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Which Remaining Free Agent Relievers Are Coming Off The Best Seasons?
By Anthony Franco | December 26, 2022 at 4:45pm CDT
The offseason floodgates opened this month, with an avalanche of free agent activity once the Winter Meetings got underway. Things have quieted down in recent days thanks to the holidays, but clubs are likely to again get back to attacking the free agent market in earnest this week.
Most of the winter's top names are off the board, leaving teams to mostly look through lower-cost options as they search for upgrades on the margins of the roster. There are still a number of experienced options available, particularly for teams seeking to round out the bullpen. Using MLBTR's free agent list, we find 47 pitchers who tossed at least 20 innings out of a team's bullpen in 2022 and remain unsigned.
We'll sort the remaining free agent relievers by various metrics of 2022 performance to identify some of the top arms. There are obviously other factors for teams to consider — quality of raw stuff, pre-2022 track record, the player's injury history, etc. — but a brief snapshot on the top bullpen arms by last year's performance should provide a decent starting point for players teams might target moving forward. (All figures cited, including league averages, are looking solely at pitchers' outings as relievers).
ERA (league average — 3.86)
Matt Moore (LHP), 1.95
Alex Young (LHP), 2.08
Matt Wisler (RHP), 2.23
Wily Peralta (RHP), 2.72
Brad Hand (LHP), 2.80
Andrew Chafin (LHP), 2.83
David Phelps (RHP), 2.87
Ralph Garza Jr. (RHP), 3.34
Jackson Stephens (RHP), 3.38
Michael Fulmer (RHP), 3.39
Strikeout rate (league average — 23.6%)
Daniel Norris (LHP), 30%
Darren O'Day (RHP), 27.7%
Andrew Chafin, 27.6%
Matt Moore, 27.3%
Aroldis Chapman (LHP), 26.9%
Steve Cishek (RHP), 25.8%
Chasen Shreve (LHP), 25.4%
Will Smith (LHP), 24.9%
David Phelps, 23.9%
Noé Ramirez, 23.7%
Strikeout/walk rate differential (league average — 14.5 percentage points)
Andrew Chafin, 19.8 points
Daniel Norris, 19 points
Darren O'Day, 17 points
Chasen Shreve, 16.7 points
Steve Cishek, 16.4 points
Craig Stammen (RHP), 15.7 points
Will Smith, 15.3 points
Matt Moore, 14.8 points
Ross Detwiler (LHP), 14.8 points
Luke Weaver (RHP), 13.8 points
Ground-ball rate (league average — 43.5%)
Luis Perdomo (RHP), 62.5%
Joe Smith (RHP), 57.5%
Alex Young, 55.7%
Alex Colomé (RHP), 55.6%
T.J. McFarland (LHP), 53%
Craig Stammen, 52.6%
Garrett Richards (RHP), 52.4%
Bryan Shaw (RHP), 51.8%
Jacob Barnes (RHP), 50.7%
FIP (league average — 3.86)
Luke Weaver, 2.46
Alex Young, 2.65
Matt Moore, 2.98
Andrew Chafin, 3.06
David Phelps, 3.11
Garrett Richards, 3.16
Jackson Stephens, 3.45
Michael Fulmer, 3.57
Brad Hand, 3.93
Darren O'Day, 4.04
Matt Moore, 74
Caleb Smith (LHP), 69
Steve Cishek, 66 1/3
Michael Fulmer, 63 2/3
David Phelps, 62 2/3
Hunter Strickland (RHP), 62 1/3
Will Smith, 59
Andrew Chafin, 57 1/3
Bryan Shaw, 54
Jackson Stephens/Hirokazu Sawamura (RHP), 50 2/3 each
2022-23 MLB Free Agents MLBTR Originals Alex Colome Alex Young Andrew Chafin Aroldis Chapman Brad Hand Bryan Shaw Caleb Smith Chasen Shreve Craig Stammen Daniel Norris Darren O'Day David Phelps Garrett Richards Hirokazu Sawamura Hunter Strickland Jackson Stephens Jacob Barnes Joe Smith Luis Perdomo Luke Weaver Matt Moore Matt Wisler Michael Fulmer Noe Ramirez Ralph Garza Ross Detwiler Steve Cishek T.J. McFarland Will Smith Wily Peralta
Ross Detwiler Elects Free Agency
By Anthony Franco | August 31, 2022 at 9:19pm CDT
Reliever Ross Detwiler has gone unclaimed on outright waivers and elected minor league free agency, the Reds announced this evening. Cincinnati had designated him for assignment this week.
Detwiler signed a minor league deal with the Reds in April. Not long thereafter, he made the big league roster. The southpaw pitched in 30 games, tossing 26 1/3 innings out of the bullpen. Detwiler managed only a 4.44 ERA over that stretch, although he posted roughly league average strikeout and walk numbers. He fanned 23% of opponents against an 8.2% walk percentage, but the 14-year MLB veteran served up five home runs (1.71 HR/9).
It's the second straight season with an ERA well above 4.00 for Detwiler, but he's only a year removed from punching out an impressive 27.1% of hitters with the Marlins and Padres in 2021. He's typically been an effective left-handed specialist in the majors, although southpaws have hit at a solid .275/.339/.373 clip through 56 plate appearances this season.
The 36-year-old now heads back to the open market and can look to catch on elsewhere for the stretch run. Detwiler would have to sign somewhere else within the next two hours to be eligible for another team's postseason roster, but a club could look into adding him as a depth arm for the final month of the regular season alone. Detwiler was released by Miami last September, but he signed a big league deal with the Padres for the final couple weeks of that season. San Diego didn't wind up making the postseason regardless, but Detwiler's addition was strictly about trying to stockpile bullpen depth to get the Friars into the playoffs.
Cincinnati Reds Transactions Ross Detwiler
Reds Select Derek Law, Designate Ross Detwiler
By Darragh McDonald | August 30, 2022 at 3:40pm CDT
The Reds announced that they have selected the contract of right-hander Derek Law, with left-hander Ross Detwiler being designated for assignment in a corresponding move. Additionally, infielder/outfielder Max Schrock, who was designated yesterday, has been released.
Law is a veteran who turns 32 years old in two weeks. He's previously suited up for the Giants, Blue Jays, Twins and Tigers in his career, having appeared in 178 career games with a 4.22 ERA. He began this season on a minor league deal with Detroit, getting selected to the big league club at the end of July. After just two appearances, he was designated for assignment before electing free agency and signing a minor league deal with the Reds.
He's performed well in Triple-A this year, registering a 3.23 ERA while with in the Tigers' organization and an even better 1.13 since joining the Reds. Between the two, he's thrown 47 Triple-A innings on the year with a 2.87 ERA, 24.7% strikeout rate and 6.8% walk rate.
In order to make room for Law, the Reds are cutting the 36-year-old Detwiler from the roster. Signed to a minor league deal in the offseason, the southpaw was selected to the big league roster in May. Since then, he's thrown 26 1/3 innings out of Cincy's bullpen with a 4.44 ERA, 23% strikeout rate, 8.2% walk rate and 38.3% ground ball rate.
Since the trade deadline has passed, the Reds will have to place him on outright waivers or release waivers. If he is claimed prior to 11:59pm ET on August 31, he will be eligible for that team's postseason roster. If he clears, he would have the ability to reject an outright assignment and elect free agency, as a player with over five years of MLB service time.
As for Schrock, he was designated for assignment yesterday but has been on the minor league injured list for a while. Injured players can't be placed on outright waivers, making this release an inevitability.
Cincinnati Reds Transactions Derek Law Max Schrock Ross Detwiler
Reds Select Buck Farmer, Place Ross Detwiler On 15-Day Injured List
By TC Zencka | July 9, 2022 at 2:40pm CDT
The Reds placed Ross Detwiler on the 15-day injured list and selected the contract of Buck Farmer, per the club.
The veteran Detwiler experienced a kind of renaissance last season, appearing in more than 20 games for the first time since 2015. If he's healthy, the Reds will likely listen to offers for the southpaw, should there be a contending team looking for a low-cost southpaw to add to the pen. Detwiler has a 4.20 ERA/4.97 FIP in 18 appearances totaling 15.0 innings for the Reds this season.
Farmer, 31, pitched for Detroit from 2014 until 2021, an eight-year span that included 241 appearances (21 starts). He left the Tigers with a 5.33 ERA/5.04 FIP over 320 2/3 innings. He was most prolific from 2018-2019 when he made 139 appearances with a solid 3.94 ERA/4.17 FIP.
He has made 10 appearances with the Reds this season, giving up nine earned runs in 12 innings with a 17-to-7 strikeout to walk ratio. He's been solid in Triple-A, however, with a 3.63 ERA across 22 1/3 innings in relief.
Cincinnati Reds Transactions Buck Farmer Ross Detwiler
Reds Select Ross Detwiler, Designate Robert Dugger
By Darragh McDonald | May 14, 2022 at 3:00pm CDT
The Reds announced that they have selected the contract of left-hander Ross Detwiler. To make room for him on the 40-man roster, righty Robert Dugger has been designated for assignment.
Detwiler, 36, has appeared in 13 MLB seasons dating back to 2007. Last year, he pitched for both the Marlins and the Padres, logging 52 1/3 frames with a 4.64 ERA. Working with a changed pitch mix, Detwiller completely altered his profile last year. Swapping out sinkers for four-seam fastballs, he sacrificed grounders but gained strikeouts. After getting worm burners above 50% for three years in a row from 2018-2020, it dropped to 39.9 in 2021. His strikeout rate, which had been around 15% for most of his career, jumped to 27.1% last year.
Signed by the Reds to a minor league deal in April, the southpaw has thrown seven innings for the Triple-A Louisville Bats. That's obviously a tiny sample size, but he has a 3.86 ERA with a 40% ground ball rate, 21.9% strikeout rate and 15.6% walk rate. With Justin Wilson on the IL and Phillip Diehl designated for assignment last week, the club has been without a lefty in the bullpen until they added Detwiler today.
As for Dugger, this is his third time being designated for assignment in the past couple of weeks. He was selected by the Rays at the beginning of May and given 5 1/3 innings of mop-up duty just before the roster size was set to shrink from 28 to 26. After that outing, he was put on waivers and claimed by the Reds. Cincy gave him three more innings of mop-up work, designated him again, outrighted him to Triple-A and then selected his contract two days later. This time, he's sent back out into DFA limbo without the mop-up duty, as he still just has the two appearances on the year.
Cincinnati Reds Transactions Robert Dugger Ross Detwiler
Reds Sign Ross Detwiler To Minor League Deal
By Steve Adams | April 18, 2022 at 12:20pm CDT
The Reds have signed lefty Ross Detwiler to a minor league contract, per Baseball America's Chris Hilburn-Trenkle. The CAA client hasn't yet been assigned to an affiliate, but his deal with the team is also reflected on the Reds' transactions log at MLB.com.
Detwiler, 36, split the 2021 season between the Marlins and Padres, working to a combined 4.64 ERA with a 27.1% strikeout rate, an 8.7% walk rate and a 39.9% ground-ball rate in 52 1/3 innings. Detwiler made five starts, albeit working primarily as an opener, though his work to kick off games did not go well. The well-traveled southpaw notched a 2.82 ERA as a reliever while holding opponents to an awful .186/.287/.311 batting line. As a starter, he tossed 7 2/3 innings and was clobbered for 13 runs on 14 hits (seven homers) and three walks, with opponents batting .378/.439/1.054.
The former No. 6 overall draft pick has had plenty of experience pitching both out of rotations and bullpens in the big leagues, but he's been far more effective as a reliever late in his career. That goes beyond just the 2021 season; Detwiler had a nice year with the White Sox in 2020, tossing 19 2/3 innings with a 3.20 ERA out of the bullpen. Dating back to 2018, Detwiler has a 4.12 ERA, 22.1% strikeout rate and 8.2% walk rate in 83 innings as a reliever. Working as a starter in that time, he's been tagged for a 6.96 ERA with just a 15.9% strikeout rate.
While Detwiler could technically give the Reds some rotation depth at a time when both Luis Castillo and Mike Minor are on the injured list, that recent track record makes him seem far likelier to serve as left-handed bullpen depth. Justin Wilson is currently the only lefty reliever in manager David Bell's bullpen, and Cincinnati doesn't have another lefty option on the 40-man roster. Former Rockies reliever Phillip Diehl is in Triple-A Louisville, and Detwiler seems likely to join him there as an upper-level option once he gets built up.
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Padres Sign Ross Detwiler To Major League Contract
By Anthony Franco | September 14, 2021 at 7:40pm CDT
The Padres announced they've signed reliever Ross Detwiler to a major league contract. Righty Shaun Anderson was optioned to Triple-A El Paso to clear active roster space. San Diego already had a vacancy on the 40-man roster, so no move was necessary in that regard.
Detwiler had previously spent the entire 2021 campaign with the Marlins, who signed him to a one-year, $850K guarantee over the offseason. The veteran southpaw spent the year as a bullpen option for Miami manager Don Mattingly, working primarily in lower-leverage situations. Detwiler made 46 appearances (including five starts as an opener) and worked 45 1/3 innings of 4.96 ERA ball.
It has been an interesting season for Detwiler, who has revamped his plan of attack. Generally a low-strikeout, ground-ball oriented hurler, he's tweaked his pitch mix and gotten wildly different results than he has in years past. Detwiler has cut his sinker usage nearly in half in favor of a more four-seam heavy approach. That has resulted in a career-best strikeout rate (28%), with hitters taking a career-high 19.2% of his offerings for called strikes. But it's come with an accompanying dip in ground balls, as Detwiler has gone from inducing grounders on more than half the balls in play against him between 2019-20 down to 39.7% this season.
With Detwiler nearing free agency anyways, the non-contending Marlins designated him for assignment and released him over the weekend. Miami will remain on the hook for the majority of Detwiler's remaining salary, with the Friars responsible for paying him only the prorated portion of the league minimum for his final couple weeks of work.
Detwiler signs with San Diego after August 31, so he won't be eligible for the Padres' postseason roster if the team makes it to the playoffs. The 35-year-old will get an opportunity to pitch in meaningful games down the stretch, though, as he tries to help the Friars get into the postseason before again reaching free agency this winter.
For the Padres, there's no real harm in bringing Detwiler aboard. They enter play tonight tied with the Cardinals, half a game behind the Reds for the National League's final playoff spot. Their season quite obviously hangs in the balance over their final nineteen games, but the pitching staff continues to deal with injuries. Chris Paddack landed on the injured list last night, and Blake Snell left his most recent start early. Detwiler's not a true rotation option at this stage of his career, but he's capable of shouldering an inning or two to deepen an overall pitching staff that might have to rely on a few bullpen games down the stretch.
San Diego Padres Transactions Ross Detwiler
Minor MLB Transactions: 9/12/21
By Darragh McDonald | September 12, 2021 at 4:01pm CDT
Some minor moves from around the league:
The Marlins have released left-hander Ross Detwiler, according to the MLB.com transactions page. Detwiler had been designated for assignment on Tuesday. The release is largely a formality, as Detwiler had the ability to reject an outright assignment. The 35-year-old will now see if there are any offers available for him on the open market. He would not be eligible to appear in the playoffs with any new club, since it is after the August 31st deadline. But he could potentially help a team absorb some innings down the stretch. In 45 1/3 innings this year, he has an elevated ERA of 4.96. However, his 28% strikeout rate is a career high, though that's also come with a career-low ground ball rate of 39.7%.
The Cardinals reinstated minor-league righty Johan Quezada from the 60-day injured list, according to a team announcement. Right-hander Junior Fernandez is going the other direction, landing himself on the 60-day injured list, according to Jeff Jones of the Belleville News-Democrat. Quezada was acquired from the Phillies in the offseason but hasn't been able to pitch much this year due to injuries. The 27-year-old has thrown 16 2/3 innings between the Florida Complex League and Double-A. As for Fernandez, this IL placement will end his season. He racked up a lot of mileage shuttling between Triple-A and MLB this year, being recalled and optioned five times. He'll finish the season with an ERA of 5.66 over 20 2/3 innings in the big leagues, along with identical strikeout and walk rates of 15.5%. In 14 1/3 Triple-A innings, his ERA is higher, 6.28, but with much better strikeout and walk rates of 33.3% and 7.6%, respectively.
Miami Marlins St. Louis Cardinals Transactions Johan Quezada Junior Fernandez Ross Detwiler
Marlins Designate Ross Detwiler, Select Eddy Alvarez
By Mark Polishuk | September 7, 2021 at 2:48pm CDT
The Marlins announced that left-hander Ross Detwiler has been designated for assignment. The move opens up space for Eddy Alvarez to join Miami's roster for the first time this season, as the infielder's contract has been selected from Triple-A Jacksonville.
After working as a low-strikeout, groundball specialist for his first 12 Major League seasons, Detwiler flipped the script in 2021 after inking a one-year deal with Miami last winter. Detwiler's increased use of a slider has elevated his strikeout rate to 28% over 45 1/3 frames for the Marlins, exactly double the 14% strikeout rate he carried over the rest of his career. Detwiler's grounder rate has also dropped to 39.7% (from 47% prior to 2020).
Unfortunately for Detwiler, he hasn't had much luck this season. While he has a 3.38 SIERA and .299 xwOBA, his actual ERA (4.96) and wOBA (.328) are much less flattering. He has worked almost entirely as a relief pitcher this season while making five "starts" as an opener, and two of those outings were responsible for much of the damage to Detwiler's ERA. If you subtract the 3 2/3 innings and 13 runs allowed over those two rough starts (July 7 against the Dodgers and July 19 against the Nationals), Detwiler has a 2.59 ERA over his remaining 41 2/3 innings of work.
Given this overall solid track record, it is a little surprising to see Detwiler hit the DFA wire, though the Marlins might simply want to give some opportunity to younger pitchers. It seems quite possible that another club (perhaps a contender looking for left-handed relief depth) will claim Detwiler away from Miami. Detwiler wouldn't be eligible for postseason play since he would be joining a new team after August 31, though he could certainly help a team on the bubble get into the playoffs.
A waiver claim would mean absorbing the approximately $108K remaining on Detwiler's original $850K salary for the season, but that is hardly a hefty sum to add to a payroll, unless a team is in a major luxury tax crunch. If Detwiler isn't claimed, he has the right to reject an outright assignment from the Marlins and choose free agency.
Alvarez made his MLB debut last season, appearing in 12 games with his hometown Marlins and hitting .189/.268/.216 over 41 plate appearances. Perhaps best known for his two-sport exploits, Alvarez was an accomplished speed skater who won a silver medal as part of the U.S. 5000m relay team at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. Alvarez compounded that success by winning a silver medal as a member of the American baseball team at this year's Summer Olympics in Tokyo, making him just the sixth athlete in history to capture medals in different sports at both the Winter and Summer Games.
Miami Marlins Transactions Eddy Alvarez Ross Detwiler
NL Notes: Nationals, Giants, Rockies, Marlins
By Anthony Franco | February 21, 2021 at 3:28pm CDT
Teams contacted the Nationals about third baseman Carter Kieboom this offseason, manager Dave Martinez told reporters (including Todd Dybas of NBC Sports Washington). Kieboom hasn't found any success at the MLB level to date, but it's no surprise rival clubs would have interest in the 23-year-old. Washington held onto the former top prospect, who looks like the favorite to open the season as the starter at the hot corner.
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Stephen Strasburg had a normal offseason, he told reporters today (via Mark Zuckerman of MASNsports.com). The Nationals star right-hander was limited to five innings last season by carpal tunnel syndrome in his throwing hand. Fortunately, the procedure he underwent last summer addressed the issue. The former World Series MVP will be a key piece in the Nats' hopes of contending in a difficult NL East.
Giants president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi discussed the team's newest addition to the pitching staff this afternoon (via Andrew Baggarly of the Athletic). Right-hander Shun Yamaguchi, who worked exclusively out of the bullpen last season for the Blue Jays, will come to camp as a starting pitcher. The 33-year-old can opt out of his minor-league deal at the end of spring training if he doesn't make the team, Zaidi said. That's a rather typical feature for non-roster arrangements.
When Rockies outfielder Ian Desmond opted out of the 2020 season, Colorado signed Matt Kemp the following day. With Desmond announcing his intent to sit out in 2021 as well, some speculation had arisen the Rockies could again turn to Kemp, who is back in free agency. Colorado manager Bud Black cast doubt on the idea, though, telling reporters (including Patrick Saunders of the Denver Post) the organization hasn't recently discussed signing Kemp, even though Desmond had notified the team he was considering opting out a few weeks ago.
The Marlins signed Ross Detwiler to a one-year contract in January. Detwiler has started 95 games across his 12-year MLB career (including 12 starts for the 2019 White Sox). However, Miami views the veteran southpaw as strictly a bullpen option in 2021, manager Don Mattingly told reporters (including Craig Mish of SportsGrid). Detwiler worked solely in relief for Chicago in 2020, tossing 19.2 innings of 3.20 ERA/3.90 SIERA ball.
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Women's basketball smothers Central Florida 72-37 as Bruins knock down 11 three-pointers
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The women's basketball team picked up their second win of the season after beating the University of Central Florida 72-37 at the Curb Event Center on Saturday night.
The Bruins' match up with the Golden Knights was the first meeting between the two programs since the 2005-2006 season, and the Knights came into the game off of the momentum of beating a Power 5 opponent in Pittsburgh Wednesday night.
Sophomore point guard Jamilyn Kinney returned to the starting lineup after missing the season opener versus Chattanooga due to injury, and Ellie Harmeyer followed up her 22-point, 20-rebound performance on Wednesday with another double-double, this time scoring 14 points and grabbing 12 rebounds. Maddie Wright led all scorers with 17 points, adding nine rebounds as well.
"It feels really good," coach Bart Brooks said. "We knew we could beat them, I'm not sure we thought we could beat them like we beat them. Huge credit to our players for their focus, their commitment to the game, and then for their toughness to weather the storm."
UCF came out swinging, scoring their first six points in four minutes, all of which came from mid-range jump shots. The Knights' offense early in the game was apparently designed to open up looks for guards to create their own shots.
UCF followed their aggressive offensive start with a scoring drought that lasted over five minutes, but they played persistent defense for the entire quarter. The Knights utilized a fast-paced zone defense to collapse on the ball handler and put pressure on the Bruins in half and full-court presses.
"That's a really hard team to play against with their defensive pressure, a really unique team to prepare for," Coach Brooks said.
Late in the quarter, Conley Chinn blocked a shot to force a jump ball that resulted in one of four first quarter turnovers forced by the Bruins. Chinn went on to drain a three-pointer from the corner, the first three-point make by either team, a minute later.
The Bruins finished the quarter when Wright posted up for a lay-in as the last few seconds ticked away. Belmont led 13-8 after the first quarter, during which UCF's coach was vocal with her frustration toward the referees on multiple occasions.
Chinn made her second three-pointer of the game less than a minute into the second quarter, beginning the barrage of Bruins threes. Maura Muensterman then knocked down deep threes on consecutive possessions, paving the way for the Bruins to finish the first half with a 31-17 lead.
Muensterman's second quarter, which featured nine points on three three-pointers and two rebounds, was the key to her successful night.
"We were moving the ball great, and I had the easy job," Muensterman said. "If it wasn't for my teammates finding me and hitting me when I was open, that wouldn't have been possible at all. It was exciting to see us move the ball like that as a whole."
The Bruins opened up the third quarter with layups by Chinn, Muensterman, and Wright, and held UCF scoreless for the first three minutes of the third quarter.
About halfway through the third quarter, Jamilyn Kinney recorded her first points of the season on a three-pointer assisted by Muensterman, who recorded another assist a few possessions later when she found Chinn for another corner three, extending the Bruins' lead to 45-22.
With less than a minute to play in the third quarter, Harmeyer grabbed an offensive rebound and took the ball back into the lane, drawing a foul on a made layup. Though she didn't make the free throw, Wright hauled in an offensive rebound of her own and scored two more points on a turnaround jumper to put the Bruins up 55-26 at the end of the third quarter.
Kinney added onto her strong season debut when she drilled another three on the Bruins' first possession of the fourth quarter. Wright followed Kinney's second three-point make with her first three of the evening on an assist for Kiki Britzmann, who drove up the floor and found Wright in the corner.
The Bruins reached the 70-point mark, as sophomore Grace Smith came into the game and pulled up for a three to extend the Bruins' lead to 71-37 with only a minute to play. One final made free throw by Britzmann brought the lead up to 72-37, matching the largest lead of the game at 35 points as the buzzer sounded on the Bruins' blowout victory.
Coach Brooks reflected on the addition of Kinney to the starting lineup as she returned from a one-game absence.
"I think it puts everyone at ease because everyone's back to their normal positions, and Jamilyn is a really good player," Brooks said. "In the second half I think everyone saw how good she's going to be, shooting the basketball and making plays for her team. I'm really excited to have her back."
The Bruins will head to Bowling Green on Wednesday to face cross-state rival Western Kentucky University as they look to pick up their third consecutive win to start the season.
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The sun is shining upon this small stretch of Northwest. I've been dieting and exercising the whole week and I didn't have a single headache. I haven't checked my weight on the scale—according to the app I'm using, I'll be three pound less in two years anyway—but I do feel lighter. Since the day promises to get better, after lunch, I'll go out for a walk with Nero.
Allegra was already out of breath and looked at the steep climb with dread.
He squeezed her hand. "Of course you are." If he had said out loud, "Good try," it wouldn't have been clearer.
The looters were descending, running toward them, but apart from the noise their shoes stomping on the ground made, no words were spoken. It was unsettling.
She smiled against his shirt at his attempt of calming her. A small pebble pocked her right tight and she focused on the discomfort rapidly morphing into pain. The ache grounded her in the moment and didn't let her think of what would happen if the looters saw them.
"The grass is tall enough to cover us," he whispered in her ear.
The sound of approaching steps made her heart skip several beats.
I really hope the grass is tall enough to hide them. I really liked how vivid the description was, lots of powerful verbs and adjectives that pulled me into the scene and had my heart racing with Allegra's.
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By Brian Whittemore on October 25, 2014 Comments Off on Police Use of Force Concerning Many [Graphic Video]
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In the wake of several recent news events concerning tragic consequences from police' use of force, many are questioning the direction law enforcement policies and procedures are heading in the United States and across the world. While public sentiment continues to express that it understands and respects the necessity of police intervention in potentially dangerous situations, serious concerns remain about guidelines regarding the use, and extent, of such force.
In what is likely the most visible of many scenarios concerning police use of force in recent months, Amnesty International released a report today accusing officers in Ferguson, Missouri of human rights abuses in their response to protests over the death of Michael Brown. The report documented events observed by Amnesty International delegates at the protests between Aug. 14 and 22. Among their primary concerns, the delegates reported on an arsenal of non-lethal weapons such as new and exotic long-range acoustic devices, along with tactics such as enforcing a "Five second keep walking" rule. The thrust of their report seemed to be that they believe the actions they observed were indicative of a strategy to intimidate protesters.
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Another such incident that recently made headlines was the death of Misty Holt-Singh while a hostage in a Stockton, California bank robbery on July 16, 2014. A preliminary ballistics report released Aug. 11 indicated that her death was the result of indiscriminate shooting from police officers, and not of the suspects holding her. Holt-Singh fatally took 10 bullets out of approximately 600 fired from 33 law enforcement officers into the car in which she was being held. Recordings of the Stockton Police Department's radio traffic from the event indicate that Holt-Singh's presence inside the vehicle was known by police at the time the shooting occurred. SPD Chief Eric Jones said in an interview for KTVU 2 that many of the officers on the scene were aware of the fact that there was still a hostage in the vehicle, but that the suspects opened fire on police officers first. He explained that police return fire was a result of training rather than direct order.
The last, and possibly most tragic, of this reports' litany of events concerns Eric Garner, a New York man whose death was determined to have been caused by compression of his chest and neck by law enforcement in the process of detaining him. Garner was initially accosted by police for selling loose cigarettes at $ .50 a piece on July 17, as reported by CNN. A video of the incident shows Garner raising his hands above his head while asking the police not to touch him, at which point NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo places him in the choke hold from which he would eventually lose his life, and takes him down in what appears to be a mixed martial arts move. Although Garner's obesity, asthma and cardiovascular disease were reported as contributing factors, many people are rightfully concerned about the police' use of force in this case, as Garner repeatedly said "I can't breathe, I can't breathe" in an obvious show of distress. While law enforcement officers have wide flexibility in what constitutes justified force while they carry out their necessary and personally dangerous mission, the preponderance of these situations causes many to ask themselves if there were not some other way to handle these cases that would be safer for all.
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COP26: Why The UN Climate Conference Matters Like Never Before
David Vetter
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Floodwaters cover a roadway near structures damaged by Hurricane Laura on October 10, 2020 in ... [+] Cameron, Louisiana.
At the end of October, delegates from around the world will gather in Scotland for the UN climate summit, COP26. But this is no ordinary conference: many experts believe COP26 represents a make-or-break moment for the international community to determine the future state of the planet. Success in Glasgow could help bend the curve of carbon emissions downward, offering a path towards slowing the pace of climate change. Failure could further stall the process of decarbonizing the global economy, locking in the rapid temperature rises researchers say will bring more extreme weather events, accelerate sea level rise, and destabilize the climate systems on which we all depend.
I reached out to four preeminent experts from the Climate Crisis Advisory Group (CCAG), an international alliance of scientists who advise governments on climate change and biodiversity loss, to find out what needs to be achieved at the Glasgow summit.
"Really we're at the last-chance saloon," CCAG head Sir David King tells me. "And what this means is we must stop bickering with each other. That doesn't pay off at all."
King is the British chemist who led the U.K. delegation at COP21 in Paris, in 2015. That meeting led to the groundbreaking Paris Agreement, in which the international community committed to limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels this century and "pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius."
"At Paris we said: 'okay, we've got to have a review process in five years' time, and at that review, when we sum up all the nations' contributions, we'll be able to put pressure on countries to make even greater reductions if necessary,'" King says.
Unfortunately, things didn't go according to plan. For one thing, many countries failed to submit their climate plans (known at the COP as NDCs, or nationally determined contributions). And secondly, the coronavirus pandemic swept the globe, delaying COP26 by a full year.
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"Now, we're six years on and we still haven't got all of the nationally determined contributions in from all countries," King says. "When we look at where we stand, we are not even close to getting that 1.5 degrees Celsius or less."
Three years after the Paris Agreement, in 2018, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) announced that the world had already warmed by 1 degree Celsius since industrial times. Other records suggested the world had warmed between 1.1 and 1.3 degrees.
The Italian Corps of Cuirassiers arrive ahead of the Italian President at the Pre-COP 26 summit at ... [+] the Milan Conference Centre on September 30, 2021.
The climate clock was, and is, ticking faster than had been supposed.
For Nerilie Abram, professor at the ANU Research School of Earth Sciences at the Australian National University, Canberra, that's the very straightforward reason why COP26 is so vital.
"We've got no time left," she tells me. "We've been messing about and not taking this problem seriously, so now every year counts."
Abram, a paleoclimate scientist who looks at what the past can tell us about the context for the climate change we're seeing now, notes that while most countries have submitted their NDCs, there's a notable gap between what countries say they will do, and what they are actually doing.
"My concern is that even though we have those pledges, we actually haven't seen the rate of annual emissions peak yet," Abram says. "Not only are we still adding to the problem, we're adding to the problem at the fastest rates we've ever seen."
So if world leaders aren't yet working hard enough or fast enough to combat climate change, what will it take to get them to up the ante at the COP?
Put The Science On The Table
"The message to take to Glasgow is that the science has never been so clear: that every tenth of a degree matters, and that 1.5 is for real," explains Johan Rockström, professor and director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany.
"At 1.5 degrees we're telling our kids that we, the adults who are in charge of Earth now, are handing over the planet in a less liveable state for all future generations," he adds.
Rockström delivers these words calmly, in measured tones. As one of the most influential climate scientists working today, he isn't a man readily inclined to dramatic turns of phrase. So when he talks like this, the effect is alarming.
"That's where we are," he continues. "That's why we talk about a climate emergency. I mean, academics don't like those kinds of words, but we are forced to use them today because now it's a crunch moment."
Rockström points to the UN's latest synthesis report, released September 17, which indicates that, with all countries' current climate commitments taken into account, the world is currently on a trajectory to warm by 2.7 degrees Celsius by the end of the century.
Johan Rockstrom: "We're telling our kids that we, the adults who are in charge of planet Earth now, ... [+] are handing over the planet in a less liveable state for all future generations."
"I barely even want to talk about 2.7 degrees," Rockström says. "If we go beyond 2 degrees it's very likely that we have caused so many tipping points that you have probably added another degree just through self-reinforcing changes. And that's without even talking about extreme events."
His frustration is palpable as he sums up the situation: "It is a very special moment in time. We have 30-plus years of scientific advancements; 150 years of unsustainable pressures rising; and we've come to this point now where we can prove that we've basically saturated the system. There's no more room to maneuver, which means the only way out is 100% sustainability."
King points to the IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report, 'Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis,' released in August, as a keystone that should underpin science-based decision making at the COP. In that assessment, the world's scientific community came together to lay out in extreme detail the reality that climate change is "unequivocally" being caused by human activity.
"What the IPCC is now saying is that irreversible loss of ice is going to happen over the following tens of years and hundreds of years," King says. "So let me take you to a shorter timeline: by 2050, rising sea levels mean that Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, and Mumbai, one of India's biggest cities, will no longer be liveable due to rising sea levels and storms at sea."
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In addition to the IPCC's findings, Abram, Rockström and King emphasize the threat posed by climate tipping points. These are when climate impacts, such as the melting of ice in Greenland, lead to knock-on effects like the weakening of the Atlantic circulation that regulates temperatures across vast regions of the Earth, in turn triggering further impacts, such as accelerated ice loss in the Antarctic, leading to faster sea level rise.
Abram, who conducts research in Antarctica, says of particular concern are tipping points in both the West Antarctic ice sheet and at the East Antarctic ice sheet.
"In terms of the COP, I think a really big concern is the evidence pointing to the potential that the Western Antarctic ice sheet is already in that sort of 1.5 to 2 degree range, because that's going to have some really significant implications for how quickly the oceans are going to rise," Abram says.
"That really does make it important that we try and be as far below 2 degrees as possible."
"This is heralding a really dangerous situation for humanity," King adds. "And what we are saying is: yes, deep and rapid emissions reduction must be made."
A Most Violent Year
"Just by pure coincidence, this has been the year of climate change," says Mark Maslin, professor of Earth system science at University College London. "When you have Canada suffering from 49.6 degrees Celsius; you've had record heat waves in lots of major cities; you've had major floods, including in London and New York. It's been a year where the climate crisis has basically never been out of the news."
Maslin and many of his colleagues feel that the real-world impacts of climate change seen in the recent past could drive more meaningful action at COP26 than all the weighty scientific reports combined.
"Most political leaders have had to deal with that within their own country, and therefore they're starting to say 'hang on, this is getting bad,'" Maslin says, adding that climate-attributed extreme weather events had, in fact, outpaced the worst fears of even the climate science community, which hadn't expected such phenomena to accompany a 1.1 degree rise in global temperatures.
Maslin is also keen to highlight that the Western media, ever introspective, has largely ignored the far worse toll being exacted by climate change in the developing world. In Africa, Maslin points out, surface temperatures are rising at an even faster pace than the rest of the world, leading to more frequent and more intense extreme weather events.
"That's almost gone under the radar, just because we're not Africans—and that frustrates me, because you've got incredible crises happening there," Maslin says, referencing the ongoing climate-caused famine in Madagascar and widespread flooding across the continent in recent months.
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King agrees that 2021 itself has had a powerful effect on the public consciousness regarding climate change. "We now understand that the risks associated with climate change are much more imminent and much more dangerous than we had previously thought," he says. "All of these extreme weather events are not black swans."
Here, Johan Rockström locks onto the extreme heat events seen in the Pacific Northwest in June. "What we experienced in British Columbia and and the Northwest Pacific in summer with 49.6 degrees Celsius was not an extreme, it was a super extreme," he says. "When you look at the data you find that deviating 1, 2 or 3 degrees Celsius from the average would be extreme. But here it deviated, 5, 6, 7 degrees." Such heat domes, Rockström says, are natural events—"it's just that we've reinforced them ... So that's what really makes me nervous. That already, at 1 degree Celsius warming, we seem to have interactions that hit back on extreme weather in ways that then amplify the whole thing even further."
"Over the last couple of years we've had plenty of examples that show that climate change is impacting everywhere on earth and it's impacting people now," Abram says. "So it's not just this abstract thing that we can think of that's going to happen in the future and that's going to be terrible for some people somewhere else on earth."
"Living in Australia through the Black Summer was just plain scary," she recalls, referring to the record 2019-2020 bush fires that burned 72,000 square miles of territory, killed dozens of people, and likely wiped out several endangered species. "These sorts of events bring it home that it's happening everywhere and it's happening now."
The bottom line is that no world leader can any longer plead ignorance concerning the climate threat, now that climate impacts are manifesting so rapidly and routinely.
So, with the stakes outlined more starkly than ever, what should COP26 be expected to achieve?
Delivering The Goods
"I would like to see a stronger recognition that targets have to be based on the scientific evidence," says Abram, considering her "wish list" for outcomes at the COP. In short, the international community needs to put itself on course for a trajectory of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. "The latest IPCC report has been very, very clear in laying out that evidence," she says.
Abram also wants to see direct air capture of carbon—technologies and measures to remove CO2 directly from the atmosphere—taken into account in the COP process. There is a concern among some researchers that countries could be putting their faith in carbon capture methods that don't yet exist as a way of avoiding their obligation to reduce emissions right now.
"We don't actually have the technology to do that at scale yet," she says. "So, if that is part of what's being factored into the plans, then we also need to know what scale we're expecting to be relying on those carbon drawdown technologies, making sure we're not using that as a way of hiding continuing emissions."
Neither disastrous real-world climate impacts nor the warnings of the scientific community have yet ... [+] been effective in persuading Australia to commit to steep emissions reductions.
Turning to her own nation, Australia, Abram notes that despite the worsening bush fires and severe threats to the famed Great Barrier Reef, the Australian government continues to resist taking substantive action to cut emissions, pledging only a 26-28% reduction of greenhouse gases by 2030. Abram says this weak target has a knock on effect: in order to limit warming to 2 degrees, Australia will need to hit net zero by 2037.
"There's just a lot of heel dragging," Abram says. "We're still approving new coal mines in Australia. We're still looking at opening up new gas reserves; all of those kinds of things that just completely go against what needs to be done to limit warming."
Abram notes that the Australian federal government is wildly out of step with the country's individual states and territories, which have "all committed to much more ambitious zero emissions targets by 2050 or earlier, so at that level we're seeing leadership."
Rockström echoes Abram's desire to see countries' climate pledges tightened. "The nationally determined contributions have to be upgraded in line with science," he says, adding that plans ought to be more detailed; more granular: "Don't just give the net zero date," he says. "Where should we be in 2030? In 2040?"
Then, he says: "Put money on the table." This would mean following through on getting wealthy nations to put $100 billion a year into the Green Climate Fund to support climate action in developing countries, promised in 2009 at COP15 in Copenhagen, but never delivered upon.
Rockström also says more money should be made available for nature-based climate solutions, and more emphasis put on the role of nature and biodiversity as being indivisible from climate action: "The U.K. government has set out that this COP should be a meeting that integrates the nature agenda with the climate agenda, which I fully support … it's to recognize the need for every country to maintain their carbon stocks in soils and forests and all ecosystems is as equally important as phasing out fossil fuels."
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Next, he adds, "I think it's time to bring up the price of carbon much more centrally in the debate." At present, there are huge disparities in the price that different nations and trading blocs place upon carbon, and these disparities could potentially upend global trade. A global carbon pricing mechanism could head off such friction and help pave the way toward far deeper emissions reductions.
Lastly, Rockström says, COP26 should be the end of the line for the most polluting fossil fuel. "What Glasgow could be remembered for is to be the official point where world leaders agreed to end coal," he says. "We are starting to see real, scalable pathways towards decarbonization, but at same time, we are continuing to build new coal-fired power plants—and they, by themselves, could eat up the remaining carbon budget."
"The first thing we need more of is collective action," says Mark Maslin. "I think climate change is interesting because it forces countries that would normally not talk to each other to actually have a common goal. So you've got 197 countries, all being represented in different ways, all needing to build that solidarity, because the atmosphere doesn't care where emissions come from. It's got to be a global game."
As part of his COP wish list, Maslin singles out climate finance as one of the key inflection points that delegates should aim to resolve, again referencing the $100 billion a year promised by Western nations. "A major thing we need to do is to make sure that countries realise that investing in the green economy is where their greatest growth opportunities and employment opportunities are going to be," Maslin stresses. "The ridiculous thing is, fossil fuels are now more expensive than renewables per kilowatt hour. Except, if you're a developing country, you need to borrow the money to build renewables, and banks think renewables are more risky than fossil fuels because, hey, at least fossil fuels have been around for 70 years.'"
Concluding his COP hopes, King agrees the Glasgow summit needs to eliminate the "low hanging fruit" of emissions, "in particular to having a pathway to moving right away from the use of coal." He also adds his support to a global price on carbon, noting that China now has its own emissions trading scheme in place, modelled on the EU's system. "Now we need the United States to come in; we need Canada, we need Australia. We need to spread the geography of carbon pricing and that's something the COP ought to be discussing."
From that point, King ponders the possibility of a new, multilateral partnership between powers that are traditionally regarded as being rivals. "My sense of optimism about delivering action on deep and rapid emissions reduction comes from the possible leadership, unique in the whole COP process, between the European Union, the United States, China and Britain," he says. "If those four can show real leadership by forgetting their differences and working together, we have a real chance."
King concludes with a message that is equal parts encouragement and warning: "I'm going to say what we do over the next five years will determine the future of humanity for the next millennium."
So, no pressure then.
COP26 will take place in Glasgow, Scotland, from Sunday October 31 to Friday November 12.


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Diggings 9 April 2019
A brief history of indigenous fishing
While the importance of fishing as a way of life is obvious to many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, there have been few attempts to translate their experiences into a narrative that governments, non-Indigenous fishers and the general public can immediately understand and appreciate.
An excellent site in which to got lost for an hour or two.
https://aiatsis.gov.au/exhibitions/brief-history-indigenous-fishing
This is a fish trap map from Rupert Gerritson's Australia and the Origins of Agriculture
The furore over the fish-eating vegan influencer is a warning to us all
The internet seems to have ushered in an unhealthy age of food fundamentalism. There are, for example, "bitcoin carnivores": a small but intense community of cryptocurrency enthusiasts who believe that you should only eat meat and only use bitcoin. The internet's ad-centric infrastructure has accelerated this march towards food fundamentalism.
Hooboy, and I am still struggling to remember to post on Instagram.
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A fish-eating fish – Ultimo shop window
DNA barcoding validates species labelling of certified seafood
…a recent meta-analysis of 4500 seafood product tests from 51 publications found an average of 30 percent were not the species stated on the label or menu…DNA barcoding [by the Marine Stewardship Council ] to validate the species identity of 1402 certified seafood products derived from 27 species across 18 countries [however found] that in over 99% of cases species labelling was correct.
I don't rate high my chances of finding MSC DNA bar-coded fish in my local fishery.
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Cooking for assimilation
Cooking for Assimilation weaves family interviews, recipes and the music of Evi's 1950's kitchen radio with archival material drawn from Australia's film heritage. It's an intimate portrait of one woman's migration story against the backdrop of Australia's rocky transition to becoming a multicultural nation.
A lovely podcast contributing to our store of knowledge of the live of 'reffos' in Australia during the war years. I happen to be reading Backyard of Mars. Memoirs of the "Reffo" period in Australia by Emery Barcs who was also a refugee from Hungary. Also has some nice material about reffo food experiences.
https://ab.co/2V0sZVM
Love it or hate it, the musk stick is one of Australia's most misunderstood treats
There are plenty of complaints online, from their strange shape to their chalky texture, but the powerful perfume scent seems to be the most off-putting thing about musk sticks. Their taste has been variously compared to a nice-smelling shop, grandmother's make-up and even "the smell of old ladies at the bus stop". Surprisingly, only one of those comments comes from a wholly negative review.
I recall vividly my first encounter with these pink, heady sweets at the tuckshop at St Patrick's Primary School, Singleton when I was eleven years old and had been in Australia a bare 12 months. I was intoxicated by the colour and the smell and the taste was transporting – it still is, one of my strongest taste memories. A poll I did on my Facebook page was fifty:fifty on luv/yuk.
https://ab.co/2FLii4i
And while we are on the subject of school and food…
Our ARC project Children as Health advocates: assessing the consequences commenced in 2016. That project emerged as a result of our concerns about obesity discourses and assumptions by policy makers and public health institutions that schools are a key place where 'obesity' can be tackled. In particular, we noted that schools are being called on to mobilise children as health advocates within their families and that multiple school food programs have emerged in part as an attempt to curb the obesity problem. But we wondered what happened when schools recruit children to address their family's health practices: What were the messages emerging in school food discourses? Were these 'messages' effective for children? How did children feel about this responsibility if so? How did families respond if children were sharing school food messages at home?
Links to the exhibition of the seminar I went to in Melbourne of some of the results of this Monash study and a link to the first report.
https://repository.monash.edu/exhibits/show/schoolingfood/home
https://arts.monash.edu/social-sciences/children-as-health-advocates-in-families-assessing-the-consequences-arc-dp16
The Promise and Perils of Resurrecting Native Americans' Lost Crops
''ELIZABETH HORTON NEVER INTENDED FOR Plum Bayou to become a testing site for recovering lost crops. By planting historical staples such as Chenopodium berlandieri, a type of goosefoot and a cousin of modern-day quinoa, she sought to teach visitors about the agriculture of the Toltec Mounds Archeological State Park's original inhabitants. Yet Horton's plants aren't originals—they're wild cousins of the crops that fed North America since at least 3900 BC. Due to a Native shift toward maize cultivation around 900 AD, and the devastation of Euro-American colonialism, these "lost crops" have been extinct for 500 years.'
I haven't come across any references to lost crops in Australia. Anyone else? Perhaps the lack of a shift in cultivation as far as we know, and the recency of the planting of European crops in native grassland areas has protected them?
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The food producers reframing the colonial lens
Kadri joined forces with fourth-generation farmer Kasaraneni Prabhu, who was growing an orange-red heirloom variety in Andhra Pradesh, and an ethical turmeric business was born. When the first batch sold out online within four hours, it was the start of Diaspora Co., a single-varietal turmeric company that puts profits back in the hands of Indian farmers. The business aims to challenge the commodity spice trading system introduced by the British, marking Kadri as one of a new generation of chefs and entrepreneurs working to disrupt the colonisation of food and the Western gaze.
Three continents, three peoples, three foods – same story.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Johnson_%28musician%29
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/jesse-johnson-mn0000338566
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Johnson_%28actor%29
Registered: October 30, 2011
Quoting CubbyUps:
Status: Reviewing
I contributed the 1982
Matt McGrath
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_McGrath_%28actor%29
http://www.starpulse.com/Actors/McGrath,_Matt/Biography/
The 5th Quarter
Vaughn Taylor
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=25216649
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaughn_Taylor_%28actor%29
http://www.hitchcockwiki.com/wiki/Vaughn_Taylor
Actress/Screenwriter
The Long Ride Home
McGee and me
http://www.southcoasttalentmgmt.com/vaughn-taylor-bio/
http://www.iafd.com/person.rme/perfid=brandonlewis/gender=m/brandon-lewis.htm
http://www.waybig.com/Pornstar/Brandon-Lewis-376
Antwone Fisher
CLT Results
Rusty Stevens =22
Robert Stevens (Most of these are for a Director and Director of Photography and is not this actor) I Count 7 profiles for this actor which is for Leave it to Beaver credits
Robert 'Rusty' Stevens =1 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
So Rusty is his common name.
Let's look at the porn actor
Rusty Stevens = 6
Rusty Stevenson = 1
Thus Rusty is his common name.
Thus a BY is needed to separate them in the database.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusty_Stevens
http://www.whosaliveandwhosdead.com/n/stevro01.htm
Porn Actor
http://www.iafd.com/person.rme/perfid=RustyStevenson/gender=m/Rusty-Stevenson.htm
Profile Contribution Approved Jun 23 2012 8:52AM
Found the birth year for the porn actor
http://www.gayeroticvideoindex.com/S/4/50404.html
http://gaycreation.com/top-model/rusty-stevens-recent.htm
Quoting reybr:
Bill Thompson (1913) - Voice actor in many classic cartoon shorts. Most known as the voice of Droopey in the MGM cartoons
http://voicechasers.com/database/showactor.php?actorid=1241
http://www.aveleyman.com/ActorCredit.aspx?ActorID=31645
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Thompson_%28voice_actor%29
The BY is needed to separate the voice actor from the Bill Thompson that act in Full Metal Jacket and the Bill Thompson in Leaving Las Vegas. Both birth years unknown
Bill Thompson (xxxx) actor Full Metal Jacket
Bil Thompson (xxxx) actor Leaving Las Vegas
Another Bill Thompson (Jesus' Son, The Sterling Chase , Law & Order: Special Victims Unit)
Status: Already approved BY, but wasn't yet documented
emmeli
www.myprofiler.de
Quoting VirusPil:
Another one not contributed by me, but accepted:
Producer John Davis (1953):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Davis_(producer)
http://www.bookrags.com/wiki/John_Davis_(American_producer)
Composer John Davis (xxxx), in database in the movie "Kids":
Band-member of The Folk Implosion
Quoting birkus:
Notes for BY:
The accepted BY, 1953, for producer John Davis is most probably wrong.
See: Documentation: Page 47, Post 1
New BY for John Davis:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Davis_(producer)
- http://www.scoopweb.com/John_Davis_(producer)
- http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/325277
- http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0204862/
Status: Approved Oct. 3
Thanks to Scooter1836 for posting this in the Invalid BY thread
can we change this BY to 1954? and if so please change it also on first site of this thread.
thx emmeli
the real BirthYear OverView
Zoe Miller
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Zoe-Miller-Memorial-Page/222728071119287
Germ Z (2013)
Self/Baseball
Champions Again: The Story of the 2007 Boston Red Sox
World Series 07: Boston Red Sox vs Colorado Rockies
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lopezja02.shtml
http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/_/id/5388/javier-lopez


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Police investigating shooting on Quail Street in Albany
Albany PD investigating after man shot in abdomen
NY Legislature holds hearing on race horse protection
by: Corina Cappabianca
Posted: Jun 6, 2019 / 01:27 AM EDT / Updated: Jun 6, 2019 / 01:27 AM EDT
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ALBANY, N.Y. (NEXSTAR) — The Capital Region is known for its horse racing, but there's always been a dark shadow over horse treatment and deaths. Now, some say racing should be banned outright.
Reducing race horse fatalities is just one issue discussed at a legislative hearing on the welfare of the animals in the state.
"We want to hear about how they're safeguarded during the racing season, on race day, and then when they retire," Sen. Daphne Jordan said.
The NYS Gaming Commission Equine Medical Director Scott Palmer says the state doesn't regulate training the way that racing is regulated.
"Every horse that races at a New York race track is examined by a veterinarian more than once on the day that he races," Palmer explained. "Ok, so lame horses don't get on that race track. But when a horse trains, the trainer decides he's gonna train today. He just sends him out and trains him. Nobody looks at him."
He also says some illnesses can be difficult to detect.
"Training injuries can happen because there are factors that can exist in the horse's bones, changes in the bone can exist in there, and we don't know about it," he said.
Meanwhile, some animal advocates are on a mission to ban horse racing in the United States completely.
"We document horses dying across the country every day," Patrick Battuello, Horseracing Wrongs Founder and President, said. "Over 2,000 horses are killed racing or training on American tracks every year."
Battuello calls horse racing "cruelty."
"When you look at what's happened in just the past few years with Ringling Brothers closing for good, and Sea Wold in steady decline because of "Blackfish," greyhound racing is all but dead, there are rodeo bans in multiple cities," he said.
More information on race horse deaths and the breakdown is available at data.ny.gov.
ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- Albany police are investigating a second shooting in the city Monday night.
The second shooting took place in the area of First and Quail Streets.
ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- Albany police are investigating a Monday night shooting.
The shooting took place around 9 p.m. on the 100-block of Bradford Street.
JOHNSTOWN, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- Running late on a library book? You're in luck. One local branch is joining the movement to go "Fine Free."
The Johnstown Library is no longer charging fines on late or overdue items - even fines that currently outstanding.
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By Barry Barnett on April 12, 2022
Standard Oil Octopus: Past as Prologue
Stephen D. Susman, the founder of my firm and a titan in the antitrust bar, pioneered representing private antitrust plaintiffs on a contingent-fee basis.
Nobody knew better than Steve how to manage risk in antitrust cases — how to choose them, staff them, litigate them,…
FTC Defeats Qualcomm in Fight over Monopoly in Smartphone Chips
Posted in Antitrust, Intellectual Property
United States District Judge Lucy Koh ruled on May 22, 2019, after a 10-day bench trial in January, that Qualcomm has and abused "monopoly chip power". Qualcomm Findings and Conclusions 5-22-19.
The Future of Per Se Antitrust Liability
By Barry Barnett on November 30, 2015
Leegin as wrecking ball?
Since the Supreme Court struck down an almost century-old rule of per se antitrust liability in Leegin Creative Leather Prods., Inc. v. PSKS, Inc., 551 U.S. 877 (2007),* defense lawyers have tried to turn a single sentence from Leegin into a per-se category killer.
The effort presents high stakes, principally because per se cases have several advantages over their rule-of-reason cousins. The former are simpler, cost millions of dollars less to work up and try, and have greater odds of success with a judge or jury. The per se rule:
does not require an economist to opine about the relevant product and geographic markets;
obviates the need to prove that the defendants had market (or monopoly) power or that their conduct was anticompetitive;
simplifies proof of damages; and
precludes defendants from claiming, and presenting evidence, that their agreement enhanced competition.
You would expect a kindly hearing from the Fifth Circuit — a court that, despite President Obama's six years of judicial appointments, still counts twice as many Republican (10) as Democratic (5) appointees in active service. But would the court drink the Kool-Aid?
The court answered on November 25. The panel gave a resounding no.…
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Fear of False Positives Distorts Antitrust
By Barry Barnett on August 17, 2015
The cost of errors in antitrust
Jonathan Baker earned a J.D. from Harvard and a Ph.D. (in Economics) from Stanford, served as Chief Economist at the Federal Communications Commission, and now teaches antitrust and economic regulation at American University's Washington College of Law.
He's also written an important article on how an obsession with avoiding "false positives" in antitrust litigation systematically biases courts against cases unless they involve price-fixing or market division, horizontal mergers resulting in duopoly or monopoly, or a narrow range of exclusionary conduct.
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Patent as the New Antitrust
By Barry Barnett on July 16, 2015
Antitrust v. patent
The extraordinary risk in antitrust cases has prompted courts to erect ever-higher hurdles to them. Extending a trend that began decades before, the Supreme Court used a sprawling antitrust case — Bell Atl. Corp. v. Twombly (2007) — to toughen the test for pleading a claim. It warned about the high costs…
High Court Rejects State-Action Defense in Teeth-Whitening Case; State — Not Fox — Must Guard Henhouse
State action?
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled today that a North Carolina board's ban on cheap teeth-whitening by non-dentists may expose the board's members to a federal antitrust claim despite the board's status as a creature of the state. N. Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners v. FTC, No. 13-534 (U.S. Feb. 25, 2015).
The 6-3 Court stressed that the…
GM Rebate Saves Parts Seller from Below-Cost Predatory Pricing Claim, Fifth Circuit Rules
A beastly hard theory
The latest antitrust ruling by the Fifth Circuit favors a giant, General Motors, despite its huge share of the parts market that the plaintiff accused it of monopolizing. But the case says less about the Fifth Circuit's pro-defense leanings than it does about the steep odds against predatory-pricing cases in general.…
LIBOR Price-Fixing Claims Get Reprieve; Second Circuit Must Hear Appeal, Supreme Court Decides
Unanimous Court orders review of key district court ruling
The Second Circuit made a mistake when it refused to hear an appeal, the Supreme Court held 9-0 today in Gelboim v. Bank of Am. Corp., No. 13-1174 (U.S. Jan. 21, 2015); see Supreme Court Takes LIBOR Case, Blawgletter®, July 1, 2014.
The Court's ruling will…


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Inaugurated for the first time in 1928, the Bozar is the centre for Fine Arts, located on the famous Mont des Arts in the heart of Brussels. The artist that hides behind the art deco architecture of the Bozar is Victor Horta, who declared the Centre for Fine Arts the highlight of his very own career. The Bozar does not exclude any form of art. Indeed, one can find visual arts, but also music, theatre, dance, cinema and any events related to literature and architecture. More or less twelve exhibitions are programmed each year, due to its numerous exhibition rooms.


They believed the ceiba trees to be points of connection, mending this world to the next. Places of rest, where the recently dead might pause, awaiting the arrival of their all-too-distant partners, so the next journey need not be made alone. I don't think it's a big secret that I made these for you. For you to know how to find me when the time comes. For you to recognize me, as I am sure I will look and smell and sound quite different. The future will be full of memorials that we could easily mistake for disasters, and I just don't think they will be worth looking at without you there.


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I am having issues with M340 IO scanning. I have the NOE card next to the CPU which is a 2020 item. I have set the Network for the CPU as 192.168.0.5 and the NOE card as 192.168.0.12. To the NOE card I have connected a Deep Sea Electronics 8610 MkII generator controller which has configurable modbus pages. Its IP is 192.168.0.3. I have set the IO scan tab of the NOE to read the device at 192.168.0.3 starting at remote address 442497 (Page 166 of the DSE, 166*256). for 80 registers and to store them in PLC at %MW300 onward. When compiled this read works perfectly with values being loaded. The problem comes when I try a second read from the same device. This time Page 167 (167*256) at address 442753 which is sent to local PLC %MW380 onward. Now when I compile the code the first page is read OK as prior but the second read shows a "Faulty/Absent" on teh IO scanner debug page and no values are read. If I change the first entry to scan page 167 with page 166 deleted, again all is OK. It seams I am unable to make more than one read of the DSE product. I have spoke with DSE whom state the device can have multi reads from multiple masters and they have proved multiple reads from the same and different devices. I am now at a loss as to what to try next. I hope somebody can provide some insight. I also tryed doing teh second read with a standard READ_VAR command with teh same result. Just wondering if its a NOE thing or a set up thing I have missed.
Hi Im new here! Please let me know What cable do you use to program a M340 ? -1- a mini USB ? -2- Ethernet ? -3-RS485? any one can give me a sample test program to test M340? just a dummy simple program to start from there. I appreciate it in advance.


Why does the ocean glow at night?
A nighttime cruise in the ocean can be a magical experience. Sometimes, sparkling lights in the water seem to outshine the stars in the sky.
The ocean itself doesn't actually glow, but plenty of things that live in it do. The light they emit is called bioluminescence, and there are hundreds of different kinds of organisms on Earth that create it. Most of them live in the sea.
One kind of bioluminescence that many people are familiar with appears as sparkling streaks of light at the bow and in the wake of a moving boat in the ocean at night. The light comes from tiny, single-celled algae called dinoflagellates that live in seawater.
Water agitation prompts the light-giving chemical reaction in the dinoflagellates. Most light comes off as bluish, but different chemicals produce different colors. In the case of dinoflagellates, the intensity of light depends on the concentration of algae in the water. In some places, like the Indian Ocean, sailors have reported a soft white glow on the surface of the water — a "milky sea" that stretches as far as they can see.
Other types of bioluminescent organisms include fireflies, centipedes, fungi, squid, jellyfish, worms, and some fish.


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Jill Bennett
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Database of Eco Public Art
September 8, 2013 Announcements, EcoArt, Open CallsBroader Community, Creative Practitioners, Director Center, Editorial Committee, Environmental Health Clinic, External Constraints, Fenner, International Advisory Committee, Jill Bennett, Natalie Jeremijenko, New York University, Newcombe, Project Legacy, Public Art, Public Artworks, Social Transformation, Sustainable Practice, University College London, University Director, University Of Cincinnati
The Curating Cities Database maps the increasingly important and emerging field of eco-sustainable public art. It is developed as a resource for researchers, academics, artists, curators, educators, commissioning agencies and sponsors working in the field as well as those interested in promoting sustainability via public art. In addition to descriptive information, the database evaluates the aims and outcomes of each project as well as the external constraints (and subsequent negotiations) that influence the production of public artworks. eco-publicart.org
Jill Bennett, Felicity Fenner, Lindsay Kelly and Veronica Tello. Sustainability Consultant: Jodi Newcombe.
T.J Demos (University College London); Ian Garrett (York University/Director, Center for Sustainable Practice); Natalie Jeremijenko (New York University/Director of Environmental Health Clinic); Sacha Kagan (Leuphana University Lüneburg/Founder of Cultura21, Network for Cultures of Sustainability and the International Summer School of Arts and Sciences for Sustainability in Social Transformation); Adrian Parr (University of Cincinnati).
We invite submissions from curators, researchers, academics and creative practitioners.
Our intention is to develop a resource that will be of value to all those interested in public art, including specialists and the broader community. The database entries are concise but designed to go beyond the short profiles readily available on other sites. To that end, we have developed a template and guidelines designed to elicit key information regarding the sustainability (as conceived within the particular project), legacy, engagement and circumstances of an artwork's production. Recognising that public art is not always well served by bureaucracies, entries may also record useful information on external constraints and how these were negotiated.
We are looking to achieve expansive coverage and are open to suggestions for inclusion (geographic remit is global). Generally, we interpret public art as a creative art form produced for non-gallery contexts (exceptionally, it may include gallery exhibitions with an explicit external engagement focus). We define "eco-sustainability" to signify an evident interest in ecological, sustainable and/or environmental concerns. It is not our intent to 'police' the definition of eco-sustainable public art: we are keen to include work that challenges definitions and expectations. As a general indication, we are interested in substantial work that actively engages with its environmental context (rather than in work that merely represents or symbolises an environmental concern).
SUBMISSION and REVIEW PROCESS
Submissions are peer-reviewed. Each submission should focus on a particular public art project, which must be proposed to the Editorial Committee in advance. Contributors are welcome to profile their own work, either by evaluating their own project or by referencing a larger study or thesis written by them on the same subject. We also invite academics that research and teach in this area to encourage student submissions. We are happy for the template to be used for course assessment exercises and can confer with lecturers regarding the process by which a batch of entries from a class can be peer reviewed/considered for inclusion in the database.
For the template and sustainable evaluation framework and to discuss a potential submission please email v.tello@unsw.edu.au
'Eco-sustainable public art' mapped in new database
September 4, 2013 Culture Futures, Open Calls, ResearchChief Curator, City Of Sydney, College Of Fine Arts, Creative Cities, Curating, Ecological Age, Experimental Arts, External Constraints, International Collaboration, Jill Bennett, Linkage Project, Margaret Farmer, Necessary Transition, New South Wales, New South Wales College, Public Artworks, Richard Goodwin, University Of Cincinnati, University Of New South Wales, Waste Recycling
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With searchable artwork themes such as 'Atmosphere', 'Energy', 'Renewal & Regeneration', and 'Waste, Recycling, Consumption', a new 'Curating Cities' database was launched on 30 August 2013. It maps "the increasingly important and emerging field of eco-sustainable public art."
The 'Curating Cities' database is developed as a resource for researchers, academics, artists, curators, educators, commissioning agencies and sponsors working in the field as well as those interested in promoting sustainability via public art.
In addition to descriptive information, the database evaluates the aims and outcomes of each project as well as the external constraints (and subsequent negotiations) that influence the production of public artworks.
Curating Cities is an Australian Research Council funded Linkage project led by Professors Jill Bennett and Richard Goodwin, and Chief Curator Felicity Fenner of the National Institute for Experimental Arts (NIEA) at the University of New South Wales' College of Fine Arts.
Linkage Partners: City of Sydney, Object: Australian Centre for Design, Carbon Arts, University of Cincinnati.
Research Team: Jill Bennett, Felicity Fenner, Richard Goodwin, Jodi Newcombe, Adrian Parr, Margaret Farmer and Kerry Thomas.
curatingcities.org
Culture|Futures is an international collaboration of organizations and individuals who are concerned with shaping and delivering a proactive cultural agenda to support the necessary transition towards an Ecological Age by 2050.
The Cultural sector that we refer to is an interdisciplinary, inter-sectoral, inter-genre collaboration, which encompasses policy-making, intercultural dialogue/cultural relations, creative cities/cultural planning, creative industries and research and development. It is those decision-makers and practitioners who can reach people in a direct way, through diverse messages and mediums.
Affecting the thinking and behaviour of people and communities is about the dissemination of stories which will profoundly impact cultural values, beliefs and thereby actions. The stories can open people's eyes to a way of thinking that has not been considered before, challenge a preconceived notion of the past, or a vision of the future that had not been envisioned as possible. As a sector which is viewed as imbued with creativity and cultural values, rather than purely financial motivations, the cultural sector's stories maintain the trust of people and society.
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Sense of Planet: The Arts and Ecology at Earth Magnitude
July 13, 2012 Conferences, Cultura2125 August, Berlin Germany, Book Sense, Climate Change, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Douglas Kahn, Ecological Crises, Environmental Sensor, Francesca, Gabrys, Goldsmiths University Of London, International Array, Jill Bennett, Kagan, Kajsa, Koefoed, Mexico City, Modern Thought, New York University, Nicholas Mirzoeff, Niea, Oleg, Paris France, Rana, Sacha, Santa Barbara Co, Sensor Technologies, Smith Professor, Species Extinction, Stanford University, Technology University, Theorists, Timothy Morton, University Of California At Santa Barbara, Vitality
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NIEA Symposium
Saturday, 25 August 2012, 9:30–6:30pm
The acceleration of climate change, species extinction, and other ecological crises enjoins us to find ways of grasping historical and evolving circumstances at earth magnitude. The Sense of Planet symposium concentrates together an international array of artists, eco-theorists, and scholars to address the issues and activities of representing the earth in its entirety, and of representing and self-representing regions or localities amid the complex global systems in which they are enmeshed. The symposium follows the lead taken by Ursula Heise in her book Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global to investigate the possibilities and difficulties of sensing the planet, in all senses of sense.
Ursula Heise, Professor of English and Director of the Program in Modern Thought & Literature,
The Database and the Ecological Imagination of the Planet
Marko Peljhan, Professor in Art and Media Arts & Technology, University of California at Santa Barbara, Co-director of Arctic Perspective Initiative
One Degree At A Time – Creating Systems of Systems for Interpolar Constructiv(ist)e Engagement
Jennifer Gabrys, Convener of the MA Design and Environment at Goldsmiths, University of London
Environmental Sensor Technologies and the Arts
Nicholas Mirzoeff, Professor of Media, Culture and Communication, New York University
Anthropocene Aesthetics
Timothy Morton, Professor and Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English, Rice University
Of Planet-Sense
Terry Smith (Professor at Pittsburgh and NIEA, UNSW), Douglas Kahn (Professor of Media & Innovation, NIEA, UNSW), Jill Bennett (Professor and Director, NIEA, UNSW), and others. Convened by Douglas Kahn and Jill Bennett.
Click here to go to the Registration page.
Cultura21 is a transversal, translocal network, constituted of an international level grounded in several Cultura21 organizations around the world.
Cultura21′s international network, launched in April 2007, offers the online and offline platform for exchanges and mutual learning among its members.
The activities of Cultura21 at the international level are coordinated by a team representing the different Cultura21 organizations worldwide, and currently constituted of:
– Sacha Kagan (based in Lüneburg, Germany) and Rana Öztürk (based in Berlin, Germany)
– Oleg Koefoed and Kajsa Paludan (both based in Copenhagen, Denmark)
– Hans Dieleman (based in Mexico-City, Mexico)
– Francesca Cozzolino and David Knaute (both based in Paris, France)
Cultura21 is not only an informal network. Its strength and vitality relies upon the activities of several organizations around the world which are sharing the vision and mission of Cultura21
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