Patrick Griffin
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"Professor Patrick Griffin" holds the Chair of Education (Assessment) at the University of Melbourne and is Director of the Assessment Research Centre. He is the Deputy Dean and Associate Dean for Knowledge Transfer in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education. He has published numerous books and journal articles on assessment and evaluation topics that include competency development, language proficiency, industrial literacy, school literacy and numeracy profile development, professional standards portfolio assessment and online assessment and calibration.

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It's an old fracture and it's completely healed. It's not related to anything that's going to cause a problem. He might have done it when he was seven years old skateboarding in Orange County, for all I know.

We just weren't going to take a chance in this cold, damp weather.

It would be a mistake on my part to assume this is a major or a bad injury. If it ends up with him missing a long period of time, then that's what's going to happen. But we hope that he doesn't.

We're not going to take any chances. He can do a lot of things right now. Gil was able to throw a bullpen at about 70 percent and felt OK. That's a good sign.

We don't have the clinical expertise. For us to push these beyond a certain point we have to have partners.

We're not going to let him pick a ball up for three days. We're not going to take any chances with this because of the nature of the injury.

It's not a major injury, but in a baseball player, particularly a pitcher ... you've got to be very cautious and very conservative.

It can propel your program into areas that you couldn't do anywhere else.

We knew it was going to be sometime down the road, but we want to know when ... and we wanted to know where because we all have families and lives here and everything.

We'll wait until (today) to see how he feels and make a decision, but he threw in the pen today and he threw well.

However old the fracture is, it's completely healed. It's still tender and it's still sore. But the wrist is not broken. We can say that now.

This research is important because it gives us a new and very powerful way to probe the interaction between drugs and proteins. Because we've now solved many of the technical problems, this technique is sure to play an even larger role in understanding the mechanism of action of many classes of drugs.

He looks a lot leaner and skinnier than he did last year, but his upper body is bigger and he probably will be stronger. It's only going to help him to have eight or 10 pounds off.