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National Award
The Greene Room, Abbey Street, Killaloe was recently short-listed for a coveted 'National Award with High Fashion' from the Hunt Museum. From more than one hundred and twenty leading salons, the Killaloe-based salon has made it to the final six of one of the toughest categories. Competition entries were shot in various locations including the 16th century St. Flannan's Cathedral in Killaloe, and Cratloe Woods.
Double Family Celebrations
On June 26, 1963 the wedding ceremony of local lady, Marie Connolly overshadowed the first visit to Ireland of an American President, John F Kennedy! Marie celebrated her marriage to Willie Moran in St. Flannan's Church on that 'historic' day. Little did her teenage brother Séamus know, on that memorable day, that he too would emigrate to the US and as an ambassador for Traditional Irish Music would, within half a century, have achieved such honour and success in his adopted country. As Marie and Willie prepare to celebrate their Golden Jubilee with their three sons – Donal, Liam and Pádraig (only daughter, Helena Brazil died in a tragic accident some years ago) and extended family members, Séamus has just been announced as one of ten recipients of the 2013 National Heritage Fellowship Awards in the US. This is the highest honour the US Government can grant to a traditional artist and recognition of a lifetime dedication to traditional Irish music as performer, teacher and cultural advocate. The award, which will be presented at the Library of Congress in Washington DC on Wednesday, September 25 also comes with a 25,000 dollar one-time award as well. We extend our good wishes and congratulations to Marie, Willie and Séamus.
Boher Summer Fair
At Boher National School on this Sunday, June 23 from 2pm to 6pm. All are welcome to attend! The afternoon will include Bouncy Castles; Pony Rides: Dog Show: Colouring Competition: Bring and Buy stall: Cake Stalls: Raffles and much more.
Féile Brian Ború
Will take place from Thursday, July 4 to July 7. Programmes will be available shortly and details will soon be available on the website www.feilebrianboru.com Updates will also be available on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Feilebrianboru. For further information, please contact: firstname.lastname@example.com or 086/4462446.


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"The Sudden Disappearance of Seetha announces the arrival of a wonderful storyteller. The dynamics of the relationship between Navi and Neela, a brother and a sister, and how their individual lives play out show that fate is unalterable depending on one's social standing in life. Andrea Gunraj has written a book that you won't be able to put down — a thrilling and excellent read."
—Musharraf Ali Farooqi, author of The Story of a Widow
"This is certainly a novel to relish, and I'm sure — I hope — we will see much more of Gunraj in the future."
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I know this might be a lot of work for the guys over at wordpress but I think this would be a really good Idea.
I suggest a way to submit you blog and have readers vote for it.
This will really help unknown blogs get noticed :)
The blog I need help with is tehbigwebtheory.com.


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Rising Star of the Week: Camera Workshop
How long have you been a group owner, and what made you want to start your group? I started the group about 3 years ago. I noticed too many people wanted to edit their images instead of learning how to take better pictures. It surprised me how many didn't even think to shoot a better picture instead of edit one.
What are your top three tips for someone just starting a group? 1. Police the drama, don't let it happen. 2. Keep the group interested with games and contests. 3. Answer every post, even if you don't know the answer.
What things do you think you did to get your group on the Rising Stars list? I answer ever post, no matter what, this let's everyone know someone is out there who does care.
What do you think your members take away from their group experience while they are a part of your group? Knowledge and a fun time.
Anything else you would like to share with us? Always keep order in the group without being too controlling. Be ready to detect trouble before it begins. Many will leave a group if there is too much drama.
This weeks Challenge:
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Last year, my friend Steve Kloft (who's a consultant to several top New Media companies), came to me by my surprise having already created a widget for me called "The Zennie Abraham Widget". The best thing is I never asked for it or even thought of it. It was Steve's creation; his idea to promote me. Then we worked together to improve it to my specifications.
That's a friend.
Steve was then and still is a consultant to WidgetBox, which I later featured in a video on the San Francisco firm and its fun-loving, hard-working culture here:
WidgetBox recently produced a case studies series for its blog and featured the Zennie Abraham Widget. The blog post, called Gain Followers, Drive Website Traffic, and Increase Your Brand's Awareness with Pro Blidgets: A Widgetbox Spotlight Study, reported something I did not know: that my widget gets 150,000 daily impressions. That's 4.65 million impressions per month.
There's no one source responsible for all of those impressions, but a mix of blogs and other sources and WidgetBox itself. Still that's a huge number and shows everyone in media and marketing what a widget can do to get out the word and image around a story and a brand.
The advantage of a widget is it provides "media portability", where I can take my media from website to website or blog to blog over the Internet. You don't have to come to my blog to read the information from it or my YouTube channel, or my Twitter page; it's all there.
But with that, a lot of media organizations don't have widgets, and those that do have widgets don't seem to want you to get them. For example The New York Times has a widget, but it's not visible on the front page of their website. The New York Times Widget only has just over 4,000 installs, where my widget has 218 installs as of this writing. Considering the NY Times overall website traffic, that's awful; they should have 40,000 installs.
And the Zennie Abraham Widget dwarfs the SFGate.com's Daily Dish Widget, which has just three installs versus my 218. This is the future of media. Widgets can help these organizations distribute their content but they're not using them correctly. The NY Times Widget has just its news feed and not its Twitter feeds.
Stay tuned.
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Savage had a great time at the Wedding and Portrait Photographers annual conference and expo in Las Vegas, NV in March! With interesting and informative photo demonstrations, daily contests and giveaways and lots of product samples, there was a lot to check out at our expo booth! Here is a recap on all of our live demos:
Live Demonstrations
We were so excited to offer a lineup of great studio photographers demonstrating and speaking on our products. Expo-goers saw firsthand how our backdrops photograph and the various special techniques you can achieve with a professional studio background.
Session 1
Theme: Creative Engagement Photography
Photographer: Miguel Quiles
Product Spotlight: White & Black Seamless Paper
Watch how to achieve elegant and romantic engagement photos using just a one light setup. See how seamless paper is very customizable for special events or themes with romantic script for weddings, doodles for photo booths, etc.
Session 2
Theme: Modern Bridal Portraits
Photographer: Miguel Quiles
Product Spotlight: Black Seamless Paper, Black Vinyl, Lakeside Collapsible Backdrop
Discover how to add a modern style to your formal bridal portraits, while comparing the use of black seamless paper vs. black vinyl, as well as the advantages of using a mottled patterned backdrop to achieve the modern look.
Session 3
Theme: Floor Drops: Creating a Faux Home Setting
Photographer: Jacquelynn Buck
Product Spotlight: Handscraped Oak, Whitewash & Classic Tile Floor Drops, Cranberry Washed Muslin Backdrop
Learn different posing and shooting tips for photographing your subject laying or sitting down, as we demonstrate our signature line of floor drops. See how to achieve a faux "home" setting, attaching a wood baseboard to the backdrop and stand for a clean but ornate separation.
Session 4
Theme: Going Bold with Seamless Paper
Photographer: Craig Stidham
Product Spotlight: Canary, Tulip & Baby Blue Seamless Paper
See 3 very bright and bold colors of Savage seamless paper in action for fashion portraiture. Discover how using a bright backdrop can enhance your portraits, and the benefits of specific colors have on conveying a message.
Session 5
Theme: How to Visually Separate Your Model from Your Backdrop
Photographer: David Hakamaki
Product Spotlight: Pure White & Black Seamless Paper
Learn how to separate your subject from your backdrop. Lighting can be trickier when you place a dark haired model onto a black backdrop, or a light haired model on a white backdrop, but a nice separation can still be achieved!
Grand Prize Giveaway
We had lots of photographers stop by in between speaking sessions to throw on some props and have fun in our retro photo booth for a chance to win $500 worth of Savage product!
Congratulations to Leighton DaCosta, our winner!


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Come summer we're living in this effortless bandeau. Team it with denim and slides for laissez-fare chic.
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Naturally we hope you'll LOVE your purchase, but it's cool to change your mind. We offer full returns on all unworn items returned with tags.
View the complete Returns Policy here.
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Such a stylish top - not worn it yet but have kept it! It looks so sophisticated - a top you could wear both casually and both for going out.


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I did mine about the same time as you and mine just showed active.
I changed my plan and entered my five numbers sunday at 9am.
Its now 11:30 here and still says pending activation.
I thought its supposed to take 24 hours.
Can someone whos A-List is activated, how did it take for yours
to be activated?
Could something be wrong?
I did mine about the same time as you and mine just showed active.
Mine are about 1/2 way thru activating ( 6 of 10), I started yesterday at about 7:30 AM EDT and my last addition was about 5 PM last night.
The official answer is 24 hours but your experience seems to be longer... I would guess that the initial load on the backend systems may be resulting in longer activation times.
they are probably just overloaded since yesterday was the first day, so they probably got slammed with tons of requests. its supposed to happen in 24 hours.
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Mine went about 25-26 hours but all good now.
Does it really have to take 24 hours to allow a number to be called unlimited? All of mine are still pending activation and I did them last night. When I had T-Mobile, my myFavs would update almost instantly...
Yea I believe they do the 24 hours so people just don't add numbers right away and then start calling for unlimited calling.
Yeah... the 24 hours would stop someone from changing the list everytime they called a new number.
Has anyone had the process under 24 hours. Mine at 22 hr, not yet.
Entered mine at three different times, first group about 24 hours
Does anyone know if a number is on my "A" List can I also receive calls from that number to my cell and not use my plan minutes?
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Asked and answered about a dozen times on the original thread, and on att's a team support. Answer yes, But I wouldn't believe any of this.
I assume (like that word's accroymn) that a number being listed on the a=team calling list is "pending deletion", then calls are still under the free calling billing? Any one with experience here.
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Being ambidextrous could give you a cognitive advantage
As a leftie I've some ambidextrous characteristics.This is due to a a constant interaction with a world made for righties.
but on the other hand ...
I think left handed people are much better at using their right hand than right handed people are at using their left hand.
I'm a lefty and I can pretty much do anything except write legibly with my right hand. I am always amazed when a right handed person can't do the simplest things with their left hand.
But of course, there are always exceptions. I've always written with my right hand (I can't be legible with the left), and am fairly sure this was natural rather than coerced.
I generally can draw with both hands, and always did things like shoot a bb gun, use a baseball bat, or even do mundane things like read paperbacks or personally groom with my left.
Stuff That Blows Your Mind just released the latest podcast on lefties: http://www.stufftoblowyourmind.com/podcasts/left-handed-scissors/ I do not believe I have much of a cognitive advantage over righties. On a positive note, I can write in cursive script with both hands--it appears what I learned from my right hand I can directly transfer to my left. I guess that is an advantage that the left can mimick the right in most things.
What if you're ambisinister?
I don't know if being ambidextrous has ever given me any cognitive advantage, but it sure as hell helps with sports like surfing, etc. along with using computer mouse control gestures in one hand while using keyboard shortcuts with another hand simultaneously, etc. - I've often been referred to as "creative" and I feel creative, but that certainly hasn't translated into general intelligence.
I just enjoy using my left hand along with my right because it makes me evil.
I don't know if one follows the other, but I've always viewed my left-handedness as symptomatic of how foreign my viewpoint is vis-a-vis general society. But those views are shared by many of the Mutants here, and I imagine the handedness of our community probably mirrors the general population, so perhaps I'm exaggerating. But, to me, it makes sense that I'm left handed. They think I'm a weirdo and a threat, might as well add lefty to it and give them a visual confirmation.
I've pretty much always used both hands equally (I'm a righty). The task that is most difficult for me to do with my left hand is brushing my teeth -- I have to really focus to do it effectively. After seeing my mother struggle to adapt after a stroke paralyzed her right arm, I have started making use of my left hand a bit more often...
I would imagine that a similar cognitive advantage applies to bilinguals and, even better, polyglots.
I tried for several years to become ambidextrous, by forcing myself to only use my left hand for single-handed tasks like writing, eating, etc.. It didn't work. I can now do anything with my left hand that I could do with my right hand, only poorly. But it did give me a greater understanding of what lefties historically had to deal with.
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Get dining news including restaurant closures and qualify for giveaways.
Nu Greek is a quick serve spot serving Greek cuisine such as their signature chicken souvlaki, also enjoy a large selection of in house baked Greek goodies. Take out is their main focus but this location does offer seating for eat in.
This is the newest location of the Nu Greek fleet and it also serves as the bakery for the whole lot of them which is cool. It's located in Le Magasin and is really cool inside with long rustic tables and all the charm an old building like that provides. Along with the menu of souvlaki, wraps and salads they also have a selection of Greek baked goods which looked delicious! I was way too full to sample any of them but I will next time for sure. My hubby and I were both pretty starved when we arrived and ended up ordering a bit too much food but it gave us a chance to sample a few things which was nice. I had the chicken which was moist and tasty. I especially liked the pita which is baked in house and was very obviously super fresh! We also ordered greek salad and hummus with pita chips to share. I really liked the hummus, it was delicious. The greek salad was good as well with a ton of cucumber and tomato and a healthy amount of feta. Nu Greek is definitely worth a return visit to sample some of the other menu items like the octopus souvlaki which caught my eye.
My co-worker introduced me to Nu in Gastown the other day at lunch and I am officially hooked! The service was fast and friendly and the food delicious and so fresh! I had the salmon with oregano pita - I'm getting hungry just talking about it! Salmon was cooked to perfection - not too dry. Veggies were fresh and the home made pita bread amazing! They also have plain and whole wheat which is great. I strongly suggest anyone passing through Gastown or anyone looking for a quick bite at lunch try this place (I believe they're open for dinner too) - you won't be dissapointed!
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If you haven't followed my story, I have been turning to museums for sources of inspiration. This African series came about after one night I wandered into the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas in The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, which is on the 1st floor of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. There I was invited to sketch the collections using white drawing paper and charcoal pencils. I was also given a small drawing board, kneaded eraser and little canvas stool to work on. I was taken in by the masks, and the faces of the house posts, fertility totems and tribal masks. I made six drawings from the collection and painted them with watercolors later in my studio.From these studies, I have been creating these highly creative and original modern artworks on canvas. These abstract interpretations would look great in your house. Paintings have lots of earth tones, turquoise and spirituality.
Final painting will be posted, but oh wow, you have the opportunity to get it now! Sides will be painted black and canvas is varnished prior to shipment. Final listing will have room views and detail photos, but if you buy now you have a chance to save money on the final gallery listing price! Stay tuned on facebook to see works in progress and for finished paintings!
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This past weekend, I finally faced something I've been fighting since September and I now feel a million times better. Seriously, a million times.
Since the beginning of college football season, I've been a little whiny and complain-y, blaming my lack of viewing pleasure on the lengthy baseball season. I watched a lot of Yankees and enjoyed a lot of Yankees and cheered on a lot of Yankees from April to the end of August, then got into college football mode. My husband, however, did not. Sure, together we're pumped about the Ohio Bobcats going undefeated thus far, and even though the Thundering Herd is still struggling to score the winning touchdown in multiple too-close-for-comfort Conference USA games, we follow them faithfully. "Why are you interested in Oregon vs. BYU, Steph?" he asks me. Lately, I've found myself answering with something lame like "it's just the comfort of knowing it's on." This warrants a questioning, "are you crazy?!?" look, of course. He offers to flip the monster flat screen over to Grandpa Lou Holtz, I turn down the offer, and then, I get distracted doing something else. Eventually, I forget the games are even on. And now, I'm finding that I don't even care.
I haven't sat down in front of the tv and watched one single college football game in its' entirety this season. I've quit whining about it the last couple of weeks and instead, have joined my husband and friends on the couch for some pizza and Yankees postseason, watching the entire game, getting into it, and letting go. Now, don't get me wrong – when the Bobcats and the Herd play on ESPN later this season, I'll be watching, I'll be doing all the superstitious weird junk I've always done in the past, I'll be wearing green on game day. But I finally realized that I've been trying to force myself into watching college football; it's one of the few things in my past I haven't let go of. I haven't enjoyed a game in person since moving here, and for me, that alone has taken a major toll on my overall interest in the sport (meaning, interest in schools other than my own.) Maybe I come off sounding a bit spoiled, but it's true – a decade of spending nearly every September, October and November Saturday inside a football stadium in either West Virginia or Ohio is a thing of my past. I enjoy baseball, pro football, and basketball – sports I have regularly watched in person several times this past year, which fuels my interest in them regardless of where I am when the game is on. I've finally given up on forcing NCAA football down my own throat – it has become a source of comfort more so than entertainment. Cheering on the Yankees with several friends this month has been a source of both comfort and entertainment (ok, and heartbreak, too.) I feel relief; I don't feel like I'm hanging on to anything anymore. I feel like I'm living in the moment.
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Engaged in a lot of practice and theory around semiotics, rituals, post-medium practices, site-specificity, new choreographic systems, music forms, transdisciplinarity and new hybrids, Adham creates dance performances, concerts, installations, publications, lectures, workshops, and what's in between. He has produced a large body of work through "Adham Hafez Co." presented in Egypt, the Arab Speaking World and Europe. He is the founder and program director of HaRaKa, the first movement research project in Egypt, initiated "TransDance" festival for Transdisciplinary practices and dance. Received his education in Western Classical Music, Opera Singing, Contemporary Dance, Literature and Critical Theory at Cairo Opera House, Faculty of Musical Education-Helwan University, Faculty of Arts- Ain Shams University, Voice Studio of Professor Dr.Neveen Allouba, and is currently enrolled at the Amsterdam High School of Arts for the unique MA program AMCh
Awarded First Prize for Choreography by the Ministry of Culture and the Cairo Opera House, several Certificates of Excellence as musician and performer, fellowships and awards in Egypt, Europe and the US, and was chosen in 2008 as Young Performing Arts Entrepreneur by the British Council in Egypt
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Thread: Glutamine, Swimming and Coffee
11/09/2007 9:08pm, #1
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Glutamine, Swimming and Coffee
Erik Paulson has this conversation up on his web site that covers issues of how he weight trains, what supplements he takes and coffee - apparently a cup of black coffee has 4 times the amount of anti-oxidents as a cup of green tee.
Lots of interesting stuff, and frankly I don't know enough about it to judge, but I am going to listen through it a few times.
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Manchester United might have won six games on the trot after their rout of Liverpool, but their manager Louis Van Gaal feels that his side can do better.
Despite the scoreline of 3-0, Manchester United will once again thank their goalkeeper David De Gea who made some excellent saves to help his side keep a clean sheet. Liverpool had a total of 19 shots with nine of them on target, which gives us a hint of how much work De Gea had to do. Van Gaal revealed, "I think the most important match is always the next match. We have won six matches in a row which is fantastic but we have to improve our playing style and I am saying that nearly every week. Only after the matches against QPR and Hull I have said: 'OK, we are dominating the game 90 minutes'.
"We could have dominated the game 90 minutes today but we didn't do that. We gave unnecessary balls away in the second half. We have to improve, but we are very pleased because we know what it is to win against Liverpool. Everybody is happy. My cook is happy, my wife is happy and I am happy," the Dutchman joked.
Van Gaal tried not to focus on De Gea too much as he felt that it would undermine the effort of the other players, "The team has done very well and De Gea has contributed a big part of that.
"I am not cautious with praise to David de Gea but I am cautious [about] every individual player. We are doing it like a team and the team is winning, not one player. I can mention also other players – the influence of their performance was high – but the press wants always one or two. I could mention more than three. We were very good. I have said once he was fantastic. I want to mention the team instead of individuals. That is my philosophy."
Rojo's injury assessment unknown
Considering the type of start and the injuries list Manchester United had, it was unthinkable that they would win six in a row, but Van Gaal does deserve some credit for turning it around. The former Netherlands manager had to include defender Phil Jones in the starting XI as an unfortunate injury to Marcos Rojo in training ruled him out of the Liverpool game. When asked about the Argentine, Van Gaal commented, "We have to wait and see.
"I am not a doctor. He is in a training session, gets injured and then I have to change my lineup again, which I have to do every week."
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At local dealers, a variety of new and used fishing boats are offered for sale. Whether you want to go deep sea fishing in coastal waters or catch bass and crappie at a local lake, there is nothing quite like the thrill of having your own boat to get there.
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A lifesaving defibrillator has arrived at King Edward VI School in Bury St Edmunds following a fund-raising campaign by students.
Teachers were shown how to use the high-tech gadget, which analyses a patient's heartbeat and only administers a shock when it is abnormal, on Friday.
In December, Kegs student Sammy Manning, a friend of Stowmarket High School student Lily Webster who died from Sudden Adult Death Syndrome in 2012, raised £786 for heart charity Cardiac Risk in the Young.
This effort was followed up by a 14 mile charity walk organised by English teacher Georgie Brigden and school house Melford College which raised £3394.40 to buy the defibrillator and ongoing training through charity SADS UK.
Student Craig Bayfield, who 'died' for 27 minutes after his heart stopped in February last year, said the more that can be done to improve lifesaving training the better.
He said: "My mum and brother saved me last year - if it wasn't for their first aid training they may have not been able to save me."
Anne Jolly, founder of the cardiac charity SADS UK said: "The donation and placement of defibrillators in schools is absolutely crucial as sudden cardiac arrest can affect a person of any age, even children.
"The SADS UK Big Shock Campaign urges Government to legislate for defibrillators to be placed in all schools.
"We are delighted that King Edward V1 School is supporting the SADS UK Big Shock Campaign and have put a defibrillator on their school premises.
"Using CPR alone provides a five per cent chance of survival but using the defibrillator as well increases the chance of survival to over 50 per cent.'
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Many stores are limiting the number of bags of rice allowed to be purchased by individual customers and some stores have reported sold as much as 90 bags of rice per hour.
The shortage has caused panic, and even rioting, in Asian countries where the cost for rice has increased by 60 percent. The rice shortage has also caused for the price of wheat and corn to increase in recent weeks world-wide.


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Dance Theatre winter concerts Dec. 6 and 7
Dance Theatre director Lana Kay Rosenberg choreographed "Ave Maria X Four," a piece celebrating women and "Prema, Shanti, Dharma, Satya" with music by indipop composer Sheila Chandra for the concerts.
Guest choreographers include alumnae Amanda Adams '98 with "One Space Two Space Three"; Margaret Donohue '06 with "As We See the Road"; Laura Dattilo '08 with "She knows not what she does" and Shannon Vroom '06 with a work that tells the story of Icarus.
Also featured will be works choreographed by current Dance Theatre members. Works include "In Memory Of..." by Maggie Herrick, a senior creative writing major from Toledo and "Living in a World too big for us" by interior design senior Jenna Green of Warren. Herrick's piece celebrates the relationship between a daughter and a mother. Green's work incorporates her own poetry.
After the Saturday concert, Dance Theatre offers a "talk back" giving the audience a chance to meet the choreographers and dancers, discuss the performance, ask questions and offer feedback.
Tickets are $6 in advance at the Miami University box office in the Shriver Center and $8 at the door for students/seniors, $10 in advance and $12 at the door for general admission. For more information, call 529-3200.


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The coming of a new year gives us a fresh start, a chance to make positive changes in our lives and to begin new habits for the future. I'm not usually one for making New Year's resolutions. I've tried it in years past but didn't keep up with them and gave up. Maybe it's the format — writing down a list of changes to be made — or maybe it's knowing that a lot of people start but never finish their resolutions. Either way, the old way didn't work for me.
So I've decided to look at resolutions in a whole new way. Rather than restrictive changes I feel guilted into making, I would like to focus on positive things I can do to make me a better me. Though making healthy dietary changes and exercising more are important New Year's resolutions, I believe there is more to it than the physical. There is also the emotional, including staying connected to friends and family, spending more quality time with loved ones, and being an active community member.
During the holidays we reconnect with our family and friends and share with them how much we care through gifts, heartfelt cards or spending time together. But once a year is just not enough. I don't want to wait a whole year before I write another card to my cousin in Aberdeen or my friends in far off locations around the world. Even if it's just a little hello letter every other month or a recent picture of the kids, I aspire to stay more connected to those important people in my life.
Though I see my kids almost every day of the year, it doesn't mean we spend a lot of quality time together. With my busy work schedule and the kids' extracurricular activities, we don't get much more than a greeting at breakfast and quick chat at dinner. On the weekends, they have playdates, activities and TV to catch up on. The holidays gave us a chance to spend some time together, crafting gifts to give, decorating the house and chatting on long car rides to and from Grandma's home. We had so much fun, I want to make it a regular thing. I aspire to organize projects for us to do together, play more games together, and take more weekend trips.
Living in a small community, it's easy to see the positive changes one person can make. Volunteering in my kids' school, I opened the minds of children who thought they didn't like vegetables. Being a active community member, a person can improve the lives of others by simply giving their time or sharing a passion. Volunteer, write resolutions with a friend and support each other along the way, or be a listening ear to someone going through a tough time. I aspire to volunteer once a month in the coming year.
When talking about New Year's resolutions, food is always part of the conversation. Although food and healthy eating is always on my brain, it is all the more applicable this year since my aunt is recovering from heart surgery, along with her diabetes treatment. Watching her struggle, I helped my family organize a food plan for her as she recovers. After years of eating packaged processed foods with way too much unhealthy fats and sodium, her body can no longer handle even small amounts of either. In contrast, my dad and his wife eat only foods they grow and cook themselves. They are visibly healthy, strong and vibrant.
Healthful eating isn't rocket science.
Eat less packaged, processed foods.
Cook from scratch.
Eat whole grains as much as possible.
Vary protein sources, making sure to include fish and legumes at least once a week.
Include at least one vegetable in every meal, making sure to eat a variety of colors.
Limit sodium and avoid hydrogenated fats.
With these simple tips, we can all lead healthier vibrant lives. I aspire to cook a different vegetable every day of the week and have one meatless meal a week.
Along with healthier eating, exercise is almost always on the New Year's resolution list. I admit, I am not a big fan of organized sports or exercise regimes. I tried for a few years and "exercise more" is always on my to-do list. But like most folks, it gets put on the back burner when other things come up.
I tried running — on a track, around the park, through the neighborhood — but none of them suited me. I tried going to the gym but without someone at my side pushing me along the way, I didn't get much of a workout. I've done aerobics classes, kickboxing, zumba, but can always find a reason to stay home with something else "more important" to do. Then I found yoga and stuck with it for awhile. It's so easy to find an excuse not to go.
But as I see myself aging and my body creaking when I move, I realize I'm not getting any younger and the time is now to take care of myself. Healthful eating alone will not do the trick. A healthy body and mind needs movement. Getting up early for a yoga workout is not on the top of my list of fun activities, but I do feel stronger, healthier, and more clear-minded when I start my day that way. I aspire to get to the gym for yoga at least three times a week in the next year.
Consider making some New Year's resolutions this year. There is always something we can become better at, even if it's just smiling more or calling your dad more often. Time keeps moving on and there's no better time than the present to be the best you you can be. Cheers to a Happy New Year! Let's make this the best one yet!


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27 Sep 2007
61 catches for 911 yards and seven touchdowns.
51 catches for 775 yards.
22 catches for 403 yards and five touchdowns -- in just three games.
One of these stat lines is not like the others.
OK, so Randy Moss almost certainly won't continue to produce at this level over a full 16-game season. That would result in the NFL's best ever receiving season by any and all measures, and even put LaDanian Tomlinson's touchdown record within reach. Nonetheless, it's fairly apparent that he's going to meet and exceed his KUBIAK projection (the first of the three statlines listed) with some ease. The second prediction comes from Bill Barnwell's June 28th article on Wes Welker, who has also confounded FO's prediction systems.
So, what happened? There are two parts to this story: Moss is not who we thought he was, and the Patriots aren't either. For Moss, it's a case where statistics don't tell the whole story. DPAR and similarity scores don't have a variable for "this player clearly couldn't be bothered in Oakland." When it came to forecast his 2007 production, all we really knew is that he was an aging receiver who had once been dominant but relied on speed he might not have any more. A more interesting dilemma is figuring out what what this year tells us about his future. Has his half-hearted play in Oakland given him another year or two of peak performance elsewhere? No idea.
Fortunately, the changes in New England's offense are much easier to quantify. Bill Barnwell's article showed a target percentage by role for the New England offense in recent seasons, with a 2007 projection. Let's revisit that table, adding in standard deviation from 2003-2006 as well as the stats for the three games so far this year:
|Patriots Target Percentage By Role, 2003-2006
|2007 Actual
|Oth WR/TE
Now, it's unlikely that the Patriots will stick with this precise distribution of passes -- if nothing else, one player or another is bound to pick up an injury eventually which will see somebody else getting their pass targets. If Moss continues tearing up the league, his share of the passes may go down as teams increasingly sell out to stop him. Nonetheless, both Moss and Welker are currently getting nearly 4.5 percent more targets than any recent New England receiver. Unsurprisingly, they're outperforming FO predictions, which were based in part on recent Patriots offensive trends. It's true at this stage in the season we're not dealing with all that many targets -- the difference between Moss and Welker in 2007 and Deion Branch in 2004-2005 is less than 1.5 passes per game. However, the variation is in excess of four standard deviations above the mean for the primary receiver, and over three and a half higher for the second wideout. This makes it more likely that we are seeing a shift in the Patriots' offensive philosophy and not just an artifact of a small sample size. The extra targets for the primary receivers seem to have come at the expense of the tight ends, who are less involved in the passing game than they have been, and "other receivers." The Patriots have only thrown to four wide receivers this year, and those four players have all been healthy. New England rarely uses an empty backfield, and when they do the formation usually involves a tight end (and the play is often a Tom Brady sneak on third or fourth-and-1).
It's probably not a coincidence that, after spending a summer loading up on wideouts, the Patriots are throwing the ball more to imported wideouts. Previous Patriots teams had regarded wide receivers as fungible, and it will be interesting to see if this apparent shift in offensive game planning is reflected in New England's front office decision-making going forward. After all, when the Patriots restructured Randy Moss' contract a few months ago, they also made him a free agent in 2008.
62 comments, Last at 07 Oct 2007, 4:37pm by lolicheck
Who needs that pesky 2008 first round pick when you can change fourth round picks into gold?
How unprecidented is it for a WR to outperform his KUBIAK so much in the first 3 games? If there is precident, what was it and what does it imply for the remaining season for Mr. Moss? And how much weed did he smoke in Oakland, and what happened to it when he moved to Boston? Is he, in fact, Ron Mexico's dealer?
You're using the wrong error measurement when you say that the WR1% is more than 4SD above the mean. That's like flipping a coin 1000 times and having it come up 500 heads, and then taking another coin, flipping it 4 times and getting 3 heads, and concluding that it must be weighted because it's some large number of SDs above 0.50.
You need to use the error on this year's data. If Moss has been targeted 24 out of 88 times, then that's 27.3 +/- 4.7% (using the binomial error, which should be close enough for these purposes). That's only slightly more than one sigma above the mean, which is still well within the realm of statistical fluctuation.
Of course, I would say that this is almost certainly not random chance, but there's just not enough pass attempts yet to say conclusively based solely on that data.
I supported the trade of Moss to the Raiders, because it was obvious that the guy just wasn't motivated to play in Minnesota like he had been in the past, and I thought it would tranlsate into his willingness and/or ability to overcome injury. It's a shame the Vikings appear to have wasted the first rounder they got for Moss, but I still think it was the right move, no matter what he does in New England. The guy is obviously an upper echelon HOF talent, but unless he is surrounded by other very good players, he just doesn't like to play football enough to count on him.
I'll grant you guys this: He's a superstar because he was willing to be a cog.
I think we're going to see the Patriots pass more to TEs and other receivers more when they start facing teams with good corner backs. The Bills lost their best corner to free agency, and the Chargers and Jets don't corners aren't that good anyways. The Patriots offense is always based on throwing to the guy who's open, and if the guy who's open is 20 yards downfield, of course he's going to be getting the ball.
Has his half-hearted play in Oakland given him another year or two of peak performance elsewhere?
Half-hearted? More like hoof-hearted. He stunk.
Part of this emergence of the Patriots passing game may also have something to do with Holding calls. I heard John Clayton this afternoon on the raido say that holding calls on offensive linemen, league wide, are down significantly from last year. In fact, the Patriots through three games have not been called for a hold. If this is a trend, expect to see alot more passing from all teams, especially ones with quality quarterbacks. This might also have something to do with Favre's reemergance.
The Patriots offense is always based on throwing to the guy who's open . . . .
I know not every QB or offense can pull off this basic task, but I think most offenses are predicated on throwing to the guy who's open.
I hate it when people use the line, "they throw it to the open receiver" because it is refuted just as you did it. What team out there is specifically throwing it to the covered guy?
But that is really not the way it works. The essence that the statement is trying to convey is that Brady is very good at determining who is the *most* open in any given play. He is excellent at going through the reads quickly and equally proficient at helping WRs get open by looking off safeties.
So it isn't just a case of throwing it to the open guy or the covered guy like that statement seems to indicate.
"The extra targets for the primary receivers seem to have come at the expense of the tight ends, who are less involved in the passing game than they have been, and "other receivers.�"
TE 1 seems to be exactly the same (except for 2006, the year of no recievers). The loss of receptions for TEs may have as much to do with the transition from Graham to Brady as it has to do with Moss/Welker.
#10 - somewhere, Jake Delhomme's ears are burning.
Gee, so Bill Belichick figured out what anyone who's ever played "Madden" knows. When Randy Moss is healthy, motivated, and on turf, you throw to him! And this is a surprise how?
Looking at those figures a step back, the average for the 4th WR, 2nd TE, and other receivers, plus the 2nd and 3rd RBs over the last few years was 28.9% vs 14.5% so far this year. Any idea what the comparable figures for secondary receivers on other teams?
While this may be a strategy shift, I agree that it's a more a move away from having to compensate for a weakness - relatively weak receivers - than a deliberate strategic choice this year. Put another way, the strategic choice was not "throw to the main guys more" the strategic choice was "quit screwing around and go out get better main guys"
The whole Moss saga may also be indicative of why major trades in the NFL are harder to pull of than in say, baseball, besides the obvious salary cap limits in football. Hitting a baseball is an instinctual and fun thing to do. Yes, hard work is needed to hone one's skill, but the act itself is fun, which makes it more likely that somebody will be reasonably diligent in honing one's skill.
In contrast, football, at all positions, requires a lot of non-instinctual, hard work, often filled with drudgery, when it isn't comprised of painful violence. You really, really, really, have to want to play football to excel at it.
Trade for a superstar baseball player, and you have to be far less concerned whether the guy is going to want to excel, because hitting a baseball is inherently a lot of fun. Chances are even the most non-enthusiastic player will concentrate to his full extent when in the batters box, although he may go to sleep on you in the field. Think Manny Ramierez. Even a lackadaisical Manny is a damned valuable player.
Trade for a superstar football player, who doesn't want the trade, however, and you have a decent chance to get a guy who looks like Moss did in Oakland. Football just inherently entails a lot more drudgery, and if somebody isn't committed, he can't just turn on the talent for 15 minutes a game and still be a very valuable player.
#7 So what teams appear on the Patriots schedule that have "good corners"-they face Buffalo and the Jets once more-Miami 2 times. Dallas has Newman, but they stil allow a lot in the air, the Giants secondary is awful, Cincinatti made Derek Anderson look good, Leigh Bodden is decent-but again they are not awesome in the secondary....so I guess that leaves Philly (if Sheppard and Dawkins are healthy), Pittsburgh-I guess, Indy-again I guess...and thats it.
Can't agree on your qualifications of "fun" there. I'd much rather hit people than hit a ball. I'd much rather run plays than force myself to stay alert pitch after pitch in the outfield.
That's just me. But that's the point. Fun is subjective.
I think it's more that batting is so often a one-man sport: one guy versus the field. You often see one guy have a whale of a season while his team tanks, and that doesn't happen in football too often. A batter can excel on a stinky team. That's tough for a wide receiver.
I'd much rather hit people than hit a ball.
Fair enough. But would you want to go through all the drudgery and pain you have to go through before you can even get on the field to hit people?
PatsFan has it right, bravehotoad. What do you mostly do to get better at the fun activity of hitting? You hit. What do you do to get better at the fun activity of hitting people? Heck, for a lot of teams, anything but hit people during the season.
There's no way around it, football is filled a lot more with regimented, repetitive, tasks, that do not actually involve actions that take place during the game. You really, really, have to love that one game a week to put up with all the other stuff.
Will -
"Yes, hard work is needed to hone one's skill, but the act itself is fun, which makes it more likely that somebody will be reasonably diligent in honing one's skill."
I'm sorry, but that's an incredibly subjective and unsubstantiated claim, and a terribly weak way to formulate an argument.
I could go into how your example of Manny is terribly misleading because he's been notably mentioned as a hard worker who simultaneously has a poor attention span and can be moody and petulant... and like Moss he takes days off. You could just as easily argue that he would have been just as bad as Moss had the Sox been a poorer team. Or you could say that he only tried that hard, not because it was "fun," but because he has a clear sense of his place in history as one of the greatest right handed hitters of all time and wanted to make his statistical mark despite his displeasure... and that Moss just didn't have that same self awareness. Or you could argue that Moss just made a trip to the Juvenation Machine this summer.
Seriously, do you think Adrian Beltre is trying as hard as he was during his contract year?
Or why couldn't you make the argument that Jason Bay isn't having fun playing in Pittsburgh and that's why his numbers have tailed off... even having so little fun as to counteract the natural fun of swinging a bat?
And why is something "fun" the ten thousandth time you've done it that year? When you take batting practice every day and play in upwards of 150 games with multiple trips to the plate, not to mention working out in the offseason?
Why is it more "fun" to be less physical, comparably? What about players that love to hit? Or people that love to strain themselves to their physical limits?
C'mon... I expect better from you.
Or, as in Curtis Martin's case (remember that article a while ago, when he retired, saying that he didn't care much for football?), you have to really care about that multi-million dollars contract.
Re: fun
Gary Sheffield dogged it in Milwaukee in order to force a trade. Derek Bell engaged in "Operation Shutdown" in order to do the same. Luis Gonzalez has whined about playing time in two different cities - most recently saying he would terminate his contract in LA because of being benched.
Granted, those weren't all trades, but the point stands.
Then of course, there is always JD Drew.
I had thought major trades were hard to pull off because the only ones worth trading for cause massive cap hits.
I know not every QB or offense can pull off this basic task, but I think most offenses are predicated on throwing to the guy who's open.
Most, but not all. Some very successful offenses are built around throwing the ball to an elite receiver and just having him come down with it, regardless of coverage, while ignoring inferior receivers who have more separation from their defenders.
The 2003 Vikings, with the vaunted "Just throw it in the general direction of Randy Moss, and hope that he cares enough to catch it" scheme, ranked 3rd in the NFL in Offensive DVOA. The Panthers got to 2 NFC Championship Games and 1 Super Bowl using the innovative "Throw the ball to Steve Smith regardless of how many defenders are covering him" offense.
The distinction isn't "throw to the open receiver" vs. "throw to the tightly covered receiver".
The distinction is "throw to the open receiver" vs. "throw to the best receiver". And it's not always an entirely meaningless distinction.
Derek, I didn't say it was fun to be less physical. I said, less clearly than I should have, that being a professional baseball player entails doing more of what presumably attracted the player in the first place, repeating the actions which take place in a baseball game, than a professional football player does in regards to repeating the actions which take place in a football game. Yes, there are players in baseball who undoubtedly do better when they are in a pennant race, but the indisputable fact is that a starting baseball player who is diligent in his efforts for fifteen minutes in a three hour game can be extremely valuable. A starting football player who is diligent in his efforts for fifteen minutes in a three hour game is darned near worthless, outside a few special teams positions. Football requires more commitment.
C'mon... I expect better from you.
Well now, Will, THAT is a reasonable argument... but that wasn't what I got at all from your original post.
Carry on.
Robert, I said in my first post that cap hits are the major impediment, and I don't deny that baseball players can completely tank it as well, especially given 100% guraranteed contracts. However, I don't need anything near a completely dedicated baseball player, particularly a hitter, to get considerable value out of him, IF he is an outlier in terms of major league talent.
Being on an NFL football field without anything close to 100% dedication, no matter the talent level, is 1)exceedingly dangerous, and likely to mean that one will be off the field soon, and 2)likely to be far less useful to a team, because a less than dedicated effort by a football player affects the performance of other football players more than a less than dedicated effort by a baseball player, especially since most baseball players' have their most important activity take place in the batter's box. Football is a more interdependent sport.
Randy Moss hasn't exactly had the best health history lately. My expectation is that the crowned asses of the Patriots will look less unstoppable when Moss' hamstring pull makes its annual visit.
You may be right, johnt, but it is funny how guys often are less likely to be injured when they want to play, and actually are more diligent about things like stretching and therapy when they want to play.
Paul (#4) is correct. The most relevant standard error for deciding whether or not we can reject the idea that the higher number of targets is just random variation is the error for this year's catches, since the smaller sample size makes that the larger error.
Just "bumping" #4. hope someone here at FO responds to it.
24: Just a quick point about the Steve Smith 2005 season:
The way people remember things, Steve Smith got billions of yards because he was targeted all the time. That's not as accurate of a description as one might think.
Steve Smith was targeted less than Johnson, Fitzgerald, Galloway, Boldin, Holt, Burress, and Chambers. And yet, despite having fewer targets than many of his peers, despite being the only offensive weapon on his team, Smith dominated. He caught a higher percentage of his targets than any other #1 receiver in the league, and was at the top of the league in yards per catch as well.
Passes thrown to Smith were astonishingly efficient, averaging well over 10 yards per attempt. As much as everyone loved to joke about how Jake Delhomme throws to Steve Smith every play, the Panthers actually should have been throwing to Smith even more.
I missed the cap comment.
You do need a dedicated hitter. Check out Sheffield's last year in Milwaukee on baseball reference. It was by far his worst year as a hitter. He hit like Jason Kendall.
And even elite football players show indifference. Deion Sanders often seemed to be playing touch rather than tackle football. He isn't too different than Manny that way.
Steve Smith was targeted less than Johnson, Fitzgerald, Galloway, Boldin, Holt, Burress, and Chambers.
True, but that's only because the Panthers threw very few passes compared to the rest of the league. They were in the bottom five in pass attempts in the NFL in 2005, so there weren't as many passes to go around.
As much as everyone loved to joke about how Jake Delhomme throws to Steve Smith every play, the Panthers actually should have been throwing to Smith even more.
Not that I disagree, but they did throw it to Smith a lot, especially compared to his teammates. Smith was targeted 150 times. The other WRs on the team were targeted 146 times combined.
I mean, they had to throw to the other guys occasionally, or else people would just start sending 3 or 4 people to stop Smith, and we all know what happened when Seattle finally figured that out.
#4 and others -
Yes, I know. My comment that the results are 3+ sigma above the mean of the previous data set should not be taken as an attempt at rigorous error analysis. It isn't. I wasn't using the standard error as a way of saying "this clearly isn't random variation" - I'm saying "this is completely out of whack with what they were doing over several previous years". The actual numbers are 25 targets each from 91 for Moss and Welker, which, as you say, returns "insufficient data" as to whether or not this is just a short-term variation or a shift in philosophy (which I also said). My comment about standard deviations was an attempt to quantify how far this is out of line. I said this makes it "less likely" this data is consistent with the larger set. Not "this is not random fluctuation" because, clearly, there isn't enough data to say that. What I am trying to point out is that, if we assume the first three games are an accurate measurement of New England's pass distribution (ie, that the error in the 2007 dataset is small), then the probability this is not due to a shift in offensive philosophy is low.
For the record, I apologise if people were confused by my statement - I did not intend to imply that there was enough data to show conclusively the Patriots are doing something different yet, just a strong indication.
(This is what happens when you're trying to point out an emerging trend - if you wait until it can be shown beyond statistical doubt, it's not "emerging" any more).
Will Allen-
I hated the Moss trade from the beginning. Tice learned the wrong things too well from Denny Green, paranoia and bureaucratic infighting. He's showing more of that in Jax. Additionally, the idea that one first round pick and Napoleon Harris could replace Moss didn't make sense to me, it's not like all first round picks are created equal.
(This is what happens when you're trying to point out an emerging trend - if you wait until it can be shown beyond statistical doubt, it's not "emerging� any more).
This is a great statement. Too often stat geeks (myself included) wait for the numbers to prove the existence of a trend. Unfortunately, this means we will never see an emerging trend, and will only recognize a trend after it has already occurred.
I brought up this exact point several weeks ago on FO in an attempt to convince people that the Indy Colts defense had "turned the corner" and was already an average to slightly above average unit. Most of the responses I got were along the lines of "a couple of good games is simply an aberration and I would expect them to return to their historical norm" or "they need to prove it over a series of games", and so on. It seems to me waiting for the numbers to prove the existence of a new trend is similar to a weather man waiting for it to rain before declaring there is a chance for rain today. Yes, you will always be correct, but what's the point? Stats are a great tool and I enjoy pouring ovem them as much as anybody. But I also need to remind myself to not get caught waiting for the numbers to prove to my brain what my eyes may already be seeing on the field.
crack (#36 )--
To be fair to Dennis Green and the Vikings, getting a first-rounder and Napoleon Harris looked like a steal for the Randy Moss who left Minnesota, and a huge one after Moss took the next two years off in Oakland.
That was the whole point of the "cog, not a superstar" reference in PFP2K7: Moss had not been a star for 3+ years. Now he looks like a superstar again, though we obviously don't know that he can keep this pace up. (If he does, he'll surpass my prediction for his 2007 season by game 7.)
crack, no sane person ever said that Nap Harris and the random number 7 pick could replace Moss at his peak. The point was that the Vikings were extremely unlikely to ever get Moss' peak again, and the rest of the league knew it, which affected trade value. The fact that Moss has decided to be a great player again for New England in 2007 doesn't have much to do with what his value to the Vikings was in 2005.
I think I've posted this elsewhere, but the best comparison for Moss, subjectively rather than statistically, that I can think of, is Joey Galloway.
Formerly high class speedster who had a prolonged drop in production, due in part to injuries and unfavourable offensive environments. The fact that Galloway is still going strong at 35 has to be a (mild) positive indicator for Moss down the line.
I guess there are examples of speedsters who retain their speed. Daryl Green, anyone? He and Joey Galloway together make it interesting to ask what kinds of players retain their speed and what kind don't.
The Randy Moss resurgence reminds me of Roger Clemens. He was scary good for quite a while, got preturbed/disinterested/whatever, and became average. Though hard to remember, The Rocket was heavier and in worse condition for a couple of years. He could still show flashes, but the every time out greatness was gone. I know that injury was part of his decline, but that may be a chicken and egg discussion for another time. Cut to the next season in Toronto and suddenly the motivated ace is lean and carrying a torch. Cy Young awards followed him to NY and Houston. Today we regularly hear about how his career has been marked by a monster work ethic. Most reasonable observers had him written off as on his way to DONE.
Now back to R. Moss: The guy has rediscovered the fire. Hw is older and injury is always possible, but he has regained some of his his former swagger. He has the Dirty Harry, "You messed with the wrong guy." attitude again - like he did when he fell so far in the draft.
Ultimately, Roger's revival was good for baseball. The same could happen for football with Randy Moss - whether you like the Patriots or not.
Re: 39 the Vikings were extremely unlikely to ever get Moss' peak again, and the rest of the league knew it, which affected trade value. The fact that Moss has decided to be a great player again for New England in 2007 doesn't have much to do with what his value to the Vikings was in 2005.
I disagree, Will. Moss suffered from a series of nagging injuries in 2005, and he was playing with a putrid offense in Oakland. Nevertheless, he managed to be quite productive. Perhaps the Vikings fully expected Moss to continue to suffer from injuries in 2005, as he did. But why on earth would the Vikings not have expected a healthy Randy Moss to have been as dominant as ever? His career year had occurred as recently as 2003, and it was widely (although probably mistakenly) believed at the time that the Vikings had very good surrounding offensive talent, particularly at the QB position, where Culpepper was coming off one of the most productive seasons in NFL history. I would say that, if anything, the Vikings seemed likely to get Moss's peak again.
The Moss trade was primarily a PR move, a naïve attempt to reduce the bad national press that the Vikings were accumulating. Moss's trade value had been reduced by the media's and public's overreactions to the walking-off-the-field-early and fake-mooning incidents, not so much because teams questioned Moss's future productivity on the field. The Vikings also were misguided in their beliefs that Culpepper was one of the best QBs in the NFL and that their offense would remain strong without Moss.
The Vikings may have believed that, going forward, Moss would have been completely ineffective due to injuries. If that's the case, then they were very wrong. Moss wasn't as good as he could have been in Oakland in 2005 in part due to injuries, but he still played remarkably well for an injured player in a bad situation. More likely, the Vikings thought Moss would have continued to have been a dominant player, but they believed they no longer needed him and that trading him would solve their PR problems. If that's the case, then they were very wrong. The Vikings' offense was heavily dependent on Moss and suffered greatly in his absence, and their PR problems only got worse after they shipped Moss out of town.
Let's face it: It was a bad move by the Vikings either way. The Vikings were very lucky that injuries and the Black Hole of Suck that is the Raiders' offense sapped Moss of much of his productivity, because an even mildly healthy Moss on a respectable team would have made the Vikings look stupid every week, just as he is making the Patriots look like geniuses now.
Keep in mind, folks, that Moss has had a single bad season in his entire professional career (last year). He has had eight, going on nine, good to great ones. The exposure of 2006 as an outlier in an otherwise brilliant career should surprise nobody.
#43: Actually, the trade had more to do with former owner Red McCombs flipping MN the big bird on his way out of town (link in my name.) If current owner Wulf had had his way, Moss would still be a Viking.
BTW, the Wulf piece is near the end of the article...
CA, when your best wr walks off the field, when the team is an onsides kick and a hail mary away from getting a win that looks like is needed to make the playoffs, you are not going to get the player's best efforts anymore, and that is likely going to show up in his injury status. Yes, the vast majority of injuries are perfectly legitimate, but it is also true that when a guy gets disgusted, he is far more likely to be off the field due to injury. When Moss went to Oakland, I predicted that he would lose significant time to injury, and that his behavior would make the team as a whole more difficult to coach. I was right. When he went to New England, I predicted that he likely would fit in fine, and have a great season, and that prediction looks good too. None of this is because I am so good at predicting player performance; it is pretty easily observable that Moss' level of interest in playing the game is highly correlated with how he views his teammates.
Oh, there is no doubt that McCombs' desire to squeeze every last nickel out of the team before selling it was a major motivation for the trade; I just didn't argue with it much because Moss had quit on the team.
This is a pretty much a case study in the limitation of DVOA. While it's great at separating the player out from the surrounding game situation, it does nothing to separate the player from his surrounding teammates, system, coaching, etc.
That's true, vern, and we should give Aaron credit for frequently saying that player x's DVOA does not mean he is the best, but rather player x's DVOA indicates that he is the best while surrounded by those particular teammates.
Re: 46, 47 I just didn't argue with it much because Moss had quit on the team.
Well, it sure didn't look like Moss had quit on his team when, just a week after walking off the field two seconds early against the Redskins, a still-hobbled Moss took the field and scored two TDs against the Packers in the playoffs. Moss might have quit on the Raiders last year (I don't know if he did or didn't, but it's a plausible explanation for his struggles), but I don't believe he ever quit or would have quit on the Vikings.
Well, CA, it seems to me that if a guy can't be said to have given up on a team as long as he plays hard in a playoff game where nearly everything goes right, that is an extraordinarily low standard to meet. I'd say it's more reasonable to assert that when a guy walks off the field when it looks like two plays are needed to make the playoffs, however unlikely, and the guy in question is one of the most likely candidates to make one of the needed plays, he has quit on his teammates, period.
#51: Will, it's obvious we're both Viking fans. I see that walkoff in Wash a little differently. Granted I'm a bit of a Moss apologist (insurmountable as that job was over the years) but I read it as disgust over the playcalling, which drove me crazy as well. I don't remember the exact timeframe of his quote over Tice's ability to lead the team to a SB, but I want to say it was shortly after that short-lived playoff run.
Again, not excusing Moss' actions or decisions, just presenting a different light.
In addition, there have been other - more respected - players to have walked off on their teams during a tough game. I seem to remember Favre doing once upon a time, but I could be crossing it with another player.
I guess that's why I thought the trade was bad, I figured Moss could still approach his peak production with the Vikings. He still wanted to be there. Does he do stupid things? Yes. Do a lot of them get overblown? In my eyes they do. Him walking off before an onsides attempt seemed to me to be more disgust than quitting. Was it stupid? Yeah. He is the sort of talent that can make a good QB look great and an ok offense look good. That is almost impossible to come by in the NFL.
Its also nice to see you belittle his effort in a playoff game where 'everything went right'. Good point, obviously him being there and playing had nothing to do with that. All the Vikings playoff games since then have gone swimmingly. Maybe we can count the fact that he only had good games when the offense was clicking against him too.
My post was in process when yours landed, glad I'm not the only one who saw that as disgust.
Quitting is quitting, and being disgusted doesn't even explain it. He was disgusted. So what? Here are facts: the team was two unlikely plays away from winning a game which at the time was seen as being very likely necesssary to get into the playoffs. Randy Moss was a critical player for the success of the 2nd play. Randy Moss instead decided to walk off the field. He's a quitter, period, in regards to the Minnesota Vikings, and no rhetoric can change that. Facts are stubborn things.
As far as Favre quitting, show me a situation where the Packers were two plays away from winning a game that was seen as critical for playoff hopes, in which Favre decided to leave the field.
By the why, I'm not a Moss hater, and I've said nothing to belittle his effort against the packers in that playoff game. I said he played hard in a game in which there was very little adversity. That's another fact. Why is in necessary to gloss over the reality that walking off the field in the manner Moss did, in that situation, constitutes quitting. Why is preferable to deny reality?
As far as Moss still wanting to be in Minnesota, I gotta say that walking off the field in that situation is an extremely odd way to demonstrate that desire.
Having watched almost every Raider game last season without any bias, I was able to predict that Moss was still an elite talent.
You simply could not underestimate how little he was trying. He did not care if he caught the ball or not... he ran at 80% to where he was probably supposed to run to, and stuck his hands out, if the ball stayed in them, fine, if not, oh well.
I would say his Oaktown stats had less predictive value than the Saints Katrina year.
Regarding the title: what's the DVOA or DPAR definition of a "superstar"? DPAR > 30???
Of course superstardom usually correlates with popularity, but that isn't being quantified in this article or on this website.
I feel like the answer here, is probably the simplest one. Football, more than any other sport you need your teammates to have talent to succeed. In basketball if you're Lebron James you can have your teammates clear out as you tear through the D. In baseball you take the mound or step into the box and you're working with your teammates but to a large degree you're on your own. In football it seems to me everyone is a cog, the best players will stand out even on dismal teams but there's still only so much they can do if they are surrounded with nothing. Maybe Moss could have done more than he actually did in Oakland but how much can you really expect in a situation that awful?
Hi Fellow Viking Fans,
Look at the tape of the 75 playoff game against Dallas. Page and Eller walk off the field with 48 seconds left. I enjoy Will's Vikings commentary, but I don't think Will realizes the extent with which Moss carried dunderheads like Tice and Culpepper.
Will, do you remember the Randy Ratio? Tice had the intelligence of a third grader.
Randy Moss was simply the best Viking player ever; and the Vikings shat on him on his way out. Randy Moss has made me root for the stinking Patriots while I wait a decade for Tarvaris to develop.
Randy Moss didn't quit on the Vikings. He simply made three OUTSTANDING catches in that Redskins loss, and watched Nate Burleson drop a sure touchdown, and just got burned out playing with losers. Todd Boman's, Gus Frerotte's, and Jeff George's spectacular success with Moss show Moss was an incandescent, nuclear receiver who just said enoughs enough.
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The 45-year-old coach wasted no time in strengthening his striking options with the acquisition of the Germany international as a replacement for Shinji Kagawa, who left for Manchester United.
Reus, who represented his country at Euro 2012, rejoned his boyhood club for an equivalent sum of €17.5m, a figure Klopp is now suggesting not to reflect the true value of the 23-year-old's talent.
"If we had signed Reus any later, he would have cost much more," Klopp explained to Bild. "We got him cheap, even if it was still for €17.5m."
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CHICAGO, Illinois -- Sami Samir "Sammy" Hassoun has had his bail denied and is set to appear in court on charges of violating a terrorism-era "three-strikes" law against triply-stupid criminals.
Mr. Hassoun, a 22-year-old citizen of Lebanon who is a permanent resident of the U.S., planted what he thought was a bomb in a sports lounge just south of the Wrigley Field baseball stadium in Chicago. He had talked about committing acts of violence for monetary gain and to cause political transformation. Assassinating the mayor was another notion he had, except of course for the bodyguards; as was poisoning Lake Michigan, which is sort of large.
Unfortunately for Mr. Hassoun, the bomb was a fake; and his supposed accomplices, who supplied him the "bomb," were actually agents of the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force. According to the FBI, it was merely a paint can dressed up to look like a bomb.
Says Waseem Hashlamoun, someone who knew Mr. Hassoun: "The Islamist suicide-bombing force is inexperienced, and they don't make the best of decisions. There are no veterans of suicide bombings on the force at all."
Mr. Hassoun's third mistake was to target hundreds of fans of the Chicago Cubs baseball team. Says Mr. Hashlamoun, "Sammy just didn't realize that these people actually would be better off dead. Many of them want to be dead. Their team hasn't won a championship in 102 years. What point would there be to deal more mayhem and sadness to this pathetic population?"
This additional mistake may trigger the Illinois "three-strikes" law, passed a decade ago to cover cases of crime committed by morons. Though it takes its name from the sport of baseball, it actually covers triply-stupid acts in all fields of endeavor. The only time the law had been used is against Steve Bartman, who in 2003 reached onto the field of play and deflected a batted ball, denying hometown player Moisés Alou an easy catch and costing the Cubs the pennant, probably. This single act was ruled triply stupid and Mr. Bartman is currently in prison in Joliet, along with the Blues Brothers.
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|Application of Biomass Energy Technologies (HABITAT, 1993, 168 p.)
The island States of the South Pacific are generally dependent on imported fossil fuels. Due to the high oil prices in the early 1980s and plentiful indigenous biomass resources (on the larger islands), there was considerable interest in installing biomass gasification units for electricity production and crop drying. Available resources include residues from over 600,000 ha of copra plantations and almost 44.5 million ha of forested areas (Sanday and Lloyd, 1991). The main impetus for the introduction of power gasifiers into the South Pacific region was the European Community-funded Lome II Pacific Region Energy Programme (PREP) in 1983/84. This proposed, and budgeted for, 17 gasifier projects, but finally, only two were installed, both considerably reduced in scale, capacity and cost relative to the original proposals. Other gasifier units were also installed privately in the region. Sanday and Lloyd (1991) of the Energy Studies Unit (ESU) at the University of the South Pacific carried out a survey and monitoring programme of all power and heat gasifiers. They found that of the 16 power gasifiers installed altogether, only one was known to be still operating satisfactorily, the rest having ceased operation. Similarly, for the Waterwide heat gasifiers installed in Papua New Guinea, only 20 out of 80 were still in use in January 1990, and most of the other documented heat gasifiers in this region were also expected to have shut down.
The operational problems were thought mainly to be due to flaws in original designs resulting in shortened plant lifetime. The systems installed experienced severe operational and design problems that should have been solved prior to installation in remote sites. To Sanday and Lloyd (1991, p. 17) it seemed
that the Pacific Islands have been used as experimental stations for technologies that have not been proven in industrial countries. (Furthermore,) gasifiers have often quickly deteriorated resulting from mismanagement of operational and maintenance procedures, and the persisting hostile operational environment.
Most of the manufacturers were external to the region, some based as far away as Europe. Therefore, there was a lack of spare parts and skilled technicians to carry out maintenance and repair work. This situation was exacerbated by the fact that five of the six manufacturers who supplied systems to the region in the last decade went out of business. There was also a lack of infrastructure support within the region as personnel trained in gasifier technology were extremely scarce, so ordinary mechanics and technicians were often called on to carry out repair work with limited success. Since the gasifier locations were scattered amongst different islands it was difficult and costly to locate maintenance services and they could not be promptly available. Information on the technology was limited and usually in the form of papers for academics and other technical personnel rather than being designed for potential end-users.
The availability of biomass feedstocks may have been over-estimated originally, and the quality these feedstocks and their erratic supplies resulted in intermittent gasifier operation with some systems being periodically shut down. The shortages due to lack of fuelwood supplies were compounded by domestic cooking receiving priority, difficulties associated with land availability and ownership, and soil salinity problems when replanting programmes were used (Sanday and Lloyd, 1991, p. x). Also, lacking were schemes to collect scattered fuel and the failure to implement tree replanting programmes. Furthermore, the Waterwide heat gasifiers experienced problems with smoke contamination affecting the quality of dried agricultural products and causing heavy financial losses; this was mainly due to improper use.
Repetitive breakdowns and lack of maintenance support meant gasifier operators usually preferred to choose diesel systems which had been proved to be relatively successful and user-friendly in such situations. Furthermore, initial capital costs of gasifiers were high and unable to compete with equivalent diesel sets at current diesel fuel prices. All the problems experienced appear to have discouraged further developments towards implementation of gasifier technology in the region. Most success was found with small wood and husk-fuelled gasifiers installed in Papua New Guinea for agro-drying applications. The single power gasifier that was still operational, a BECE unit in Vanuatu, connected with a school, was successful due to the availability of wood fuels, the commitment of the operators and the school management and the fortune to have a very gifted and enthusiastic support staff as one of the teachers at the school.


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