimble with cloth, and the room fills with the happy song of the finally satisfied little sprite. At last Anabel is able to sleep and work, finishing the dress just in time for a ball. McDonald's language, filled with rhymes and noisy nonsense, will make for a delightful read-aloud, and Floca's ink-and-watercolor images, best viewed up close, amplify the court's opulence and the story's humor and magic. The diminutive trim size and page layouts, which mix multiple small images and text, make this a good choice for kids transitioning to chapter books. An author's note lists the tale's origins. —Gillian Engberg.
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a. In the evaluation of tea consumption may reduce the risk of ischemic stroke of the study of "Green and black tea consumption and risk of stroke: a meta-analysis" by Arab L, Liu W, Elashoff D.[11a], researchers found that daily consumption of either green or black tea equaling 3 cups per day could prevent the onset of ischemic stroke.
b. In the assesement of tea consumption in relation to stroke, myocardial infarction, and all coronary heart diseasethe study of "Tea consumption in relation to stroke, myocardial infarction, and all coronary heart disease" by Peters U, Poole C, Arab L.[11b], researchers found that increasing tea consumption, the risk increased for coronary heart disease in the United Kingdom and for stroke in Australia, whereas the risk decreased in other regions, particularly in continental Europe.
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[11b] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11549554


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This is my absolute feel good bread.I don't know what it is.It must be the lavender. I know most people go "Uurggh! Lavender is in soap, not int food" I can only say to them "Ignoramuses!" But to be honest, I never had the idea to put lavender into food before a friend of mine brought some homemade lavender ice cream. Yummy. This bread to me is like a meditation. It relaxes me and makes me happy. It is like aromatherapy. I know - pathetic. Anyway, lets move on.....
I already love the smell when I work with the dough. Especially when I open my proofing box and a cloud of lavender and honey and orange makes me feel - uuuugghhhh!
The recipe is from Richard Bertinet's book "Dough" in the brown dough section. It is an easy to make bread. The only challenge probably lies in the relative wetness of the dough.
The resulting loaf is relatively flat which comes from the free shaped loaf using a highly hydrated dough. But a good flour will add enough stability. If you are not too generous with the honey you will get a slightly sweetish bread. Because we have enough honey to last some years (we swapped a got kid for 15 kg of honey) I tend to use a bit more.
I love this bread with honey and goats milk yogurt, Camembert or home made Chevre. Any fresh soft cheese will do. Or just plain. It also toasts well which sets free a lot of the flavors. It keeps well, too. Not that it lasts too long.
I use
Brown Dough:
300 gm Organic whole wheat (I ground my own) (60%)
200 gm Organic wheat (40%)
7 gm instant active yeast (1.4%)
360 gm water (72%)
10 gm rock salt (2%)
1 heaped teaspoon fresh or dried Lavender flowers
1 1/2 tablespoons runny honey
For the Orange Variation, the grated zest of three big oranges
Put all ingredients into a bowl and mix.
Knead until it forms a stretchable satiny dough (do a window pane test).
Shape into a ball and put into your (cleaned) floured bowl. Let rest for 45 minutes at 21 deg C.
Take it out of the bowl onto a lightly floured surface, stretch into an oval shape, fold lengthwise into the middle and fold the edges in and re-shape into a ball.
Put it back into your bowl and let rest another 45 minutes.
Sprinkle some semolina onto a wooden board or tray. Place your loaf onto the tray and let rest at 21 deg C for 90 minutes.
Heat your oven to 220 deg C.
Cut a double cross into the top of your loaf. Bake the loaf on a stone or tray for 10 minutes.Then turn down the heat to 200 deg C and bake for another 20 - 30 minutes.
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I thought I'd share a link with you today. Finnabair is teaching her first online class called "Imagine" and it is as amazing as one would think it would be. I used an old photograph of myself for this that I've always been fond of and created a self portrait using her techniques. I cannot share the process with you but you can check out the class and site for yourself, if it interests you.
Most of us have tons of embellishments in our stash and this is a great way to use them up in a good way. Finnabair recently released some wonderful waxes that can be employed to get an effect of lights and shadows with a blush of color. It was really fun and I'm happy to learn how she does all those fantastic portraits of herself that I've seen in magazines and online.
There are other classes also offered on this new site that you might want to check out.
Hugs ~ Renee
Renee Zarate's Bolton House is still in New England but Renee herself has moved on to South Carolina. The days are a little different now, no garden to take care of means more studio time. Dealing with snow and blizzards will be a thing of the past but there will be new challenges. Challenges like...how will we ever carry these two chairs and this huge umbrella down to the beach? Stay tuned.
Monday, March 6, 2017
Finnabair's new online class - Art Transformations
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The next stop on our cultural tour was the ancient city of Bagan in central Myanmar. From the 9th to the 13th centuries the city was the capital of the Kingdom of Pagan. During the height of the Kingdom, over 10,000 temples, pagodas and monasteries were built on the plains surrounding Bagan, Only a mere 2200 remain today of which we visited around 20 to give us a feel for what the city was like in it's heyday. Inside the Manuha Temple were colossal statues of Bhuddha confined in tiny shrines. The expression on the Buddha's face was one of sorrow. This temple was built by the captive Mon King Manuha in 1067. He was trying to convey what it felt like to be under house arrest.
|Buddha in Manuha Temple
Abeyadana Temple was built in 1102-1103 by King Kyansitta for his beloved wife Abeyadana. Legend has it that this temple was built at the place where Abeyadana waitied for her husband while he was hiding from the wrath of King Suwlu. Inside are some of the finest frescos in Bagan.
|Mural inside Abeyadana Temple
Said to be the most beautiful temple in Bagan, Ananda was also built by King Kyansittha in 1105.
|Ananda Temple
Inside the temple are 4 standing Buddha statues one each at the N, S, E and W end of the temple.
|Buddha Statue in Ananda Temples
All are 31 feet high and the further you stand from the Buddha the more he appears to be smiling. We climbed the Shwe San Daw to get a view of the temples at sunset.
|Temples of Bagan at Sunset
This temple has become very popular with tourists for watching the sunset. You have to arrive early to secure a space on the narrow terrace. The climb down was quite steep. Fortunately there were handrails to grab onto.
|Climbing down Shwe San Daw Temple
The next morning we took a break from "temple-hopping" and visited Mt. Popa. On the drive we stopped at a village to learn about some of the local industries. A man was extracting oil from peanuts using an ox-powered grinding wheel. Marc asked about making peanut butter from remnants but it has not caught on yet and is fed to livestock instead.
|Extracting Oil from Peanuts
Another man was climbing a Toddy Palm on a bamboo ladder to collect juice from the cut fruit stem.
|Collecting Toddy Juice
|Packaging Jaggery
As we approached Mt. Popa we could see the volcanic plug of Taung Kalat with a Buddhist Monastery perched on top.
|Monastery on Kaung Kalat
At the base of Kaung Kalat is a Nat Shrine. Nats aren't insects but spirits which the local people pay respect to by making offerings of food, flowers or money. If you don't respect the Nats bad luck will come your way. There are 37 great Nats and each was represented at the shrine.
|Some of the 37 Great Nats
The "Queen Nat" is Popa Medaw. She was born an ogress, the kind that eats flowers not human flesh. She fell in love with Byatta whose duty was to gather flowers for the King. The King disapproved of the liason and killed Byatta and took their two sons to the palace. Popa Medaw died of a broken heart and became a Nat. You can see her worshipping the Buddha (lower left) in this shrine on the summit of Mt. Popa.
|Nats Worshipping Buddha
We returned to Bagan to visit it's most massive temple, Dhammayangyi, built in 1167-1170 by the evil King Narathu who killed his father to gain the throne. Feeling some remorse he had a grand temple built to honor his father.
|Dhammayangyi Temple
It's the only temple of it's kind in Bagan owing to the fact that the evil King had the hands of it's builders chopped off which I effectively demonstrate. Without hands, they could not build another temple.
|Getting my Hand Chopped Off
We visited the Sulamani Temple next. Built in 1183, the interior contains some beautiful murals painted in the 18th century.
|Mural in Sulamani Temple
We watched another glorious sunset over the temples of Bagan.
|Sunset over Bagan's Temples
We like to thank our guide Myo Win Tun for sharing the wonders of Bagan and beyond with us.
We hope all is well back home,
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Human Joint Tissue
The images below compare performance of the Intel Play QX3 Computer Microscope with and without the aid of an organized cone of illumination from a darkfield Abbe substage condenser containing an aperture diaphragm. These photomicrographs are unretouched and were captured with the QX3 interactive software.
In vertebrates (including humans), joints are structures that separate two or more adjacent elements of the skeleton, allowing them to move. Some joints allow for movement early in life, becoming rigid as the animal matures. Fibrous joints (e.g. skull sutures in babies) are one of these transient joints, disappearing as the animal matures past infancy. Cartilaginous joints are masses of cartilage found between the bones or parts of bones and allow for movement due to growth in juveniles. As they mature, the cartilage hardens into bone. Synovial joints consist of a fibrous wall enclosing a joint cavity that is filled with synovial fluid. Depending on the body parts involved, synovial joints allow one or more of the following movements; spinning, swinging, gliding, rolling, and approximation.
Human Joint Tissue Stained Thin Section
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This is a special guest post by fellow corvid researcher Matthew Brown. Matt is a PhD candidate at Griffith University's Environmental Futures Research Institute in Brisbane, Queensland and studies Torresian crows (Corvus orru). I asked him to write about Australian crows and his research for this blog and he was kind enough to do so. Enjoy!!
For the past three years I have been studying one of the most common birds on the Australian continent, the Torresian crow. Crows have become extremely common in Australia over the past two decades, nowhere moreso than in the Queensland capital city of Brisbane. A subtropical city of two million people, Brisbane provides enough lawns and rubbish to support enormous populations of crows and other scavengers. Such is the abundance of crows and their interaction with humans so common that the Queensland Government Department of Environment and Heritage Protection has a "Living with Crows" page on its website.
Five species of corvid exist in Australia, including three sedentary species: the Torresian crow (Corvus orru), Australian raven (C. coronoides) and Forest raven (C. tasmanicus), and two smaller nomadic species, the Little crow (C. bennetti) and Little raven (C. mellori). Only the Torresian crow exists in Brisbane.
Despite having the names crows and ravens, these five species are a monophyletic clade, which means they all come from the same ancestor. So an Australian raven is more closely related to the Torresian crow than to, say the common raven (C. corax) from the Northern Hemisphere. The exception to this being that the Torresian crow also exists in Papua New Guinea, as a separate subspecies.
The five species are best identified by their geographic location, but also their calls. Each species have very distinct, though extremely complex and variable, calls which can't really be mistaken for each other (with the possible exception of the Australian raven and little raven).
The current theory about how, after crossing over from PNG, the corvids split into five species across Australia is explained in-depth in the late Ian Rowley's paper "Why five species?"
Torresian crows, while territorial, spend the night in permanent communal roosts scattered throughout Brisbane. These vary widely in size, and can contain anything from a few dozen to 200 birds. The roosts are often also shared with rainbow lorikeets and ibis.
All Australian corvids hatch with blue eyes as chicks, then change to the juvenile brown, then the adolescent hazel before finally becoming the adult white with a blue inner ring at about 2 years old. The process is the same for all 5 species, though the exact time of each stage varies. This is the easiest method to tell the juveniles apart from the adults. Early European scientists used to consider them separate species (the brown-eyed crow and the white-eyed crow) before they finally figured it out.
Juvenile crows stay with their parents for approximately six months, though this appears to be highly variable. After leaving, they join what are known as 'juvenile gangs', which often congregate around shopping centres or parks, areas with a large amount of human scraps. One of the largest of these gangs permanently live in the South Bank Parklands. The Queensland Government estimates that crows have a 95% infant mortality rate, though those surviving to adulthood (2 years old) can live up to 30 years.
Compared to the extensive research conducted on New Caledonian crows, American crows, common ravens etc, very little is known about the Torresian crow. Because of this, my studies are focussing predominantly on replicating Northern Hemisphere studies on this species. These include:
- Testing for mirror self-recognition.
- Testing the insight hypothesis through string-pulling experiments.
- Testing quantity discrimination and symbol recognition.
In addition, I have already undertaken a study comparing neophobia (a fear of novel objects) in Torresian crows with other non-corvid corvines including butcherbirds, currawongs and Australian magpies. The extreme neophobia present in crows has made working with wild birds very difficult, requiring an extensive familiarisation process. My study of the Torresian crow's vocalisation system also revealed not only extraordinary diversity in calls, but suggested the presence of a nested hierarchy similar to that deemed present in American crows by researchers in the United States. Professor John Marzluff described crows as likely possessing a basic form of language, and on the surface at least it appears that Torresian crows can match or even surpass their American cousins in this regard.
Torresian crows have already shown some of the remarkable qualities expressed in their overseas cousins. The invasion of North-Eastern Australia by cane toads has been disastrous for all native fauna, except the crow. Crows in Eastern Queensland were first recorded to be flipping toads onto their backs, allowing them to peck at their bellies and avoid the poisonous glands on their backs. Very soon after, much sooner than one would expect, crows as far as Darwin were performing the same behaviour. How the information spread so far so quickly is unknown. Crows have also been reported unzipping school bags and stealing food from children's lunchboxes, and working as a team to move large carrion off of rural roads, while one acts as a sentry warning of oncoming traffic.
My own observations have confirmed that Torresian crows can recognise friendly or unfriendly human faces and act accordingly, though are extremely wary of all humans that pay them any attention. The infamous crow funerals appear to be present in Brisbane as well, though crows being hit by a car or electrocuted is quite rare.
Crows are a joy to study anywhere in the world, but in Australia there is a level of mystery that makes it all the more rewarding. So little is known about the crow that everything is a new discovery, and provides an intriguing comparison with better-known species from the Northern Hemisphere and in New Caledonia.


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I need to do more empty posts. I need to de clutter and organise. Speaking of which I will have a BLOG SALE coming up! Watch out!
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Oh no! I can see the bottom of my glass!
I need to do more empty posts. I need to de clutter and organise. Speaking of which I will have a BLOG SALE coming up! Watch out!
13 comments:
I do the same as you.. its rarely I see the bottom of my perfumes, but I sure am getting there :/ReplyDelete
I really like the Kenzo flower one too... finished that one a long time ago.
Yes you should do more empty posts =P
Absolutely! I should do more of these :)ReplyDelete
I love Kenzo Flower too, for its powderyness! Modern twist on powder :)
I'm a hoarder too. My heart breaks a teenyy bit when I empty a perfume bottle. Your hubby sure has will power and patience. Kenzo really is a beautiful scent.ReplyDelete
My latest post:
Pandora, I couldn't have said it better! Yes, it breaks my heart lolReplyDelete
Yes, hubby is a perfectionist. He can't sleep in the bedroom if a towel is wrinkled in the bathroom. Good for me as he loves cleaning :)
I think I must be a hoarder too...I have perfumes ranging back to middle school that I keep packed away, just because they have memories or certain emotional affiliations. It's like my little museum of bottled moments, my own personal Pensieve :)ReplyDelete
Haha, this is so impressive! I cannot imagine ever finishing a perfume, lol. So hard :PReplyDelete
And S. has only two colognes and doesn't feel the need for any more until he runs out, too! While I have three full commercial sizes and a smattering of indies...oh well. I guess we balance each other out!
Love the bottles of the Tom Ford ones! :)ReplyDelete
You SHOULD do more empties posts, I enjoy reading them!
Good luck with the blog sale!
- AnonymousSeptember 6, 2011 at 9:39 PM
When you mentioned 6 (six!) perfumes you'd finished I was really impressed... until I scrolled down to the picture. You can, probably, count two mini bottles - ok, but counting four samples?!! :)
~ Undina ~ (I do not know what's wrong with blogger, it doesn't allow me to comment under my Google account again)
Liber Vix, that is something! Each perfume in your collection must tell a story :) Would love to see it, please post pics of your collection!ReplyDelete
Larie, S sounds very much like my husband. As long we have our partners balancing us out, we should be fine :D
Vintage, Tom Ford bottles are nice looking, aren't they?! Simple and classy :)
Undinaba, you made me laugh! yeah, taking baby steps to finishing bottles! One sample at a time, lol I'll soon be counting full bottles :D
@Su haha! Bless him.ReplyDelete
Oooh, excited about the blog sale. I have only tried the daisy scent, but I'll have to look for the kenzo one and check it out.ReplyDelete
Pandora, LOLReplyDelete
Staci, you'll probably like Kenzo one if you like powdery florals :)
Blog Sale will be up very soon!
- AnonymousSeptember 7, 2011 at 8:04 PM
nice collection, i too collect perfumes although i would like to buy way more then i have lol.ReplyDelete


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July 23, 2015
Send a smile exchange - Angele to Olimpia
Oh, just got the good news from Nia my little package has arrived in Mexico!
Because Olimpia is busy this week i will post the photo's.
Hope you like everything Olimpia, loved making this for you!
Hopefully all the exchange packages will arrive safely!
big hugs to you all!
10 comments:
- Preeti said...
Beautiful gifts, Angele!!:) love the stitched piece and the wooden hanger for it.
Those laces are very cute and so are the other things. The owls are book mark I guess.
Well done!! I am sure your partner would have been delighted to receive these:)
- July 23, 2015 at 2:50 PM
- Angel said...
Thank you Preeti!
- July 24, 2015 at 1:30 PM
- Stitching Noni said...
Love the package you sent. It is gorgeous. Cutest hippo :)
My package to you will be in its way tomorrow - just need to buy a box today and pack it all up :)
Hugs xx
- July 27, 2015 at 12:27 AM
- Valma said...
superb :D
really cute stitching and finishing as always
and all those sweet goodies, really well done
sure a smile arrived in Mexico :D
- July 27, 2015 at 6:57 PM
- Angel said...
Thank you Noni and Val!
- July 28, 2015 at 1:16 PM
- Olimpia said...
Hi girls,
I hope you all are well.
An apology for not writing before, I had a few very difficult weeks.
Angele, showed you all that she sent to me. Is n´t beautiful?, what more can I say if you have already seen the beauty of her work and how generous she is.
Angele , as I mentioned in an email, thank you very much for everything, everything is very beautiful and definitely left a big smile on me.
Happy Thursday at all.
- July 30, 2015 at 5:06 AM
- Angel said...
Thank you Olimpia, really loved making this for you!
- July 30, 2015 at 7:48 AM
- Musicwoman said...
Sorry for my long absence.
First we had been in holidays. Then we had some trouble with our olds.(94, 96 and nearly 97)
I haven't yet received my üparcel.
And I will send my parcel to ... at the end of this week.
Love and huggs toall of you
- August 3, 2015 at 1:23 PM
- Detallitos de Ysabel said...
Beautiful gifts. Congrats and enjoy them
- August 5, 2015 at 9:16 PM
- ♥ Nia said...
That cute little hippo was a very original choice!! :D And all so cute!! Congrats Angele, well done, beautiful parcel and extra points for your design choice ;) hehehe
- August 6, 2015 at 5:28 PM


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- I now know that my bike tires need 125 (something) of air in them.
- Biking and running have completely different impacts on my blood sugars. In cycling, I tend to stay low for a long period of time. It took a lot of effort to get my blood sugar to be 100 and not 60. I also had to stop 2 additional times to check my blood sugar and eat something while riding, in addition to the three rest stops on the course.
- At one point, three miles from the end, I could feel my blood sugar going down...and fast. It is not fun to be on a road bike and experience that feeling. Luckily, I was able to get off my bike and eat something and hang out with my friends before finishing.
- I need to get a cycling jersey that has pockets in the back or on the side. I own one, but I hate how it fits so I never wear it. Plus, it is from the Tour de Cure and has Red Rider on it and I don't like advertising my disease. I decided to wear a running tank top instead, and although it worked out okay, it would be best to have the pockets to put GU or shot bloks in instead of keeping them in my carrier under the bike seat.
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ESPN Fantasy's André Snellings breaks down the fantasy impact of every notable NBA trade that happened prior to the deadline.
The Cleveland Cavaliers were the biggest story, reworking their roster with a series of deals. Below, you'll find Andre's takes on each notable NBA trade, followed by a roundup of how the new-look Cavs roster works for fantasy.
Cavaliers-Lakers trade
Los Angeles Lakers get: Isaiah Thomas, Channing Frye, Cavs' 2018 first-round pick
Cleveland Cavaliers get: Jordan Clarkson, Larry Nance Jr.
Isaiah Thomas: Thomas has been trying to play himself into shape after his long injury. And he's been in a pressure cooker, with all eyes on every missed shot and missed defensive assignment. Plus, at his best, Thomas was a ball-dominant player, and he seemed to struggle with letting LeBron James create his shots for him.
With the Lakers firmly in a rebuild season and lacking another ball-dominant perimeter scorer, Thomas should be able to shoot himself into rhythm as he auditions for a bigger contract this summer. The only question/caveat is that the Lakers have no need to showcase him if he's going to leave anyway, so those politics could eat into his minutes. But if he plays, this move is good for him.
Kyle Kuzma and Julius Randle: Nance was taking up 22 big-forward minutes and had a definite role on the team. With Nance gone, Randle's recently expanded role is safer -- and Kuzma has the space to reclaim the larger role he had in December and early January:
Dec. 9-Jan. 15 (19 games): 32.7 MPG, 17.5 PPG, 6.4 RPG, 2.4 SPG, 0.8 SPG, 0.8 BPG, 1.9 TO, 43.0 FG%, 71.2 FT%, 2.4 3PG
Jan. 17-Feb. 6 (10 games): 23.3 MPG, 11.4 PPG, 3.0 RPG, 1.2 SPG, 0.5 SPG, 0.3 BPG, 1.0 TO, 41.8 FG%, 47.1 FT%, 1.4 3PG
Channing Frye: Frye is a super veteran role player who fit a specific need for the Cavs, especially after Kevin Love got hurt. The Lakers have no need to even play Frye, but if they do, it will likely be in a much smaller role.
Kentavious Caldwell-Pope: KCP was designated to be the scoring guard opposite Lonzo Ball, with Clarkson as the instant offense off the bench. But Ball is big enough to play with Thomas and cover opposing shooting guards, which means that if Thomas does get his legs under him and find his shot, Thomas could eat into Pope's minutes and role.
Cavaliers-Jazz-Kings trade
Utah Jazz get: Jae Crowder, Derrick Rose
Sacramento Kings get: Joe Johnson, Iman Shumpert
Cleveland Cavaliers get: Rodney Hood, George Hill
De'Aaron Fox: Fox has been jostling for minutes with Hill all season. Recently, the Kings had gone to more of a youth movement, sitting veterans such as Hill and Zach Randolph more often in favor of younger players, but Hill was still around and playing 23.4 minutes per game during his past five games with the Kings. With Hill gone, Fox should get every minute that he can handle for the rest of the season.
Jae Crowder: Even if he comes off the bench in Utah behind Joe Ingles and Derrick Favors, he still has a clearer fit and role there than he had in Cleveland, where he played the exact same position as James. Crowder's role in Utah seems more similar to what he did for the Boston Celtics the past couple seasons, when he was a defensive forward role player who was still a solid double-digit scorer with a consistent 3-point shot.
Alec Burks: Hood was the instant-offense wing for the Jazz, a role that Burks used to fill. With Hood and Johnson gone, Burks has a clearer path to playing time and has a chance to again fill that sixth-man scoring role for the team.
None, really. Rose, Johnson and Shumpert were not really fantasy options in their old roles, and they project to either be bought out or remain non-fantasy-factors in their new roles.
Knicks-Nuggets-Mavericks trade
Denver Nuggets get: Devin Harris, Knicks' second-round pick
New York Knicks get: Emmanuel Mudiay, Nuggets' second-round pick
Dallas Mavericks get: Doug McDermott
Emmanuel Mudiay: Mudiay is the only player with potential fantasy implications in this deal. He averaged 12.8 PPG, 5.5 SPG, 3.4 RPG, 1.1 3PG and 1.0 SPG in 30.4 MPG as a rookie. His problem was a lack of shooting ability, plus the Nuggets bringing in Jamal Murray, who knocked him from the rotation. In New York, Mudiay will battle with and could supplant Jarrett Jack as the starting point guard down the stretch for a lottery-bound team that should want to see what their young players have to offer. His per-36-minute numbers this season are fairly impressive: 17.2 PPG (40.1 FG percentage, 37.3 3PT percentage, 80.8 FT percentage), 5.8 APG, 4.5 RPG, 1.0 SPG, 1.8 3PG. So he could be intriguing in fantasy, if he is able to earn that kind of run in New York.
Jarrett Jack: Jack has been holding the starting point guard seat for the Knicks because rookie Frank Ntilikina seemingly wasn't ready to handle the job yet. Mudiay is another young, talented guard, but he has NBA experience and is ready to get major run right now, if the Knicks so choose. It seems unlikely to me that Jack will be able to hold off Mudiay for this job moving forward.
Magic-Suns trade
Phoenix Suns get: Elfrid Payton
Orlando Magic get: Second-round pick
Elfrid Payton: The Suns had very arguably the worst point guard position in the NBA up until last week, and Payton would have been a clear upgrade and sure starter. However, they moved Devin Booker to the starting point and brought exciting rookie Josh Jackson into the starting lineup, and Payton may not be able to displace that setup. Payton fits well with what the Suns like to do, as an up-tempo point guard who could run the show, so if he gets 30-35 minutes per game, it could be an upgrade for him in fantasy terms. However, if he is relegated to a role off the bench, Payton would be a loser in this deal.
D.J. Augustin and/or Shelvin Mack: With Payton gone, there is a vacuum in the starting point guard slot for the Magic. Augustin and Mack will likely battle for that job. Augustin has seven starts this season to Mack's three and Augustin is the better offensive producer while Mack is better on defense. In terms of fantasy, Augustin would project as the one of more interest in fantasy should he gain the starting job. Even as a starter, Mack may not produce enough to get on the radar.
Cavs-Heat trade
Miami Heat get: Dwyane Wade
Cleveland Cavaliers get: Second-round pick
Dwyane Wade: Wade was one of a bunch of score-first perimeter players in Cleveland who were all spinning their wheels. With this trade, he not only returns home to the team that he once carried to championships, but he also returns to a squad that is struggling with injuries to perimeter players and lacks any kind of iso scorer for late-game situations. As such, Wade could find himself potentially starting (due to injury, Derrick Jones Jr. started on Wednesday night), and if not, he seemingly will have a role allowing him as many minutes and as large of a role as he can handle at this stage of his career. He could potentially end up on the fantasy radar as a possible pickup in deep leagues.
No one, really: With Dion Waiters out for the season and the health issues on the perimeter, Wade can get run without really negatively influencing any other fantasy-relevant player.
New-look Cavaliers
George Hill: Hill seems likely to be the starting point guard in Cleveland, after battling to get minutes for the youth-oriented Kings. Hill is also an excellent 3-point shooter, fighting all season for the highest 3-point percentage in the NBA, and he'll now be able to get wide-open looks playing off of LeBron James.
Rodney Hood: Hood was clearly behind rookie Donovan Mitchell to be the starting shooting guard in Utah, and there was no path for him to overcome him. In Cleveland, Hood will be battling with JR Smith and Kyle Korver for the starting job, and he has the shot and the youthful energy to come out on top. His scoring volume could drop slightly, but his efficiency should increase playing off of James.
Larry Nance Jr.: Nance is a young spark plug who was previously stuck on a Lakers squad full of young talent in the frontcourt. Now, he heads to a Cavaliers squad that desperately needs his youth and athleticism in the frontcourt, which suggests that he should play at least as many minutes -- if not more -- for the Cavs. Plus, Nance is a finisher who can get out on the break and should benefit from being set up by James. Lob City 2 in Cleveland?
Jordan Clarkson: Clarkson should continue his sixth-man role in Cleveland and will have opportunities to show off his instant offense skill set. However, he had a freedom with the Lakers as the only ball-dominant perimeter player that he won't have in Cleveland, since James doesn't often leave the court. Plus, with Hill and Hood (two other scoring guards) in the mix, he'll have to fit in more than he ever had to before and likely will get fewer opportunities to produce numbers.
JR Smith: Smith has been starting and is coming off one of his best games of the season Wednesday. However, the Cavs just brought in three perimeter scorers who all have more dynamic games than Smith and that could eventually push him further down the rotation.