The island of Bali has an area of 2,232 sq. miles, with a population of ~4.2 million.
The most popular tourist destination in Indonesia, Bali enjoys tropical weather year round.
The island is well known for its vibrant combination of exotic tradition, astonishingly beautiful temples and green spaces, fantastic dive sites, varied and magnificent food (the city is full of food stalls and great restaurants), and its friendly and hospitable people.
One of the 17,000 islands that makes up the Indonesian archipelago.
Nickname: Island of the Gods.
Spoken languages: Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia). English is also widely spoken.
Best time to visit: April to August for the best ocean breeze; avoid the rainy season from November to January.
Arriving via airport: Ngurah Rai Airport (DPS) offers fixed-fare taxis and public Blue Bird taxis that run on meter. Alternately, major international car rental companies operate at the airport, though it is worth noting drivers need an International Driving Permit.
Note: all visitors must possess a passport valid for at least six months after the arrival date. Visa fees can be paid upon arrival at the cost of USD $25 for 30 days. A travel tax of IDR 150,000 is levied on all passengers upon departure.
Some of the best hotel rates are available in areas like Kuta (in the South) or Ubud (situated in the center of Bali), the island's cultural capital. There are numerous traditional homestay bed & breakfast establishments and small local hotels. Hotel rates in this area start from just $9/night. Many places have pools and beautiful exotic gardens.
Bukit Peninsula is recognized as having the best beaches on mainland Bali, which is a tall order when the island itself regularly tops the best list. Surfers, backpackers and high-end travelers alike can be found fighting over lounge chairs in Dreamland, but for rice paddies, traditional warung and a dose of culture Ubud can't be beaten. The town has long been recognized as the epicenter of fine arts, dance and music and its central location makes it the ideal base for day trips.
Seminyak (next to Kuta) also offers good value accommodation.
Public transport in the island is relatively cheap, and distances are usually short. There are a wide range of options, including buses, public ferries, boats, buses, trams, and taxis.
Shuttle buses are the preferred option for tourists, as they are quicker than other transport options. In addition, their rates are very reasonable.
Perama buses connect the most popular destinations around the island but they are often crowded and need booking one day in advance.
Renting a car or a motorcycle is also an option, and gives you the chance to explore the island with much more freedom. Bike rentals are available in many parts of the city, such as Canggu.
Drinking age is 18 (not enforced), no official last call.
The nightlife scene is concentrated in the areas of Kuta and Seminyak Beach.
Kuta is the area of Bali with the highest number of clubs (also known for its noise and traffic jams). Jalan Legian and Jalan Pantai Kuta often have DJ sets lasting till sunrise.
Sanur is upbeat, trendy and popular for its thriving bar scene.
Note: very strict laws on drug trafficking haven't deterred the distribution of illegal substances especially in party areas like Kuta. Visitors are advised to refrain from partaking in the consumption of any drug as the penalty ranges from hefty fines to life imprisonment, if not the death penalty.
Warning: recent cases of Ethanol poisoning due to diluted alcoholic drinks served on the island should serve as warning of the practice. Only consume bottled drinks that are opened in line of sight and be quick to call for emergency assistance if experiencing adverse symptoms such as blurred vision, profuse sweating and inability to coordinate movement.
Visit the Uluwatu Temple to watch the exotic and amazing Kacak dance. Enjoy the dance, shadow puppetry, traditional rites, and gamelan music. The island celebrities many festivals and events every year.
Besakih Temple may be one out of the thousands around the island, but it's also one of the oldest and most important as it was spared by volcanic lava during the 1963 Mount Agung eruption.
Le Mayeur Museum is the former residence of Belgian artist Adrien-Jean Le Mayeur and now a memorial collection of his artworks.
Bajra Sandhi in front of the Governor's Office is a monument in testament to the people's struggle throughout the ages.
Tirta Gangga and the water palace rise over rice paddies sloping over hills overlooking the sea.
Mandala Wisata Wenara Wana, also known as Sacred Monkey Forest Sanctuary, is home to nearly 500 macaque monkeys.
Go for a walk through Laplapan, a traditional village near Ubud. Some tours offer the chance to visit local families, during which you can witness Balinese family life and customs (for a truly local experience). Make sure you check out the rice fields.
Walk through Ubud to observe the island's natural beauty. See if you can spot the exotic indigenous bird species, including the Kingfisher. Note: beware of the prices of art and souvenirs in Ubud. If you would like to buy a gift to take back home, a much better alternative would be Badung Market in Denpasar.
Jalan Sulawesi in Denpasar is a road of fabric workshops selling their wares- traditional batik being the most sought after.
Balinese history comes alive at Renon Square. Perfect for an afternoon walk or a picnic.
Campuhan Ridge Walk in Ubud takes the scenic route along irrigation channels and unending fields.
La Lucciola Beach is perfect from sunrise to sunset. Bring a towel and a basket or dine at any of the popular restaurants.
Bali Bird Park is not just for ornithologists. Discover large garden areas, aviaries, treks through jungle areas and even a cosy café.
The people of Bali are well known all over Indonesia for their friendliness, politeness, and hospitality. They are gentle and love to smile! They are also very devout people, and their 10,000 temples are but a hint of their religiousness. Please be respectful of their practices.
The world's most expensive coffee is produced here, from the palm civet droppings called Kopi Luwak. Visit the Luwak coffee plantation to learn more.
Arguably the best surfing spot on the island is West Bukit. Its scenery is simply amazing, and it is a very quiet place where visitors are can ride some waves or simply relax. Note: the best time to surf in this area is during the dry season. While you can surf in Bali year round, the quality of different spots will depend on the season.
Avoid Nusa Dua and Tanjung Benoa – these areas are dirty and polluted, and can pose potential health risks to visitors. Nusa Dua is known for high levels of illegal household waste dumped into the ocean.
Warning: be very careful about what you bring into the country. There are strict laws dealing the import of drugs, weapons, fruit, pornographic material, anything printed in Chinese, products made from endangered animal species, etc. Those caught bringing drugs into the country could face the death penalty.
Where to find good cheap food: Ubud and Seminyak have the best warung for traditional Nasi Jinggo (Jinggo rice with meat and egg served wrapped in banana leaf) Babi Gulling (suckling pig) and Sate Kelinci (skewers of rabbit meat in peanut sauce).
Dangerous areas: the most dangerous area of Bali is Denpasar. Kidnappings and drive by shootings are common in this part of the island. In addition, this part of Bali also suffers from a street garbage problem. Beware of aggressive hawkers on the beaches. There is a also relatively high terrorist risk in the Sanur, Ubud, and Nusa Dua areas. Legian and Sanur are notorious for drugs and prostitution. Other parts of the island are generally safe.


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sidearm, with control, at 90 mph plus. Chad himself adored the
thought that he might one day throw as hard as most guys — that
he would be normal. Instead, Chad came to throw underhand at
between 81 and 84 mph.
Dropping his release point had various effects, but the most
obvious was to reduce the distance between his hand, when the
ball left it, and the catcher's mitt. His 84-mile-per-hour fastball
took about as much time to reach the plate as a more conven-
tionally delivered 94-mile-per-hour one. Underhanded, his sinker
rose before it fell, like a tennis serve with vicious topspin. Ditto
his slider, which made straight for a right-handed hitter's eye
before swooping down and away. Even hitters who had faced him
before fought the instinct to flinch, and found it nearly impossible
to get under his pitches and lift them into the mountain air.
They'd start their swing at a rising ball and finish it at a falling
one. The best they could usually do with any of his pitches was to
beat them into the ground. As miserable as the Canadian Rockies
were for most pitchers, they might as well have been created for
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Chad Bradford to pitch in. No matter how thin the air, no matter
how strong the outgoing hreeze, it remained impossible to hit a
ground hall over the wall.
Guided by some combination of the survival instinct and the
failure to imagine any earthly role for liimself other than Big
League Pitcher, Chad Bradford dominated Triple-A hitters, even as
every other pitcher on the Calgary team struggled. In a ballpark
built for sluggers, he pitched fifty-one innings with an earned run
average of 1.94, and gave up only three home runs. Hitters rou-
tinely complained how uncomfortable they felt against him, how
hard Chad was to read, how deceptive he was. This was funny. Off
the pitcher's mound, Chad had no ability to deceive anyone about
anything. He was who he was. Country. Every now and then he
might try to get away with something at home — like not cleaning
out the garage when he'd told his wife that he would. He simply
couldn't do it. "I'll all but gotten away with something and then
I'll come clean," he said. "I just hate the guilt." On the pitcher's
mound, he had no guilt. The moment he scuffed the rubber with
his foot he became a pitiless con artist, a sinister magician. He
sawed pretty ladies in two, and made rabbits vanish.
He assumed, in a vague sort of way, that if he kept getting hit-
ters out, the White Sox front office would have no choice but to
call him up. He was right. Tossing a ball around with an older
minor leaguer one day, he was called into the Calgary manager's
office. His new assignment: catch the first plane to Dallas. He'd
join the White Sox bullpen in their upcoming series with the
Texas Rangers. He went right back on the field and resumed toss-
ing the ball around. The older player he'd been tossing with, a
pitcher named Larry Casian who would retire at the end of the
year, asked what the manager had wanted; and Chad told him.
Casian asked why on earth Chad was out playing catch on a
Triple-A field when he was meant to be flying to the big leagues.
Chad said he didn't know, and kept throwing. "1 think I was in
shock," he said. Eight years after his m mister and coach had
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showed him a trick to spare him the embarrassment of being cut
from his high school team, he was getting a chance to practice it
in the major leagues.
They called him into the second game of the three-game series
at The Ballpark in Arlington. He didn't feel he belonged; he felt
out of his depth. "You think: how'm 1 gonna do this? You think it's
like a totally different game than the one you played your whole
life." He retired the first seven batters he faced, in order. The last
two months of the season he pitched thirty and two-thirds innings
in relief for the White Sox, and finished with an earned run aver-
age of 3.23. At one point he'd made a dozen consecutive scoreless
appearances. In a season justly famous for the number of home
runs hit, none were hit off Chad Bradford.
In the off-season he went back, as he always did, and always
would, to Byram, Mississippi. For the first time, though he didn't
know why, he did not work out on the pitching mound his father
had built, and rebuilt, for him. Dropping down and throwing
sidearm had ended their games of catch. Making the big leagues
severed this final dependency. He didn't think anything of it; leav-
ing the old mound behind was just the next thing to do. When he
turned up for camp in the spring of 1999, he thought, "Great. I'm
in the big leagues."
He wasn't. The White Sox didn't trust Chad Bradford's success.
The White Sox front office didn't trust his statistics. Unwilling to
trust his statistics, they fell back on more subjective evaluation.
Chad didn't look like a big leaguer. Chad didn't act like a big lea-
guer. Chad's success seemed sort of flukey. He was a trickster that
big league hitters were certain to figure out. The White Sox brass
didn't say any of this to Chad's face, of course. During 1999 spring
training the White Sox CM, a former big league pitcher named
Ron Schueler, told Chad that his pitches weren't moving like they
used to move. He was sending Chad down to Triple-A. Chad didn't
have the nerve to say what he thought but he thought it all the
same: My ball doesn't movel But all I have is movement! When
he gt)t to Tnplc-A, a coach assured hmi thai his ball moved as it
always had, and that the GM just needed something to tell him
other than the truth, that the White Sox tront otfice viewed hmi
as a "Triple-A guy."
The Good Lord might have had a plan for Chad Bradford but
apparently even He was retiuired to respect the mystery of life
behind the big league clubhouse door. For the next two years Chad
pitched mainly in the minor leagues, bouncing up only briefly, and
usually successfully, to the big league team. For two years he sim-
ply dominated Triple-A hitters and watched pitchers with much
less impressive statistics leapfrog him. "I watched guys get called
up from Double-A. I realized I was a just-in-case guy. Just in case
somebody got hurt. Just in case somebody got traded. That no
matter how well I did, I wasn't going to get called up." F^e talked
to his wife about quitting the White Sox and going to pitch in
Japan, where he might make a good living. Fie found that the only
way he could get himself out of bed in the morning and to the ball-
park was to remind himself that he wasn't pitching only for the
White Sox. "By the middle of the 1999 season 1 was pitching for
every cnher big league team that might be watching," he said. "I'm
just sitting there hoping someone's watching."
Someone was.
i HE POOL OF F'EOFLE Chad Bradford didn't know who had nev-
ertheless found him worthy of their attention had tripled. When
he was an amateur, one big league scout had taken an interest in
him. As a professional, he had two more distant admirers. One
was Paul DePodesta, who couldn't quite believe that the White
Sox were keeping this deadly pitching force in Triple-A, and had
mentioned to Billy Beane how nice it would be it he somehow
could talk the Chicago White Sox into making Chad Bradford an
Oakland A. The other was a bored paralegal in Chicago named
fiNflTOMY OF AN UNDERVALUED PITCHER 235
Voros McCracken. Looking for a way to ignore whatever he was
meant to be doing for the Chicago law firm that he loathed work-
ing for, Voros McCracken had taken up fantasy baseball. He didn't
know it, but he was about to explain why the Chicago White Sox
had so much trouble grasping the true value of Chad Bradford —
and why the Oakland A's did not.
Voros was thinking of drafting Chad Bradford for his fantasy
baseball team. But before he did, he wanted to achieve a better
understanding of major league pitching. Specifically, he wanted to
know how you could tell if a pitcher was any good.
Voros had played baseball as a kid, and there had been a time
when he had been obsessively interested in it. The moment his
interest became an intellectual obsession was in 1986 when, at
the age of fourteen, he picked up the most recent Bill James
Abstract. He was astonished by what he found inside. "Basically,
everything you know about baseball when you are fourteen years
old, you know from baseball announcers," said Voros. "Here was
this guy who was telling me that at least eighty percent of what
baseball announcers told me was complete bullshit, and then
explained very convincingly why it was." Voros's interest in base-
ball waned in his late teens and early twenties; but when he redis-
covered it, in the form of fantasy leagues on the Internet, it was in
the spirit of Bill James.
The Internet of course had consequences for the search for new
baseball knowledge. One of the things the Internet was good for
was gathering together people in different places who shared a
common interest. Internet discussion groups, and Web sites like
baseballprimer and baseballprospectus, sprung up, created by
young men who, as boys, had been seduced by the writings of Bill
James. In one of the discussion groups, where he went to discuss
what to do with his fantasy baseball team, Voros saw someone say
that no matter how much research was done, no one would be
able to distinguish pitching from defense. That is, no one would
ever come up with good fielding statistics or, therefore, good
pitching statistics. It you don't know how to credit the fielder for
what happens after a hall gets put into play, you also, hy defini-
tion, don't know how to dehit the pitcher. And, therefore, you
would never be able to say with real certainty how good any given
pitcher was. Or, for that matter, any given fielder.
When Voros read that, "I thought, 'That's a stupid attitude.
Can't you do somcthiiii^r It didn't make any sense to me that the
way to approach the problem was to give up." He tried to think
about it logically. He divided the stats a pitcher had that the
defense behind him could affect (hits and earned runs) from the
stats a pitcher did all by himself (walks, strikeouts, and home
runs). He then ranked all the pitchers in the big leagues by this
second category. When he ran the stats for the 1999 season, he
wound up with a list topped by these five: Randy Johnson, Kevin
Brown, Pedro Martinez, Greg Maddux, and Mike Mussina. "I
looked at that list," said Voros, "and said, 'Damn, that looks like
the five best pitchers in baseball.'" He then asked the question: if
his reductive approach of looking at just walks, strikeouts, and
homers identified the five best pitchers in baseball, how impor-
tant could all the other stuff be?
As it happened, 1999 was supposedly an "off" year for Greg
Maddux. His earned run average had risen from 2.22 in 1998 to
3.57 in 1999, mainly because he gave up fifty-seven more hits in
thirty-two fewer innings. Several times during the season Maddux
himself mentioned that he was astonished by how many cheap
hits he was giving up; but of course no one paid any attention to
that. What Voros noticed was that Maddux's hits allowed per balls
put in play was far above what it usually was — in fact, it was
among the highest in the big leagues. As it happened, the same
year, Maddux's teammate, pitcher Kevin Millwood, had one of the
lowest hits allowed per balls in play. Even stranger, their statistics
the following year were reversed. Millwood had one of the highest
ANflTOMY OF AN UNDERVALUED PITCHER 237
ratios of hits per balls in play, Maddux one of the lowest. It didn't
make any sense.
Voros asked himself another question: from year to year is there
any correlation in a pitcher's statistics? There was. The number of
walks and home runs he gave up, and the number of strikeouts he
recorded were, if not predictable, at least understandable. A guy
who struck out a lot of hitters one year tended to strike out a lot
of hitters the next year. Ditto a guy who gave up a lot of home
runs. But when it came to the number of hits per balls in play a
pitcher gave up, there was no correlation whatsoever.
It was then that a radical thought struck Voros McCracken:
What if the pitcher has no control of whether a ball falls for
a hit, once it gets put into play I
Obviously some pitchers give up fewer hits than others, but that
might be because some pitchers had more strikeouts than others,
and, therefore, allowed fewer balls to be put into play. But it was
generally assumed that pitchers could affect the way in which a
ball was put into play. It was generally assumed that a great
pitcher, like Randy Johnson or Greg Maddux, coaxed hitters into
hitting the ball in a way that was less likely to become a hit. The
trouble with that general assumption is that it didn't square with
the record books. There were years when Maddux and Johnson
were among the worst in baseball in this regard.
If Voros McCracken was right, then what had heretofore been
attributed to the skill of the pitcher was in fact caused by defense,
or ballpark, or luck. But the examples of Greg Maddux and Kevin
Millwood suggested that defense and ballparks might be of sec-
ondary importance. They pitched in front of the same group of
fielders, and, usually, in the same ballparks. That led Voros to a
second radical thought:
What if what was heretofore regarded as the pitcher's
responsibility is simply luckl
For n ccnturv and a halt pitchers have heen evaluated, in part,
on their ahility to prevent hits once the hall is put in play. A
pitcher who suffered a lot of halls falling for hits gave up more
earned runs and lost more games than one who didn't. He was
thought less well of than a pitcher against whom halls m play
were caught hy fielders. A soon-to-he unemployed young man,
soon to he hack living with his parents in Phoenix, Arizona,
begged to differ. He was coming to the conclusion that pitchers
had no ability to prevent hits, once the hall was put into play.
They could prevent home runs, prevent walks, and prevent balls
from ever being put into play by striking out batters. And that, in
essence, is all they could do.
Voros McCracken had a radical theory. And he was staring at a
lot of hard evidence supporting it.
What happened next bolsters one's faith in the American edu-
cational system: Voros McCracken set out to prove himself wrong.
He wrote a computer program that paired major league pitchers
who had very similar walks, strikeouts, and home runs — but had
given up very different number of hits. He located ninety such
"pairs" from the 1999 season. If hits per ball in play were indeed
something a pitcher could control, Voros reasoned, then the pitch-
ers who had given up the fewer number of hits in 1999 would pro-
ceed to give up fewer hits in 2000. They didn't. There was, in fact,
no correlation trom one year to the next in any given pitcher's
ahility to prevent hits per halls in play.
Instead, baseball kept thrusting before Voros beguiling situa-
tions explained by his theory. A couple of months into the 2000
season, for instance, the newspapers were tull of stuff about how
heretofore mediocre White Sox pitcher James Baldwin, off to a
great start, had somehow become the next Pedro Martinez. Voros
looked more deeplv at the numbers and saw that Baldwin had
extremely low number of hits for the number of balls he'd put in
play. His earned run average was sensational — because he'd been
lucky. Sure enough, the hits started falling and Baldwin regressed
to mediocrity and people stopped putting his name in the same
sentence with Pedro Martinez.
For pretty much the whole of 2000 Voros McCracken, as he put
it, "went looking for a reason Maddux got hit in 1999, and to this
day I'm still looking for it." At length, he penned an article reveal-
ing his findings for baseballprospectus.com. Its conclusion:
"There is little if any difference among major league pitchers in
their ability to prevent hits on balls hit into the field of play."
ESPN columnist Rob Neyer saw Voros's piece and, stunned by
both the quality of the thought and the force of the argument,
wrote an article about Voros's article. Several thousand amateur
baseball analysts wrote in to say that Voros's argument, on the
face of it, sounded nuts. Several suggested that "Voros McCracken"
might be a pseudonym for Aaron Sele, a well-hit pitcher then play-
ing for the Seattle Mariners.
Bill James also read Rob Neyer's article. James wrote in, and
said Voros McCracken's theory, if true, was obviously important,
but that he couldn't believe it was true. He — and about three thou-
sand other people — then went off to disprove it himself. He
couldn't do it, and the three thousand other guys couldn't either.
About the most they could suggest was that there was a slight
tendency for knuckleballers to control hits per balls in play. Nine
months later, on page 885 of his mammoth Bill James Historical
Baseball Abstract, James laid out Voros McCracken's argument,
noted that Voros McCracken "is NekcarCcM Sorov spelled back-
wards," then went on to make four points:
1. Like most things, McCracken's argument can be taken too
literally. A pitcher does have some input into the hits/
innings ratio behind him, other than that which is reflected
in the home run and strikeout column.
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2. With that qualification, I am quite certain that McCracken
3. This knowledge is significant, very useful.
4. 1 feel stupid for not having realized it 30 years ago.
One ot the minor consequences of Voros McCracken's analysis
ot pitching was to lead him to Chad Bradford, Triple-A pitcher for
the Chicago White Sox. Voros had developed a statistic he could
trust — what he called DIPS, for defense independent pitching sta-
tistic. It might also have heen called LIPS, for luck independent
pitching statistic, because the luck it stripped out of a pitcher's
bottom line had, at times, a more warping effect than defense on
the perception of a pitcher's true merits. At any rate, Chad Brad-
ford's Triple-A defense independent stats were even better than
his astonishingly impressive defense dependent ones. (Chad
pitched a total of IOTA innings in Triple-A, with an earned run
average of 1 .64.1 And so Voros McCracken snapped up Bradford for
his fantasy team, even though a player did a fantasy team no good
unless he accumulated big league innings. "Basically," said Voros,
"I was waiting tor somet)ne to see what I'd seen in Bradford and
put him to use."
He waited nearly a year. Inadvertently, Voros McCracken had
helped to explain why the White Sox thought of Chad Bradford as
a "Triple-A guy." There was a reason that, in judging young pitch-
ers, the White Sox front office, like nearly every big league front
office, preierred their own subjective opinion to minor league
pitching statistics. Pitching statistics were flawed. Maybe not
quite so deeply as hitting statistics but enough to encourage
uncertainty. Baseball executives' preference tor their own opin-
ions over hard data was, at least in part, due to a lifetime of expe-
rience of fishy data. They'd seen one too many guys with a low
earned run average in Triple-A who flamed out in the big leagues.
And wben a guy looked as funny, and threw as slow, as Chad Brad-
ford — well, you just knew he was doomed.
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If one didn't already know better, one might think that Voros
McCracken's article on baseballprospectus.com would be cause
for celebration everywhere inside big league baseball. One knew
better. Voros knew better. "The problem with major league base-
ball/' he said, "is that it's a self-populating institution. Knowledge
is institutionalized. The people involved with baseball who aren't
players are ex-players. In their defense, their structure is not set up
along corporate lines. They aren't equipped to evaluate their own
systems. They don't have the mechanism to let in the good and
get rid of the bad. They either keep everything or get rid of every-
thing, and they rarely do the latter." He sympathized with base-
ball owners who didn't know what to think, or even if they should
think. "If you're an owner and you never played, do you believe
Voros McCracken or Larry Bowa?" The unemployed former para-
legal living with his parents, or the former All-Star shortstop and
current manager who no doubt owned at least one home of his
own?
Voros McCracken's astonishing discovery about major league
pitchers had no apparent effect on the management, or evaluation,
of actual pitchers. No one on the inside called Voros to discuss his
findings; so far as he knew, no one on the inside had even read it.
But Paul DePodesta had read it. Paul's considered reaction: "If you
want to talk about a guy who might be the next Bill James, Voros
McCracken could be it." Paul's unconsidered reaction: "The first
thing I thought of was Chad Bradford."
V OROS Mccracken had provided the theory to explain what the
Oakland A's front office already had come to believe: you could
create reliable pitching statistics. It was true that the further you
got from the big leagues, the less reliably stats predicted big league
performance. But if you focused on the right statistics you could
certainly project a guy based on his Triple-A, and even his Double-
A, numbers. The right numbers were walks, home runs, and
Strikeouts plus a few others. If you trusted those, you didn't have
to give two minutes' thought to how a guy looked, or how hard he
threw. You could ludgc a pitcher's performance objectively, by
what he had acconiphshed.
Chad Bradford was, to the Oakland A's front office, a no-brainer.
"It wasn't that he was doing it differently," said Paul DePodesta.
"It was that the efficiency with which he was recording outs was
astounding." Chad Bradford had set off several different sets of
bells mside Paul's computer. He hardly ever walked a batter; he
gave up virtually no home runs; and he struck out nearly a batter
an inning. Paul, like Bill James, thought it was possible to take
Voros's theory too literally. He thought there was one big thing, in
addition to walks, strikeouts, and home runs, that a pitcher could
control: extra base hits. Chad Bradford gave up his share of hits per
balls in play but, more than any pitcher m baseball, they were
ground ball hits. His minor league ground ball to fly ball ratio was
5:1. The big league average was more like 1.2:1. Ground balls were
not only hard to hit over the wall; they were hard to hit for dou-
bles and triples.
That raised an obvious question: why weren't there more suc-
cessful ground ball pitchers like Chad Bradford in the big leagues?
There was an equally obvious answer: there were no ground ball
pitchers like Chad Bradford. Ground ball pitchers who threw over-
hand tended to be sinker ball pitchers and they tended to have
control problems and also tended not to strike out a lot of guys.
Chad Bradford was, statistically and humanly, an outlier.
The best thing of all was that the scouts didn't like him. The
Greek Chorus disapproved of what they called "tricksters." Paul
thought it was ridiculous when the White Sox sent Chad back
down to Triple-A, hut he could guess why they had done it. Once
upon a time he had sat behind home plate while Chad Bradford
pitched; he'd listened to the scouts make fun of Chad, even as
Chad made tools of hitters. The guy looked funny when he threw,
no question about it, and his fastball came in at between 81 and
85 mph. Chad Bradford didn't know it, but as he dropped his arm
slot, and took heat off his fastball, he was becoming an Oakland
A. "Because of the way he looked, we thought he might be avail-
able to us," said Paul. "Usually the guys who are setting off bells
in my office are the guys everybody knows about. But nobody
knew about this guy, because of the way he threw. If he had those
identical stats in Triple-A but he threw ninety-four, there is no
way they'd have traded him."
Already Billy Beane was finding that guys he wanted magically
became less available the moment he expressed an interest in
them. At the end of the 2000 season he finally called the new
White Sox GM, Kenny Williams, who had replaced the old White
Sox GM, Ron Schueler, and said, very casually, that he was look-
ing for "a guy who could be a twelfth or thirteenth pitcher on the
staff." Someone in the White Sox farm system. Someone maybe in
Triple-A. He was willing to give up this minor league catcher in
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Toronto's ears are open to hearing your feedback about noise.
Today is the first of five consultation meetings for the public to give their feedback to the city about any concern they have with noise in their communities.
Each of the five sessions will be from 6-8 p.m. focused on specific areas of Toronto's noise bylaw.
The sessions will cover noise from power equipment, motor vehicles amplified sound, construction and general noise.
Rod Jones, director of bylaw enforcement, said a lot will be taken from the feedback and it is important to find out what the city's constituents want.
It is unlikely for a city with more than 2.9 million people to stay quiet.
There are traffic and construction noise at all times during the day and night, which is a part of living in a big city.
Toronto Noise Coalition spokesperson Cathie Macdonald said there are many measures the city can take to mitigate these sources of noise.
Torontonians deemed construction noise to be the most bothersome sound in the city based on an Ipsos Reid Poll.
"What we want to do is work with the construction industry to mitigate noise where they can do what they can mitigate it so they have a plan in place to make sure that noise is not transmitting directly to neighbors. They tried their best through construction methods to minimize the noise. And then again, we need appropriate levels so they know how loud they can be and how loud they can't." Carleton Grant, Director of Policy & Strategic Support for Municipal Licensing & Standards said.
According to Ipsos and Municipal licensing and Standards Noise By-Law Research, 36 per cent of residents believe that Toronto needs to do more to limit noise as there are negative health risks.
"The most important thing about the noise bylaw is to protect the health of citizens." Cathie Macdonald said.
A Toronto Public Health report showed noise pollution has negative effects on cardiovascular health.
Exposure to certain noise sources impacts stress levels and can be linked to diseases of the heart.
Some parts of the new bylaw will include changes to the decibel restriction limit in Toronto.
Carleton Grant said his team will work with acoustical engineers to determine what the new decibel limit should be and what works best for the residents.
Rod Jones said the bylaw can be improved by introducing objective levels rather than subjective.


Our 2019 Annual Meeting, March 16th, was a Big Success!
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The Board of Directors meets three times a year. An Annual Membership Meeting and Conference is held each spring; other social and educational gatherings are scheduled periodically. The membership enjoys implementing their mission, learning from one another, and sharing experiences in the outdoors.
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RIT team wins global U.S. State Department challenge aimed at combating terrorism
"It's Time: ExOut Extremism," a social media campaign created by Rochester Institute of Technology students, took top prize in a global challenge conducted by the U.S. State Department aimed at finding ways to counter terrorist propaganda online.
Cummings named dean of Graduate Education at RIT
Twyla Cummings has been named dean of Graduate Education at Rochester Institute of Technology.
Cummings, who has been serving as senior associate dean for graduate studies and faculty research in RIT's College of Imaging Arts and Sciences, was chosen after an extensive internal search. She assumes the dean's chair on Aug. 1.
RIT to offer Ph.D. in mathematical modeling in 2017
Rochester Institute of Technology will offer a new Ph.D. in mathematical modeling, beginning in fall 2017.
This emerging discipline integrates applied mathematics with scientific computing to model real systems and to solve research problems across the science, technology, engineering and mathematics...
Reginald Rogers: Teaching and mentoring are in the cards
Students in Reginald Rogers' chemical process analysis class never know when the 'mystery box' will come out.
Rogers asks students to pick a card or a dice from inside the mystery box, and based upon that selection, students have a chance of being selected to explain a complex problem to the class.
RIT's SMASH Experience for Girls wins STEM program award
The Rochester Institute of Technology's Summer Math Applications in Science with Hands-on Experience for Girls has been recognized by the Finger Lakes STEM Hub as an exemplary K-12 program in science, technology, engineering and math.
Innovation and creativity on display at 2016 Imagine RIT Festival
Battling robots, portable coffee makers, glass blowing and devices to help people with mobility issues: These were just some of the more than 400 exhibits on display at the ninth annual Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival.
First-generation NTID graduating student committed to serving community
Susana Flores, a fourth-year museum studies student and community service director for the Latin American Deaf Club, is dedicated to helping others on and off campus and raising awareness for Latino culture. Flores, from Antioch, Calif., is the only deaf person in her family and the first to attend college.
Communications faculty named interim leader for RIT's Office for Diversity and Inclusion
Keith Jenkins, director of Undergraduate Programs in the College of Liberal Arts at Rochester Institute of Technology, has been appointed interim vice president and associate provost for Diversity and Inclusion at the university. The associate professor of communication will take on the new role beginning June 1.
RIT's LaVerne McQuiller Williams named American Council on Education Fellow
LaVerne McQuiller Williams, criminal justice professor at Rochester Institute of Technology, has been named an ACE Fellow for the 2016-17 academic year by the American Council on Education (ACE).
RIT's Future Faculty Career Exploration Program accepting applications
Applications are being accepted for the 2016 Future Faculty Career Exploration Program at Rochester Institute of Technology. The program for recruiting diverse faculty candidates, now in its 13th year, has been recognized nationally for its strategies to feature doctoral candidates' research and to provide them the opportunity to explore career options at the university.


Indivisible Ramona will host a forum on the topic of immigration at Ramona Library on March 24.
Indivisible Ramona will host a community forum titled Immigration: Why People Seek Asylum in the U.S. on Sunday, March 24.
Nora E. Milner, ESQ., LLM, a San Diego immigration attorney who served in the Navy's Judge Advocate General (JAG) Corps and then entered private practice in 1980. Beginning in 1986, she focused her practice on immigration.
Pedro Rios, director of the American Friends Service Committee's U.S./Mexico Border Program, has been on staff with AFSC for 15 years. A native San Diegan, Rios has worked on immigrant rights and border issues for more than 20 years.
Dulce Aguirre, general manager of Border Angels, is the Youth Program coordinator at the Sherman Heights Community Center. Border Angels is an all-volunteer, nonprofit organization that advocates for human rights, humane immigration reform and social justice with a focus on issues related to the US-Mexican border.


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Sunpacer Manufacturing CC ist ein südafrikanisches Unternehmen und ehemaliger Hersteller von Automobilen.

Unternehmensgeschichte
Das Unternehmen wurde 1989 in Port Elizabeth gegründet. Die Produktion von Automobilen und Kit Cars fand je nach Quelle in den 1980er Jahren oder in den 1990er Jahren statt. Der Markenname lautete Sunpacer. Insgesamt entstanden 55 Fahrzeuge.

Mittlerweile stellt das Unternehmen Anhänger und Fahrzeugaufbauten her.

Fahrzeuge
Im Angebot standen Freizeitfahrzeuge. Die Basis bildete ein Monocoque. Der Radstand maß etwa 210 cm. Darauf wurde eine Karosserie aus Fiberglas montiert. Viele Teile, so auch die Motoren, kamen vom VW Golf.

Literatur
 George Nick Georgano (Chefredakteur): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 3: P–Z. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1, S. 1550. (englisch)

Weblinks
 Internetseite des Unternehmens (englisch, abgerufen am 26. Juni 2016)
  d'Auto (niederländisch, abgerufen am 26. Juni 2016)
  Allcarindex (englisch, abgerufen am 26. Juni 2016)

Einzelnachweise

Ehemaliger Pkw-Hersteller (Südafrika)
Wirtschaft (Ostkap)
Kit Car
Gegründet 1989

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This year's Australian Christian Book of the Year: A journey from darkness to light
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A book about living with the long-term effects of sexual abuse has won the Australian Christian Book of the Year.
Child, Arise!: The Courage to Stand is described as a spiritual handbook for survivors of sexual abuse. Using scripture verses and 'praying the scripture reading', the book describes the very real emotions triggered by sexual abuse and encourages readers, both victim and survivors and non-victims alike, to journey with the author.
Author Jane N. Dowling described a sense of disbelief at winning the prize.
"What I hope for my book is that it can get into the hands of as many survivors of abuse as possible, because I believe it's a journey, where one feels a deep hopelessness and despair. And the pain is overwhelming, but I believe that God's word has a power to transform that pain and suffering into love."
"I feel overwhelmed; I wouldn't have thought a year ago that I was going to be here receiving a prize for my writing," Jane told Eternity.
"It was something that I felt called by God to write and I saw a need, so I was simply trying to respond to that need. But I wasn't really looking for any sort of public recognition so for me to receive the prize tonight is really overwhelming," she said.
Her hope, she said, was that the book would reach as many survivors as possible so that they might know the transforming power of God's word.
"What I hope for my book is that it can get into the hands of as many survivors of abuse as possible, because I believe it's a journey, where one feels a deep hopelessness and despair. And the pain is overwhelming, but I believe that God's word has a power to transform that pain and suffering into love," she said.
During a time of illness, Jane Dowling's experience compounded, just as then Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced the Royal Commission into institutional abuse.
"I remember sitting down and listening to that announcement and feeling a great stirring of the holy spirit that all the skills I had received in ministry, the gift of prayer and evangelisation, that came through the word was going to be useful. I felt God calling me to put those skills forward for the benefit of other survivors of sexual abuse," she said.
Michael Collie, National Director of Sparklit, the organiser of the Australian Christian Book of the Year Awards, said that this year there were strong entries in every category.
"The Australian Christian Book of the Year shortlist was the longest we've ever had, it's very strong … I just could not get the judges to reduce it down to below 10."
He said the overflowing shortlist was a great testament to the quality of Christian writers in the country despite Christian publishing in Australia still remains tenuous.
"The irony here is that Christian publishing as such in Australia is very fragile and quite weak. Publishers are competing with big companies in the United States that enjoy an economy of scale which doesn't exist here," he said.
This year the winner of the Australian Christian Teen Writer Award went to Annie-Jo Vogler for All the Ways We Are. Vogler also won the award in 2014 and her latest book confronts the struggles of adolescence whilst dealing with the unexpected events and complexities of living with an extended family.
Miriam Dale won the award for Young Australian Christian Writer with her collection of poetry, The Weight of Hope. The judges described Dale's writing as "candid and raw but above all hopeful".
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Home > Collective Isolation Project, week 21: Our legacy
Collective Isolation Project, week 21: Our legacy
Our time has come.
Our roadmap to 'COVID Normal' for work, education and living is laid out before us, setting our path.
And, after 21 fascinating and revelatory weeks, this is our final Memory Bank question.
Thank you for your contributions to Memory Bank: The Collective Isolation Project.
All your photos, creations and posts on your everyday observations – from the contents of your fridge to portraits of our frontline heroes and iso hairstyles – will build a rich archive and collective memory of what life is really like during these days and months.
It's in this forward-looking spirit that we offer our final question.
This week, tell us: what do you want people in 100 years from now to know about this time?
Share your response at our Facebook Memory Bank group and tag us with #SLVMemoryBank.
Although we won't be publishing weekly prompts after this, our Facebook group will remain open for you to share, comment and stay in touch with each other through this period.
This photo of Ken Jordan and his granddaughter Caroline was taken by Alan K Jordan (Caroline's father and Ken's son) in the '60s.
Alan Jordan, born in Dimboola, was a social researcher and gifted photographer. His study on homeless men and women in Victoria, Going bad: Homeless men in an Australian city is a seminal work on the topic and, together with Alan's work at Fitzroy's Hanover House, helped to shift public attitudes towards homelessness.
Alan lived with his young family in inner-Melbourne. Many of his images show Fitzroy and Carlton's streets, buildings and residents during a period of change in the 1960s and 1970s, as working-class homes were demolished for freeways and housing commission flats, or renovated and gentrified.
He also documented his family and friends at dinner parties, camping, fishing and visiting his family farm in the Wimmera.
A collection of Alan's photographs was donated to the Library in 2010 by his daughters Louisa and Caroline (pictured above at age four and a half). Almost 1000 of Alan's images are digitised and available to view online, and provide a wonderful time capsule of Victoria's social history.
How to respond
Please feel welcome to respond as creatively or literally as you wish.
If you contribute, we may contact you to discuss collecting and using your images, stories, objects and experiences. We may not be able to accept everything, but we will endeavour to do so! With your permission, your contributions may be added to the State Collection or used in future Library programs.
About The Collective Isolation Project
The Collective Isolation Project aims to cement this current moment in history, and is our inaugural Memory Bank campaign.
Find out more about Memory Bank, including details about how to contribute each week.
Ten tips for taking photos
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Odile Barski (París, 1946) es una escritora y guionista francesa conocida por sus trabajos en Violette Nozière (1978) o Borrachera de poder (2006). Esposa del director Marco Pauly, madre del actor y director de cine Rodolphe Pauly, y de la cantante y actriz Adrienne Pauly.

Obras

Novelas
 Zoé en mai, ediciones Robert Laffont, 1973
 Chambre 12 n'oublie pas, ediciones Robert Laffont, 1983
 L'Entorse, ediciones Robert Laffont, 1988
 Le Maître enchanteur, ediciones Robert Laffont, 1989
 Lecomte Thérèse, ediciones  Jean-Claude Lattès, 1996; reedición de Éditions du Masque, 2009
 Comment sera la fin, ediciones Joëlle Losfeld, 2004
 Et tout à coup ce rouge, Éditions du Masque, 2007
 Transferts de fonds, Éditions du Masque, 2009
 Never mort, Éditions du Masque, 2011
 Quartier libre, ediciones Flammarion, 2013
 Le Manteau réversible, La Grande Ourse, 2015

Teatro
 Le Livre des fuites, adaptación de la novela de Jean-Marie Le Clézio, con François Marthouret; 1995

Filmografía

Cine
 2013: Tip Top de Serge Bozon (guion escrito en coautoría con Axelle Ropert y Serge Bozon)
 2009: L'Envie de vivre de Claude Miller (coguinista, adaptación y diálogos)
 2008: Sous les étoiles, d'après le roman de Chochana Boukhobza, Éditions du Seuil
 2007: La Fille du RER d'André Téchiné (coguionista, adaptación y diálogos)
 2007: Bellamy de Claude Chabrol (coguionista, adaptación y diálogos)
 2004: Borrachera de poder de Claude Chabrol (coguionista, adaptación y diálogos)
 1998: Au cœur du mensonge de Claude Chabrol (coguionista, adaptación y diálogos)
 1993: La Poudre aux yeux de Maurice Dugowson, a partir de la idea original de Maurice Achard
 1990: Sans un cri de Jeanne Labrune
 1988: Docteur M de Claude Chabrol (coautor y diálogos)
 1987: Le Cri du hibou de Claude Chabrol (adaptación y diálogos)
 1986: Masques de Claude Chabrol (guion)
 1981: Le Sang des autres de Claude Chabrol (coadaptación y diálogos)
 1979: Le Cœur à l'envers de Franck Apprederis (coadaptación con Gérard Brach)
 1978: Violette Nozière de Claude Chabrol (adaptación y diálogos)
 1976: Les Conquistadores de Marco Pauly (guion, adaptación y diálogos)

Televisión
 2015: Le Vagabond de la Baie de Somme de Claude-Michel Rome
 2013: Le commissaire dans la truffière, de Bruno Gantillon
 2012: Le Secret des andrônes de Bruno Gantillon
 2011: Le Tombeau d'Hélios de Bruno Gantillon
 2010: Le Sang des Atrides de Bruno Gantillon
 2010: Jade de Laurence Katrian
 2009: L'Évasion de Laurence Katrian, TF1 (diálogos y adaptación)
 2008: La Loi des amants de Marco Pauly
 2006: Charlotte Corday de Henri Helman, France 3
 2006: Le Sang des Atrides de Bruno Gantillon (guion, adaptación y diálogos de la novela de Pierre Magnan
 2004: La Boîte à images de Marco Pauly, France 3 (guion, adaptación y diálogos)
 2003: Les Courriers de la mort (adaptación y diálogos)
 2003: Une vie en retour de Daniel Janneau (guion, adaptación y diálogos)
 2003: L'Affaire Dominici de Pierre Boutron, TF1 (adaptación y diálogos)
 2001: Le Prix de l'honneur de Gérard Marx (adaptación y diálogos)
 2000: Jalousie de Marco Pauly (coguionista, adaptación y diálogos)
 2000: Romance sans paroles de Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe (guion, adaptación y diálogos)
 2000: Détectives: L'Ogre des bas-fonds, del libro de René Reouven (guion, adaptación y diálogos)
 1999: Sissi de Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe (adaptación y diálogos)
 1999: Zaïde de Josée Dayan (guion)
 1999: L'Interpellation de Marco Pauly (guion, adaptación y diálogos)
 1998: La Caracole de Marco Pauly (guion, adaptación y diálogos), serie de 2 episodios
 1998: Pur Sang de Marco Pauly (guion, adaptación y diálogos)
 1998: Famille de cœur de Gérard Vergés (guion, adaptación y diálogos)
 1997: Les Semailles et les Moissons de Christian François, de la obra Henri Troyat (guion, adaptación y diálogos)
 1996: Victor et François de Josée Dayan (coadaptación y diálogos)
 1996: Hors limites: Le Piège y Mariage à la bulgare de Denis Berry (coadaptación y diálogos)
 1996: Un homme de Robert Mazoyer (coadaptación y diálogos)
 1995: Avocat d'office: Marchand de rêve de Daniel Vigne (guion y diálogos), a partir de una idea original de Gabriel Aghion
 1993: Police secrets: Un alibi en or (coadaptación y diálogos)
 1992: Virginie Ravel, de la idea original de Michel Martens y Laurence Bachman (coautor con Michel Martens por los episodios 1, 2, 3, 5 y 6; coautor con Jean-Guy Gingembre para el episodio 4)
 1990: Warburg, le banquier des princes de Moshé Mizrahi, de la novela de Jacques Attali (coadaptación y diálogos)
 1989: Fine Romance (adaptación al francés)
 1988: Pas de deux (coadaptación)
 1986-1992: La Mafia, serie 1 a 4 (adaptación y diálogos con Ennio de Concini)
 1986: La Bavure de Nicolas Ribowski (guion y diálogos)
 1979: Monsieur Prokofiev (colección Les Grands Musiciens) de Claude Chabrol (guion, adaptación y diálogos)
 1976: Madame le juge: 2 + 2 = 4 de Claude Chabrol (guion, adaptación y diálogos)

Referencias

Escritoras de Francia
Guionistas de Francia
Francesas del siglo XX
Francesas del siglo XXI
Nacidos en París


Every snowflake in a sprawling blanket of snow, and every drop of water in the ocean, is precious.
The catch is that you have to train your eyes to see such miniscule wonders. Or perhaps your eyes are opened by grace in a given moment because it was time for you to see. There is a sermon inside every snowflake if you look at it the right way and are receptive to its fascinating secret.
Each year, a tree produces hundreds or thousands of leaves. If you look closely, you will notice that every leaf is imprinted with the pattern of a tree.
And consider our bodies. Inside our bodies, there are multitudes of cells being generated, living, and dying, just like humans on planet Earth. At a cellular level, dramas unfold through reproductive processes that take place silently and secretly – processes of which we are not conscious. Every single breath is a spectacular event – perhaps like a roller coaster ride or a story of transformation from the perspective of oxygen molecules – but we are largely unaware of the rhythm and process of it as we go about the business of living our lives.
There is so much taking place, so much to be revealed to us if only we look more carefully or employ tools that help us to zoom in and see beyond what we can perceive with the naked eye. And on the opposite end of the spectrum, zooming out provides us with insight about how everything fits together into something larger than itself.
Becoming aware of the universe that exists inside each human body makes me wonder: If we were to zoom way out, are we like infinitesimal cells inside a larger being that we are too small to perceive? And could that entity be but a single cell in something even larger?
These thoughts have been building over the past several days and are blowing my mind this morning! A few days ago, I came across a video (which is absolutely worth three and a half minutes of your time) based on a gargantuan, panoramic photo released by NASA of the Andromeda galaxy. The video portrays impressively our place in the vastness of the cosmos. For me, the timing was perfect.
Prior to seeing the video, I had been revisiting a vision I had a while back of a vast wall covered completely with a sprawling, painted canvas. But the masterpiece painted on the canvas extends far – perhaps infinitely – beyond the boundaries of the wall. Somewhere on the vast wall is a postage stamp sized frame, and if you look inside the frame you can perceive familiar forms – perhaps sky, trees, houses, and figures of people and animals. We humans are the size of pin heads in relation to this postage stamp sized frame, and we take it all in, make what sense we can, and to some degree think we understand the meaning of what we see inside the tiny frame. This miniscule masterpiece (that is a small part of a larger canvas, that in turn is but a small portion of a possibly infinite canvas) represents our perception of our human lives. But what we can perceive – the part that falls within the postage stamp sized area – isn't as it appears if you zoom out. Doing so, you see that the individual forms inside the frame extend far beyond the frame and are parts of much larger shapes and patterns.
It's like taking the sensation of standing at the edge of the ocean or on a mountaintop and magnifying it a thousandfold.
We debate and argue about the meaning of the forms we perceive within the confines of the postage stamp sized frame – which is all our conditioned minds can see. We blame and/or venerate others, exalt ourselves for our perceived successes, and/or rebuke ourselves for our perceived shortcomings and failures – thinking or even fearing that we know The Truth.
But how could we possibly know?
From a wider perspective, perhaps events that seem confusing or tragic on a personal level serve a larger, higher purpose in the grand scheme of things. Perhaps they offer us the gifts of awakening and evolving. Perhaps the biochemistry we inherit or the personal losses that throw us off balance and feel so jolting are actually spiritual blessings. Perhaps we need to extend our perception through time and space to understand this and to realize how inherently connected we are to other forms, beyond the extremely limited frame of human perception. Perhaps doing so will help us cultivate serenity, love ourselves more fully, and in turn live more authentically.
How would it change your life to believe – truly believe – that you are not broken or deficient in some way? That who you are at your core is the light of the universe, imprinted with the pattern of the galaxies? That you can access this higher power at any time by focusing on your inner light?
Zoom in, zoom out, shine on.


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#define DE0_7SEG_DISP *((uint32_t *)(0xA0004000))    // memory address of 7-Segment display on DE0
#define DE0_LEDs *((uint32_t *)(0xA0000000))    // memory address of LEDs on DE0

#define I2C_TEMP_SENSE_Slave_Addr 0x90   // I2C slave address of TMP100 temperature sensor
#define I2C_TEMP_SENSE_Temp_Reg 0x00   // TMP100 Temperature register number = 00h
#define I2C_TEMP_SENSE_Conf_Reg 0x01   // TMP100 Configuration register number = 01h
#define I2C_TEMP_SENSE_12bitRes 0x60   // value to set ADC to 12-bit resolution

int main(void) {
    uint8_t t1, t2;
    uint32_t temp;
    sint32_t i;

    //Enable I2C controller
    set_clk();

    // 'Clear' 7_Seg display
    DE0_7SEG_DISP = 0xFFFFFFFF;

    // configure the I2C temperature sensor with 12-bit resolution
    write_with_start(I2C_TEMP_SENSE_Slave_Addr);
    write_byte(I2C_TEMP_SENSE_Conf_Reg);
    write_with_stop(I2C_TEMP_SENSE_12bitRes);

    while (1) {
        DE0_LEDs = DE0_LEDs|(1<<8);    // blink LED8 to indicate program execution status
        for (i=0;i<0x300000;i++);      // delay

        // get the temperature sensor value
        write_with_start(I2C_TEMP_SENSE_Slave_Addr);
        write_with_stop(I2C_TEMP_SENSE_Temp_Reg);
        read_with_start(I2C_TEMP_SENSE_Slave_Addr);
        t1 = read_byte();                //Read the higher byte
        t2 = read_with_stop();           //Reading the lower byte

        temp = convert_for_7_seg(t1,t2);    // converted the value into appropriate 7-segment format
        DE0_7SEG_DISP = temp;		    // display it on DE0 board
    }
}

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i've never eaten fresh shrooms before and this is my first time growing. can anyone tell me a good average dose (in grams) for a level 2+ trip?
I don't know how accurate it is, but the dose calculator at this site might be able to help you out with that.
I don't have a scale. One teaspoon of powered dried shrooms about equals one gram .So I use a level tablespoon of dried for my baseline session, more or less, depending on set and setting.
Question: Is there an similar volume-to-weight correlation for fresh picked? (finely minced?) So, 30 wet grams would be what, a quarter-cup?
Well that doesn't make sense because dried shrooms should get you high practically as good as wet ones do... Whoever dried those did it the wrong way.
i dried them and i used a fan and dessicant..whats wrong with that?
I notice no difference in them when i dry them with a fan and desicant.
Most of the time when you dry them they lose all of the psilocin. They still have most of their psilocibin but they lose some of that too. Best way is to eat them fresh hand-picked from God's fruiting chamber!
fresh shrooms in the fridge.how long?
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From the M6 motorway leave at junction 36 for Kendal/Lakes.
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Follow this road for about 10 miles.
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After 4 miles turn left in Ulpha village up the steep hill signed Eskdale.
Follow the fell road for approx 6 miles to Eskdale.
When you reach the King George IV pub turn right towards Boot.
Fisherground is 200 yards on your left.
Leave the M6 at Carlisle (junction 44) and follow the A595 (signed Barrow).
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Q: A function that calculates the average of a list and returns the elements that are greater than the mathematical average of the entire list I'm trying to make a function that would calculate the average of a given list then returns all the elements within that list which are greater than the mathematical average of that list. Example:
 if the given list is [1,2,3,4,5,6], the average would be 3.5. So the function should print out the numbers (4,5,6).
I've gotten as far as adding all the numbers up within the list but no matter what I do, I can't figure out how to get the average or get it to print out the numbers that are greater than the mathematical average.
This is what i have so far to add all the elements of any given list:
def accum2(seq):

  total = 0

  for x in seq:
    total += x

  return total

print (accum2([1,2,3,4,5,6]))

The expected result of print (accum2([1,2,3,4,5,6])) should be (4,5,6) but so far I just get an answer where it just adds up all the number in the given list.
Any help is greatly appreciated and thank you in advance.

A: The simplest way to get the average value of a list of numeric values is to use the methods:
average = sum(seq) / len(seq)

From there just use a conditional statement (you might have to sort the list first, if it is unsorted). From there you should be able to build a new list using the built in list methods.

A: heres some simple code which should work.
I have added comments.
    originallist = [1,2,3,4,5,6] #This is your original list
    outputlist = [] #This is the list which you can add correct values to

    x = sum(originallist) / len(originallist) #This effectively finds you the average

    for item in originallist: #Checks which items are greater than average
        if item > x:
            outputlist.append(item) #If greater, add to the final list

    print(outputlist)

A: There are many correct ways to do this, one of which is shown below (Python 3).
lst = [1,2,3,4,5,6]
avg = sum(lst)/len(lst)
res = list(filter(lambda x: x > avg, lst))
print(res)

will produce
    [4,5,6].
I prefer this approach because it's less verbose than loops and also can be more easily translated to a framework like Pandas or an eventual parallel implementation if such a need arises in the future (e.g., using Spark).

A: This is the extended version of your work:
def accum2(seq):
 total = 0

 for x in seq:
  total += x

 L=[]

 for x in seq:
   if x>total/len(seq):
      L.append(x)

 return L

print (accum2([1,2,3,4,5,6]))

But you could simply the previous one in this code:
    def accum2(seq):

      return [x for x in seq if x>(sum(y for y in seq)/len(seq))]

    print (accum2([1,2,3,4,5,6]))

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Professor Maciej Zylicz was born in 1953 in Gdansk. He studied experimental physics and biology at the University of Gdansk. In 1980 he completed his PhD in biochemistry, in 1986 he was awarded his habilitation degree in molecular biology, and in 1992 he received the title of Professor. In the years between 1980 and 1999 he worked at the University of Gdansk, where he was the head of the Department of Molecular Biology (1991-1999) and vice-rector for science (1990-1993). From 1982 to 1984 he was a postdoctoral fellow at University of Utah and Stanford University. In 1993 and 1994 he was a visiting professor at the Institute of Oncology of the University of Utah, School of Medicine. In 1999-2018 he worked at the International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw (1999-2016, head of the Molecular Biology Department). In 2005 he was elected President (Executive Director) of the Foundation for Polish Science (2005-present).
The laboratory lead by Maciej Zylicz (since 2000, a joint laboratory, coheaded with his wife, prof. Alicja Zylicz) was among the first to show that heat shock proteins possesses molecular chaperone activity. At the onset of his postdoctoral career Maciej pioneered the methodology and isolated the first heat shock proteins and described their biochemical and biophysical properties. Afterwards Maciej's group elucidated the molecular mechanism of action of heat shock proteins in the initiation of DNA replication, transcription and proteolysis. They also presented inceptive and introductory mechanistic evidence that heat shock proteins act as molecular chaperones by protecting other proteins from aggregation and dissociate already existing protein aggregates. Moreover, Maciej's group was one of the first to describe that elements of the proteolytic machinery possess chaperone activity. Recently, Maciej's and Alicja's laboratory discovered that molecular chaperones are required for the transcriptional activity of wild-type p53 tumour suppressor protein and that it's chief negative regulator the MDM2 oncoprotein possesses intrinsic chaperone-like activity. Moreover, they were among the first to present evidence that heat shock proteins are also directly involved in gaining new oncogenic functions of mutated p53 tumour suppressor, leading to tumour development, metastasis and acquisition of chemoresistance of breast cancer patients. Recently, they showed that the expression profile of heat shock genes creates a prognostic signature which can be used to predict the clinical outcome of breast cancer.
Professor Zylicz is a full member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, member of the German National Academy of Sciences – Leopoldina, Academia Europae and the European Cancer Research Academy, and corresponding member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is also a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), and was a member of its Council in 2003-2007. In 2008-2010 he chaired the Molecular and Structural Biology and Biochemistry Panel (LS1) of the European Research Council. He also served as the Polish delegate to the European Molecular Biology Conference (2000-2004) and the European Science Foundation (2003-2005). He was a member of the ERC Identification Committee (2010-2013). He was awarded the title of honorary doctorate from several Universities: University of Wroclaw (2007), University of Gdansk (2011) and Jagiellonian University (2013). He acted as science advisor to the President of the Republic of Poland (2010-2015). Since 2012 he has been a member of Max Planck Senate and since 2020 a member of the Trustee Committee of the Körber European Science Prize.
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Article: On higher education reform – Contribution to debate, Forum Akademickie, issue 1/2011
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Article: "Z czwartej setki" ["In the 300s"] (Summary of 20 years of reform of Polish sciences and education), Forum Akademickie, issue 7-8/2009
Speech: Investments in science are investments in the future, Poland Club 2015+, 26th November 2008
Article: "Reforma sektora nauki" ["Reform of the science sector"] (co-author)
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After arriving home my children ran from the van, to the door, as they do every time. Typically my oldest wins the race as he knows the fastest way to get there. This time however, my youngest won the race and my oldest threw a fit.
After calming the situation down, (my wife and I don't talk to our children like babies we explain things to them) I told him not to be so consumed with winning, that sometimes it is okay to lose. After a little whimper and sigh it was over and now they're back to being best of friends.
I say all this to say that too often our being right and them wrong is celebrated -- when our ultimate goal in life is to glorify the Father in heaven. While on earth Jesus had to deal with a lot of argumentative folks, and every time Jesus opened His mouth, he was right and they were wrong. But he didn't argue. He stated the truth and let those who heard make up their minds.
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A first batch of monthly progress reports from tech giants and advertising companies on what they're doing to help fight online disinformation have been published by the European Commission.
Platforms including Facebook, Google and Twitter signed up to a voluntary EU code of practice on the issue last year.
The first reports cover measures taken by platforms up to December 31, 2018.
The implementation reports are intended to detail progress towards the goal of putting the squeeze on disinformation — such as by proactively identifying and removing fake accounts — but the European Commission has today called for tech firms to intensify their efforts, warning that more needs to be done in the run up to the 2019 European Parliament elections, which take place in May.
The Commission announced a multi-pronged action plan on disinformation two months ago, urging greater co-ordination on the issue between EU Member States and pushing for efforts to raise awareness and encourage critical thinking among the region's people.
But it also heaped pressure on tech companies, especially, warning it wanted to see rapid action and progress.
A month on and it sounds less than impressed with tech giants' 'progress' on the issue.
Mozilla also signed up to the voluntary Code of Practice, and all the signatories committed to take broad-brush action to try to combat disinformation.
Although, as we reported at the time, the code suffered from a failure to nail down terms and requirements — suggesting not only that measuring progress would be tricky but that progress itself might prove an elusive and slippery animal.
The first response certainly looks to be a mixed bag. Which is perhaps expected given the overarching difficulty of attacking a complex and multi-faceted problem like disinformation quickly.
Though there's also little doubt that opaque platforms used to getting their own way with data and content are going to be dragged kicking and screaming towards greater transparency. Hence it suits their purpose to be able to produce multi-page chronicles of 'steps taken', which allows them to project an aura of action — while continuing to indulge in their preferred foot-drag.
The Guardian reports especially critical comments made by the Commission vis-a-vis Facebook's response, for example — with Julian King saying at today's press conference that the company still hasn't given independent researchers access to its data.
"We need to do something about that," he added.
Mozilla is about to launch an upgraded version of its browser to block cross-site tracking by default but the online browser should be more concrete on how this will limit the information revealed about users' browsing activities, which could potentially be used for disinformation campaigns.
Strip out the diplomatic fillip and the message boils down to: Must do better, fast.
All of which explains why Facebook got out ahead of the Commission's publication of the reports by putting its fresh-in-post European politician turned head of global comms, Nick Clegg, on a podium in Brussels yesterday — in an attempt to control the PR message about what it's doing (or rather not doing, as the EC sees it) to boot fake activity into touch.
Clegg (re)announced more controls around the placement of political ads, and said Facebook would set up new human-staffed operations centers — in Dublin and Singapore — to monitor how localised political news is distributed on its network.
Although the centers won't launch until March. So, again, not something Facebook has done.
The staged press event with Clegg making his maiden public speech for his new employer may have backfired a bit because he managed to be incredibly boring. Although making a hot button political issue as tedious as possible is probably a key Facebook strategy.
Anything to drain public outrage to make the real policymakers go away.
Advertising groups are also signed up to the voluntary code. And the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA), European Association of Communication Agencies and Interactive Advertising Bureau Europe have also submitted reports today.
We [advertisers] understand that advertising can fuel and sustain sites which misuse and infringe upon Intellectual Property (IP) laws. Equally advertising revenue may be used to sustain sites responsible for 'fake news' content or 'disinformation'. Advertisers commit to avoiding (and support their partners in the avoidance of) the funding of actors seeking to influence division or seeking to inflict reputational harm on business or society and politics at large through content that appears false and/or misleading.
While the Code of Practice doesn't contain a great deal of quantifiable substance, some have read its tea-leaves as a sign that signatories are committing to bot detection and identification — by promising to "establish clear marking systems and rules for bots to ensure their activities cannot be confused with human interactions".
But while Twitter has previously suggested it's working on a system for badging bots on its platform (i.e. to help distinguish them from human users) nothing of the kind has yet seen the light of day as an actual Twitter feature. (The company is busy experimenting with other kinds of stuff.) So it looks like it also needs to provide more info on that front.
We reached out to the tech companies for comment on the Commission's response to their implementation reports.
Supporting elections in Europe and around the world is hugely important to us. We'll continue to work in partnership with the EU through its Code of Practice on Disinformation, including by publishing regular reports about our work to prevent abuse, as well as with governments, law enforcement, others in our industry and the NGO community to strengthen protections around elections, protect users, and help combat disinformation.
Disinformation is a societal problem and therefore requires a societal response. We continue to work closely with the European Commission to play our part in tackling it. We've formed a global partnership with UNESCO on media literacy, updated our fake accounts policy, and invested in better tools to proactively detect malicious activity. We've also provided users with more granular choices when reporting platform manipulation, including flagging a potentially fake account.


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USGS tells us that they are "phasing out ShakeCast version 2 in favor or version 3 so that support is limited to existing v2 users with installed software for production purposes. As a result all new v2 installations need to be installed manually. It does work under Windows 7 and equivalent 32 and 64 bit OS's and will require some efforts, we are talking about ~1 hour of work…." They apologize for not yet having fully integrated ShakeCast V3 with ROVER, but they plan to do so in 2014. We have no written instructions from USGS on how that manual installation need to be done. We will inform readers of this page when ShakeCast version 3 has ROVER features.
ROVER Version 2.1 now available
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Here is a brief summary of what's new with version 2.1.
ROVER Version 2.1 is now available for free download by registered users. Version 2.1 is the latest public version of ROVER, FEMA's mobile technology for end-to-end, pre- and post-earthquake building safety screening. The new version offers unlimited digital captioned photos in post-earthquake (ATC-20) data collection forms (both rapid and detailed), just as in the pre-earthquake screens. It fixes a bug with the RedROVER configuration screens that prevented the user from changing and saving benchmark years. It addresses a change in the Google Maps API to restore the ability to look up lat/lon from address. And it provides a wide variety of UI changes from version 1.0 to optimize the screen for various devices. We have also replaced out-of-date documentation with docs for version 2.
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Rudd and Sergeant Schultz have a very similar dialogue when it comes to the insulation disaster confronting the Government - Rudd is complaining that he wasn't told so it was obviously some one else's fault: The Prime Minister's spokesman said last night those warnings were not conveyed to Mr Rudd. The spokesman said it was the job of the Environment Department, not the Prime Minister's Department, to assess the program's risks, because it was the agency charged with the rollout.
Of course it is Mr Rudd's job to know of potential problems with a 2 billion dollar project, but it should not surprise anyone from a PM who would launch into a 43 billion dollar Broadband scheme without a business plan. We have a PM who has moved through the bureaucracy to the top of the tree without enough business acumen to run a sausage sizzle.
It is obvious that the tumbrils have been prepared for Peter Garrett and the guillotine is being sharpened.