COLUMBIA (AP) - Missouri receiver Bud Sasser knows how it feels to have a defender try to strip the ball away from him. As for trying to force someone else into fumbling, well, that's a bit unusual.
"Probably playing around in practice when no one was paying attention," he said. "But not ever in a game. I don't think I've ever been able to force a fumble."
Until last week, that is. In the waning minutes of the first quarter at Toledo, Sasser stripped Jordan Haden of the ball after Haden had intercepted Maty Mauk on the play. Teammate Jimmie Hunt recovered, preventing Toledo from having a chance to tie the game at 14.
Missouri (2-0) gained a 14-point advantage two possessions later it would never lose.
"It's what you preach to your players all the time - that you never quit, that you never slow down," offensive coordinator Josh Henson said. "And Bud didn't quit. It's just a perfect example of why you always hustle and why you always finish plays."
The turnover extended the 20th-ranked Tigers' takeaway streak to 46 games, the longest in the country. It also wasn't the first game-changing play in unfamiliar circumstances for Sasser. He threw a 40-yard touchdown pass last October at Georgia to provide some breathing room for the team in the fourth quarter.
"He's going to make a play when you need to make a play," receiver Darius White said. "That's just Bud, man. I've been learning from Bud since I got here. That's the type of dude that you need on your team so you can just follow behind him and learn from him."
A senior from Denton, Texas, Sasser also posted career highs with five receptions and 121 receiving yards, 25 of which came on a bubble screen that required him to tiptoe down the sideline into the end zone.
At 6-foot-2, 210-pounds, Sasser played in every game last season, starting in nine, and caught 26 passes for 361 yards and a touchdown. Still, he wasn't quite the household name compared to Dorial Green-Beckham, L'Damian Washington and Marcus Lucas - all of whom have departed.
"It's very difficult, because sometimes your role is to follow," receivers coach Pat Washington said of reserves. "They want to be in the front. They want to lead. So you have to adjust every year based on what the need is and what your role may be."
This year the role for Sasser is to be a full-time starter and a team captain. He says the added playing time allows him to find a rhythm and become more comfortable on the field.
When he spent more time watching from the sidelines, Sasser concentrated on improving his skills one area at a time, be it running routes as a receiver or blocking on special teams. He shares that message with younger players, saying he wishes he had "someone in his ear" when he was starting out at Missouri.
"He's a good person. He's got a good heart," Hung said. " He'll do whatever he can for you. That's one of the things our coaches do - they recruit well at making sure we've got good guys on our team."
No one knows what Sasser will do this week against Central Florida (0-1) and cornerback Jacoby Glenn, a returning Freshman All-American. The receiver isn't one to predict, either. Teammates say he's largely let his play on the field do the speaking for him, but that if something needs to be addressed, Sasser will do it.
"Golf, track, bowling - doesn't matter what it is, Bud's going to compete in everything," White said. "There aren't too many things that Bud can't do."


From roughly between the years 1200 to 1700, Shingon Buddhist monks excavated an underground maze of tunnels behind Josenji Temple near Kamakura as a site for spiritual training.
Dark, silent corridors lead to small, domed meditation chambers with walls and ceilings carved with fantastic creatures and Buddhist images, and on down to the spring room with a great turtle and birds carved on the walls.
Using your phone's flashlight will be helpful to see those carvings that the light from the candle you are provided with does not reach.


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November 10, 2013 Family / Sports
Demigods & Champions
I love to watch athletes compete…any age, any level…just lay it all out there and try, find a way, play better than anyone ever thought you could. Runners best their career time, diving shortstops covered in dirt, cross-country runners busting the tape with nothing left, talking to their legs and ordering them forward by sheer grit and will. And of course I love the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat when it's tempered with grace and humanity. That's the greatness of sport, finding what we have deep down inside, our will, our passion, the uncovering of an indomitable spirit not evident in other parts of our personhood.
As a lover of sport, I've had my fill of the media coverage about the culture of football locker rooms. I don't have much comfort to offer men making millions playing a game in front of adoring fans, when they begin talking about not being able to get along. And I'm guilty as the next fan of the worshipful way we watch and gossip about college football and the demigods strapping on brand new uniforms each week. Any idea what it costs to outfit an entire college football team in new uniforms and helmets each week? $100,000. Black out uniforms, camo uniforms, pink uniforms, Halloween uniforms, retro unies. I've never seen Oregon wear the same helmets and uniforms in the same year. They wear a new ensemble each game like divas dressing from chandeliered closets. What happened to simple light and dark home and away unies?
I'm at the office on a Saturday morning and I switched on ESPN and saw this stunning earth-shattering tidbit scrolling along the screen. ESPN listed 4 & 5 star high school football recruits who will be attending the Alabama-LSU college football game tonight. Really? Oh my.
My wife, Karen, came of age right on the coat tails of Title IX, playing field hockey and softball and basketball in New Jersey and she struggles with the glorification culture of sport, particularly men's sports, more specifically football. My wife hates football. Not really, our son played youth football and high school football so she learned to watch, and she does watch some college football. But she did hate football before her son started playing. Not so much the sport and the competition, but rather the adulation and phony machismo that some young men apply to their sense of self like an overdose of Brute cologne.
And so it's been refreshing to watch a group of college women mature and come together without fanfare and attention and adulation and fresh uniform design for each game. We've watched Harding University Lady Bisons win six games in a row. It's fun to watch them win but it's not the winning I'm proud of, it's how they've come together and played hard and jelled as a team, playing soccer with passion and abandon like they did when they played youth soccer and enjoyed orange slices and juice box drinks with straws after the game. Smiling, cheering, yelling, competing, diving, sweating, working, just leaving it all on the field. It's great stuff to watch and I'm proud of all the girls, but especially the seniors, Erin Haltiwanger, Allison Ritchie, Hannah Hatcher, Jenna Taylor and Ashley Martin. They've finished their careers outside the limelight, but they've worked just as hard and played with as much passion and had as much fun as those guys wearing fresh uniforms each week and playing in front of 80,000 fans. They've finished with class and style. They are what is good and right and healthy about sports and about life.
And so today, my daughter Jenna played her final college soccer game on the windswept plains of western Oklahoma in front of an enthusiastic but sparse crowd of supporters. There were no ESPN banners or cameras, no Game Day crew, no media credentials were extended. They finished as Great American Conference runner-up but they are champions for how they've played this fall.
I stood in a cluster of parents on the opposite side of the field and watched her waddle towards us for the last time, wide-gaited because there were two giant ice bags on each knee looking like jumbo snow cones. Two ACL surgeries, two MCL tears, a high ankle sprain, several concussions, scars from stitches in her noggin. Her uniform is dirty and grass stained, she spends a lot of time on the ground.
She made first team all-conference and I suppose that honor will be framed and hung on a wall in her home someday. I don't need to see that to know she's a champion and that she loves the game, loves the contact, the battle, the competition. She's twenty-one years old. I started watching her play when she was five, before the scars and ice packs and surgeries and stitches. She never quit trying through it all, the injuries, the pain, the rehabilitation, the tears, the losses. She's always been able to smile through it all and that's what I've loved the most about her. That smile, that joy in playing, that pure love of the game.
Today, I watched her walk across the field wearing a champion's smile on her beautiful face. Way to finish young lady, way to finish. You walked off this field a champion, and you've been a champion every step of the way.
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What am I? Why am I alive? What does it mean to be alive? What is our purpose? Pixar's fourth (and arguably unnecessary) entry in the Toy Story saga explores these existential questions with characters old and new. Woody (Tom Hanks), Buzz (Tim Allen), Ham (John Ratzenberger), Slink (Blake Clark), Jesse (Joan Cusack) and Bullsye are joined by Forky (Tony Hale), a toy that new kid Bonnie (Madeleine McGraw) made at kindergarten. Consisting of a spork, pipe-cleaners, lolly sticks and stick-on eyes, Forky is simultaneously endearing and creepy, and rapidly becomes hilarious with his insistence that he is trash, until the realisation dawns that he might have another purpose. Parallel to Forky's awakening is Woody's need to be essential to Bonnie, as he adjusts to life after Andy.
In the course of answering these questions, Toy Story 4 delivers laughs, excitement and imaginative delights galore, ranging from the menacing ventriloquist dummies and Gabby Gabby (Christina Hendricks) to Duke Caboom (Keanu Reeves) and the returning Bo Peep (Annie Potts). Set pieces in an antiques store and a carnival provide plenty of thrills and spills, and while the film sometimes stretches its own conceit of humans not noticing supposedly inanimate objects moving on their own, there are still creative explanations, the skunk being a particular highlight. It may not quite reach the extraordinary acceptance of mortality displayed in Toy Story 3 or the miraculous joy of the luggage sequence in Toy Story 2, but if this is the final outing for the toys, director Josh Cooley and writers Andrew Stanton and Stephany Folsom manage a genuinely surprising, fitting and ultimately moving conclusion.
Review of the Year – Part Four: Best of the Year
January 5, 2019 4:40 pm / 2 Comments on Review of the Year – Part Four: Best of the Year
After my last post's batch of bad turkey, which certainly gave me indigestion, let's celebrate what was great in 2018. There are only twelve slots in my (totally arbitrary and subjective) best of the year list; however, there are plenty of good entries as well as honourable mentions. Among these were some unexpected pleasures, including the grim but in places touching social realist drama Obey, and the charming comedy about family and race relations Eaten by Lions.
I caught some other British efforts at the Norwich Film Festival, including some great shorts as well as the features Waiting For You and The Isle. These films were striking in their use of evocative locations, including the south of France and the Scottish islands, as well as offering intriguing stories.
2018 was a good year for black filmmaking. Critical darling Steve McQueen returned with his fourth feature Widows, a heist thriller with sociological smarts to match its stylistic sheen, that dared to have women of colour standing up to patriarchy. Idris Elba's directorial debut Yardie used music and location as an intricate and organic part of its story. A great surprise was Blindspotting, that offered thrills and laughs in equal measure, interweaving its politics with its narrative beautifully.
Even better was Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman, a brilliant piece of work that combined a true story with period setting and gripping set pieces. BlacKkKlansman subverted genre expectations and performed a reclamation of cinema through its formal properties, delivering a powerful and contemporary message. The highest profile 'black film' was Black Panther. While its racial politics received criticism and there is still a long way to go in terms of equal representation, Marvel demonstrated that a mainstream blockbuster can have a serious engagement with racial politics and isolationism, and also be a huge financial success.
Marvel Studios followed Black Panther with Avengers: Infinity War, a staggeringly ambitious super-powered epic. With ten years and eighteen films behind it, Infinity War balanced its multiple storylines and characters with verve and aplomb. Amidst the colourful fun, Infinity War also performed a sober exploration of power, making it exceptional in the superhero genre and a highlight of the year.
Other superhero exploits came in animated form, as Pixar delivered Incredibles 2. Fans of the original waited fourteen years to revisit the exploits of the Parr/Incredible family, and Brad Bird and his team did not disappoint with an explosive action adventure that engaged with ideas around gender and our relationship with technology. Sony Animation maintained their hold on web-slinging property as Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse combined dazzling displays of digital dexterity as well as just the right level of postmodern knowingness, proving that universes stretch just as much as spandex.
Perhaps the year's biggest thrills came from a mega-star rather than a superhero. After twenty-two years, five previous films and with a star approaching sixty, Mission: Impossible – Fallout was a fabulous continuation of this enduring franchise. Bathroom fights, stolen plutonium, mountain climbing/falling, helicopter chases and a halo jump led to a breathless and exhilarating experience, with genuine emotion giving the film heart to go with its heft.
Other exhilarating experiences came from Ready Player One – the second Spielberg of the year that joyously embraced new technology – and First Man, which delivered a riveting journey into outer space that focused on the rivets themselves. While these films had very different subject matters – dystopian future and the tension between fantasy and reality, historical drama about journeys into grief as well as to the Moon – both featured exquisite levels of detail, every bit as immersive and compelling as each other.
By way of contrast, Cold War was a quintessential 'art film' that was involving and enthralling despite its rigid formalism. Stark black and white cinematography, interpersonal and geopolitical concerns, intimate performances and a heartbreaking story united in one of the most emotional yet carefully contained films of the year. Speaking of heartbreak, A Star is Born was an equally uplifting and devastating tale of music and romance, demonstrating that Lady Gaga is a fine actor and Bradley Cooper a fine director. And in one of the year's strangest and most striking works, Lynne Ramsey delivered You Were Never Really Here, a brilliantly immersive revenge thriller, more about mood and experience than plot and narrative.
Finally, after this preamble, it is time to announce Vincent's View on the Top Twelve Films of 2018. Therefore, and without further ado:
On the twelfth day of Christmas
The movies gave to me
Twelve lunar landings
Eleven Spider-Verses
Ten Lady Birds
Nine Stars a-birthing
Eight Ready Players
Seven Black Panthers
Six Watery Shapes
Five Phantom Threads
Infinity Four
Three Ebbing Billboards
Two Were Never Really Here
And a Blac-K-k-K-lansman.
With awards season now upon us, I look forward to the many offerings that 2019 will bring.
July 30, 2018 11:33 am / 1 Comment on Incredibles 2
Superhero narratives have a reputation for being conservative. Terms such as chauvinistic, right wing and valorising the cult of the individual often appear in discussions of the genre. Since Pixar and director Brad Bird first presented their superpowered family in 2004, films such as Wonder Woman and Black Panther have offered alternatives to this pattern. Incredibles 2 does so as well, making it the best sort of sequel: it gives us what we know and expect and also something new. There is the same blend of action and humour, much of the latter deriving from Bob Parr/Mr Incredible's (Craig T. Nelson) struggling with domesticity while Helen/Elastigirl (Holly Hunter) leads on the action front. In one bravura sequence, a souped-up motorcycle chases a train with the tangibility and immediacy of live action. The introduction of more supers allows for further exhilarating sequences, and the humour and action are brought together brilliantly with the development of Jack-Jack (Eli Fucile).
All this is great fun, but in its narrative development and also world building, Incredibles 2 displays some surprising elements. The film's focus on Helen is not the limit of its exploration of gender, as discussions between Helen and Evelyn Deavor (Catherine Keener) as well as Voyd (Sophia Bush) raise further issues. Furthermore, Incredibles 2 also questions our engagement with technology through its villain the Screen Slaver, and while this discourse could be reduced to clichéd monologuing, it is striking that the film includes this feature. In addition, there is a curious social aspect to the presence of supers in the film's world. When Helen and Bob consider their future, they refer to the private sector, and benevolent government agencies are shut down due to public mistrust. All of this distances the Incredibles from the more self-righteous exploits of Batman and Iron Man. If superheroes are presented as inspirational figures, especially for children, figures that want to help others and make the world a better place, Incredibles 2 suggests that the place to do that is within the purview of the state. In a time of rampant individualism and self-interest, Incredibles 2 continues Disney's surprising messages of acceptance, tolerance and state intervention and responsibility. If the imagined nation the United States of Disney actually practiced what films such as Zootopia, Beauty and the Beast and now Incredibles 2 suggest, it might not be so bad. And that may be the most incredible thing of all.
Ten Films for Ten Days – Day Ten
May 17, 2018 12:15 pm / Leave a comment
The final film in my list of ten significant movies is by far the most recent, released less than three years before this post. It is also the only animated movie on this list, and perhaps the only one that could be described as a comedy (it is certainly the funniest). It was my favourite film of 2015, and I include it because it had a therapeutic effect on me. When I saw this film, I was suffering from depression, and while now improved this is not a condition that goes away. Despite the negativity I often felt, I had a tendency not only to put a brave face on it, which a great many people do, but also to deny to myself that there was a problem, because I had the notion that there was no need, no justification, to feel sad. Then I saw Inside Out, which made the (to me) quite radical and astonishing suggestion that it is actually alright to be unhappy and that sometimes sadness is healthy and indeed essential. For me, this recognition was extraordinarily profound, and reduced me to a tearful wreck in the cinema, to such an extent that I purposefully constricted my throat so that my sobs would not disturb other patrons. For comparison, I had a similar experience the last time I watched E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial. I have since returned to Inside Out many times, and it always makes me cry in the best possible way.
Beyond my personal attachment to Inside Out, it is also a magnificent film. The world of Riley's mind is brilliantly realised with dazzling detail and witty invention, drawing from established psychology that is given superb animated form. The central characters are both archetypal and specific, working as representatives and as individuals. The lessons learned by Joy are valuable for anyone, the lack of appreciation for Sadness likely to be familiar to many, while the roles of Anger, Disgust and Fear are as relatable as the emotions themselves. The central conceit of the components of personality is complex yet understandable, and the tricky workings of the mind from imaginary friends to the Memory Dump to endlessly repeating jingles (TripleDent Gum anybody?) make for endlessly inventive adventures that swing from the hilarious to the breathtaking to the heartbreaking. Who would have predicted that a tale of the little voices inside your head would emerge as one of the most accomplished, enthralling and moving films of recent years? I had high hopes thanks to Pixar's back catalogue, but Inside Out surpassed all of these and might indeed be the studio's most impressive work to date. It remains my go to film when the world turns horrible, because as I often need reminding, Sadness is good to have around.
August 11, 2016 8:34 pm / 1 Comment on Finding Dory
Pixar's follow-up to their 2003 ocean odyssey Finding Nemo fulfills several functions of a sequel. It reunites the central characters of Dory (Ellen Degeneres), Marlin (Albert Brooks) and Nemo (Hayden Rolence) for another wacky adventure; it expands the fictional world with new environments, characters and situations; it explains Dory's backstory that was never explored in the original. As a result, Finding Dory fleshes (fishes?) out the overall mythos, introducing the utterly adorable infant Dory (Sloane Murray) and her short term memory loss, as well as the events that led to her meeting Marlin and the events of Finding Nemo. One year after those events, Dory remembers something and sets off to find her family, with Marlin and Nemo along for the tide (sorry). The great strength of Andrew Stanton and Angus MacLane's follow-up is that it is not simply another oceanic search, as the majority of the action takes place at a Marine Life Institute. This environment constitutes a wonderfully diverse obstacle course for our finned friends, as they travel from sea to tank to pool to pipe, with the odd bucket and drinking vessel along the way. Familiar faces reappear such as Mr Ray (Bob Peterson) and Crush (Andrew Stanton), while the institute features a wonderful cavalcade of new characters, including Destiny the myopic whale shark (Kaitlin Olson), Bailey the beluga (Ty Burrell) who fears his echolocation, Fluke (Idris Elba) and Rudder (Dominic West) the rock-jealous sea lions. Much as Dory proved to be the star of Finding Nemo, the breakout star of Finding Dory is Hank the traumatised octopus (Ed O'Neill) (or as Dory points out, septopus). Hank's changing form creates many of the film's funniest moments, the relationship between him and Dory growing through the trials and tribulations that they encounter. These trials are sometimes intense and distressing, but Stanton and MacLane never overplay the drama, balancing heart-wrenching instances with many laugh out loud moments. While it may not reach the depths of Pixar's best, Finding Dory still offers gallons of intelligent fun.
To Infinity, and Beyond: Sci-Fi Countdown – Introduction
December 13, 2014 5:18 pm / Leave a comment
As a completely unofficial tie-in with the British Film Institute's science fiction season, Days of Fear and Wonder, I've prepared a countdown of my top five science fiction films that transport the viewer to fantastical environments. At its best, science fiction can be the ultimate cinema experience, as it creates another world and takes you to distant places and times. These are not necessarily the greatest science fiction films of all time, but they are all films that take the viewer on a remarkable journey. The next few days will feature a countdown of my top five transportive science fiction films, beginning with…
The cultural impact of Star Wars can never be over-estimated, and for its time it was an extraordinary piece of groundbreaking cinema. While I do not find it particularly transportive and its script and direction is ropey in many places, it remains an undiluted thrill ride through a far away galaxy, a long time ago. Contact (1997)
Contact's journey is as much about travelling into the heart and mind as it is about a journey to a distant world. An intelligent science fiction film that explores humanity on Earth while also reaching out to the stars. Solaris (2002)
Steven Soderbergh is a great utiliser of editing and cinematography, which sometimes collapses into irritating style for its own sake. In the case of Solaris, however, the discontinuous editing takes the viewer both into a grieving mind and to a strange world where time, memory and reality blur together and nothing is what it seems. WALL-E (2008)
One of Pixar's finest films conveys both the ghastly isolation of an abandoned Earth and the expansive wonder of space. One is gloomily familiar and the other a source of inspiration and beauty, best demonstrated in the space dance sequence between WALL-E and EVE. But perhaps most importantly in WALL-E, the journey to the final frontier is not only transportive but transformative, as humanity, led and inspired by little robots, returns to the Earth that is our home. Interstellar (2014)
The most recent entry and a convenient release for the BFI's season (Coincidence? Unlikely). Fear and wonder populate Christopher Nolan's sci-fi epic: fears include the horror of ecological devastation as well as the vacuum of space, balanced with the spectacle of Saturn as well as spherical worm holes and alien landscapes. Interstellar echoes earlier films such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Silent Running and Contact and, while it sometimes tries too hard to explain everything, it remains a breathtaking journey into the infinite.


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I like to integrate my teaching as much as possible (since we all know the sheer quantity of content we have to teach nowadays is staggering!) So instead of simply reading a biography about Betsy Ross during our unit on the American Revolution, I used the literature as a springboard for two different classroom courses of study.
You know about the Hanger Biographies. The Betsy Ross Biography was a model that we used when filing in the whole class graphic organizers.
What I haven't told you about were the flags. The "main idea" of the Betsy Ross legend (as we learned, there are various schools of thought on whether or not she ACTUALLY did create the first American Flag) is that she is the originator of the flag. So each student put themselves in the role of Betsy and thought about what they would do if approached by the founding fathers to create a flag representative of the new nation. We talked about what the symbols and colors on the flag meant.
Enchanted learning has a very simple, easy to read explanation of color symbolism on flags here.
There are many different places where the meaning behind the stripes and stars on our American Flag can be found. Here and here are a few that I used.
After they sketched the flag and diagram, the students wrote a 3 paragraph essay, explaining in detail exactly why every.single.thing was put on the flag. If they didn't have a solid reason as to how that part of the flag belonged, it wasn't allowed to go on the final balloon.
After all of the thinking and writing, the students then got to create the flag itself. We made foil balloon flags. This is my favorite art project all year. The kids love it, it is just different enough that it is intriguing to look at, and they come out GREAT! For step by step directions on how to make these, you can read my post on Classroom DIY. I laid it out completely over there. Here, though, I will leave you some pictures of them.
So there you have it. Foil balloon flags, inspired by Betsy Ross. The students really did enjoy this project. Thinking about why they were putting each symbol on the flag helped them to make inferences and justify their thinking. Diagramming and writing just brought it all together. All in all, a project well worth the time.
Very cool flags! I love your creativity!
Those foil balloon crafts are so creative! Love it!!
I agree with you. We do need to integrate whenever possible. What a great idea!
Seems like some great creativity and critical thinking.
I know you have some great posts on how you integrate subjects and use themes, so I would love for you to join my first linky party on thematic teaching.
I feel like I say the same thing over and over, but this is incredible, just like everything you do in your classroom!


I'm Ayanna, and I'm a hobbyist costume maker from France !
I'd like to enter this contest with a costume I made in 2014, Big Sister from Bioshock 2 !
Most of the costume is made with fake suede, eva foam (for props and armor pieces) and recycled materials.
You can see more pictures and wip on my Facebook page if you like !


Today I'm so excited to be sharing these sweet and lovely free kitchen printables of watercolour herb designs in ten different patterns. Give your kitchen or dining room a beautiful update with this free printable kitchen art!
Summer, to me, means fresh eating. Fresh and simple.
Which is why when I decided it was time to share some free printables again, my mind wandered directly to fresh kitchen herbs!
I love how these lovely watercolour herb free kitchen printables turned out! And I'm sharing them today for this week's Seasonal Simplicity hop (the last in the series!).
And although I was inspired by summer, I think these watercolour herb free kitchen printables would work equally well in a kitchen or dining area during any season of the year.
Ten different designs (as above), and I made them in both a 5×7 size and 8×10 size! You can choose whichever works better for your space. The ones above are the 5×7 size, with a mat. I like how they pop with the extra layer of white matting around them. I also printed mine on white cardstock.
And today I've joined forced with some of my talented blogging friends to share their free summer printables with you – you can see all the links to their beautiful free printables at the bottom of this post.
I love how simple and pretty these turned out!
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Head over to see what other free summer printables are ready and waiting for you!
The Seasonal Simplicity Summer series is back today; and this time we're sharing all kinds of free printables for summer!
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Yahoo. What a beautiful collection of watercolors of herbs!
Where are the rest of the herbs. In your Google Drive, the only one included is rosemary. Can you please send me the link to the rest of the ones listed above?
These are so beautiful! Looking to access the prints for the herbs but when I look in the Google Drive after subscribing I cannot seem to find them. Are you able to email them to me by chance?
I subscribed for the Herb printables, however there is only one option to print. Can you please send me the rest? I'm in love with these!! Thank you!!
Oh my goodness these are beautiful! I love all things herb related! I would like to invite you to come over and link up this post at Thursday Favorite Things. The party starts every Thursday at 9:00 a.m. EST and runs through Saturday at midnight. Hope you can join us!
Thank you so much for the invite and information!!
These are so pretty for the kitchen. Thanks for sharing your free herb printable with us on Merry Monday. Pinned.
Thank you! I really love how these came out…thank you for hosting!
So pretty Krista!! I'm working on a little herb garden this summer so I'll have to use these!
Thank you Jen! So glad you could be part of this hop!
Thank you Shauna! I need to find a spot to hang these… I love them! So glad you could be part of things!
Oh, that's fantastic! I love how they came out… I need to find a spot to use them, as well!
They are so pretty and I wished I had a color printer.
Hi Betty! You could always have them printed at your local print shop (I use Staples quite often). Hope that helps!
These are so cute, Krista! The perfect kitchen decor! Thank you so much for getting us all organized! I hope you're having a wonderful week!
Thank you Abby! So glad you could be part of things, friend!


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Cyberpunk 2077 will be a "Refined Red Dead Redemption 2" ~ CEO of CD Projekt RED
During a recent conference call, CEO of CD Projekt RED, Adam Kicinski suggested that the launch of the much anticipated Cyberpunk 2077 would be comparable to RockStar Games' latest release, Red Dead Redemption 2. Adam intends to "offer something of great quality ", as there is not much room for anything less in today's flooded game catalog. The first analysts already dared to indicate that the game would arrive during the fourth quarter of 2019 and expected to sell 19 million copies in its first quarter.
Without a doubt, quality is of paramount importance. We strive to publish games which are as refined as Red Dead Redemption 2, and recent Rockstar releases in general. That game is excellent, by the way, we are rooting for it. Rave reviews, excellent sales. What does that teach us? Well, it teaches us that we need to publish extraordinary games and that's exactly what we are planning. Gamers, it seems, tend to focus more and more on hit releases."
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Perhaps the saddest thing is that this is news, and if we know anything about Cyberpunk 2077, it is backed by CD Projekt RED, a studio that has always fulfilled with users, and it would be logical to expect from this studio to make effort in launch the best possible game, unlike other studios like Ubisoft, Bethesda, Activision etc where they launch half games with problems of optimizations, bug, glitches, lack of content.
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Tehreem Afzal Federal Government Polyclinic (PGMI), Islamabad
Naveed Butt Federal Government Polyclinic (PGMI), Islamabad
Shahzad Munir Federal Goverment PolyClinic (PGMI), Islamabad
Objective: To compare the outcome of addition of nebulized magnesium sulphate to the standard treatment in children with acute severe asthma.
Methodology: The trial was undertaken at the emergency of Paediatrics Department, Federal Government Polyclinic (Post Graduate Medical Institute), Islamabad from 1st April to 30th September 2019.Children between 1 to 12 years of age with acute severe asthma were initially nebulized with salbutamol thrice and ipratropium once.All the patients were also given intravenous steroid.Those not responding to this treatment and still classified as acute severe asthma were randomly divided into two groups each having 38 patients.Each patient in Group A received 2.5 ml (150 mg) of isotonic magnesium sulphate via nebulizer, thrice20 minutes apart, while group B received 2.5 ml of isotonic saline via nebulizer, thrice20 minutes apart.Each nebulization also contained salbutamol. Yung Asthma Severity Score (ASS) was determined at the start of treatment, at30 minutes and at 60 minutes of treatment.
Results: After 60 minutes, the mean Asthma Severity Score of children in group A was 6.95 ± 1.29 and 7.63 ± 1.03 in group B (p < 0.05). In group A, 18 (47.4%) children were discharged and 20 (52.6%) were admitted in the hospital. In group B, 7 (18.4%) children were discharged while 31 (81.6%) were admitted in the hospital (p < 0.05).
Conclusion: It is concluded that nebulized magnesium sulphate along with salbutamol can give a better outcome than salbutamol alone in children with acute severe asthma.
Naveed Butt, Federal Government Polyclinic (PGMI), Islamabad
Physician Pediatrics
Shahzad Munir, Federal Goverment PolyClinic (PGMI), Islamabad
Head Of Department, Pediatrics
Vol. 17 No. 4 (2021): October-December


Currently FBCachedClob throws FBSQLException (which is SQLException) on methods it doesn't support. It confuses hibernate which expects SQLFeatureNotSupportedException to be thrown (see org.hibernate.type.descriptor.java.DataHelper#determineLengthForBufferSizing and few other places).
FBBlob, FBClob and FBCachedBlob classes throw FBDriverNotCapableException as expected so I guess FBCachedClob should also do the same.
Currently FBCachedClob throws FBSQLException (which is SQLException) on methods it doesn't support. It confuses hibernate which expects SQLFeatureNotSupportedException to be thrown (see org.hibernate.type.descriptor.java.DataHelper#determineLengthForBufferSizing and few other places). FBBlob, FBClob and FBCachedBlob classes throw FBDriverNotCapableException as expected so I guess FBCachedClob should also do the same.


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Q: Two has_many :through associations with same models and RailsAdmin I have 2 models Event and User and two models for :through associations - event_member and event_organizer. I create few assocaitions, and in regular use it works, but in rails admin on Events and Event Organizer page I have an error:

ActiveRecord::AssociationNotFoundError in RailsAdmin
  Association named 'event' was not found on EventOrganizer

When I change associations I start to get other RailsAdmin errors
schema.rb:
#event_members
 t.bigint "member_id"
 t.bigint "event_id"
#event_organizers
 t.bigint "organizer_id"
 t.bigint "organized_event_id"

In models I have next code:
Event
has_many :event_members
has_many :members, through: :event_members, source: :user

has_many :event_organizers
has_many :organizer, through: :event_organizers, source: :user

User
has_many :event_members, foreign_key: :member_id
has_many :events, through: :event_members

has_many :event_organizers, foreign_key: :organizer_id
has_many :events, through: :event_organizers, source: :user

EventOrganizer
belongs_to :user, foreign_key: :organizer_id
belongs_to :event, foreign_key: :organized_event_id

EventMember
belongs_to :user, foreign_key: :member_id
belongs_to :event

A: You have two definitions of has_many :events in User, and should change their names to make them unique and meaningful.

A: It was dummy problem with wrong scope, it was:
has_many :ogranized_event, through: :event_organizers, source: :event

Must be:
 has_many :event_organized, through: :event_organizers, source: :organized_event

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Malmo throw this opportunity away?
Helsinborg at home. Can History repeats itself today? Hacken has not won not even one official game away in Elfsborg since 2005! I think the Over 2.5 goals stands a good chance.
Hammarby needs seriously to pull themselves together as a team if they want to avoid the relegation this year. Kalmar FF recent results are great and I am not sure why the hosts are the favourite team today. Draw or away win with Over 2.5 goals is my prediction.
Norrkoping v Orebro. The visitors had a fabulous start this season but they also had an 'easy' starting schedule. I think the downfall has began for them and I would be extremely surprised if Norrkoping won't win this game. I am not sure if we will see more than two goals though.
not see many goals. Valerenga is in a much better condition than before and I would not be surprised if they can grab a point or 3 in today's game.


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Q: How to import declared global variable in typescript using webpack I am having trouble importing declared global variable.
On our website, we have third party framework, which integrates only using  tag and creates global variable on window for example window.thirdParty. So usage is like: thirdParty.methodOne()
I wrote definition file third-party.d.ts which is like this:
import { ITrirdPartyFramework } from './third-party-definitions/third-party-framework';

export interface ITrirdPartyFramework {
   methodOne():void,
}

then i have a file (global-variables.ts), which defines global variables:
export declare const thirdParty: ITrirdPartyFramework;

and finally i want to use it in my modules:
import { thirdParty } from './global-variables';

export const myFunction = () => {
    thirdParty.methodOne();
}

Problem is that webpack compiles the definitions as regular modules and on runtime i get error, because compiled code looks like this:
_global_variables__WEBPACK_IMPORTED_MODULE_3__["thirdParty"].methodOne();

instead of
thirdParty.methodOne();

Do you know, how to tell webpack to ignore the definitions or how to deal with this situation ?

A: You don't have to import *.d.ts files, they are globally visible.
You can keep only type definitions in those files, but not implementation
Next steps will solve your problem:

*

*Rename global-variables.ts to global-variables.d.ts

*remove export keyword from global-variables.d.ts

*remove line import { thirdParty } from './global-variables';


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Naruto's Christmas Party
By jerellt At December 22, 2008 0
December 11, the eve of Mike's last day was also our company's Year-End Party. Yeah! I know! My blog is two weeks updated. :(
The party's theme was foreign TV shows. A team has a chance to win 5,000 worth of gift certificates just by coming to the party with their costumes. Joie and I got a little sentimental and thought a few days before that it would be our last Christmas party with Mike, and probably the last for the group. And then, an idea of saving the best for last was conceived. A lot of suggestions came up: Desperate Housewives, Sex and the City, House, Grey's Anatomy (which Tang mistakenly mixed up with Greg's Anatomy), Dragon Ball and a lot more. But since we were up for the win, we settled for Naruto. Haha! We just signed up for the contest a day before the party. We are well-trained to cram! Haha!
We all went to Landmark, Glorietta and SM Makati on the night before the party just to look for costumes. Marwin and Jeff decided to go straight to Mall of Asia to try their luck. The guys were lucky because most of their costumes were readily available at Comic Alley which they picked up the following day; while the girls had to improvise. Joie and I bought our stuff at Robinson's Department Store. Nyaha!
We arrived at Bagaberde a few minutes past 6 pm. As soon as we arrived, we all headed to change. Changing to our costumes was easy. What took most of the girls' time was fixing my hair hehe. Thanks to Kriska for saving the day! As we went out, we were all surprised because everybody was already taking pictures of the boys. The boys were like the stars hunted by the paparazzi. Our team has always lived out of the spotlight. Some think that we exist in a world we created by ourselves. But that night was different.
The boys were talking how popular they've become :p
And the girls were like the stars' P.A. Haha!
Cameras were flashing here and there but mostly for this guy! Scene-stealer! :p
Me as Tenten with Mike Sy as Kakashi
It was a night full of smiles and laughter. More photos to prove...
Joie as Hinata and Tang as Choji
Same pose for Tang =))
Kakashi with Hinata
That's me with Naruto
Jeff and Joie
Tenten and Hinata
It was also a night of candidness...
What's wrong Mike??!!
Constipated Choji??!
and a night dedicated for unglamorous people...
I have no idea what was wrong with me!
Unfortunately, we didn't win the contest. But it really didn't matter! We may not have the prize but we enjoyed every single minute of the night.
It was so nice to look stupid for a night especially if you're doing it with your friends. The party ended with a group hug…
and the legendary jump shot...
I look ridiculous!
Ogie, teach me the basics of jump shots hehe :)
That night was the first and hopefully the last that I would make a fool out of myself. Good thing he was there to remind me that I look fine, though I could see the smiles he was consciously hiding.


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This must have been exciting taken from BBC news web site.
Damien Touya booked France's place in the final of the men's team sabre - despite suffering a cut on his right hand in a tense match against the USA.
Touya was cut by Keeth Smart when the pair lunged simultaneously with the scores level at 44-44.
But after taking a 10-minute time-out, the Frenchman battled beyond the pain barrier and secured a famous victory.
France will now face Italy, who beat defending champions Russia 45-42 in another tense thriller, in the final.
There was some concern that Touya would not be able to continue when Smart's blade pierced the webbing of his glove right through his palm.
"It showed great courage for Damien to make that last play as he was in terrible pain," said French coach Christian Peeters.
"In the end it is the fencer who has the last word and he wanted to carry on. He was formidable."
Touya's place in the final later on Thursday will depend on how his hand responds to medical treatment.
But was it a Leon Paul glove?
I remember this happening to my club mate at the Corble this year - could it be a new common injury?
There was a posting about this on the US board along with an URL to a picture of it (may surely be lots of other pics as well).
Pic of Damien Touya after having been stabbed by Keeth Smart (MTS) (http://sports.yahoo.com/oly/fencing/photo?slug=olyfen10308191133.greece_olympics_fenci ng_olyfen103&prov=ap).
Stupid eurosport cancelled their coverage in favour of a truly awful basketball group match between greece and lithuania.
Then they showed about 4 hits total an hour later in their olympic report thing. Only consolation was that it wasn't Chambers commentating.
Tarantino was well guilty of breaking his time by wiithdrawing the hand for the winning hit. Not that I could do better, but it was bad.


14th Aug 2009 - The start of the English apple season!
The first edition of The Journal coincides nicely with the start of the English Apple Harvest. This is a time of great emotion for all of us in the Apple trade. After a summer of routine orchard tasks, all geared to producing a successful crop, we are now at the eleventh hour before the main harvest period. Our concentration is focused on critical aspects of our impending heavy workload, have we assessed our crop accurately for yield and quality? This governs all the associated factors; have we enough pickers and harvest bins, are our cold stores and all our machinery, tractors, trailers, picking trains, fork lift trucks etc in good working order and have we sufficient picking buckets clean and fit for purpose?
As harvest draws nearer our emotions are tossed around by anxiety, if we feel optimistic we are often brought back to reality when our marketeers price forecasts are known. Its easy to be pessimistic when we learn that our hoped for increase in net prices is likely to be no more than last year and sometimes less, especially as we try to absorb the increased labour and other associated costs. 'In these difficult economic times what maybe is good news for the consumer is often a disheartening time for the grower. But we need each other, the price equation just seems a bit unfair to us with the grower making do with the 'leftovers' after our Supermarkets have had their profit and all our marketing costs have been deducted!
But we press on hoping we will be the exception and on our farm we will have the perfect format, a higher than expected yield of good quality fruit, a strong demand for our important varieties and a fair price. In achieving a profitable return the quality of our workforce is critical, more now than ever before. 'Our supervisory staff are key personnel as they, along with adequate training for pickers, are vital components in ensuring that as near as possible, only fruit with a saleable value above all the ongoing costs incurred from point of harvest find their way into the picking bin. Each 1% of unmarketable fruit will reduce the value of our crop significantly.' Growing a crop is expensive, but from the harvest point onwards costs escalate. Approximately 30% of cost accrues from growing the crop to point of harvest, with 70% gobbled up by harvesting, storage, packing, packaging and marketing costs; any unmarketable fruit and even fruit with a low value, for example only suitable for juice, becomes a negative value.
There are many, many things to think about, not least will the weather be kind to us; please God, no late hail to destroy our crop and hopes for another year! I remember well after a difficult time following the loss of my father in 1975, the drought of 1976 and the consequences of drought related stress on the trees in 1977, ie. a miniscule crop, then what joy I felt, floating on air in June of 1978 with an excellent crop across the whole farm, 'this must be my year' I thought, only to be brought violently to my senses as disaster struck at 5pm on a friday in late June and in just a few minutes 60% of all the apples on the farm were hit by hail.
Back then it was possible to sell the slightly damaged fruit as Class 2 with some value, but in todays world 30 years on Supermarkets demand near perfect appearance and most hail damage renders the crop only suitable for juice. Selective picking of the undamaged fruit is rarely cost effective and it does not end there as the fruit must be cleared from the trees/orchard or next years harvest potential will be seriously affected by tree stress and disease from rotting fruit on the orchard floor. The value of juice fruit rarely exceeds the cost of harvesting this hail damaged fruit. Its just hard disheartening work with no opportunity to put things right for another 12 months!
All apples spend some time in a cold store, even early apples need chilling before despatch. Main season varieties will be stored for several months in order to maintain a supply of English Apples accross our season so we sample the fruit intended for long term storage to assess storage potential, as not all will store well as storage life depends on many factors. The stores need to be mainained and tested for efficacy. While we are engaged in these activities, The Ashes Tests are still in progress and while we do our best to catch snippets of information from the radio, there is no slipping off for a day at the cricket as we did for that memorable match at Lords!
At this moment in time, Discovery, the first English Apples ready for harvest have been in the shops since late July, about a week earlier than last year, a sign we are reminded of Global Warming. Discovery as a variety is on the wane, but it is symbolic of another new season before we get into more marketable varieties like Worcester Pearmain, Estivale, Early Windsor and others.
To finish this week's Journal at a time when we speculate about the potential of our crop, will the yield and quality meet our expectations and prices match our hopes; from my experience, Nothing ever turns out as good as we hope, nor as bad as we fear!
Next week: More on pre-season preparations and pictures of training using the most up to date picking systems.


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Let's Netflix and...discuss theology?
Come Sunday (2018)
The plot summary for the Netflix film Come Sunday, the blurb that helps viewers decide whether they want to watch it, gets something crucial wrong. It reads, "A crisis of faith sets renowned fundamentalist preacher Carlton Pearson on a new spiritual path that jeopardizes everything he holds dear." Pearson is a real person and the film purports to tell his true story, but the summary calls him a "fundamentalist" when he was, in fact, a Pentecostal. This may seem like a minor point, but the film is about a man's change in theological belief, so points of theology are not minor. Netflix would deserve a little more grace in the descriptive error if they weren't also the creators of the movie (in conjunction with the NPR program This American Life).
Pearson was a prominent pastor, leading a megachurch, Higher Dimensions, in Tulsa and a preacher on Trinity Broadcasting Network. He was a counselor for presidents, both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. He went to Oral Roberts University and was mentored by Roberts himself. He was ordained in the Church of God in Christ. The film touches on all of these facts.
Pearson came to believe that God told him that the victims of 1994 genocide in Rwanda would go to heaven without fear of hell. He came to believe that there is no hell and no need for salvation. This change in theology and the effect this change had on Pearson's life and ministry is the subject of the film.
From watching Come Sunday, I believe Pearson (played by Chiwetel Ejiofor) had some real problems in his theology and ministry long before the changes that brought down his ministry.
In the film, Pearson's Uncle Quincy (Danny Glover), who's in prison, says he wants to be saved. He also asks Pearson to write a letter to the parole board. Pearson questions his motives and leaves.
One of my problems with Pearson here? He should be visiting prisoners, as Jesus called us to, especially his uncle, whether or not his uncle asked to be saved. It isn't his job to judge Quincey's motives.
When Quincey dies, Pearson conducts his funeral, where he speaks of his uncle being in hell. His mother talks about other relatives of theirs that are in hell. I happen to believe in hell, but I have no idea who is there. It takes a certain arrogance to believe you know the eternal destiny of other individuals.
We also see a scene of Pearson meeting with Oral Roberts, who calls Pearson "his black son." Roberts turning his back on his son when that son came out as gay. Pearson's silence seems show agreement with Roberts' choice. Is that how a father should treat his children? Not taking a stand here about whether homosexuality is a sin, but even if you think it is, is there a Scriptural basis for denying your child? I don't see it.
Pearson doesn't seem to treat his family particularly well. He doesn't spend much time with his wife, Gina (Condola Rashad), and she makes it clear she doesn't believe he cares about her opinions. When he talks to a woman on a plane, Pearson refers to his childrens "a pain in the a**". And when his associate pastor, Henry (Jason Siegel), tells him he's always put Pearson before his own family, well, Pearson seems to have no problem with that horrible decision.
What I'm saying here is, the Bishop Pearson we see at the beginning of the film does have room for change and growth. In the opinion of Movie Churches, the direction he chooses is worse.
He goes before his congregation on a Sunday morning and tells them that God told him in a vision that there is no such place as Hell, and there is no need to share the Gospel because everyone will be saved anyway. This upsets people in the congregation -- and all of Pearson's associates in ministry.
Henry is upset and asks Pearson to clarify his message the next Sunday. Oral Roberts urges him to preach on Romans 10:9 ("If you declare with your mouth, 'Jesus is Lord' and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.") But he refuses to read that Scripture and instead has Henry read I John 2:2, "He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours, but the sins of the whole world."
He goes on to say that much of Scripture contradicts much of the rest of Scripture. He says that if the Bible passages about God's judgement and hell are true, then God is no better than Hitler. Bishop Pearson seems surprised that Bible believing people in his congregation are bothered by this and walk during his sermon. (It is interesting that in this mixed race congregation, it is chiefly the white people who walk out.)
Pearson argues before the African American Conference of Bishops that we wouldn't send people to hell -- "are we more merciful than God?" He doesn't talk about justice. Jesus said, "If anyone causes a little one to stumble, it would be better if a millstone tied around his neck and thrown into the ocean."
These questions about the balance between love and justice have been debated for centuries. I remember discussing and arguing about the justice of hell back when I was in high school youth group. Pearson seems to be thinking about these issues for the first time after decades in ministry.
In recent years there has been much discussion about whether Hell is real, particularly in the ministry of Rob Bell. I have good Christian friends who have made many of the same changes in their theology in accord with Pearson and Bell. But those who want a place of leadership in a church must realize they can't teach doctrine that conflicts with the official doctrine of that church.
A Socialist who came to a realization that Capitalism was a good thing that led to prosperity for the greatest number of people would be foolish to expect to remain prominent in the Party. A chef wouldn't expect to keep their job in a vegan kitchen after serving bacon to customers. The film seems to present the people who left Pearson's church and the council of bishops who expelled him as acting outrageously and unjustly. Pearson should admitted he no longer held to the beliefs of his church and the denomination he was ordained in and resigned from it, rather than putting many people through such difficult choices.
In the end credits we see that Pearson is now a minister in the Unitarian Church, at All Souls in Tulsa. His beliefs are consistent with the teaching of that denomination and in integrity he should have made that change years sooner rather than waiting while the church he founded crumbled around him.
(Beside knowing people who've moved from conservative theological positions to more liberal positions, I also know people who have moved from more liberal theology to more conservative theology. I don't expect Netflix to be making films about such people anytime soon.)
We're giving the Bishop Carlton Pearson and his ministry as presented in the film Come Sunday a Movie Churches rating of Two Steeples.
Posted by churchandstates at 9:09 PM
Labels: 2018, Church of God in Christ, Netflix
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package io.pivotal.gemfire.spark.connector

import io.pivotal.gemfire.spark.connector.internal.oql.{OQLRelation, QueryRDD}
import org.apache.spark.Logging
import org.apache.spark.sql.{DataFrame, SQLContext}

/**
 * Provide GemFire OQL specific functions
 */
class GemFireSQLContextFunctions(@transient sqlContext: SQLContext) extends Serializable with Logging {

  /**
   * Expose a GemFire OQL query result as a DataFrame
   * @param query the OQL query string.
   */
  def gemfireOQL(
    query: String,
    connConf: GemFireConnectionConf = GemFireConnectionConf(sqlContext.sparkContext.getConf)): DataFrame = {
    logInfo(s"OQL query = $query")
    val rdd = new QueryRDD[Object](sqlContext.sparkContext, query, connConf)
    sqlContext.baseRelationToDataFrame(OQLRelation(rdd)(sqlContext))
  }

  private[connector] def defaultConnectionConf: GemFireConnectionConf =
    GemFireConnectionConf(sqlContext.sparkContext.getConf)
}

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Quick Looks: Lamet & Mejia
by Jeff Zimmerman
Dinelson Lamet (Padres)
Note: The camera angle was a little off, so my takes on his horizontal breaks may be off also.
The 24-year-old righty throws out of a high 3/4 arm slot. He's a maximum effort guy and at times falls off to the mound's first base side.
Fastball (4-seam): 95-98 mph and straight. For such a basic pitch, it is not even near the strike zone at times and he threw too many away. I've read several souces the pitch breaks late break but I could never see it.
Sinker: 92-96 mph with glove side run and small sink. It's not that much different than his 4-seamer and change to be a difference maker. Overall, it's just an average pitch but it and doesn't separate itself enough from the other three pitches. I could see him drop it in the future.
Slider: 83-88 mph, Again, the angle is tough, but the pitch seamed to break differently each time but ideally it went down and away. It is his slowest and could play up on hitters swinging early. Here is a nice back door slider which some horizontal and drop.
Change: 88-91 mph with some release side break. It's has more break the slower he throws it. He used it almost exclusively against left-handed hitters. With no little drop and not being 10 mph slower than his fastball, I am just not a fan of it. It's a below average major league change.
He was wild at times. He's always had a high minor league walk rate so the wildness could be here to stay. On the other hand, it was his first major league start so he could have been overthrowing his pitches.
I can see the talent with a fast fastball and above average slider. He still needs to work on his change and control. If he has to tinker with them while in the majors, his results could be erratic. I think he's ownable in 15-team or deeper leagues but I would be hesitant to start him immediately.
Adalberto Mejia (Twins)
The big-boned 23-year-old lefty throws from a 3/4 release point. It's a fairly straightforward delivery for a left-handed pitcher.
Fastball (4-seam): 91-95 mph. Straight with some release-side run and rising action (only 27% GB%). It would be acceptable if he had plus breaking pitches.
Fastball (2-seam): 90-94 mph with glove side run and sink. This pitch has potential as a groundball pitch (56%) but has generated no swings-and-missed (2% SwStr%) so far this season.
Slider: 80-86 mph and breaks to glove side and down. He hung and few but Kansas City didn't make him pay. A couple were plus, most weren't.
Change: 82-85 mph and straight. It's a BP pitch. Publications had the pitch as plus but no way. He's not fooling anyone with it.
Curve: 78-80 mph. He threw it twice and it's a nice pitch. I'm not sure why he doesn't use it more.
Like Lamet, Mejia throws too many pitches not even near the strike zone. The wildness has led to his high walk rate (5.5 BB/9).
I can't find a single reason to recommend Mejia at this point. Besides generating a few BABIP reducing flyballs, his fastball is average at best. His change is horrible. His slider could be good if thrown consistently. His curve could be good if thrown at all. At best, his stuff is average. At worse, useless. Unless he makes some majors changes, I don't see him as any more than a 5th starter/long setup man.
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Jeff, one of the authors of the fantasy baseball guide,The Process, writes for RotoGraphs, The Hardball Times, Rotowire, Baseball America, and BaseballHQ. He has been nominated for two SABR Analytics Research Award for Contemporary Analysis and won it in 2013 in tandem with Bill Petti. He has won four FSWA Awards including on for his Mining the News series. He's won Tout Wars three times, LABR once, and got his first NFBC Main Event win in 2021. Follow him on Twitter @jeffwzimmerman.
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I keep looking at the change and maybe it's just that one good pitch, but it looks like it gets a lot of drop (??). The analysis of the others pitches seem on point, I just feel like I'm missing something with that change up.


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According to Illicit Encounters the number of people having an affair in Derby is 'booming'.
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Illicit Encounters spokesman Christian Grant said the number of extra-marital affairs was "booming" in the city, which is ranked as the 19th most adulterous in the UK. The city with the most cheaters is St Albans, followed by Oxford and then Bath.
He said: "Lots of couples in Derby cannot afford to divorce due to the cost of establishing two new homes, so they are sticking with their partner and adding some spice to their marriage by discreetly having an affair.
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In the wider Derbyshire area the top towns for cheating are Swadlincote, Ilkeston and Heanor. According to the website 495 people are having an affair in Burton, while in Ilkeston the number stands at 410.
More than one million people have registered with Illicit Encounters since it was founded 16 years ago.
Emily from Derby, who did not give her surname, has had affairs with several men through the website.
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NASA's Set to Test 14,000-Pound Version of the Orion Spacecraft into Hydro Impact Basin
By NASA // April 4, 2021
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Engineers will drop a 14,000-pound test version of the Orion spacecraft into the Hydro Impact Basin at NASA's Langley Research Center's Landing and Impact Research Facility in Hampton, Virginia, at 1:45 p.m. EDT Tuesday, April 6. (NASA image)
(NASA) – Engineers will drop a 14,000-pound test version of the Orion spacecraft into the Hydro Impact Basin at NASA's Langley Research Center's Landing and Impact Research Facility in Hampton, Virginia, at 1:45 p.m. EDT Tuesday, April 6.
The test will air live on NASA Television, the NASA app, and the agency's website, and will Livestream on multiple agency social media platforms, including the Facebook channels for Orion and Langley.
Participants include:
■ Debbie Korth, Orion Crew, and Service Module manager, NASA's Johnson Space Center
■ Jacob Putnam, data analyst, Langley
The public may ask questions on social media using #AskNASA.
The media may send questions to Kristyn Damadeo at kristyn.damadeo@nasa.gov.
This series of drop tests began March 23 to finalize computer models for loads and structures prior to the Artemis II flight test, NASA's first mission with crew aboard Orion.
Artemis II will carry astronauts around the Moon and back, paving the way to land the first woman and next man on the lunar surface and establish a sustainable presence at the Moon under the Artemis program.
The current test series builds on previous tests and uses a configuration of the crew module based on the spacecraft's final design.
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