Throughout last season, I ran a series called "This Week in Catcher Framing." Every Friday or Saturday, I put up a post about the best and worst "frames" of the previous week, as determined by distance from the center of the strike zone. (The called strikes farthest from the center were the "best," and the balls closest to the center were the "worst.") I also included leaderboards of the catchers who'd gained and lost the most strikes and runs, some framing-related statistical studies, and regular looks at a few framers of note, like Jonathan Lucroy, Jose Molina, and (for completely different reasons) Ryan Doumit.
All three of those reports are updated daily and based on the "Regressed Probabilistic Model" (RPM) of framing that Dan Brooks and Harry Pavlidis published at BP earlier this year, which is far more sophisticated than the simple stats I provided in my leaderboards last year.
Still, even if we know what good framing looks like, it can't hurt to have an occasional refresher to illustrate what the names on those leaderboards look like. So while we're not bringing back "This Week in Catcher Framing," we are planning to make it a monthly thing, with both better data (courtesy of Dan and Harry) and a better layout (thanks to BP data display whiz Nick Wheatley-Schaller).
Before we focus on particular pitches, let's look at a few tidbits from the aforementioned leaderboards.
Some familiar names appear near the top of the leaderboard for framing runs added: Miguel Montero, Brian McCann, Lucroy, (Jose) Molina, Ryan Hanigan, David Ross, Russell Martin. However, there's also a lot of new blood. Mike Zunino leads all catchers with 5.1 framing runs added (through Monday's games), and both Padres catchers, Rene Rivera and Yasmani Grandal, crack the top 15. We'll take a closer look at those three at the end of this article.
Other names of note: Travis d'Arnaud has sustained his early success, and Hank Conger and Yan Gomes have backed up their positive rating from 2013. John Jaso brings up the rear, costing the A's 4.9 runs, and perennial offenders Kurt Suzuki, Carlos Santana, Chris Iannetta, and Wilin Rosario have offended again. (Santana ranks fifth-worst with only 334 framing opportunities.) Josmil Pinto, who had the second-worst estimated framing rating in the upper minors last season and a negative RPM in his brief 2013 major-league time, has cost the Twins a couple of runs already this year.
One piece of evidence that framing stats describe a real skill is their stability from one season to the next, so it's no surprise to see some of the same teams that ranked high in framing last season excelling again. Three of last year's top four teams by framing runs added—the Padres, the Brewers, and the Yankees—make up this season's top trio so far. The Padres, who ranked fourth last year, have taken over the top spot with 10.1 framing runs added, thanks to the combo of Rivera and Grandal. The Yankees have swapped out Chris Stewart for Brian McCann, but the results are similarly strong. And the Brewers keep riding the Lucroy/Martin Maldonado tandem to success.
When we look at individual pitcher–catcher combinations, we're dealing with much smaller samples than we are with full catcher seasons or collective team totals, so it's rare to see numbers much bigger than roughly four runs in either direction. Last year, Justin Masterson–Carlos Santana and Jon Niese–John Buck were the most-squeezed batteries; David Price–Jose Molina, on the other hand, enjoyed an easily league-leading 57 extra strikes, or 9.4 runs.
This year, Andrew Cashner and Rene Rivera lead the pack with 22 extra strikes, or 2.9 framing runs. And on the opposite end? Jose Fernandez and Jarrod Saltalamacchia. Yes, just like last season, when Fernandez–Rob Brantly was the 12th-worst battery in terms of extra strikes, Fernandez has had to deal with an abnormal number of calls going against him, which makes you wonder how good he'd have been to this point with a normal-sized strike zone.
Time to take a spin through the best and worst frames of March and April, sorted by strike probability, which is based on park-adjusted pitch location, handedness, count, and pitch type. (Although the RPM values you see on our stats pages also account for umpire and pitcher, those adjustments are applied in aggregate, not on a per-pitch level.) At the top of each section, you'll find five pitches plotted on a diagram of the strike zone; mouse over the plotted points to see a pop-up GIF of the catch. Below, you'll see the pitch details and strike probability, a zoomed-in video of each reception (mouse over to play), and a graph of the pitch location that includes three rings representing the zones in which 3–7 percent of pitches are called strikes (red); 45–55 percent of pitches are called strikes (black); and 93–97 percent of pitches are called strikes (green).
In 1254 framing opportunities over the past three seasons, Holaday has been 4.0 runs below average, which would translate to 19 runs lost over a full season. Of course, Holaday hasn't had a chance to catch anyone regularly; perhaps the sporadic starts have disrupted his rhythm. He looks fine on this pitch, though, even with what appears to be an aging Terminator scanning him from behind home plate. It helps that Scherzer hit his glove.
This slider from Strasburg had plenty of movement, which Ramos tried to counteract by keeping perfectly still when it got to the glove. Instead of reaching out to snag it, he lets it get deep and fall a few more millimeters. Of course, the umpire is supposed to call the pitch according to where it crossed the plate, but not every ump can ignore the influence of that last look. Strasburg leaned to the left after landing as if he could put some extra English on it through body language alone, and Lagares' body language spoke even louder.
Ross catches this one nonchalantly, gloving, dipping, and transferring almost in one seamless motion rather than holding the ball in place for the ump to get a good luck. Either he felt it would be best to fly casual and dispose of the evidence quickly, or he didn't expect to get the strike call himself. Ellsbury thought he'd seen ball four, but Cuzzi's call brought him back.
Old framing friend Martin sets up outside here, so even though the pitch is well off the corner, he catches it in the middle of his body, which likely influences the umpire's call. He also brings it back toward the zone slightly with a minimum of glove and head movement. At the end, we again see the telltale sign of a strong reception: the hitter isn't happy.
Navarro's career framing runs total rests at -33.2, but most of the deficit came in his rookie season; since then, he's been only a little below average. He doesn't do anything wrong here, although as we're about to see, he's far from perfect.
This is nothing new for Rosario, whose glove movement carries the ball far outside of the strike zone, even though it crosses the plate well within its borders. When you're watching the slow-motion GIF above, move your cursor away from the video at the moment the ball gets to the glove. Notice that it's on the outside corner. Then move your cursor back to the video and marvel at how far outside it ends up because Rosario, who was set up outside, was so slow to adjust to the change in location.
There are poor frames, and then there are completely failures to catch the ball. This is one of the latter, and on a four-seamer more or less right down the middle of the plate.
Although RPM has always liked him (if not to the extent that it adores his older brother), Yadi has broken even as far as extra strikes this season. This is a less exaggerated version of the Rosario reception above; Molina doesn't send the pitch sailing out of the strike zone the way Rosario did, but he does have to reach across his body, which makes the pitch look less like a strike than it would have had he gotten his glove into position before it arrived.
Saltalamacchia hasn't been a good receiver this season, according to RPM, but we probably can't hold this one against him. Anecdotally, it seemed like a lot of the "worst frames" I highlighted in last year's series came on attempts to throw out a baserunner, like this one. We're currently investigating what the typical called strike zone looks like when the catcher comes up throwing; it may be that it would make sense to discard these pitches or adjust for them separately when calculating receiving runs.
It's that man again. This pitch cuts across the heart of the strike zone, but Navarro doesn't do a great job of anticipating where it will end up. The head turn didn't help, either.
As promised, a quick look at March/April's top three frames by Zunino, Grandal, and Rivera.
To relax, yeah. I'm trying to get underneath the strike zone to where, when I do catch it, I can kind of bring it back up. Because if I give the target and leave the target here, and then the ball is down, if I go down to catch it, it looks like a ball. If I'm giving a target at the bottom of the zone, and I leave it there and I go down, it looks like a ball. If I give the target, relax my glove, come back and catch it up, it just gives the illusion of a strike.
Otherwise, Zunino is pretty quiet and still: his legs and body don't shift, and his head and glove stay almost stationary after he catches the pitch.
That's a Lucroy-esque reception of a low pitch that's rarely called a strike. Zunino catches the ball, tugs it up slightly, and parks it there so quickly that it's tough to tell that there was any movement at all.
As Martin did in his "best frame" above, Zunino sets up outside for this outside offering, "framing" it by centering it between the shoulders.
When Grandal gloves this one, his arm is already moving back toward the zone. Any movement after the catch is in the direction that makes the pitch more like to be ruled a strike.
Here Grandal doesn't pull the glove back toward his body so much as he reorients it, catching the ball with the leather in a horizontal position and then snapping it up almost 90 degrees to leave a little less of it hanging off the outside edge.
Outside edge on a lefty, outside edge on a righty, and now a pitch down below the zone. Grandal does it all.
Like Martin and Zunino, and unlike Grandal, Rivera relaxes the glove, then moves it to the appropriate spot and flicks it back toward the center of the zone.
Framing pitches at the top of the zone, you want to be a lot more subtle, because you're right in the umpire's eye right there. So if you move your glove all around and really try to do any of that [makes exaggerated glove movement], it's right in his face. You're just going to look like you're trying to get pitches.
Rivera doesn't make that mistake.
Cashner misses his spot here, but Rivera is quick enough to prevent the pitch from looking wild, which wasn't the case with a few of the season's "worst" frames so far. I'll be back with more like this in June.
Thanks to Harry Pavlidis and Nick Wheatley-Schaller for research and image-making assistance.
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There's no excuse for the #1 gaff by Navarro, that was some ugly framing.
But the #4 is on the pitcher and the umpire. Morrow threw the fastball when Navarro called a slider down, that's why he flipped the glove and started to go down in anticipation. Then as a double whammy, it doesn't matter where the pitch goes, if the catcher doesn't catch it the umpire almost universally calls ball for some reason.
Where are the robot umps when you need them?
The article is about Buehrle, but in each of the GIFs, Navarro is just a statue behind the plate. Barely any movement whatsoever.
I can't say I find the visual evidence of the catchers' skills (and lack thereof) overwhelming. About 80% of the gif s to me just look like pitchers who hit the target get the call (and vice versa). Maybe flicking the glove up on the low balls is doing something?
I wonder how many of the bad framings are due to cross ups. And with all the sophistication of technology now, you'd think umps would be better trained to discount for great (or poor) framing. The bad home plate ump (e.g., Laz Diaz) is still the most disruptive official in sports.
#4 is a clear cross up. That one is on the pitcher. The catcher has to turn his glove over to catch a slider in that location.
This is great work. Fascinating.
While it seems quite obvious that the "bad framing" examples could be blamed on the catchers, it seems much less obvious that the good examples cited can be similarity attributed to "good framing". To this untrained eye, it does not seem that the action of the catcher in those cases made the pitch look more like a strike, just that the umpire made an egregiously bad call.
We've heard catchers describe this phenomenon too -- that framing is about giving the umpire the best chance to make the correct the call. I would be fascinated to see the data split based on added/lost strikes. Are the same catchers showing the ability to add strikes vs. not-lose strikes? Is that performance similarly consistent?
#5 Rosario-That pitch missed its target by 20+ inches + it was cutting.Arm side fastballs are are expected to run or sink or at worst be straight(4 seamers)The fact that he even caught it should be lauded.
#4 Navarro got crossed up & was expecting a breaking ball. Bad framing? Please!!
#3 Yadie caught a big miss much like Rosario without the extreme cut.Blame the pitcher not the catcher.
#2 Saltalamacchia was clearing the LHH to create a throwing lane because the runner was stealing. The priority here was the runner not the pitch. You can't do both.
#1 Navarro is penalized by a bad miss by his pitcher. Big lateral running fastball instead of a sinker.He had to move his head to track the ball because it was so far away from his visual cylinder.
#5 Holaday-Way too much glove movement for me.
#4 Ramos-Too much head movement & body slide.
#3 A non frame by Ross because he thought it was a ball.
#2 Martin-Lots of body slide & head movement.Do like the extension & minimal glove action.
#1 Navarro-Pretty good.Maybe a little too much glove action after the catch.
The examples of good framing that stand out were Zunino on 4/11 & 4/18 & Grandal on 4/4.The thumb roll on 4/4 is especially good. The one commonality on these frames is that the pitchers hit their targets.
The point of this diatribe is that good or bad framing is subjective. Strikes get called for many reasons. Certainly one of them is how good a technician the catcher is.
Looking at Wilson Ramos on that gif, I hate how he dips/drops his glove as the pitcher is releasing the ball. I also notice that he is raising his glove to track the pitch and then starts to move it down again.
Can we track glove movement (in inches) versus strike calling.
Ramos's glove moves a good 24"-30" in total.


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Q: Sort records by a related model count, and then sort chronologically Posts have_many upvotes. A post can also be featured or not with the column is_featured.
I want to get all featured posts, ordered by upvotes (most to least), then created_at (newest to oldest).
Here is how I build up the query. #1 and #2 work, but for #3 I can't sort by dates and upvotes at the same time.
# 1. Get all featured posts
Posts.where(is_featured: true)

# 2. Get all featured posts, sort by their votes in DESC order. Maybe there is an easier way?
Posts.where(is_featured: true).sort_by{|post| post.upvotes.count}.reverse!

# 3. Get all featured posts, sort by their votes in DESC order, sort by created_at DESC (doesnt work)
Posts.where(is_featured: true).sort_by{|post| post.upvotes.count}.reverse!.sort_by{|post| post.created_at}.reverse!

What is the correct query?

A: I highly recommend that you implement a counter_cache for the upvotes and then simply do:
Posts.where(is_featured: true).order("upvotes_count DESC, created_at DESC")

You upvotes model should look like this
class Upvotes
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Then you will need upvotes_count:integer on your posts table.

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Please join us this Thursday for our eighth workshop of the Winter from 3-4 PM in room #10302. This workshop will focus on grade norming and will be facilitated by GTA Chris Susak and Director of Composition Jeff Pruchnic. We'll discuss recent criticisms of traditional grading processes and also perform a few grading experiments using different kinds of rubrics.


I can't tell you enough how this movie touched me and affected me in ways that I never thought possible.
Look, I'm a military wife, I live on a military base and I'm immersed in this way of life daily, I see the comings and goings, the deployments, the hard truths of what it does to the family left behind and the troops going overseas....but for some reason, when you actually SEE what the war in Iraq does to the soldiers when they return home.....it affects you and it opens your eyes to a lot.
Home of the Brave is the story of 4 army soldiers in Iraq and right off the bat you are thrown into the middle of an ambush on a convoy. I don't know, or actually I DO know that they're highly trained for things like this, but to sit there and watch it happen it broke my heart, it made me cry and it made me want to grab them all and bring them to me, to a safe place. I honestly don't know how I would ever react if I was in that moment.
So you watch the ambush and you watch the repercussions of it, deaths and injuries and then you watch them return home and try to go back to a normal life, to a life that is not constantly watching over your shoulders to make sure there's no sniper hiding in the shadows, or a young child with a weapon in his hand trying to kill you, or the noises and the screams.
This movie was so well done and it has HUGE names attached to it......Samuel L. Jackson being one, Jessica Biel, Brian Presley, Curtis Jackson, Chad Michael Murray and even Christina Ricci.
I can't begin to tell you how affected I am by this movie, I mean I've told you already but there just no words to describe it, I'm stuck between anger and repulsion for what goes on over there and heart wrenching pain for our soldiers.
One thing this movie showed me is that most of the American public does NOT know what it's like for the soldiers once they return home. Like I said, I'm a military wife and I know some of it but not to the extent of how bad it is, how hard it is for them, it's certainly educational and it's made me aware of what they may be thinking, feeling or wanting.
I urge you to please please watch Home of the Brave if you haven't already.
According to an Army report, one soldier out of three returning from Iraq suffers from mental problems. The proportion of personnel affected is the highest of all recent conflicts, from Bosnia to Afghanistan. "In Iraq, there's no front line," explains Colonel Charles Hoge in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Eighty to eight-five percent of personnel have been witnesses or participants in a traumatizing act: enemy combat, death of an adversary, IED attacks.
"In Vietnam, there were secure zones where people could recuperate," indicates Steve Robinson, director of an association that advocates for veterans in an interview with the Washington Post. "That doesn't happen in Iraq; every place is a war zone."
Do you want to see what I wake up to every morning?
I can count on there being at least one lemon on the ground, just sitting there waiting for the little hands in this house to run out barefoot, scoop it up and rush it back inside, yelling with excited voices "another one fell".
I don't think the kids EVER get tired of seeing the lemons on the ground, they still get so excited over it.
I guess we'll have a lot more of these happy days ahead, look at all those beauties still hanging on the branches? And then there's tons of tiny green ones growing already. Just love it.
Now I want to tell you about something really exciting. You know Karon Phillips Goodman right? I mean, if you don't you SHOULD by now, I talk about her books all the time, remember this one?
Well she's starting a new project on her blog and it's something she's really excited about and I think that a lot of us will be too. Go on over and take a look and tell her that I sent you....let me know what you think ok?
She's got a great post today on Grace to Laugh. Her description of her husband looking for the camera he couldn't find was hilarious and made me think of my own husband.
Perfect example....it was 11pm one night and I was already fast asleep. He was up late and comes walking into the room, asks where his PT uniform is because he had to be up at 4am for mandatory military exercise.
I lay there and think "seriously, why didn't you look for this before?". So I quietly answer that I have no clue where his shorts are, I did all the laundry and they were NOT in the hamper. He starts stomping around and throwing out the usual "what did YOU do with it, YOU lost them and I need them" (Yes, because I had nothing better to do so I went out in HIS shorts and did some exercise LOL). I stay in bed a little longer and finally get up to help him search for HIS shorts which I know for a fact I did not see or touch or misplace.
After about 30 minutes I give up and tell him that obviously he must have left them in his backpack....he quickly tells me that is not true, he wouldn't do that.
Anyway, I urge you to go on over to Karon's blog and join in on her new project, she's such an amazing Christian writer and I would love for her blog to have as many visitors as some of ours do.
If you're looking for ideas for your weekly menus, check out Laura's blog "I'm an Organizing Junkie".
My menu is also on there and there's yummy new recipes I'm trying this week, like....Lemon Linguine Shrimp Salad, Deli Monte Cristos, Garlic Chicken and Gravy. I'm already hungry.
With that I'm out of here, I have laundry to do and floors to mop. Hope you're all having a wonderful Monday.
Go make it RIGHT NOW.........I mean it, I'm not joking, just get up off the computer and go make it right this second. You won't regret it, I promise.
Ever have one of those weeks where everything drags and when Friday finally comes around you feel this immense joy????? That's how I'm feeling today....I just want this week OVER.
I hope you're all having a great friday.
I've been so busy here lately, I haven't had much time for the blog or visiting yours either, but I'm hoping to change that. My bloglines keep spitting out totals like 430 unread items and it makes me cringe, there's NO way I can get through all of them and I also don't want to just mark it all read but I may just have to do that and start fresh from tomorrow.
We also got the kids passports taken care of, someone to come and stay at our house and watch the doggies for us and Kruger National Park booked for when we're there.
In between all this we've had the usual work/school craziness routine.
We were able to find really inexpensive tickets and I say that lightly because if you've priced flights overseas for 4 people you will know that it's bound to give you heartburn. But anyway, we had budgeted a certain amount and actually got them for $600 less SO we got the kids a Wii, their birthdays are both in April and they've been wanting one for ever.
Don't be fooled though, this is not a KIDS toy, this is a FAMILY toy and Curt and I are thrilled, we could not have found a better gaming system for us all. The past 4 days we have spent every night together as a family playing tennis, Mario Party and bowling. What really gets me with this gaming console is that it's not one of those lazy sit on the couch and hold the remote in your hand, kinda games. You have to GET up and actually do something.
BUT there's another plus to it......because this game is so physical, there have actually been people who have lost weight LOL I kid you not, I tell you after playing tennis I was sweating up a storm and can feel it in my whole body.
Apparently Mickey DeLorenzo, a 25-year-old living in Philadelphia, began a "Wii Sports Experiment" in early December last year, pledging to spend 30 minutes a day over six weeks playing Wii sports. He also intended to keep his other activities and eating habits constant.
On Monday this week when the six weeks were over DeLorenzo, updated his website, wiinintendo.net, with a detailed analysis of his experiment, which was positive and surprising. Apparently he dropped around lbs (4kgs and around 2% of his starting body weight of 82lbs) and went from being in the 'acceptable' category to being in the 'fitness' category".
I just finished massaging it with some Tiger Balm and boy is it strong, it smells something fierce but the coolness and tingly sensation feels good AND I can turn my neck without it hurting. Thank you to the lady who suggested the Castor Oil, I'm going to get some this weekend, I tried at the BX and the Commissary today and they had none AND no one knew what I was talking about.
Alright ladies, I'm heading out for now, I have a bowling game to attend tonight in my living room and I believe I was also challenged to some Billiards.....better stock up on the snacks, we'll all be up WAY late today.
Here's one of my favorite songs at the moment, it's David Cook's version of Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean". Just AMAZING.......he has now become my favorite.
I LOVE lemon bars, it's one of those desserts that I could eat constantly, so here's the recipe I use to make mine.
Well it's been a while, I have been away since last week thursday.....wow.
See life is crazy and life is busy and then there's stuff bugging me and hurting me so I tend to not get a chance to be on the computer.
About 3 weeks ago, I woke up in the middle of the night and pulled a muscle on my neck....now you know I've always had issues with the right side, my shoulder and arm hurt a lot when I try to sleep on it and then once a year I'll be doing good ol' normal stuff, like cleaning or mopping or something and I will pull a certain muscle and not be able to move for a week or so.
Well this time, I pulled the muscle on my right side of the neck and it hurt for a week, then the move came up and it was just Curt and I doing everything so I think I just made it worse and THEN we took the kids to the carnival on base and I went on 3 rides with them. One of the rides was this ship kinda thing that pulls you to the right side and spins you......the whole time this ride is going your neck is strained trying to stay straight.
So now it's been about 3 weeks and I wake up every morning really stiff and sore on the right side of my neck and upper back, it goes away during the day but it does if I try to look over my shoulders.
I think it also doesn't help that our mattress is 10 years old and my pillow is old too, it's pretty much non existant, it's so flat and so uncomfortable that I throw on a smaller pillow and sleep on that. ALL of this together has made it impossible for my poor neck and back to recover....needless to say I haven't been in the greatest of moods and haven't felt like doing much or being on the computer.
I went out and bought one of those therapeutic pillows for the neck and spine and I've slathered on Tiger Balm about an hour ago and it really does seem to be helping.
Please say a little prayer that this neck strain goes away once and for all, I'm literally SICK of it.
My lemon tree is thriving and almost every single day we have another lemon on the ground, I'm quickly filling up my refrigerator with them......so I realized, it's time to put them to good use.
I just finished making some Lemon Bars and I'll have the recipe up on the food blog later.
But they did have fun putting on a fashion show and playing Scene It.
Mexican Chicken Soup courtesy of MJPuzzlemom. It smells SO good, I can't wait to try it.
One of my favorite Christian authors is Karon Phillips Goodman. I have most of her books, not only because she makes me laugh while teaching me valuable lessons....but she's also written these books in a way that I don't need to worry about starting it and then having to stop and loosing focus.
The chapters are small so that you can quickly read through an entire one before having to set it down to do dishes, or help the kids or fix dinner.
I got this one last year before we left Idaho and since then life has been crazy busy, I haven't had a chance for much and then lately with my obsession with King Henry and all that history it hasn't helped either.
But while cleaning out my bookshelf today I found it again and I breathed a sigh of relief, I want to read it and I need to read it right now. I don't know why, but I feel that at times the Lord will give us a little nudge in a certain direction for our own good.
I've done it, though, and I bet you have, too- tried to "get better" before going to God. I'll just clean up this one mess and then I won't be so unpresentable, we think. And God says "Huh?" The sooner she come to Me, the sooner I can help her." We have it all backward! It's not about getting better to go to God; it's about going to God to get better.
WOW! Ain't that the truth???? These words just hit me like a ton of bricks, how many times have I used the excuse that I can't really devote myself completely to the bible or to the church or to God himself because I don't feel like I'm as spiritually connected as some are?
What a waste of time, to sit here and let precious moments with the Lord go by because I was too busy worrying that I wasn't perfect, that I had to somehow fix my life and my problems before approaching the Lord. Fearing that He would turn away or think less of me for not being as together and organized as some. Problem is that we forget that we are who He wants us to be.
Let's face it, He wants to help, He wants to be there waiting for us to ask for comfort or guidance, He doesn't expect us to be perfect or self sufficient.....He has no limits, He has no set amount of forgiveness or a allotment of blessings we're allowed. Boy does it feel good to remember that, it truly opens your mind and your heart to so much more.
I'm sure you've noticed the template is different yet again. I really enjoyed my beach one but for some reason Mr Linky was just not working with it and I feel awful having to tell my readers to get another browser just to participate in the Slow Cooking Thursday.
This one will have to stay for a while, I don't have the time right now to be constantly changing it.....hope it's ok with you all.
Life is busy, there's just so much going on right now, I sometimes wonder if the roller coaster will ever stop so that I can get out and at the very least take a breather.
I'm getting ready to go pick up Jasmine at school so this one has to be cut short. So Happy Spring everyone and here you go, this is something I saw at one of my favorite blogs "Cherry Hill Cottage". Tell me this is not the cutest thing ever???
I guess there are still problems with Mr Linky so I've switched to this template for now to make it easier.
Using your hands, rub the remaining brown sugar onto the ham. If desired, cover with pineapples slices.
In one small bowl combine scallions and garlic. In another small bowl combine salt and pepper.
In greased crock, layer 1/4 potatoes.
Sprinkle with 1/4 tsp salt and pepper and top with 1/3 cream cheese, then 1/3 scallion/garlic mix.
Make a second layer of 1/4 potatoes, sprinkle with 1/4 tsp. salt and pepper. Top with 1/2 remaining cheese and scallion/garlic mix. Repeat with third layer of potatoes, sprinkle with 1/4 tsp. salt and pepper, top with remaining cheese and scallion/garlic mix. Make final layer of potatoes and sprinkle with remaining salt and pepper.
Cover, cook on high for 3 hrs. Stir to distribute melted cheese, cover and cook for about an hour longer. Stir well to mash slightly and serve.
One of the things a lot of you asked about was my sidebar, how did I get the different color block around the menus etc.
It's really simple and once you see how easy it is I'm sure you will all start experimenting too.
Remember the template I gave you the other day?
See the code that is highlighted???? The first part is going to be the background color of your block, in this case #ffffff which is white. The next line is the border around it, that will determine the color of that.
The following line color: is what color the text will be in that box. Go ahead and experiment with that to get the colors you want.
One other thing you can do is the heading for the sidebar menus.
See how the heading is in a different font now??? All you need to do is download the fonts you like, there's tons of free fonts out there. Here's some to get you started, 1001 Free Fonts, SimplytheBest and DaFont. Download the font you like, install it into your Windows/Fonts folder and then you can use it.
All you need to do is insert the name of the font in the code font-family: Mariah; I changed mine to Anglican Text above and you can see the difference.
Click on the image to make it bigger.........the code is highlighted for you.
And there's how it looks, I used a graphic from Country Clipart.
Hope this helped a bit, like I said already, I'm no expert but what I've learned I did on my own through trial and error :) Can't wait to see what you guys come up with.
The sweet Mari over at "My Little Corner of the World" is having a really cute meme today.
Nicholas is our miracle baby, after 2 miscarriages he came along and has since then been the light of mommy and daddy's eyes and big sister too. He's a very smart little boy and he's turning 5 next month and starting kindergarten this year.
It's such a nice day out, it's sunny with just a little breeze.
Come on in and sit with me for a bit, let me tell you what's been going on here.
Last night I watched a bit of The Bachelor premiere....why? Why do I even bother trying to watch it, it's just disgusting to me what some of the girls will do for attention, I caught about 10 minutes of it and as luck would have it, it was at the point where one of the girls slips her underwear to the Bachelor. How disgusting and how gross is that???? No shame at all!
I did enjoy the Dancing with the Stars premiere, the guys were pretty good, I'm already loving Jason and Mario and I can't wait to see the ladies in action today.
Speaking of tv and shows, this weekend I bought August Rush. Jonathan Rhys Meyers is my all time favorite actor so I knew I would enjoy this movie. It was so sweet and Curt caught about half of it with me and loved it too.
And speaking of JRM, the new season of The Tudors premieres on Showtime this March 30th, but guess what???? If you go online to this link, you can watch the first episode and OH.MY.GOODNESS is it ever good, I am so excited for the new season.
I'm glad some of you enjoyed the small tips I shared yesterday about templates, I'll share more soon. Jill asked me if there is a place I go to get the color codes, I use my graphics program to get the color I like and the code BUT if you go here, you can find all the ones you want, there's actually a couple of places online for it, I like using this one too, it has so many great colors.
I'm sure some of you have noticed that I've been sharing a lot of recipes lately, I hope you're not getting annoyed with the constant recipes posted, I just love cooking and I love having an archive of everything I make online. I'll share another today for the Mushroom Beef Stroganoff I made last night....YUM and then tonight I'm making Shepherds pie and everyone knows how to make that so I don't think you need my recipe.
On to something more serious and sad, I'm sure by now a lot of you have watched the news and heard about the pilot we lost this weekend.
Lt. David J. Mitchell, 26 years old, was out on a training mission with his instructor when his F-16 went down over the mountains. This happened friday at noon and we didn't know if he was ok or not, the search teams were only able to get to the area early saturday and that's when they found his body. It's such a sad thing, he had just gotten to this base back in November and was going through his 8 month training to become a pilot.
Being in the military you have this huge sense of community and solidarity and when something like this happens on a base, everyone feels it, not just the airmen but the families too.
My heart goes out to his family and to his friends and to everyone here at Luke AFB. Please say a prayer for this young man.
I don't know what's going on in bloggy land, I've sort of been out of the loop while doing taxes and getting tickets and all this crazy stuff to go home.
I'll be coming by to visit you all later today, just hope you have some coffee and a snack maybe, a little slice of cake or a cookie?
Time to change your templates!
WHO Bread and Tuna Pasta Salad!
In the mood for some Wings???
Special Surprise to my readers!


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    def __init__(self,socket):
        self.socket=socket

    def create(self,name):
        self.name=name
        self.x=1
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    def enterWorld(self):
        self.gs2cEnterWorld()

    def gs2cEnterWorld(self):
        packet=SendPacket(1)
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    def gs2cPlayerMove(self):
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The Serbian Left (, ЛС / Levica Srbije, LS) was a minor centre-left social democratic political party in Serbia. In April 2019 the Serbian Left merged into Dragan Đilas's Party of Freedom and Justice (SSP).

History
The Serbian Left was founded by Borko Stefanović as a splinter from the Democratic Party.

In the 2017 Serbian presidential election, the Serbian Left supported "either Janković or Jeremić".

An attack on its leader Stefanović in late 2018 was instrumental in kicking off major protests around the country.

It merged into the center-left Party of Freedom and Justice formed by former Mayor of Belgrade Dragan Đilas in April 2019.

Electoral results

Parliamentary elections

References

2015 establishments in Serbia
2019 disestablishments in Serbia
Defunct political parties in Serbia
Political parties disestablished in 2015
Political parties established in 2015
Pro-European political parties in Serbia
Social democratic parties in Serbia
Social liberal parties
Political parties disestablished in 2019
Democratic Party (Serbia) breakaway groups


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Q: .NET + C# - Validation not stopping writing to database I have made this very very simple registration and login page. But my validations doesnt work. This is .NET and C#.
Can someone please tell me what is going on? And what is going wrong?
http://cego.kimprtf.dk/register
Here is the .NET:
<asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="RequiredFieldValidator1" CssClass="mistake" runat="server" ErrorMessage="You need to say your name!" ControlToValidate="firstName" ForeColor="Red"></asp:RequiredFieldValidator>
            <asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="RequiredFieldValidator2" CssClass="mistake" runat="server" ErrorMessage="We need your last name please!" ControlToValidate="lastName" ForeColor="Red"></asp:RequiredFieldValidator>
            <asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="RequiredFieldValidator3" CssClass="mistake" runat="server" ErrorMessage="You don't have an Email?" ControlToValidate="emailAdress" ForeColor="Red"></asp:RequiredFieldValidator>
            <asp:RegularExpressionValidator ID="RegularExpressionValidator1" ForeColor="Red" runat="server" ErrorMessage="That's not a real Email!" ControlToValidate="emailAdress" ValidationExpression="\w+([-+.']\w+)*@\w+([-.]\w+)*\.\w+([-.]\w+)*" CssClass="mistake"></asp:RegularExpressionValidator>
            <asp:CompareValidator ID="CompareValidator2" ForeColor="Red" CssClass="mistake" runat="server" ErrorMessage="Email must match!" ControlToCompare="emailAdress" ControlToValidate="ConfirmEmail"></asp:CompareValidator>
            <asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="RequiredFieldValidator4" ForeColor="Red" CssClass="mistake" runat="server" ErrorMessage="You need a username!" ControlToValidate="Username"></asp:RequiredFieldValidator>
            <asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="RequiredFieldValidator5" ForeColor="Red" CssClass="mistake" runat="server" ErrorMessage="You need a password!" ControlToValidate="Password"></asp:RequiredFieldValidator>
            <asp:CompareValidator ID="CompareValidator1" ForeColor="Red" CssClass="mistake" runat="server" ErrorMessage="Password must match please!" ControlToCompare="Password" ControlToValidate="ConfirmPassword"></asp:CompareValidator>

    <asp:TextBox ID="firstName" placeholder="First Name *" CssClass="form-control" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>
    <asp:TextBox ID="lastName" placeholder="Last Name *" CssClass="form-control" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>
    <asp:TextBox ID="emailAdress" placeholder="Email Adress *" CssClass="form-control" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>
    <asp:TextBox ID="ConfirmEmail" placeholder="Confirm Email Adress *" CssClass="form-control" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>
    <asp:TextBox ID="Username" placeholder="Username" CssClass="form-control" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>
    <asp:TextBox ID="Password" placeholder="Password" CssClass="form-control" runat="server" TextMode="Password"></asp:TextBox>
    <asp:TextBox ID="ConfirmPassword" placeholder="Confirm Password" CssClass="form-control" runat="server" TextMode="Password"></asp:TextBox>

    <asp:Button ID="SubmitData" CssClass="btn btn-primary" runat="server" Text="Register" OnClick="SubmitData_Click" />

And then the C#:
protected void SubmitData_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {

        try
        {
            Guid newGUID = Guid.NewGuid();

            /* Connection string til Registerings formen */
            SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection("Data Source=mssql4.unoeuro.com;Persist Security Info=True;User ID=kimprtf_dk;Password=123kima5");

            /* INSERT COMMAND */
            SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("INSERT INTO kimprtf_dk_db.dbo.Trytry (UserID, firstName, lastName, EmailAdress, Username, Password) VALUES (@ID, @firstName, @lastName, @EmailAdress, @Username, @Password);", con);

            cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@ID", newGUID.ToString());
            cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@firstName", firstName.Text);
            cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@lastName", lastName.Text);
            cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@EmailAdress", emailAdress.Text);
            cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@Username", Username.Text);
            cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@Password", Password.Text);

            /* Åbner connection string'en */
            con.Open();

            /* Execute Non Queries */
            cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();

            /* Lukker connection string'en */
            con.Close();

            /* Skriver til client hvis succesfuldt oprettet */
            Response.Write("Your registration is successful!");
        }

        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            Response.Write("Error: " + ex.ToString());
        }

        /* Clear textboxene som er defineret under (Husk at den skal være i click eventet) */

        if (IsPostBack)
        {
            firstName.Text = "";
            lastName.Text = "";
            emailAdress.Text = "";
            ConfirmEmail.Text = "";
            Username.Text = "";
            Password.Text = "";
        }

    }

What am I doing wrong here?
- Kim.

A: You aren't checking that the page has passed validation in your server-side post back event handling code. You should include a check on Page.IsValid in your click event handler before submitting data to the database, e.g.
if(Page.IsValid)
{
    //try/catch block
}
else
{
    //display error text, etc.
}

You should also be enforcing your user requirements in your database schema as well, so that even if a developer doesn't validate data before submitting to the database, the database itself will reject the record as invalid.


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World of Opera
Tragic Devotion: Verdi's 'Rigoletto'
It's easy to wonder if actual events in the lives of great composers are directly reflected in their music. Sometimes, people even argue about it. But in the case of personal tragedies early in Giuseppe Verdi's life, the case seems like a slam dunk.
Verdi wrote his first opera, Oberto while in his late twenties, for Milan's historic opera house, La Scala. The 1839 premiere was successful enough for the company to offer him a contract for three more dramas. It seemed Verdi was on his way to a solid career. Then disaster struck.
Not long before, Verdi had endured the death of his young son. By the spring of 1840, he had also lost his second child, an infant daughter, and his wife. Later that year his next opera was a flop. Verdi's personal life and career were in tatters, and he considered giving up composing altogether.
Eventually, Verdi made a comeback with his third opera, the smash hit Nabucco. In it, he touched on a dramatic theme to which he would turn repeatedly throughout his long career. That theme is parental love, and in particular the loving yet complex relationship between a father and his daughter -- a relationship that, tragically, Verdi himself had never had the chance to fully enjoy.
The father-child relationship crops up in a number of Verdi's finest operas, including Aida, Simon Boccanegra and La Traviata. But the composer never portrayed it more poignantly, or more tragically, than in Rigoletto.
Verdi completed Rigoletto in 1851, basing the opera on a play by Victor Hugo called Le roi s'amuse. The composer once said it was "perhaps the greatest drama of modern times," and went on to describe its main character as "a creation worthy of Shakespeare."
That character, Triboulet in Hugo's play, became the title character in Verdi's opera. He's a man whose harsh life is warmed only by the unconditional love of his daughter, a young woman eventually destroyed as an inadvertent result of Rigoletto's own anger and bitterness.
On World of Opera, host Lisa Simeone presents Verdi's Rigoletto from the Chorégies d'Orange Festival in France, in an exciting production featuring a distinguished cast. Baritone Leo Nucci sings the title role, with soprano Patrizia Ciofi as Gilda and tenor Vittorio Grigolo as the Duke of Mantua.
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Home/TUXEDO/Prom 2017
Looking at the calendar, or even just out of the window, it might seem far too early to think about the 2017 prom season. But Prom 2017 will be upon us before you know it, and now is the time to start thinking about all the things necessary to make yours a success. Speaking of thinking about proms, did you ever wonder how this event got its odd name?
History of Prom!
The very first prom was held in the late 1800s when some adults decided that college students needed formal lessons in "social etiquette" (manners). They decided the best way to do this was to have a fancy-dress dinner and dance. The event kicked off with the students and their guests promenading (or marching) as a group into the hall where the event was being held, and the prom was born!
By the early 1900s, proms had migrated from colleges to high schools, where it remains an institution today. While proms were always about dressing to impress, they really were not like the proms of today. Early proms were more dinners than dances. There were plenty of adults around too, to make sure that the diners practiced proper table manners, as these proms were heavily chaperoned. While there was certainly dancing at these early proms, prom goers would not have come with a special date.
Proms really didn't begin to look like the proms we know today until after World War II. By the early 1950s, high school students were given a great deal more say in the planning of the event. The prom dinner (and table manners) became less important, and the dance became the event's focus. Promenading in as a group was long gone, but dressing nicely for this event remained very important. As you might imagine, there have been some changes in prom fashions over the years, especially in prom dresses.


Architectural ideas, creative and artistic expressions for the conservation of the future of Europe.
Europe grows in a rickety way.
United at first on an economic then political sharing, the European countries pool more and more. Nevertheless, Europe is lacking a third support to secure its stability. Beyond political and economic issues it calls for Europe of the peoples, relying on society, identity and brotherhood.
The youth feels more European today than ever, peoples forget frontier posts, currencies,diomatic differences, settled nationalism.
In order to shape itself, this new multiple identity requires tools and symbols. In order to become a reality, this longing needs grounds of expression.
A generic and egalitarian infrastructure.
The European territory must be also meshed throughout the distribution of generic structures geographically balanced.
A modular and varied content.
The programs and the spaces must be able to build up and deconstruct themselves,evolve and reinvent according to place and time.
A cultural life for the people.
Culture is a sandbox, a playground where the art forms, actors and spectators meet and confront themselves. It is the vital cement for the construction of Europe of the peoples.
The ambition of a close Europe relies on cultural activity to transform an institutional federation into a nation sharing its cultures and its histories. It is the path from cohabitation to the creation of a family. These structures will be the proof of a higher will to bring up the relations between the peoples for centuries. Vestiges will remain the testimony of the humanist ambition which Europe is coming up today.


These sweet potato tater tots are so easy to make! All you have to do is mix the ingredients together, form a tater tot, and bake. These healthy tater tots make a great side dish for any meal as well as a fun dinner idea for the kids!
Alright, it's time to get real. Are you a tater tot person or a french fry person when you go out to eat? More times than not I will order sweet potato fries if they're on the menu. However, Cole always goes for the TATER TOTS. I have to say, I am a fan of tater tots when they are done right. What I can't stand is when tater tots come out of the kitchen and you pop one in your mouth in anticipation of a delicious delight and you realize they are definitely freezer tots. NO THANK YOU.
These healthy sweet potato tater tots came to life because as we were planning for fall recipes (which we do at the beginning of summer) we knew we wanted to create a delicious healthy tater tot hotdish recipe. All of us are good mid-western ladies and tater tot hotdish makes us weak in the knees, but we wanted to create a healthier dish, so sweet potato tater tot hotdish will be coming your way SOON.
In anticipation for our tater tot hot dish, we had to create a delicious new sweet potato tater tot recipe. HERE IT IS. We love this recipe because it is easy to make and you have the option of making these tots vegan or you can add an egg for extra crispiness.
Make sure grate FINELY grate potatoes and let them sit with a bit of salt to draw out any additional moisture.
Season grated potatoes with your favorite spices or spice mix for some fun added flavor!
If tater tots are not forming, add an egg or a flax egg. This should bind the mixture together, making the tater tots easier to form.
Spray a baking sheet with olive oil or use parchment paper to avoid any sticking.
Flip tater tots halfway through bake time to ensure both sides get a little crunchy.
Make a delicious dipping sauce for tater tots!
Use the second smallest grate size on your cheese grater and grate sweet potatoes. Place shredded sweet potatoes in a bowl and mix with a pinch of salt and let sit for 10-15 minutes to draw out moisture.
Next, place sweet potato in two layers of paper towel and squeeze the moisture out of the sweet potato over a sink. Squeeze as much moisture out as possible.
In a medium-sized mixing bowl, mix sweet potato with the rest of the ingredients (except olive oil). Mix well.
Use a teaspoon to scoop out a heaping scoop of sweet potato mixture. Form a tater tot with your fingers and place on a greased pan. Repeat until the sweet potato mixture is gone. Sprinkle tater tot with olive oil.
Bake for 10 minutes then flip. Bake for an additional 10 minutes.
For a crispier tater top, add an egg!


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UNPay in Talks with Dubai Government to Build Cashless City
SHANGHAI, CHINA - Media OutReach - 27 June 2018 - UNPay, a leading Fintech open platform provider that is dedicated to aggregating mainstream electronic payment modes worldwide, was the only e-payment player from China to be invited and participate in the Dubai Smart City Innovation Conference. Organised by the Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Office and chaired by Shanghai's deputy mayor, the Dubai Smart City Innovation Conference, aimed to provide a platform for Chinese companies and delegates to come together to share and exchange experiences on building a smart city.
As the only participant from the payment industry, UNPay, demonstrated its capabilities and presented a proposal to representatives from various Dubai government departments and officials from Smart Dubai Office (SDO) on how it can help the Middle Eastern city to establish an e-payment infrastructure. The three parties have also reached preliminary agreement on possible collaborations.
The four-day conference saw SDO officials and government delegates, learning about the latest technologies as well as gaining new insights on smart city development in China's most populous city. Topics to be discussed during the four-day conference included smart city technology, Dubai Expo 2020 security, internet financial security, energy network security, blockchain technology, e-payments and more. As the economic and financial centre of the United Arab Emirates, Dubai, is committed to becoming the global centre for cutting-edge technology and the world's first blockchain capital. It is also set to host the World Expo in 2020.
"As the only player within the e-payment space in China, we are honoured to have the opportunity to showcase UNPay's leading technologies at the Dubai Smart City Innovation Conference," commented Mr Zhang Zhenghua, Founder and CEO of UNPay. "We are committed to building an extensive network of merchants globally, leveraging on our one-stop intelligent aggregation payment platform. We are confident that our platform, coupled with our talents' industry expertise and experience, will be able to help Dubai in its drive to become a cashless city," added Mr Zhang.
About UNPay
UNPay (www.unpay.com), a new Fintech open platform provider with its regional office headquartered in Singapore, is dedicated to aggregating mainstream electronic payment modes across the globe.
UNPay provides sellers worldwide with a one-stop intelligent aggregation payment platform that aims to unify multiple collection channels and simplify complicated payment account verifications. Its single-point fast access can satisfy the fragmented payment demands of sellers anywhere in the world to achieve borderless collections.
UNPay's founding team members comprises top leaders in Asia's Internet Financial industry from Baidu Wallet, Alipay, WeChat pay and JD.com. Its core team members include industry veterans from NETS in Singapore and Kartuku from Indonesia.
UNPay
31 Jan 2019 UnPAY, Tencent Research Institute Released Whitepaper on Indonesia's Payment Market
24 Jan 2019 UnPAY Founder Named as 2018 Golden Shell's Inaugural "Payment Industry Pioneer"
11 Jan 2019 UnPAY Emerges as Winner of "2018 Ali Alumni Annual Innovation Enterprise Award"
10 Jan 2019 UnPAY Clinches Outstanding Cross-border e-Commerce Financial Services Enterprise Award
3 Dec 2018 The Fortune Global Tech Forum: UnPay Wins Fortune China Innovation Award; to Empower Digital Payment 4.0 Worldwide
30 Nov 2018 UNPay Drives QR Code Payment in Singapore with Hospitality and F&B Merchants
12 Nov 2018 UNPay and Zhejiang China Commodity City Group to Boost Key Areas in Cross-border Trade
7 Nov 2018 UNPay and President of Lithuania In Talks on Possible Fintech Cooperation
24 Oct 2018 UNPay, Tencent Research Institute Published White Paper on Overseas Payment Markets, Starting with Singapore
17 Sep 2018 UNPay's Founder, Zhang Zhenghua, Named in Fortune China's 2018 "40 under 40" List


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Topic Contents:
Theater Experience for Hospitalized Kids
Improved Access to Health Care Services
Reduced Financial Burden for Patients and Their Families
Advanced Services and Technology in Rural Communities
Funding for Children's Safety and Injury Prevention Program
Improved Access to Mental Health Care for Teens
Peaceful Environment for Cancer Patients
Support for Research
A Gift of the Heavens
St. Luke's lost a true pioneer of modern cancer care when Dr. Charles Smith passed away in July 2017. Dr. Smith, a radiation oncologist, was a founder of Mountain States Tumor Institute (MSTI), and his hard work and vision have shaped the care and services we provide today. In his 45 years as a physician, he helped make cancer treatment a more bearable, hopeful and positive experience.
Over his long career, Dr. Smith cared for patients throughout southern Idaho. But his heart was in Twin Falls at St. Luke's MSTI, now known as St. Luke's Cancer Institute, where since his passing the radiation treatment suite has been dedicated in his name. The suite features a celestial galaxy ceiling honoring Dr. Smith's love of astronomy and physics.
The ceiling—funded largely through gifts given in his memory—offers patients a stunning, realistic display they can view during radiation treatments—bringing them beauty and perhaps a bit of peace.
Our team can help you find a giving opportunity that's meaningful to you. Email foundation@slhs.org or call (208) 381-2123 for assistance.


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Holliday Time in St. Louis?
by Erik Manning
Rumors are flying throughout the twitterverse that St. Louis is doing some Holliday shopping, and it is expected to come at the expense of their top prospect, Brett Wallace.
Brett Wallace is not-so affectionately dubbed "the Walrus" by scouts for his 6-1, 245 pear-shaped body. Scouts do love his bat though; he was considered to be the best pure hitter of the 2008 draft. In just a season and a half of pro-ball, Wallace has put up a .308/.392/.469 line. This year he started slowly for Triple-A Memphis, but has worked his way up to a respectable .298/.351/.431. Not eye-catching, but certainly not at all shabby for someone who was swinging a metal bat in the Pac-10 just a little over a year ago.
Wallace is not projected to be a big-time power threat, but rather a 15-20 homer guy who hits for a high average and takes his fair share of walks; somewhat of a Kevin Youkilis before he found his power stroke. The biggest knock on Wallace his "fall down range". He's defensively challenged at third base to put it mildly, and there is this guy named Pujols in St. Louis who isn't moving from first base.
Baseball America recently came out with their mid-season top 25, and Wallace ranked 21st. According to Victor Wang — who has published some tremendous research on the hidden value of prospects and the draft — top 11-25 ranked hitters have a trade value of $25 million. Suffice to say, Wallace is a valuable commodity.
Matt Holliday is projected to hit for a .370 wOBA the rest of the season. He's a good fielder and base-runner, so we can safely figure he will add to the Cardinals a couple of wins, worth $9 million. He's also a Type-A free agent at the end of the season, meaning an added bonus of some extra draft picks. Once again referring to Victor's research, that compensation is worth $5 million to a club, not even close to equal value of a top 100 prospect. (Sky also has more light on the subject at BtB. Bookmark it, folks.) Holliday is also due about $6M in salary for the rest of the season.
So two wins plus draft pick compensation minus salary equals about $8 million in value for Holliday. Simple math, folks — $25M > $8M. The trade is actually pretty lopsided when you look at from that perspective. Mozeliak is also faced with the fact that after Brett Wallace, his farm system will be a lot thinner, no pun intended.
Flags fly forever, and Wallace may never quite pan out and is probably not the greatest fit for his parent club.The Cardinals should be buyers at this point, but I wonder if they can't get a better return than a rental for their top prospect.
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While this makes sense for both teams (Oakland adds yet another good, cost controlled young guy and St. Louis adds a much needed bat in exchange for a guy that probably wouldn't be getting much playing time there anyway), I also have this question:
What does Oakland do with Daric Barton? Call me crazy for not being willing to write off a 23 year old with a .261/.386/.458 line in AAA in 2009 (albeit in the PCL). It's still good for 15th in the PCL in OBP and 34th in SLG. Not exactly a future MLB beast line, but seems like he'll be serviceable after a little more seasoning.
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yeah, that's serviceable if Barton is putting up that line as a second baseman or a catcher.
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Ryan Howard went .304/.374/.514 in A+ ball as a 23 year old. I can't be the only person who hasn't written off Barton.
I'd say the scouting reports on Ryan Howard at 23 and Daric Barton are remarkably different when trying to project future power output. I doubt that Barton will top Howard's new record of fastest to 200 MLB homeruns. Sorry for that. Especially since I know your point is that he's young and sometimes it takes time to develop. I'm just not sure Barton's swing profiles for enough power if he is a first baseman. If that's the case, he'd have to hit for contact like Mark Grace and John Olerud (with their fielding abilities as well) to be an impact player at that position. I personally always believed that Barton's prospect status was inflated because he was a catcher with great contact skills with a hope of future power. If he can't catch and the power doesn't develop and the BABIP falls at higher levels, what you may be left with is a poor man's Billy Butler.
I was thinking more on the lines of Adam LaRoche. Good guy to give $2,000,000 to when you need a one year fix at 1B.
I was thinking more along the lines of Lyle Overbay, but I'll give you LaRoche, and yes, you're not paying him silver slugger first baseman money, either.
But yeah, I agree, I'm just arguing that Barton still serves value to the Oakland franchise.
So I assume if this trade happens, Barton's probably getting shipped off, too. Not sure what kind of hitter a team can get for a 1B with a fairly regular career projection, though.


The Wayne Eagles invade the Panther Den to take on the Geneva Panthers is a key late-season Finger Lakes East boys varsity basketball match-up. With a win, the two-time defending Section V Class A2 Eagles will have a virtual lock on the league title. Geneva, enjoying their beast season since 2014, a win would secure key sectional points while pulling the Panthers within a half-game of Wayne at the top of the East. Jim Sinicropi and Kevin Sharp have the call for FL1 Sports, live from Geneva, on Tuesday night.


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We are still going strong with our cleaning and packing….it is a lot of work to pack up 30 years FYI….
With that said, I started thinking about this post as soon as I arrived in Austin. With the lifting, the bending, the lunging and the leaning I started thinking…how do people do this if they don't work out?! I saw so many of the moves I do in class come through the past week and it prompted this "moving" inspired workout.
The following exercises can be done in the gym with dumbells or at home with heavy stuff around you. LETS GO!!!
Warm up for 5-10 minutes…use the treadmill at a higher incline or the stair stepper. (as I was making my way up the one flight in my parents home and the two flights in my condo, I was cursing myself for not spending more time on this machine!!) You can also walk/run around the block if you are at home. Just get your heart rate up, your blood pumping and maybe a little glisten and you are ready!
Squats – these can be first done with just body weight until you are warmed up and then add a weight or two. Keep your chest and eyes up and your knees over your ankles.
Lunges – same as above, you can start body weight or go straight with the weight. You want to keep the weight in front of your chest like you are holding a box. Keep both knees at a 90 degree angle in the lunge with your chest and eyes up.
Push ups – I didn't necessarily bust out push ups while I was packing or carrying boxes, LOL!!, but I did have to hold awkwardly long objects while walking and the only way to do so was using my chest muscles…plus push ups are the best.
Mountain Climbers – just like above I didn't just break out a series of mountain climbers, but it is a nice cardio drill in the middle of all of these exercises right? Keep your wrist under your shoulders and your body in a plank position as you drive your knees to your chest!
Goblet Squats – a variation on the squat, hold the weight in front of your chest. Your toes should be turned out slightly, with your knees following you second toe as you bend into the squat. Again, chest and eyes up!
Curl to OH Press – my arms are by far the sorest on my body and it is from all the lifting into the UHaul/car and stacking boxes. These are traditional bicep curls into a traditional overhead press. Keep your core engaged, and if you want an added balance challenge lift your knee for a set. Don't forget to do it on the other side during the next round to stay balanced!
Hammer Curls – I am incorporating these because as I was carrying the little white file boxes I noticed how my hands were aligned and thought this was the most similar. Turn your wrists to face each other and curl up. Just like above, keep your core engaged and if you need a balance challenge lift one knee.
Burpees – only because they hate you too! The final cardio drill, its only ten you got this!!!
Complete each exercise all the way through with a 30 second break in between each set!!
At the end don't forget to stretch. With all the moving and twisting and lifting it has felt wonderful to stretch at the end of the day! How did you do? What modifications did you incorporate?
Next Next post: Thank you!!!


The 'world's largest plane' has successfully completed its first ever flight over the Mojave Desert in California.
According to a report by Reuters, the aircraft called Roc built by Stratolaunch Systems Corp and set up by late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen flew shortly before 7 a.m. Pacific time (1400 GMT) and remained aloft for more than two hours.
The aircraft which has a wingspan of an American football field and is powered by six engines on a twin fuselage later landed safely back at the Mojave Air and Space Port after flying a maximum speed of 189 miles per hour and altitudes of 17,000 feet.
The plane is designed to for satellite deployment, specifically to drop rockets and other space vehicles weighing up to 500,000 pounds at an altitude of 35,000 feet.


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'Paying It Forward' Publishing
Carl Straumsheim | Inside Higher Ed | February 10, 2015
The University of California Press is building a new open-access publishing model around the idea that reviewers and researchers in the hard sciences can support new forms of scholarly communication by "paying it forward." The university press last month introduced Collabra and Luminos, an open-access journal and monograph publisher, respectively. While Luminos is hoping to publish about 10 monographs this fall, Collabra is in beta testing and aims to accept submissions in a few weeks. Read More »
University of California Press Expands into Open Access with Innovative Journal and Monograph Programs
Press Release | Collabra, Luminos, UC Press | January 20, 2015
UC Press today announces Collabra and Luminos, two new open access programs for journal and monograph publishing.... Instead of retaining all funds generated from author article processing charges (APCs), UC Press directly compensates reviewers and editors for their work on the journal; reviewers and editors can then opt to pass these earnings on to an APC waiver fund that benefits other authors or to their institution's open access fund.... At launch, Collabra will focus on three broad disciplinary areas: life and biomedical sciences, ecology and environmental science, and social and behavioral sciences.


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