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Analysts differ on how a Microsoft stake in Facebook might drive the future of social networking.

Though just a rumor at this point, the idea that Microsoft is negotiating to take a 5-percent stake in popular social networking site Facebook has some industry experts anticipating the next Internet bubble. Ovum Research analyst David Bradshaw said the stake, which could run from $300 million to $500 million and value Facebook between $6 billion and $10 billion, could open the floodgates for social-networking vendors going public with high valuations.
"Indeed, it is such a large amount that it makes me suspect that were in the run-up to another bubble in Internet company values," Bradshaw told eWEEK Sept. 26. "If people see this happening, a lot of other people will seek to go public," he said, noting that the public is ripe for a new Internet bubble.
Thats right. Another Internet bubble. Another half-decade of sky-high valuations, lavish spending and high-tech incubators. Fueling the high-cost frenzy for such properties as LinkedIn, Twitter, Bebo, Friendster and Digg, will be the desire to implement technologies from these companies into products for the enterprise, Bradshaw said. Should some sort of Microsoft-Facebook union come to fruition, expect some of Facebooks social-computing tools to be incorporated in Microsofts SharePoint collaboration software, said IDC analyst Mark Levitt. "My take is that Microsoft is active enough in the consumer Web space that an investment in Facebook may not result in any crossing over into the enterprise for the foreseeable future," Levitt told eWEEK. "But down the road, you are right that the Facebooks experience and technology could find its way into Microsofts SharePoint solutions for enabling business social networking." However, Bradshaw said the stovepiped architecture of enterprise applications present some significant obstacles for vendors to address. He said while social networks such as Facebook, of Palo Alto, Calif., and LinkedIn have made some strides on the recruitment ground, no one has cracked the selling of tools that enterprises themselves could adopt. Aside from the challenges of negotiating social networking into enterprise systems, Bradshaw said that some problems with Facebook could preclude the company from rising as fast as some think and thwart his theory. Those issues include privacy concerns associated with protecting minors from sexual predators and the ongoing legal action between Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his former roommates over the alleged theft of intellectual property. Gilbane Group analyst Geoff Bock agreed that Facebooks privacy issues could scare off prospective companies. On Sept. 24, the New York State Attorney Generals office subpoenaed Facebook for documents that demonstrate the company is not protecting underage users from potential predators. Read more here about Facebooks new battle with the New York AG. Moreover, Bock downplayed the Internet bubble theory and has his own theory on the interest in Facebook. "The reason for the valuation is that it is a platform, and it appears to be a platform for the Net natives, people who group up and live on the Internet all of their lives," Bock told eWEEK. "What weve seen time and again on the Internet is that places, locations, platforms and environments that get a lot of eyeballs and start doing useful things can get pretty decent valuations in the public marketplace." Bock also took a dimmer view of social computing in the enterprise, at least in the near term. The analyst said that while Facebook and Google allowing mashups make them enormously popular, that doesnt mean these companies will help social-networking tools transition into the enterprise. Bock said that enterprise content-management platforms from IBM, EMC and Microsoft SharePoint dont support social networking, noting that its not clear how social computing works inside the enterprise. He said businesses would have to build relationships with customers to link the information, supply chain and value chain flows together. "We dont have good software yet that manages those links," Bock said. "Every major company is working on defining and managing the links and I dont think the Googles, Facebooks and Amazons understand the enterprise enough to do that." If any company comes close to socializing the enterprise platform, Bock said, its IBM with its Lotus Connections software. Click here to read more about IBMs bid to take social networking to the enterprise. Differences of opinion on the evolution of social-networking tools in the enterprise abound. IDC analyst Rachel Happe said she is moderately bullish on the notion of social networking moving into the enterprise, noting that "social networking provides a filter to information, and information is exploding online." In fact, Happe called eWEEK Sept. 26 from the Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT, in Cambridge, Mass., where she said research engineers from Cisco Systems and Intel talked about how they are looking to use social networking to "evolve search to information discovery and filtering. "They see social networking as an underlying platform for a lot of applications," Happe said, noting that her research showed that device companies are looking at social-networking applications and P2P (peer-to-peer) media distribution as something to bundle with their devices to better control information flow. Meanwhile, Bradshaw concluded that with the evolution of this Web 2.0 world of social networking and collaboration, "Facebook is no more than a step along the way and that theres something further to come." "Longer term, we believe that social networking sites have to evolve further," he said. "Maybe we need bubble 2.0 to burst before we can get to that, but lets hope not." Burton Group analyst Mike Gotta said while the industry is still trying to understand what people want from a social-networking platform, the opportunity is compelling in terms of how social networking can alter product- and service-delivery models and also influence customer and community relationships. But is there a bubble coming? "We are so early in this phase that its difficult to position this as a bubble per se," Gotta said. "Instead, I view it as one aspect of broader societal, market and economic trends that are transforming business and organizational models." 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By Andrew Garcia  |  Posted 2006-05-08 Print this article Print

Review: Cognio's new tool goes beyond ordinary analyzers by working at the network layer.

Cognios Spectrum Expert for WiFi 2.0 provides in-depth insight into the radio spectra that are home to Wi-Fi technology, allowing administrators to identify, evaluate and locate potential sources of interference that could hamper wireless LAN deployments.

Since the 2.4GHz and 5GHz spectra are both unlicensed, many non-Wi-Fi devices operate at those frequencies, often using different modulation schemes that can play hit and run with a wireless network. Too many transmitters can lead to outages, service interruptions or signal degradations that will become all the more noticeable as companies move to leverage WLANs for real-time communications, such as voice over wireless or video streaming.

Spectrum Expert for WiFi 2.0, which is available now for $3,995, helps administrators address this problem by providing insight into the physical layer of wireless networking—a capability not present in ordinary Wi-Fi analyzers.

Click here to read a review of site survey tool for wireless networks AirMagnet Survey Pro 3.0. Spectrum analysis cannot be performed with a regular Wi-Fi adapter, so, during tests, eWeek Labs needed instead a special CardBus adapter that Cognio provides with Spectrum Expert. This adapter comes with an integrated antenna as well as an optional external antenna that plugs into the end of the adapter for higher gain.

The Swept Spectrogram graph, a color-coded chart displaying the entire band (the 2.4GHz and 5GHz spectrums are displayed on different tabs), is the most visually compelling chart in Spectrum Expert, as it shows which channels show the strongest signals over time. In this view (see screen), its simple to identify which channels are most crowded and for how long the signals have been detected.

Meanwhile, the Real Time FFT (fast Fourier transform) chart shows currently detected RF (radio frequency) power as a function of frequency. In the default view, the Real Time FFT plot shows the maximum current power detected, but we could also add traces for average and MaxHold (a more static representation that shows the maximum level seen throughout the session). With all three traces enabled, we were able to glean the same information we did with the spectrum analysis feature in AirMagnets Survey Pro 3.0, but without the location tracking.

Other graphs showed the FFT duty cycle and the number of devices detected in each channel, broken out by type. Users should remember that any RF device will be heard across multiple channels and will therefore show up in multiple columns in the latter depiction.

During some lunch-hour testing of the 2.4GHz band near the Labs, Spectrum Expert identified a nearby microwave oven and a pair of Bluetooth devices, as well as a number of access points. From the dashboard, a right click on one of the Bluetooth devices showed the channels affected by the device, as well as the devices signal power (measured in dBm), duty cycle and center frequency.

The Bluetooth devices—a cell phone and headset located quite close to the testbed—proved particularly noisy at close range, affecting all channels on the 802.11b/g spectrum at fairly strong signal strength. Companies will find the Bluetooth conundrum particularly vexing as the promised dexterity afforded by cordless desktops and headsets directly competes with productivity gains offered by wireless networks.

From the Active Devices pane, we could also drill down into each detected access point to see its MAC (media access control) address, network name, WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) status and supported data rates. Spectrum Expert 3.0 actually culls information from two sources to provide this WLAN-specific data.

Some 802.11 information was gathered via a regular Wi-Fi adapter in our test system (in this case, an integrated Dell-branded 802.11g adapter based on an Atheros chip set). This data was combined with RF and channel-specific information gathered by the CardBus adapter Cognio provides, offering a more complete view of how a WLAN device affects the spectrum.

Cognios technology is also available through OEM partners. At a cursory glance, we could not tell Spectrum Analyzer for WiFi 2.0 apart from AirMagnets Spectrum Analyzer 2.0, which integrates the Cognio technology—save for a slight font difference. Given the lack of distinction between the products, customers already invested in AirMagnets technology should probably opt for the AirMagnet-branded solution for the promise of current and future integration with existing platforms.

Technical Analyst Andrew Garcia can be reached at andrew_garcia@ziffdavis.com.

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Andrew cut his teeth as a systems administrator at the University of California, learning the ins and outs of server migration, Windows desktop management, Unix and Novell administration. After a tour of duty as a team leader for PC Magazine's Labs, Andrew turned to system integration - providing network, server, and desktop consulting services for small businesses throughout the Bay Area. With eWEEK Labs since 2003, Andrew concentrates on wireless networking technologies while moonlighting with Microsoft Windows, mobile devices and management, and unified communications. He produces product reviews, technology analysis and opinion pieces for eWEEK.com, eWEEK magazine, and the Labs' Release Notes blog. Follow Andrew on Twitter at andrewrgarcia, or reach him by email at agarcia@eweek.com.

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Washington, D.C. – Renee Sharp, research director at the Environmental Working Group said today that the cosmetics industry’s legislative proposal to reform cosmetics law would deprive the federal Food and Drug Administration of the power to keep hazardous substances out of personal care products.

“We are deeply disappointed that the cosmetics industry has refused to support reasonable reforms which would ensure that ingredients used in cosmetics are safe and to provide FDA with the tools to respond when dangerous ingredients enter the marketplace,” Sharp said.  “For too long, cosmetic ingredients have been virtually unregulated.  Yet many ingredients commonly found in personal care products pose serious risks to human health.  It’s time for the cosmetics industry to get serious about helping build a modern regulatory system that would give the industry certainty and guarantee consumers that the products they buy are safe.”

EWG has not obtained the text of the industry proposal.  Its position is based on an unusually strongly-worded letter from Michael R. Taylor, deputy FDA commissioner for Foods and Veterinary Medicine, to representatives of two industry trade groups:  Lezlee Westine, president and chief executive officer of the Personal Care Products Council, and Pamela Jo Busiek, president and CEO of the Independent Cosmetics Manufacturers and Distributors.

In the letter made public today (Mar. 6), Taylor wrote that the industry’s bill “would actually reduce FDA’s current ability to take action against dangerous cosmetics.”  He added:

….Taken together with sweeping preemption provisions, which almost completely eliminate States’ authority to protect their citizens from unsafe chemicals in cosmetics, the provisions of the draft industry bill could put Americans at greater risk from cosmetic-related illness and injury than they are today.


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Population 1739

Located at the mouth of the Clarence River on the north coast, Iluka is a relatively uncommercial fishing and holiday village. Its attractiveness is evident in the long stretches of sandy white beaches and rare and accessible rainforest. Iluka Nature Reserve has the largest remnant of littoral rainforest (trees obtaining water via filtration through coastal sand and nutrients from airborne particles) in New South Wales.

Visitor Information

Lower Clarence Visitor Centre, Ferry Park, Pacific Hwy, Maclean; (02) 6645 4121

Nearby national parks

  • Bundjalung National Park

    Bundjalung National Park protects a superb 38-kilometre stretch of the state’s far north coastline, including secluded beaches,...more

  • Yuraygir National Park

    Yuraygir National Park protects the longest stretch of undeveloped coastline in New South Wales, a glorious sweep of beaches backed by...more

  • Broadwater National Park

    Located on the state’s north-east coast, Broadwater National Park’s outstanding feature is its lovely sweep of beach, with...more

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  • Yamba

    This quiet holiday town at the mouth of the Clarence River offers excellent sea, lake and river fishing. It is the largest coastal resort in...more

  • Evans Head

    Evans Head is located at the mouth of the Evans River. It was the first prawning port in Australia and is still predominantly a fishing...more

  • Grafton

    With over 6500 trees in 24 parks, Grafton is known for its riverbank parks and jacaranda trees. Its city centre adds to the charm with wide...more

In Town

River cruises: day cruises and evening barbecue cruises (Wed only); Wed, Fri and Sun; from the Boatshed.

Passenger ferry: travelling daily to Yamba; from the Boatshed.

Iluka Fish Co-op: fresh catches on sale from 9am; adjacent to the Boatshed.

Walking track: picturesque coastline walk; access via Iluka Bluff to the north and Long St to the south.

Iluka Nature Reserve This area, nestled on the narrow peninsula where the Clarence River meets the ocean, was World Heritage–listed in 1986. It happens to be the largest remaining coastal rainforest in NSW. It is rich with birdlife and is a beautiful spot for activities such as fishing, swimming, surfing, canoeing, walking and camping. 1 km N.

Iluka Bluff Beach: safe swimming beach with good surf and a whale-watching lookout; brochure from visitors centre; 1 km N.

Bundjalung National Park: protects ancient rainforest and the Esk River, the largest untouched coastal river system on the north coast. Woody Head has rare rainforest with campground, fishing and swimming; 4 km N.

Woombah Coffee Plantation: world's southernmost coffee plantation; tours by appt; bookings (02) 6646 4121; 12 km NW.

Eco-friendly activities around town

Diving and snorkelling around Byron Bay 88 km

Although there is not much in the way of shore dives or snorkelling around Byron Bay, the nearby Julian Rocks Marine Reserve is a top spot if you can get on a boat, with sea turtles, eagle rays, corals, grey nurse and... Find out more

Cafes & restaurants around town

Boatshed Cafe

Tucked away behind Iluka Boat Shed and Marina, Boatshed Cafe offers absolute waterfront dining overlooking the mighty Clarence River. Daily dolphin sightings are common and just as entertaining as the daily fish feeding,... Find out more

Nearby breweries

Stone and Wood Brewing 89 km

The popular coastal holiday destination of Byron Bay is the location for one of the country’s newest and most exciting craft breweries – Stone & Wood. The partners behind the venture include a trio of... Find out more

Campsites around town

Woody Head camping area 5 km

Surrounded by remnant subtropical rainforest, Woody Head is the larger of the park’s 2 camping areas with more than 100 sites, 4 cabins, hot showers, a kiosk and a boat launch. Fishing, swimming, snorkelling and... Find out more

Shelley Head camping area (walk-in camping) 13 km

This walk-in selection of campsites is en route between Lake Arragan and Mara Creek on the Angourie Walk (10 km, 3 hr return). Campers need to bring their own drinking water and gas/fuel stove as campfires are not... Find out more

Black Rocks camping area 17 km

Black Rocks is on Ten Mile Beach, via unsealed Gap Rd, 5 km south of Woodburn. There are concrete bunkers from World War II here – a section in the north of the park is still used by the military for target... Find out more

Lake Arragan camping area 18 km

Next to a small coastal lagoon ringed with paperbarks and nodding reeds, this camping area is just as popular with migratory and resident birds as it is with campers, but with 50 campsites there’s room for... Find out more

Red Cliff camping area 19 km

This is next to Grey Cliff camping area, on the headland south of Lake Arragan, 5 km north of Brooms Head along the unsealed Brooms Head Rd. The campsites are big enough for camper trailers and caravans. Bring firewood... Find out more

Grey Cliff camping area 19 km

Next to Red Cliff camping area on the headland south of Lake Arragan, Grey Cliff is 5 km north of Brooms Head along the unsealed Brooms Head Rd. The campsites are big enough for camper trailers and caravans. Bring... Find out more

Sandon River camping area 30 km

You get the best of many worlds from here: sweeping sandy beach to the north; rockpools to the south at the base of Sandon Bluffs; and fine fishing in Sandon River. The 40 sites in the camping area are suitable for... Find out more

Illaroo camping area 40 km

Just north of Minnie Water, via Minnie Water Rd off Wooli Rd, this is a large and spacious camping area with 60 sites shared between Illaroo north and Illaroo south. There’s room for tents, campervans and trailers.... Find out more

Rocky Point camping area (walk-in camping) 40 km

This is a walk-in camping area with no facilities, accessible via an easy 100 m walking track leading from Illaroo camping area. Campfires are not permitted, so bring your own gas/fuel stove and drinking water.... Find out more

Diggers Headland Reserve Camping Ground 46 km

There are up to 26 camping sites here, tucked in among coastal banksias, only a stone’s throw from the beach. To get here, follow Diggers Camp Rd off Wooli Rd, about 12 km north of Wooli. It’s a pretty basic... Find out more

Caravan parks around town

Iluka Riverside Tourist Park

At this large well-appointed park, enjoy the riverside barbecues and picnic tables, the grassy waterfront sites or the fully equipped camp kitchen overlooking the river. Bookings are required in peak periods and a... Find out more

Anchorage Holiday Park 2 km

This is a well-established, owner-operated park with very good facilities. It is situated across the road from the wide Clarence River estuary and is 2 km from the town centre. Bookings are required in peak periods and a... Find out more

Blue Dolphin Holiday Park 3 km

This riverfront, award-winning park is on the Clarence River estuary. It is an excellent park, with everything you would expect of a park of this quality, including a cafe. Bookings are required in peak periods and a... Find out more

Calypso Holiday Park 3 km

This older-style park has a great position on the waterfront. It is a short stroll to the centre of town and just a brief walk to the beach. Bookings are required in peak periods and a minimum-length stay applies at... Find out more

Yamba Waters Caravan Park 4 km

This is a spacious quality park about 2.5 km from the centre of this popular tourist destination. Bookings are required in peak periods and a minimum-length stay applies at Christmas and Easter.... Find out more

BIG4 Saltwater @ Yamba Holiday Park 4 km

This neat, spacious, riverfront park 10 km from Yamba has very good facilities. Quiet and out of the way, it is situated on a large, sweeping bend of the Clarence River and has great appeal to those who enjoy estuary... Find out more

Brooms Head Caravan Park 22 km

In an out-of-the-way place, this park spreads along more than 1.5 km of beachfront, surrounded by national park. This is a popular beachside holiday destination and bookings are required in peak periods and a... Find out more

Silver Sands Holiday Park 33 km

This is a huge beachside park with good facilities just a short walk from the centre of town. It has many permanent holiday vans and is a very popular holiday spot for people from the nearby inland towns. Bookings are... Find out more

The Gateway Village 49 km

This is a very good quality caravan park, 3.5 km north of the town centre, along the Summerland Way. Good facilities and a lovely garden setting make this an attractive spot for those wishing to explore Grafton. Bookings... Find out more

South Ballina Beach Holiday Park 61 km

This is a very neat park on the south side of the Richmond River. It is in a quiet area and is one of the few parks along this stretch of coast where pets are permitted (except in Christmas and Easter holidays). Bookings... Find out more

Eco-friendly places to stay around town

Emerald Valley Villa 88 km

Nestled in the hinterland some 25 minutes drive from Byron Bay, this is way up the high end of ecotourism in this country. You can rent your own five-star palace (they call it a villa), complete with pool, courtyard,... Find out more

Rest areas around town

Maclean park area 16 km

At Maclean

Small area on the riverbank just off the highway at Ferry Park Café.

Beekeepers rest area 19 km

28km S of Woodburn (L)

Adjacent to the highway. For southbound only.

New Italy rest area 29 km

At New Italy

Just off the highway under shady trees near the museum and cafe. Big rigs at north end of the rest area.

Trustons Hill rest area 34 km

40km S of Woodburn (L)

Just off the highway behind some trees. For southbound only.

Woodburn park area 37 km

At Woodburn

Adjacent to the highway overlooking the river.

McPhillips Creek rest area 51 km

50km N of Woolgoolga (R) or 10km S of Grafton (L)

Just off the highway behind a few trees.

Glenugie Creek rest area 54 km

45km N of Woolgoolga (L) or 15km S of Grafton (R)

Just off the highway behind a few trees.

Wardell rest area 54 km

22km N of Woodburn (L) or 14km S of Ballina (L)

Large areas just off the highway on both sides.

Halfway Creek rest area 64 km

26km N of Woolgoolga (R) or 34km S of Grafton (L)

Large grassed area just off the highway behind the roadhouse.

Lollback rest area 79 km

115km E of Glen Innes (R) or 45km W of Grafton (L)

Just off the highway with good views over the Mann River.

Woolgoolga rest area 80 km

At Woolgoolga

Just off the highway in the middle of town.

Tyagarah rest area 92 km

36km N of Ballina (L)

Just off the highway. For northbound only.

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Media mogul's shock over Ed Miliband's rant on Israel

FORMER Labour leader Ed Miliband is locked in a row with Daily Express owner Richard Desmond after "going berserk" about Israel.

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Express Newspapers owner Richard Desmond and Ed Miliband

The general election flop was furious after realising offensive comments he made about the Israeli government were to be made public.

Mr Miliband launched into a rant about the Jerusalem regime's actions during a chat with the Northern & Shell chairman.

Labour's Oxford-educated left-winger threatened to sue a Jewish newspaper which confronted him over the remarks.

I was having a cup of tea when I bumped into Ed and asked him if it was true he had made all these comments about Israel…he was going berserk

Richard Desmond

Mr Desmond stood by his version of Mr Miliband's tirade, which he had told to the Jewish Telegraph.

He told the newspaper what passed between them when they met by chance on Hampstead Heath, north-west London, last winter.

Mr Desmond said: "I was having a cup of tea when I bumped into Ed and asked him if it was true he had made all these comments about Israel."

He added that the politician was "in such a rage," adding: "I couldn't stop him - he was going berserk."

Months later, when the Jewish Telegraph decided to publish a story about Mr Miliband's diatribe at the Israelis, his aides tried to warn it off.

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Former Labour leader Ed Miliband and media mogul Richard Desmond

Mr Miliband's spokesman said: "You should expect legal action and/or a complaint to the press watchdog if you go ahead with publication.

"You should be aware that we regard this account as highly defamatory."

The Jewish Telegraph refused to be bullied and published the story on its website.

Mr Miliband, 45, angered the Jewish community last summer by criticising Israel's security crackdown following the murder of three of its teenagers.

He had called on Prime Minister David Cameron to speak out against Operation Protective Edge's rocket attacks on suspected terror bases in neighbouring Gaza .

Just weeks before the General Election, Mr Miliband was criticised for "losing the Jewish vote" in an article published by respected magazine, The Spectator.

He said David Cameron's "silence on the killing of hundreds of innocent Palestinian civilians" was "inexplicable".

Writer Robert Philpot's article added: "It was not so much Miliband's condemnation that angered many British Jews, but its fiery nature."

He said his attitude showed a "lack of nuance — the apparent lack of context or empathy for Israeli civilians who found themselves under sustained attack from Islamist terrorists."

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Weeks later, Mr Miliband led Labour to its most crushing defeat in more than 20 years, winning just 258 seats compared with Mr Cameron's 307.

Today Mr Miliband's spokesman said: "This is an untrue account of a chance meeting. There was no rage or row.

"Ed did not use the language ascribed to him. He expressed views he has expressed in public many times before."

The politician's team referred to what was said to be "a rather humorous encounter" at a dinner attended by 300 lobby journalists in January.

They claimed that following the chance meeting in Hampstead, Mr Miliband left one of his children in Mr Desmond's care after the other child had run off to play on the heath.

But the Express Newspapers owner, who this week published his hard-hitting book The Real Deal: The Autobiography Of Britain's Most Controversial Media Mogul, tonight insisted: "I stand by my words."

To order a copy of Richard Desmond's The Real Deal: The Autobiography Of Britain's Most Controversial Media Mogul (£20, Cornerstone), please call the Express Bookshop on 01872 562310; send a cheque or postal order payable to Express Bookshop, to Real Deal Offer, PO Box 200, Falmouth, Cornwall, TR11 4WJ; or order online at UK delivery is free.

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Treating SAD and Acne at the Same Time

Blue light therapy can help treat acne, but can also help those who are suffering from seasonal affective disorder.

November is the time of year that many people in the Northern Hemisphere start to get the blahs. In North America, especially in the United States, people tend to get pre-holiday depression, but all over the Northern Hemisphere many people start to get SAD, or seasonal affective disorder. And making their depression worse, late autumn and early winter are also the time of year acne gets worse.

SAD is a kind of depression with fatigue that sets in as the days get shorter, especially just after the switch off daylight savings time. People who have SAD want to sleep more, on average about 2-1/2 hours a night more. They have trouble getting up in the morning. They eat more, especially sugar, and they withdraw from friends and family.

The symptoms of SAD are most common in the late autumn and early winter months when there is the least sunshine, but people who work in windowless offices or who live in basement apartments can develop the condition any time of year. SAD is consider “major” depression, and can cause symptoms that just as serious as major depression of any other cause.

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Physiologists have determined that people who get SAD have a different kind of brain chemistry with regard to the sleep hormone melatonin. Melatonin is the hormone that makes us sleepy. The brain makes melatonin during sleep provided the eyes do not sense blue light. Even a night light, even when the eyelids are closed, can emit enough blue light to interfere with the production of melatonin for most people. Sufferers of SAD, however, are not as sensitive to dim blue light.

People don’t get SAD unless they sleep in dark rooms—but when they do, their brains make so much melatonin that they feel tired and depressed all day long. The effects of SAD are similar to those caused by taking supplemental melatonin during the day, only they are more severe. Brain scientists have observed that the pineal gland (which makes melatonin) can become enlarged due to overactivity during the early winter in people who have SAD.

Treating SAD with Blue Light

The standard treatment for SAD is blue light to interrupt the production of melatonin. Strong sunlight includes some blue light and helps SAD sufferers wake up in the morning. Of course, most people who have seasonal depression don’t live in places where there is a lot of sunshine, so they need to use lamps and light boxes.

Doctors used to think that more would be better for blue light therapy. Light boxes delivering nearly as much light as standing under a spotlight were designed for depression treatment. Clinical experiments have found, however, that the best intensity of blue light for treating SAD is 550 lux, or about the same intensity as good office lighting. It takes two to three hours exposure to blue light—with eyes open—to help counteract the condition.

Treating Acne with Blue Light

Blue light is not just used to treat the wintertime blues. It is also used to treat acne. Acne bacteria contain a pigment known as a porphyrin that resonates when it is exposed to visible blue light. The pigment vibrates and breaks the cell membrane and the bacterium dies, usually within 48 hours. Blue light rays reach through the skin down to the level of pores, but they do not reach the bloodstream or the oil-producing sebaceous glands where acne bacteria can also reside. Blue light treatment kills enough acne bacteria to reduce the number of blemishes but it will not make acne-prone skin blemish-free.

Since blue light treats seasonal affective disorder and blue light treats acne, if you have both the wintertime blues and acne could you treat both conditions at the same time? The answer is “maybe.”

The brain responds to blue light concentrated at a wavelength of 464 nanometers. Acne bacteria respond to blue light concentrated at a wavelength of 415 nanometers. A light box for SAD will not help your acne and a blue light lamp for your acne will not help your depression. Blue light that is the right frequency for treating depression is not at the right frequency for treating acne—unless you use “enhanced” blue light therapy.

Enhanced Blue Light Therapy for Seasonal Affective Disorder and Acne

Enhanced blue light therapy provides the full range of visible light in sunlight plus an extra dose of blue light in the frequencies that can treat both depression and acne. It does not include the UV rays that can potentially damage the skin. Technically, the intensity of enhanced blue light cannot be measured in lux so direct comparisons to other treatment systems are not possible, but the energy emitted by enhanced blue light therapy is about 1/20 as much as the energy used in the “light box” systems used to treat seasonal affective disorder. Enhanced blue light therapy provides enough light to stop depression but no so much light that the system causes glare.

The light from enhanced blue light therapy is strong enough to treat both conditions, but it is essential (1) that eyes are open so that the brain “resets” to stop depression and (2) acne-prone skin is exposed to the light to kill acne bacteria. Since enhanced blue light therapy lamps also generate red light, they can help stop excess oil production deeper in the skin at the same time they kill acne bacteria in pores.

When you are using blue and/or red light therapy for treating acne, it is important to remember that more is not necessarily better. The inflammation caused by acne, unlike the inflammation caused by impetigo and some other kinds of skin infections, is not generated by the bacteria themselves. It is generated by the immune system. Your objective is just to kill enough acne bacteria that your immune system does not stay on high alert trying to get rid of this usually harmless skin infection.

Likewise, with red light therapy, your objective is not to “dry out” the skin. It is only necessary to reduce excessive sebum production in the oil glands of the skin to keep blemishes smaller. But light therapy is just part of the process of getting rid of acne for good.

There’s just no way you can get rid of acne blemishes without a good daily cleansing routine. You may also benefit from exfoliant skin peels that keep dead skin from accumulating in pores. And you may need treatment for brown spots left when pimples heal and a method for smoothing out small acne scars. This requires a combination of products you can find in a system like Exposed Skin Care.

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Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Fairfield Police Officer Shoots Driver of a Pickup Truck that Tried to Run Him Down.

Fairfield (NJ) Acting Essex County ProsecutorCarolyn Murray and Fairfield Police Chief Charles Voelker Jr. are reporting an officer involved shooting at 5:30 p.m. this evening in the Township. Minutes before the incident, a concerned driver contacted the Fairfield Police Department and reported a driver of a Ford pickup truck who was driving erratic and appeared to be a drunk driver.

The concerned driver was able to approach the pickup truck at Route 46 West and Plymouth Street and attempted to remove the keys and the driver. It was at that point the Fairfield police arrived. As the officers were investigating the incident, the driver put the truck in gear and rammed a Fairfield marked police car. He then backed up and drove over a grassy median driving in the direction of the police officer. The officer, having no avenue of escape, fired his weapon at the suspect striking him once in the head.

The suspect is a 46 year old Morris County resident whose name will be released after family members are notified. He was airlifted by the New Jersey State Police to Saint Joseph’s Hospital in Paterson, N.J.  where the suspect is listed in critical but stable condition. A blood sample was taken from the suspect at the hospital by the Essex County Prosecutor's Office. There were no other occupants in the suspect’s vehicle.

The Fairfield police officer is a 10 year veteran. The officer was taken to a hospital and evaluated. (The officer’s name will not be released for security reasons).

There were several witnesses who gave consistent statements of the account. The incident is under investigation by the Essex County Prosecutor's Office Major Crimes and Professional Standards Bureau as well as the Fairfield Police Department.

The suspect has been placed under arrested by the Fairfield police (the charges will be given tomorrow along with the suspect’s name).

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ISA rates are on the rise, as the end of the tax year approaches. With just five weeks until the tax deadline, savers are set to benefit from cash ISAs paying more than six per cent interest.

Barclays and Abbey both launched new cash ISA rates today, offering two of the most competitive rates on the market. Barclays’ Tax Haven ISA offers a leading rate of 6.5 per cent and can be opened with just £1, either online, in branch or over the telephone. However, Barclays does not allow transfers from other cash ISAs.

Abbey’s Direct ISA offers a tax free interest rate of 6.25 per cent and does allow transfers from other cash ISAs, demonstrating the pros and cons of a leading interest rate. Kevin Mountford, head of savings at price comparison site said:

"On rate alone, Barclays is the clear leader with its 6.5 per cent Tax Haven ISA but, as ever, savers need to look at the whole package. For savers with previous sums to transfer, they will be better off with the Direct ISAs from Alliance & Leicester or Abbey at 6.25 per cent. The Barclays ISA doesn't allow transfers in, and many savers get caught out by this type of thing if they ignore the terms and conditions."

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According to new research from Lloyds TSB Savings, more than nine out of ten UK adults are not using their full tax free savings allowance and two thirds of existing ISA holders admit to never shopping around for a better deal. Liz Hogbin, Savings and Investments Director for Lloyds TSB suggests that customers compare ISAs to find the best deals. She said:

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Mad About You

Welcome to Flashback Friday, a weekly feature devoted to the 20th anniversary of the 1986 World Champion New York Mets.

Twenty years, 43 Fridays. This is one of them.

I’d love to tell you how I balanced the thus far once-in-a-lifetime sensation of following the 1986 Mets with carrying out my happening social life of twenty years ago. I’d love to tell you about all the dates I had to make and break depending on the schedule, all the ladies who had to share the front seat with Bob Murphy and Gary Thorne, how I broke up with this one girl because she wanted to go see that hunky Tom Cruise in The Color of Money on Saturday night, October 25, 1986, but I begged off because I was otherwise engaged.

I’d love to tell you all that because it might make for a nice story, but I can’t, because none of that ever happened. And we’ve seen what happens when you fake your own memoir.

I had no social life to speak of in 1986, at least not one that involved women. Oh, there were a couple of misfires, maybe an imaginary relationship or two, but my only genuine romantic involvement was with 24 men — several more after the September 1 callups. I wasn’t seeing anyone except the Mets in 1986 and though I probably didn’t think that was completely the way to go at the time, it worked out fine.

Honestly, what was I going to do? Not watch the 1986 Mets so I could “get lucky”? What could be luckier than being alive and sentient for the 1986 Mets? I caught some or all of 160 of 162 regular-season games that year (and, yes, it is to my everlasting shame that I was in on only 98.7% of the year’s action). Games were probably shorter then, but I needed several hours a day to read the papers and anticipate the next matchup. There was no WFAN, so I had to conduct my own post-game show in my head. Throw in a little working, a little eating and a little sleeping, and my days and nights were pretty darn full.

I imagine it occurred to me every now and then that this did not constitute a “lifestyle” for a 23-year-old guy, but I was bearing witness to the only Mets juggernaut there’s ever been. That occupies a fellow’s time. The skirts would have to wait.

Perhaps you remember the dust kicked up when Baseball conspired to schedule not one but two of the National League Championship Series games during Yom Kippur, Sunday night and Monday afternoon. It was kind of a slap in the face given that the games were in New York, home of the Majors’ largest Jewish population. No problem here since I had already forsaken all others for the Lord God Mex, but it did seem a little rude. I bring that up here, because the end of Yom Kippur — the breaking of the fast — was supposed to be a setup of the non-McDowell variety. That is, I was supposed to be set up with a girl who liked the Mets.

They had those? The only evidence I had seen of that was the chick who ran through the stands in a bridal grown wielding a placard that read MARRY ME LENNY. But OK, these are the ’86 Mets we’re talking about. Just because I hadn’t met any girls who cared didn’t mean they hadn’t existed. If they did, it might not be the worst thing in the world. This was October 1986 and the Mets and Astros were knotted at two games apiece. The air was thick with fodder for meaningful small talk.

The lass in question lived next door to my sister. Her neighbors Harold and Miriam, Suzan told my mother, had a daughter, roughly my age, who was “really into baseball,” a big plus it was figured. And she was Jewish, which was why this mattered to Mom in the first place. So when the Day of Atonement ended, the night of introduction followed. Our whole family was at Suzan’s house when Harold, Miriam and the daughter came by for new year’s greetings and sponge cake.

I don’t remember the girl’s name, but I remember this: My mother, who hoped I’d find a Nice Jewish Girl the way I hoped Doc would pitch us a no-hitter, said, “so, I hear you’re a big Mets fan.”

“Oh, the Mets,” she said. “Mets, Mets, Mets. I am so sick of the Mets!”

I guarantee you I said not one word to this person the rest of the evening. If she didn’t want to talk about Gooden facing Ryan in the next afternoon’s rainout makeup — Someone Upstairs had not been pleased by the Yom Kippur scheduling, apparently — I didn’t want to talk to her. Nothing personal. Such decisions represented my default stance throughout 1986.

After the Mets won the World Series (gosh, it’s fun to write that sentence), I made several trips to the Gold Coast Vendors Market in Oceanside to procure championship trinkets, including a fistful of buttons that indicated the identity of the 1986 World Champions. I decided to mail them out like World Series rings to just about anybody I’d ever known who’d put up with me during the long winless drought of the late ’70s and early ’80s. I packaged one up and sent it to a girl I had unhealthily obsessed on when I was in college. We had been good friends and she’d had a boyfriend, but I couldn’t stop thinking about her and after graduation I had made her a mix tape…

You can be sure any long-distance courting that includes “made her a mix tape” doesn’t end well, but I figured that by enduring my entreaties she had earned the World Champions button, the same way Frank Cashen awarded rings to Ed Lynch, George Foster and Bruce Berenyi even though they were gone by October. I didn’t expect anything to come of it. But I also didn’t expect it to bounce back to me marked “addressee unknown”.

That was the dichotomy of 1986. A white hot baseball romance, a solid .000 on other matters of the heart.

Now at the top of this thing, I told you I’d love to tell you about my social life exploits in 1986, but I realize now I’m glad I have so little to report. That’s because while 1986 remains unmatched in Mets annals, it was also the last year during which I was left stranded on base alone. The calendar, like baseball, is often a game of redeeming features.

1987 was indeed a different story for me. It was a different story for the Mets, too, as you’re all aware, but that’s irrelevant at the moment. The Mets did one thing right in ’87. They took the field as defending world champions. They ultimately didn’t defend their title effectively, but they still carried the aura of something special.

And what better than something special than to take someone special on a first date?

May 11, 1987 was my very own June 15, 1983. On June 15, 1983, the Mets traded for Keith Hernandez and the franchise changed forever and for the better. On May 11, 1987, the fates dealt me Stephanie West and I was blessedly never the same either.

Our first evening together — recounted last September in the first half of Flashback Friday: 1990 — culminated in my suggesting a lovely evening on the town, the town being Flushing.

She went for it. She even said she had watched “the last three games” of the 1986 World Series. She said “three” in a way that indicated an uncertainty over what she watched, but she was definitely aware that the Mets had won a championship of some sort and that she was in favor of it. Though she was born in Kansas and living in Florida, I had learned there were a couple of significant slivers of her childhood spent in the general vicinity of New York City.

As I tend to do, I quickly constructed a backstory for personal use, one that had my new girlfriend sitting in her dorm room in October ’86 watching a portable TV, telling anybody who wandered by that of course I’m watching the World Series. I’m from New York, you know. I was disappointed that my hometown team, the Mets, lost Game Five in Fenway, but I stayed up late Saturday night and they didn’t let me down. They came back when that ball went through the first baseman’s legs. Even though I have early classes Tuesday, I’m not going to bed until this seventh game is settled. Her enthusiasm was infectious as all the girls of Gamma Hall gathered around the black & white set, and when Jesse Orosco struck out Marty Barrett, there were hugs everywhere, maybe even a celebratory pillow fight or two.

OK, I didn’t imagine the pillow fight until now, but you get my drift.

I never fully investigated the claim of “last three games.” I was just happy that a) Stephanie knew who the Mets were; and b) she wanted to go to Shea Stadium. There was no hesitation, just anticipation.

The lineup the Mets fielded Friday night, May 15, 1987 was reasonably close to a 1986 lineup. Gary Carter was off, but Barry Lyons, up early the year before, was behind the plate. Kevin McReynolds was the only non-’86er who played that night. Otherwise, it was very much like it had been the season before.

Sid Fernandez threw five hitless innings.

Darryl Strawberry homered.

Lenny Dykstra homered.

Howard Johnson homered.

Doug Sisk was booed.

The Mets won easily.

Though the ’87 Mets were off to a suspiciously crummy start (even after the win the Mets were three under .500), it was an ’86 kind of night. The Mets were the Mets as I wanted to share them. They were as special as I was sure Stephanie was.

Conveniently scrubbed from the telling to this point is we were with another couple, the couple who put us together four nights earlier. Their role at the Mets game was to act silly. They bought a pair of those Snoopy knockoff hand-puppets that used to be sold in the stands, the kind with a Mets cap that would stick its tongue out when you squeezed it. It was funny for about five minutes. Our friends squeezed them much longer than that. And they nicknamed their beagle puppets Barfy.

Stephanie and I were already rolling our eyes at them; our sense of “aren’t they ridiculous?” drew us only closer. She was not a Barfy girl. Much classier. When we arrived at Shea, she immediately bought a program. You go to the theater, you get a Playbill, you go to a Mets game, you do the same. I liked that.

Shortly after Barfy appeared, I excused myself to the nearest concession. I wanted to give her something Metsian but something that fit her personality. Maybe a batting helmet…no, that’s not right. I saw a gorgeous print, a fisheye view of Shea from behind centerfield taken during the introductions prior to Game One of the World Series. I bought two. One for her, one for me. The next time I visited her, I found she had hung it up over her bed. That and a picture of Jesse Orosco celebrating. She clipped it from the program.

Stephanie liked the Mets. The Mets played like the world champions they technically still were for Stephanie. I was in heaven and I haven’t left since.

That was our first of many ballgames in many ballparks together. We were married in November 1991. My best man’s toast came from a letter I wrote him the morning after that first game. In it, I had told Chuck that because it was getting chilly as the innings grew later that I’d offered Stephanie my Mets jacket for warmth. “If you know Greg,” he said, “you know that meant he was serious.”

Not at all incidentally, Happy Birthday, today, to my darling wife. Thank you in particular on this Flashback Friday for making my semi-conscious decision to do nothing but watch baseball and avoid entanglements with all others in 1986 pay off so beautifully ever since 1987.

4 comments to Mad About You

  • Anonymous

    I met my wife during the magic of '86 and we got married in September of 1987, a time otherwise unremembered by pages of memories such as yours and (now, curse you), The Metphistophelean place that is mine.
    I'd put her baseballfandom in the “tolerant of other peoples' religions” category. She's been to Shea, and to Silver and whatever Buffalo's calling Pilot Field these days, but it's more for the sun and the conversation and the peoplewatching than for the actual action.
    (Incidentally, before reading this, what song was in my head but “Mix Tape” from the Avenue Q soundtrack?)

  • Anonymous

    I was at that game in May '87. Have always thought I remembered Sid leaving the game after his sixth no-hit inning.
    Also: I was at that game and I was at Rocker's first game at Shea in 2000. Rocker didn't get booed as bad as Sisk did that night.

  • Anonymous

    I actually prefer the industry term compilation tape. Most of those I've made are, like my baseless back stories, for my own personal use. Only in the past year-and-a-half have I decided their analog day (as a going concern) are pretty much done. The lovely birthday girl we celebrated in today's entry got me for my birthday a few weeks ago a baby-step iPod. I'll probably fall into the line now that I'm kind of hooked on it and see that its 120-song capacity is laughable (though the 26 songs I can compile on a tape seem like plenty).
    The mix tape I sent to that unrequited person included “Don't You (Forget About Me)” by Simple Minds. Not too desperate, eh?

  • Anonymous

    Though Doug Sisk dipped at least a toe into Met Hell, I always thought it was the act of spoiled children to boo him while we were in the midst of winning 108 games. “STUPID SISK! WE COULD'VE HAD 110 IF NOT FOR YOU!”


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Who, What, When, Where, Why

Replacing Gee in the rotation. The readiness of Harvey. Bay’s chances of making any kind of a contribution. Potential trades for bullpen help and catching depth.

Let others ask the fleeting questions. I have matters of a transcendent nature to mull.

Who, if anyone, will emerge as my favorite Met? The post has been vacant since the night of December 4, 2011, and this isn’t one of those voids for which you can blame a dilly-dallying opposition party in Congress. I haven’t nominated anybody to succeed Justice Reyes. According to my files (or my t-shirt drawer), Ike Davis was supposed to be next in line, but I spent two months trying to send him to Buffalo, so he may not be buying into my fealty. I was very sweet on Ruben Tejada when I was touting him as the second baseman of the future in 2010, and I’m still quite fond of the lad, but I need some distance from the shortstop position. My current crush is Jordany Valdespin, but that could just be infatuation. I think I may be better off going with a team-first attitude in case I have to lean heavily on a given Met to get it together already yet. Let’s say I choose someone, and that someone screws up royally and I have to take him to task by yelling not very nice things at him through the television. “But I thought I was your favorite!” he might whine…which would be awkward. This way, it’s all business.

What will Citi Field feel like if there’s an actual important game there soon? All baseball games are important, but you know what I’m getting at. Post-Nohan, there was much buzz about how now it feels like the Mets’ ballpark, which is a pretty stinging indictment of whatever it felt like before. Whatever amped-up fun has unfurled since June 1 (and I sure did enjoy REO), the stadium still hasn’t had a pennant race shake its bricks to its core. I can sooner imagine the Mets remaining competitive into September than I can the Citi Field seats being filled — and I mean staying filled by thoroughly engaged Mets fans for nine or more innings — while the Mets are competing. Watching the Home Run Derby from Kansas City and realizing the event will take place at our place next year, I found myself doubting the world would see a packed house in Flushing for this high-profile contest of skill, strength and…all right, I think the Home Run Derby outlived its usefulness after Ken Griffey hit the B&O Warehouse on the fly in 1993, but I imagine it’s pretty impressive to ogle over in person. The tickets will be sold, but how much wandering will the ticket-holders be doing? And will people sit still for the actual All-Star Game? But never mind that as much as this September when maybe, just maybe, actual regular Mets games will take on a high profile of their own. Do the people who are permitted to sit in those cushy green seats behind home plate know they can use them, and that by using them it will give them a unique close-up view of action the rest of might be craning our necks to see?

When can we feel safe that the Terrible Twos won’t get the best of 2012? Perhaps it’s the residual effect of being born under a 40-20 sign in 1962, but the Mets have never enjoyed a smooth ride through any of their seasons that have ended in a 2. Consider the starts and finishes of the years in question.

  • 1962: 12-19 early; 28-101 later.
  • 1972: 25-7 early; 58-66 later.
  • 1982: 27-21 early; 38-76 later.
  • 1992: 21-15 early; 51-75 later.
  • 2002: 18-11 early; 57-75 later.

We’ll give 1962 a pass for being 1962, and 1972 at least hung in there to produce an overall winning record, but the last three 2s? Yeesh. Yeesh. And Yeesh. What 2012 might have going for it is the complete lack of expectations that 1982, 1992 and 2002 carried after the offseason acquisitions of George Foster, Bobby Bonilla and Roberto Alomar, to name those years’ three respective leading lights, made the Mets surefire favorites in the National League East. All hail Sandy for acquiring nobody of note last winter! Thus far, the high point for these Mets has been 31-23, three-way statistical tie for first. Since then, they’re an exciting (if deceptively indifferent) 15-17. A surfeit of air hasn’t been let out of the tire swing. Not even a slow leak. The Mets kind of bopped around contention viability as the second half commenced in a couple of the ultimately dreadful 2-years — that is to say it wasn’t inconceivable to see them making a run if you squinted as hard as you could — but anyone watching them knew they were just waiting to fall apart completely. I don’t know that at all in 2012. That’s progress.

Where the hell is summer going? It’s July 13! We’ve played half a season! The endless All-Star break is ending! This happens every year, yet I’ve never managed to nail down a satisfactory answer. Seventy-six games remain where 162 once did. It’s not really noticeable, but the days are growing incrementally shorter. The chill in the air that we put behind us as winter turned to spring? It will have the nerve to return before we know it. Also, there’s the little matter of my aging…my and everybody else’s, but mostly mine. Can’t wait for baseball to start again tonight in Atlanta, but cripes, then we’ll be down to 75 games left. And I’ll be one day closer to — as that band I’m always quoting put it — younger than I’m gonna be, older than I used to be.

Why has this All-Star break been so dadgum long anyway? As long as I’d been following their every waking move, the Mets never weren’t back on the field by the Thursday after the Tuesday of the All-Star Game before 2006. That year they made us wait ’til Friday, but it was an anomaly. Other teams were back at it on Thursday, as were we from 2007 to 2010. Last year we had to wait until Friday again, but several games were on the docket for Thursday. This year…nothing going on for anybody two full days after KC. And this will keep up, as it’s written into the Basic Agreement between the players and owners that starting in 2013 and running through 2016 it’s a four-day break for everybody. Seems to have something to do with the realignment that will send Houston to the American League, inject Interleague games into daily life and — MLB being MLB — screw up schedules far and wide. One extra day off for those who actually work ball and not just play it would appear to be reasonable compensation for everybody’s troubles. But for those of us who more or less live to simply watch ball, phooey. Give us the baseball we have coming to us immediately…but please also keep it from slipping away so head-gosh darn quickly.

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  • Kevin From Flushing

    Its not hard, MLB:
    The 4 teams in your division: 9 home, 9 away=72 games.
    The rest of the league: 3 home, 3 away=60 games.
    One division in the other league: 3 home, 3 away=30 games.
    Add that up: 162 games, and every single series is of the 3-game variety.

    Bob Costas had this figured out 12 years ago.

    • March'62

      So that means the Mets will play some team in the American League the same amount of games as the Cards and Cubs? Sheesh.

      And since there has to be an interleague series every day starting next season, that means that some AL team in the middle of September will have to sit their DH for 3 games or an NL team will have to dust off their 4th outfielder for regular at-bats when the season is on the line.

      MLB should make a ruling on the DH before Houston moves to the nether world.

      As far as favorite Mets – I haven’t had one since Rusty opened his ribs joint and Mex dated Elaine.

  • It’s only half way, but I have to vote for Murphy. If the game is on the line, he always seems to get a big hit, a walk, a tough at bat, or a play in the field that’s 1000% over his skill set. He is the Lupus kid at the MLB level. I’m sure he will have offensive and defensive slumps, but I don’t think anyone personifies the “College Try” like Murphy.

  • Metsfaninparadise

    “Recently I’ve become very much aware that there are fewer days ahead than there are behind.”

  • open the gates

    Favorite Met? That’s a tough one –

    David Wright, for decisively proving his owner wrong on his moronic “not a superstar” crack?
    Johan Santana for that pretty good game he pitched a few weeks ago?
    R.A. Dickey for, well, being R.A. Dickey?
    Ruben Tejada for showing signs of being Edgardo II?
    Jordany Valdespin for the exuberant youth thingy?
    Worthy candidates all. As well as a few others.

    But that’s the thing about teams that are good, or on the verge. Lots of candidates for Favorite Met. Look at ’86 – Gooden, Straw, Mex, Kid, Nails, Mookie, Wally, Jesse O. – all strong candidates. Heck, probably the only ’86 non-contender for Favorite Met was George Foster. And maybe Doug Sisk.

    In contrast, how about the late ’70’s Mets? Maz if you liked flash. Stearns if you liked grit. Mettle the Mule if you were Ms. DeRoulet. And that’s all, folks.

    I like that there are so many contenders for Favorite Met. It’s a good “problem” to have.

  • Jacobs27

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Obviously, it has not been a successful year for the Arizona Diamondbacks. Yesterday’s demoralizing extra innings loss to San Francisco left the Diamondbacks at 37-62, 22 games behind the Padres in the division, with a .374 winning percentage. The only team in the National League with a worse record this season is the Pittsburgh Pirates, who are below .500 for the 18th straight season and currently have a 34-64 record. By any standards, the 2010 has to be a failure for the Diamondbacks.

That doesn’t mean that 2011 has to be a failure as well. The Diamondbacks’ impressive core led to an 87 win projection from our FAN projections, and PECOTA, CAIRO, and CHONE had projections ranging from 79 wins to 85 wins. Clearly, none of these systems foresaw how historically bad the Diamondbacks bullpen is this season. Despite a solid July (+1.16 WPA), the D’Backs bullpen still has a WPA of -6.92, more that 2.5 wins worse than the next worse team. Aside from that, the team has performed relatively well. The offense has been slightly below average, as has the starting rotation, but not to the point where the team should be 25 games below .500. The rest of the team has played closer to a .470 team than a .370 team, but that bullpen exposes all the flaws and more.

Many of the key pieces will be around for next year and beyond. Any discussion of the D’Backs core has to start with Justin Upton. Upton is having another solid season, with 2.8 WAR in 416 plate appearances, and he’ll be around until 2015 under a favorable $51.5 million contract. Chris Young is in the middle of a breakout season and is around until 2013. Mark Reynolds is under control until 2012, as is Stephen Drew. Kelly Johnson has one more year of arbitration remaining. Edwin Jackson is under control for 2011 and Ian Kennedy will be around until 2014. As a group, these players have compiled 15.8 WAR, on pace for around 25 WAR over a 162 game season. Young and Johnson have overplayed their projections, but Reynolds, Upton, and Drew have underplayed their own – as such, I feel like 25 WAR is a good, rough estimate for this group as a whole. If you are of a more conservative vein, anything in the range of 20-25 would be possible.

The problem is that these seven players have been surrounded by incompetence. Chris Snyder and Miguel Montero have performed well with split time at catcher, but other position players have been largely poor. The starting rotation has severely missed Brandon Webb, enough so that it has had to rely on players like Rodrigo Lopez, Billy Buckner, and Dontrelle Willis. We’ve already covered how terrible the bullpen has been.

A team that produces 32 WAR is typically a league average team, and 40-45 is should be enough to earn 90 wins and the playoff berth that typically comes with that total. Between the 20-25 WAR produced by the aforementioned core and the 5.0 produced by Haren, it shouldn’t take long to develop the supporting cast necessary to produce the remaining 10-15 WAR necessary to reach the playoffs. Relievers are fungible and the most abundantly available resource, and the Diamondbacks have a solid player in Brandon Allen and his .905 OPS in AAA coming up at first base. Perhaps the budget wouldn’t be enough to compete in 2011, but a large majority of those important players, including Dan Haren, would have been under control for more than just next season. The core that still remains probably needs one more star to compete, and with the relatively weakness at SP, Haren was the perfect fit.

The Diamondbacks, however, saw a .347 winning percentage and a situation that simply wasn’t salvageable, and the interim management reacted by dealing Dan Haren for a significantly worse but significantly cheaper starter in the short term. The move says to me that they don’t feel that this core can win games and reach the playoffs. Now, with Dan Haren replaced by a below average starter in Joe Saunders, they’re probably right. All the pieces were in place for Arizona. It’s simply disappointing to see such a young, promising team broken up at this stage in the game.


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Posted: 27 Mar 2013, 07:32
Just curious, since clothes can weigh differently depending on what you're wearing when you step on the scale. Seems to me that it can really throw your weight off.

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Posted: 27 Mar 2013, 09:20
Nope, I weigh without clothes. Some folks weigh weekly and just make sure they wear the same things, but I weigh daily. I don't want to mess with putting on the same thing each day to weigh myself when just eliminating the clothes solves the problem.

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Posted: 27 Mar 2013, 09:49
I agree clothes off... But avoid an audience lol

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Posted: 27 Mar 2013, 10:09
I weight with the same thing in every time.

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Posted: 27 Mar 2013, 10:12
Just a T-shirt.

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I thought the point was to have an audience. LOL

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No clothes, first thing in the a.m. And NO audience for me either. Smile
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Posted: 27 Mar 2013, 10:24
LOL-no, sorry, no one gets to witness me on the scale, I don't even let the cat in!

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I weigh with a towel on after showering at the gym!

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Posted: 27 Mar 2013, 12:34
I weigh in at work for getting naked would be a bad idea... But as I wear similar clothes (Jeans, poloshirt or t-shirt) in the office each day there isn't a great deal of variation.

42" jeans(25/01/2013) 40"(28/02/2013) 38"(20/03/2013) 36"(25/05/2013)
Down from 60" waist jeans since June 21st 2012.

Still keeping to my 26" jeans, but they are too tight for comfort. too many tasty things in the US, and over Xmas.

Onwards and Downwards! Smile

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Posted: 27 Mar 2013, 16:28
I weigh in with clothes on, shoes on , the works.

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Completely naked inside the bathroom

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Posted: 28 Mar 2013, 10:43
I weigh myself "sans clothes", but in a public situation I weigh with the same clothes each time. That will allow for consistancy.

But dont forget, it you weigh in public at a meeting or something...your home scale may be more accurate simply because 100's of people arent using the same scale and wearing it out faster!!
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Posted: 29 Mar 2013, 07:08
I weigh myself in the morning with nothing on, not even socks. I want to know my true weight, not the weight of my clothes. When I go to the doctor for my weight check on Monday, I will be wearing the lightest clothing possible so my weight is as close to real as it can be.
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Posted: 29 Mar 2013, 08:47
Depends on what I wore to bed...if it was heavy clothing I take it off, if it's light I keep it on and agreed either way no audience Smile
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I get super anal retentive and will only weigh in on Sat mornings after all bathroom business is done, in the nude, and after a good full night's sleep. A few of my weigh-ins were skewed (in my humble opinion) by a late-night work session after which I only got 3-4 hours of sleep. It's like my body didn't have enough hours of downtime to process everything in my body Smile
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Back on track. Weddings are fickle beasts. I'd rather give up the diet for a day, than risk being impolite or give the wrong impression and try to count calories in plated meals. That's beside the liquor that was being poured down my throat (not complaining). It was a very Irish wedding. :) And since they gave our drinking team our own table... well, you can gather how it went.

And yes, I am on a drinking team. We're called "We Cheer for Beer." And the bride and groom are part of that team, thus the reason we got our own table right next to the bar.

Joe and I went to the farmer's market yesterday. We picked up some fresh jalapenos, fruit, blackening season, and some fudge. I love local fudge from the farmer's market. It's just so smooth and creamy and freshly made. I picked up 1/4 lb penuche and 1/4 amaretto fudge. Talk about divine.

I cubic inch is about 90 calories. I can swing that for a special treat. S'all about moderation.

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My guess is not many after Saturday's debacle.

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This has been a season of disappointment, especially in the conference. You know what, though? Regardless, this team's future was always going to come down to the first week of March in Hot Springs. Not even the great Middle Tennessee State will be in-line for an at-large bid this year. Last time I checked, there were still 6 games left, then the trip to the tourney. I understand the frustration, but we're not in a position yet to call this season a failure. There's a lot of important basketball left to play. Skip out if you must, but to bail on this squad that still is playing for a bye in the first round of the tourney seems petty and weak. I'd bet Thursday's attendance will just fine, a typical strong crowd that we've grown accustomed to seeing during the Jarvis era. In case you were wondering, that's example 1 of why he deserves an extension. FAU basketball is relevant. -KLV

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Technically that is correct, we are still alive. But after watching our butts get kicked by FIU by 20 points at home, what makes anyone think the team will suddenly get Hot in Hot Springs?

This season is (almost) over. How foolish do those mock brackets filled out in October with FAU representing The Belt look now ?

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I think if the crowd isn't as large tonight it can also be because Denver and the boring style of play they bring with their Princeton offense.

I honestly believe their gameplan is to lull opponents to sleep.

Good riddence Denver. Why the hell were they in the SUn Belt anyway?

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I agree with Ken.  Sure, the season has been a disappointment, but that happens in sports.  There is no denying that the program is still in the best shape (talent-wise, coaching, attendance, etc.) that it has ever been.  Hopefully they get Jarvis signed to an extension soon so the momentum can continue.

Posted: 2/9/2012 2:39:00 PM

Interesting what's going on with the line on the Denver-FAU game.

Denver opened up as a 1-point favorite, but money has been coming in on FAU, and the line has now shifted the other way with the Owls now a 1.5-point favorite.

Posted: 2/9/2012 4:26:00 PM

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Halftime: FAU 40, Denver 25...Gantt has 11 points, Taylor with 8 points

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Final: FAU 72, Denver 71

Senior G Shavar Richardson hits 2-of-3 free throws with 1.1 seconds on clock to give Owls victory

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I am thinking about attending the Star Wars Celebration VI the end of August. Due to work, I do not think I will be able to take off all 4 days. I am wondering to those who have gone, what are the best days to attend? Could'nt really find any feedback on the website. If anyone can give me any advice and additional information that would be great. Thanks for your help. Jake
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I attended a coupla days of Celebration IV in LA a few years back. I dunno if there really are "best days". The sparse days, Thursday and Friday, generally, you can enjoy the exhibits with less people, but you may miss out the fantastic cosplay, which you never know when they'll show up. One of my fondest memories of Star Wars Celebration IV was when the Cylons (OG chrome costumes) walked through the halls, louding announcing their presence with "woo-woo" eye-scanning sound effects.

The weekends can get tightly packed, and you'll have to line up for everything, but that's when the popular speakers show up. What kind of experience are you hoping to get? Sundays, things die down, but you can get blowout bargains from the stores.

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