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DWTS – Emmy Nominations 2010!!
Dancing with the Stars leads the "reality" show nominations with 9. From Reality TV World:
Reality TV receives 54 Emmy Awards noms, 'Dancing' leads again
Leading the 2009-2010 reality TV Emmy Awards nomination field for the fourth consecutive year is ABC's Dancing with the Stars, which received nine nominations from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences — one fewer than the reality record-setting 10 nominations it received last year.
CBS' The Amazing Race was next with seven nominations — including one in the Outstanding Reality Competition category it has won every year since the Academy created it seven years ago. Just like each of the last three years, The Amazing Race will compete against American Idol, Dancing with the Stars, Project Runway, and Top Chef for the award
Keoghan will compete against American Idol host Ryan Seacrest, Dancing with the Stars host Tom Bergeron, Project Runway host Heidi Klum, and Survivor host Jeff Probst in the category, which Probst has won both times it has been awarded since its 2008 creation.
The Amazing Race also received nods for cinematography, directing, picture editing, sound editing, and sound mixing while Dancing with the Stars also got nominations for hairstyling, lighting, makeup, sound mixing, and technical direction as well as a pair of choreography nods in which Derek Hough was nominated both individually and with Chelsie Hightower.
Derek was nominated with Chelsie for their acoustic Paso Doble in Season 10, and he was nominated individually for his futuristic Paso Doble with Joanna/Quickstep to 'Anything Goes' with Nicole. I have to read the rules, but I think the last two dances were a combined nomination – I guess you can submit up to 3. Mya Michaels, for example, has three dances listed under her nomination, but it appears to be only ONE nomination, not three. If I understand what I have read about the rules prior to the nominations being announced, you only can have two nominations if they are from different shows OR if one is part of a team, which is why Derek is nominated twice. Chelsie submitted their Paso as a team, then Derek submitted the Futuristic Paso and the Quickstep – hence, two nominations.
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Quote from: fdengel on March 31, 2011, 12:07 PMBack to the subject...Fill in the blank with...price cut?helicopter?cheeseburger?Lawn mower?I'd really like a Festool nail clipper.
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A flashlight, that would use the Festool cordless drill batteries, so I can get back the space that the Dewalt batteries & charger are taking up in my work truck.A radio would be nice also.
No one yet mentioned a reciprocating saw (Sawzall, not a jigsaw), with ample and integrated dust collection.An impact driver would be huge. I could retire my Ryobi (I do love it though). I saw in his recent pictorial that Frank Pellow uses these also.
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Quote from: Wonderwino on June 17, 2011, 04:26 PMA Kapex/UG-Kapex w/wings package for about $2,000. So you didn't get the secret discount code..... never mind! Actually that seems like a good package to me....but dang already have the Kapex.Where do you get all the cool emoticons and do they come in a systainer?Cheers, Steve
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Has anyone mentioned a Festool Multimaster? Maybe add a lazer to it.
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My question originates from the book of Silverman "The Aritmetic of Elliptic Curves", 2nd edition (call it [S]). On p. 273 of [S] the author is considering an elliptic curve $E/K$ defined over a number field $K$ and he introduces the notion of a $v$-adic distance from $P$ to $Q$. This is done as follows:
Firstly, let's fix an absolute value (archimedean or not) $v$ of $K$ and a point $Q\in E(K_v)$ (here $K_v$ is the completion of $K$ at $v$). Next let's pick a function $t_Q \in K_v(E)$ defined over $K_v$ which vanishes at $Q$ to the order $e$ but has no other zeroes. Now the $v$-adic distance from $P \in E(K_v)$ to $Q$ is defined to be $d_v(P, Q) := \min (|t_Q(P)|_v^{1/e}, 1)$. We will say that $P$ goes to $Q$, written $P~\xrightarrow{v}~ Q$, if $d_v(P, Q) \rightarrow 0$. Later in the text (among other places in the proof of IX.2.2) the author considers a function $\phi\in K_v(E)$ which is regular at $Q$ and claims that this means that $|\phi(P)|_v$ is bounded away from $0$ and $\infty$ if $P~\xrightarrow{v}~ Q$.
I have a couple of questions about this:
- How does one choose a $t_Q$ that works? In the footnote in [S] it is demonstrated how one could use Riemann-Roch to pick a $t_Q$ that has a zero only at $Q$. It seems to me however that such a procedure will not make sure that $t_Q$ is defined over $K_v$ since $K_v$ is not algebraically closed.
- For $\phi$ as above which does not vanish nor has a pole at $Q$, how does one see that $|\phi(P)|_v$ is bounded away from $0$ and $\infty$ as $P~\xrightarrow{v}~ Q$?
- Do these $d_v$ have anything to do with defining a topology on $E(K_v)$? I assume not, since I don't see how to make sense of it; but then on the other hand they are called "distance functions"...


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Congrats to fellow blogger and Dodger friend Alyssa Milano on her recent nuptials.
As for tonight, should be interesting starting Garland for us instead of facing him. Any of you Valley folks know that he went to Kennedy High and Randy Wolf went to El Camino. We're filling out a roster of Valley boys and let's hope Jon can be as consistent as Randy has been this season.
Here's tonight's lineup:
Furcal, SS
Kemp, CF
Ethier, RF
Manny, LF
Blake, 3B
Loney, 1B
Belliard, 2B
Martin, C
Garland, P
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RALLY TIME!!!!!!! EARLY and OFTEN!!!!!!!!
Someone explain to me why a team with the talent the Dodgers have manage to only score 1 or 2 runs and never can get hits with runners in scoring position. I've decided to find other things to do (like sleep) when the games come on late in St. Louis and until the Team decides to use their talent and start knocking the crao out of the ball that's where I'll be each evening. My son purchased 3 fantastic books on the Dodgers of old and I'll be engrossed in those each evening.
bob, to be perfectly fair, this has been a problem for the Dodgers for a long time prior to this season. Obviously if anyone knew why this problem exists or how to solve it we would not be talking about it. I am sure the Dodgers are not the only team with this problem but it sure makes winning a championship all that more difficult. The Dodgers of old had the best minor league system and knew how to develope players. I may be stretching things a bit but I am going to go out on a limb and say the decline of the Dodgers started when Al Campanis was forced out after that unfortunate Nightline incident some time ago. He was a brilliant baseball executive.
Lbirken, from what I've read on the matter, I agree with you. The Campanis mishap was the beginning of the end for the Dodger Way. The other blow happening by way of a Great Moment in Dodger history. Kirk Gibson's home run in the '88 series validated Free Agency as the prime way to win championships to Fred Claire… a way that has provided 2 decades of fruitless postseasons.
Development takes a back seat to wheeling and dealing, and I admit, I cringe every time I see the current payroll, compared to what we "should" be spending, but really, (and this is an honest question, maybe someone can give me an honest answer, after all, I don't remember all the details of the business side of the O'Malley years), did the O'Malleys spend top tier for Free Agents between '71 and Kirk Gibson? And in agreement with DodgerEric's sentiment the last time I brought this question up, I wouldn't trade the Gibson memory for anything.
If we spend money, we should be spending it on the talent we have, locking them in for longer contracts. If we spend a lot of money on a "sure thing" ace, that's good too, but hope they pan out more like Derek Lowe, and less like Kevin Brown.
I understand the McCourts want to bring back what they feel is Dodgers Tradition, and I applaud that sentiment.
But the Dodger Way was "better a year early than a year late", not "better a decade early than a year paid too much… then we can buy them for cheap in 10 years when they're worn down by time".
Interesting reflection on Billz, jpd – do you think he's spending too much time with Wolf, and it's rubbing off on him.
For as long as I can remember I've always said to pitch a shutout against the Dodgers, all you have to do is walk the bases loaded to start every inning.
But hey, the Rox lost so let's get that game back tonight.
As far as Billz goes, I think he'll settle into a #2 or even a #3 role – occasional brilliance with a flash of mediocrity now and then. He just doesn't have the mental make-up to be an ace.
To me Bear, Billz just doesn't have the cajones to take his God given talent and come up and in with it once in awhile. He also seems to have lapses in conciousness where he forgets how to pitch from one inning to the next – has like a brain fart or something. Most telling though was last playoffs when he let the other pitcher get away with knocking our boys around. No guts, no glory. Just a #3 with some hope of being a #2 on any given day.
NSB, I am a huge Dodger fan from way back and I am proud of it but there is nothing really to be proud about the business side of any sport including baseball. If you read the good books about Dodger history you will see that the modern Dodger organization with which we are most familair pretty much began when Branch Rickey and Walter O'Malley built up the organization. Both of these men were shrewd and powerful and really good at what they did. Other organizations tried the same stuff but the Dodgers were just better at it with regard to developing players. Of course they did not have the free agency system and prior to free agency players were pretty much indentured servents with little control over their future. The Dodgers did have a "better a year early than a year late" philosophy with regard to players and there was no such thing as loyalty.
Enter free agency and the Dodgers had to get into the game to stay competitive. You can bet your bottom dollar this made ownership quite uncomfortable. Can you imagine what that famous Dodger infield of the 70's would command now in pay? Those guys were underpaid even for their time and in every case, they left the Dodgers because the Dodgers wanted them to leave. The exception is Bill Russell, who was offered a coaching opportunity that had he not taken, he too would have been sent off somewhere. Think about it: other than due to injury, how many players can you name that spent their most productive years with the Dodgers (Brooklyn or L.A.) who retired as a Dodger on their own accord and not due to injury? I am sure this can be said of many organizations and not just the Dodgers.
So did the Dodgers embrace free agency? I don't think so but they had to eventually get into the game or risk falling way behind because the fans want winners every year. Unlike Giant fans who are happy just to beat the Dodgers because they have no real winning tradition, Dodger fans expect to challenge for a championship every year going into spring training. Have the Dodgers been successful with free agents? I think in general the answer is no but again, how successful have other ogranizations been besides the Yankees and Red Sox? Some of you remember Dave Goltz and Don Stanhouse? Sorry to bring up such painful memories. And Kevin Brown? What a joke of a contract he recieved.
So to answer you question, NSB, O'Malley was quite interested in saving and/or making money. To be fair he was generous in other ways with players and did treat them well. There is no doubt in my mind one reason Peter O'Malley decided to sell the team was his belief he could not (or did not want to) compete in the free agent market he saw all around him. But I encourage you to read everything you can find, especially the books written by former players and you will get a great idea of their love of the game and what they had to endure.
Let's give Garland his first win as a Dodger!
Looks like we got some help from the Mets and Phils today. GO DODGERS – let's get Garland his first Dodger win and pick up a game in the standings.
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Congrats to that guy that married Allysa, I didn't get a chance to read that far down to his name, Oh congrats to her too.
With the Rockies and Giants losing, that should relax everybody a little.
I just hope if the Dodgers get a runner in "scoring position", somebody makes him score.
Damn Box score had Roberts leading off.
Hey Gang ~ Just tuned in. Does anybody know why Belliard is starting two days in a row? Is Hudson alright?
Nice DP. Maybe he'll get over the first inning jitters and settle down.
Hard enough keeping score but the wrong lineup makes it worse.
They had the Dodger lineup correct.
I had to redue the D'Back lineup, The box score had a different lineup.
As long as we're talking Dodgers recent history, I agree, Campanis was a brilliant executive. I mean, Reggie Smith for Joe Ferguson???? I watched that night he imploded on Nightline. Fred Claire hit the jackpot with Gibby, but then ran amok with other PVLs that failed: Eddie Murray, Straw, Kal Daniels, Eric Davis, etc. Then the Dodgers got back to the farm with the four consecutive rookies of the year starting in '92 with Karros. But the real horror began with Fox buying the team (we all thought we'd hit a gold mine…HA!) and bringing in Malone and Davey Johnson and saying bye bye to Piazza. They seemed committed to the farm in recent years with the influx of all our favorite current kids, but a taste of success started the influx of PVLs again. And who are the current Dodgers succeeding right now? NOT the PVLs.
Good defense!!!!
Is it just me or is Garland working very slowly?
I like this Belliard due already
BELLI does the trick.
lol a hit with risp
To bad Reynolds is an error prone player. I'd rather have him played SS and rest Furcal but Belliard is a terrible defender..
urgh just give the run back would you.
Alright Manny!! That's the way to get us going!! If you can only stay hot!!
B E L L Y's 2nd RBI tonight.
WTG Belli 2 hits 2 RBI!!! Also nice heads up base running by Blake!!
GARLAND's doing alright
Kemp is doing so well that he's probably got the green light.
That makes 3 HR for Manny in his last 6 games. Maybe a sign that a hot streak will follow.
I hate when our players swing at a 3-0 pitch.
Another RBI for BELLIARD.
Good putting the ball on the ground with the bases loaded and less than 2 out.
oldbrooklynfan ~ Kemp swinging at a 3-0 pitch? Years ago he'd would have gotten fined for that.
It could've been a DP but it wasn't.
Let's get another good inning from Garland
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Garland is pitching welll, but we need more runs!!! Let's Go Dodgers, Let's Go!!!
Garland pitched a lot better game than I thought he would.
Shad ~ There's your other good inning from Garland. Should we try for one more?
A GEM for Garland.
He's really pitching a fantastic game so far, after a rather weak start.
hmmmmmmmm I would love for him to get the CG and rest the bullpen for the 2nd times this year the other time when Stults got the cg/shutout against the Giants but it just won't happen. I would give him one more inning.
Well since Pierre made an out guess not.
I would had save Pierre and let Repko PH or Hu.
n/m probably save Repko for a defensive replacement for Manny and Hu for Belliard.
So, is it against Joe's theory to see if a SP can go a complete game?
Sherrill now let's get that pest Ryal
It's been Colletti's acquisitions that are doing the job tonight, so far.
Now we have to hold'em and safe it.
Garland threw 7th innings with only 97 pitches hmmmmmmm
How exactly can starters go deeper in the game Joe when you won't let them?
Damn UPTON .
lol Upton had trouble with his contract lens and still owned Sherrill
What do SP have to do? Get a PC around 70 through 8?
By GEORGE, he did it again.
Torre need to take a book out of Baker page but than again he did pulled Ortiz in game 6 of the 2002 WS.
Upton was the reason the D'Backs changed their lineup late.
Nice job by Sherrill setting it up for Broxton. Still, I would like some insurance runs.
I'm glad Upton missed the first 7 innings.
Time to see if we can get the pitcher spot up and a prefect time to used Thome.
Jonathan did very well tonight as well 🙂
Even better used him on Martin
Blake 3 for 4 tonight.
I would love to see Thome PH in this inning.
Now homegrown Broxton will try to save it.
I would have Sherrill face the left handed Montero and take him out.
Loney looked disinterested swinging at that first pitch.
Nice win!!! When Broxton throws strikes he's so good. Great game for Garland. Hope he has more of these games in him.
Ok Broxton no more drama.
Good Evening Gang!! Totally sweet win tonight!! Really needed this one. At least we split the series at home. Dropping 3 of 4 at home against a sub .500 team is not accetptable. Manny showing some signs of breaking out. We are going to need Manny and Ferk to start producing if we hope to go deep into the playoffs and beat the Cards or Phillies. I'm not sure what is wrong with Marty. Wouldn't hurt if he got on a hot streak right now either. I'm not really worried about us making the playoffs, but I don't think we will fare very well if Ferk and Manny don't get it going. Nice job by Garland!
See I wanted Sherrill vs Montero
I see Repko in LF.
Good Evening jhall!!! It was a sweet win tonight, and like you said, a much needed one. It was good to see others get it done tonight compared to the usuals, but it would be nice if they all got in sync together for a change.
oh god I was waited for that fielder indifference.
Hi'ya Nell'!!! Yep, we needed this one. We're going to have to be hitting on all cylinders once we get into the playoffs to beat the Phillies or Cards.
Not to mention the fact that if we finish with the best record, we get home field advantage thru the playoffs. Could make a huge difference!!!!!
Beaten by LA Beaten by LA
Glad Repko was there. I don't think Manny could make that catch.
Nice job tonight Dodgers!!! Hope you all have a great night/evening!! Catch you all down the road.
Excelsior True Believers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You can't give a runner a stolen base on defensive indifference because the fielding team knows that he's going, it just takes the force at second away.
That is very true jhall, very true indeed. It seems like we only have a few players each night that are on. It wouldn't be a bad idea to see what the team can do when they are all hitting like they should. We know it's in them, but when will we see it………………….hopefully someday very soon.
Good Night jhall!!! Always a pleasure seeing you around here. Take Care and God Bless 🙂
Good Luck to your Buckeyes this weekend jhall!!!!!!
Same to you Nelly!!! Thanks!!!!
When the Diamondbacks got to Los Angeles to begin this seven-game trip, Garland was slated to face Dodgers' knuckleballer Charlie Haeger(notes) in the series finale. But the 29-year-old right-hander switched teams during Monday night's game with the deadline for eligibility in the postseason looming.
"I think it was more uncomfortable because I was in that other dugout the first game and then came over," Garland said. "I mean, if it would have been like a week or two weeks down the road, it would have been a little bit different. But the fact that it was in the same series, there was a little extra the first few innings."
Garland (9-11) gave up two runs and five hits over seven innings, including a solo homer by Stephen Drew(notes). The right-hander, coming off back-to-back wins against Houston—including a seven-inning scoreless stint last Saturday—has won three consecutive starts after going 1-9 with a 4.50 ERA over his previous 16 outings.
No Dodgers outfielder made a putout the entire time Garland was out there. He struck out six, retired one batter on a line drive, two more on popups, and got 12 of his outs on ground balls—including double plays that ended the first and second innings.
"Being able to go out there and give this team a good quality start, coming out of the game with the lead and ending up winning it, I couldn't have asked for much more," Garland said. "Once I finally calmed down and got my feet underneath me, the ball started moving a little bit more and I was getting more ground balls and we got off a nice little run."
It's the first time Garland has won three straight starts since May 2007 with the White Sox, when he beat the Angels, Royals and Yankees.
"It's always a challenge, facing a guy that you've been close with all year," Arizona third baseman Mark Reynolds(notes) said. "Gar's a great guy. We wanted to go out there and lay something on him, but he pitched a great game and got a lot of ground-ball outs. We really couldn't string anything together.
"He's seen us hit all year, so he knows our weaknesses and our strengths," Reynolds added. "Facing us this soon, I'm sure he had a good game plan on what he wanted to do. After that shaky first inning or two, he settled down and was throwing his sinker and was able to get a lot of ground balls."
The only other time Garland pitched at Dodger Stadium was on June 3, when he allowed a run and four hits over six innings but gave up a sacrifice fly by Casey Blake(notes) after a triple by Matt Kemp(notes) and lost 1-0. The 10-year veteran was born in Valencia, Calif., and played his high school ball in nearby Granada Hills.
"It was fun. I grew up coming to games here, and getting a chance to pitch for this team is definitely a dream come true," Garland said. "It's kind of awkward the way it happened—but nevertheless, it did—and I was able to throw a good one up. I didn't leave too many tickets. I cut the phone off and told people if they want to come, they can pay for it and support the team."
That's interested the matchup was suppose to be Garland vs Haeger tonight surely everything change so fast.
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Vin Scully is baseball's 'chattiest' play-by-play man
By 'Duk
David Biderman either has an obsession with baseball announcers or a lot of time on his hands.
Actually, there's no doubt he has both.
Biderman, a Wall Street Journal writer, listened to the first scoreless inning of each television broadcast last Friday and counted the number of words uttered by each play-by-play man. His goal was to get an idea — albeit through an admitted unscientific process — of baseball's most verbose announcer.
The winner, not surprisingly, was broadcasting legend Vin Scully, who called the Dodgers action at a rate of 143.51 words per minute. Given the lyrical way in which he speaks, he's encouraged to use as many words as he wants.
But since Scully works the booth by himself and is theoretically responsible for filling twice the airtime, he blew away the competition. The wordiest of the multi-man boothers was the Cardinals' Dan McLaughlin at 109.93 words per minute.
McLaughlin was then followed Washington's Bob Carpenter (102.33), Cincinnati's George Grande (102.06), Arizona's Daron Sutton (100.36) and Kansas City's Ryan Lefebvre (96.71).
The quietest guys out there? San Francisco's Duane Kuiper (55.44), San Diego's Mark Neely (61.84), Toronto's Jamie Campbell (62.66), Oakland's Glen Kuiper (65) and Baltimore's Gary Thorne (66.97).
It's an interesting list, but I'm really not sure how to make heads or tails of it. I will say that when I thought of my favorite announcers to hit on Extra Innings — mainly guys who use their words sparingly in order to let the color men do their job while letting the sounds of the game talk, too — they were all mostly located in the lower tier.
Perhaps Biderman is onto something?
I known you guys would love this one.
Vinnie can talk as much as he wants, I'll never get tired of listening.
Ever since we got Thome, I've been trying to think of another team that had 2 – 500 HR guys at the same time. And although I'll freely admit that I haven't read all the articles, I haven't seen it anywhere. So I did my own research. Forgive me if you've seen this elsewhere. It took me longer than I thought, and I gotta get to bed.
I first thought of Henry Aaron and Eddie Mathews, but Mathews didn't hit his 500th until after leaving the Braves.
Then I thought of Willie Mays and Willie McCovey, but McCovey didn't get his 500th until '78 when Mays had been long retired.
There have been 3. Don't scroll down if you want to guess for a minute…..
The 2005 Baltimore Orioles had Sammy Sosa and Rafael Palmiero.
The 2008 Chicago White Sox had Ken Griffey Jr and Jim Thome.
Now we join the club.
Good night, all. And God Bless.
Colorado Rockies
Pitchers IP H R ER BB SO HR PC-ST ERA
J Marquis
J Peralta 1.1 2 1 1 0 1 0 13-10 5.91
R Flores 0.1 0 0 0 0 1 0 4-3 5.40
J Rincon 0.1 0 0 0 1 0 0 10-5 6.75
M Herges 1.0 3 1 1 0 0 0 25-17 3.37
J Beimel 0.2 2 1 1 0 0 1 23-14 3.60
J Fogg 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3-2 3.32
Totals 9.0 16 8 8 3 4 1 162-98
Wow talking about mismanage the bullpen right here last night.
Wonder if the Rockies would had tied it what would had happen? Well since the roster expand they probably had 3 to 4 extra relievers.
The Rockies attendance in a 3 games series with the Mets in Coors.
26,190 (51.9% full) – % is based on regular season capacity
26,276 (52.1% full) – % is based on regular season capacity
22,566 (44.7% full) – % is based on regular season capacity
What does this tell me?
6 Chicago Cubs 67 2,678,822 39,982 97.2 65 35,256 80.2 132 37,655 88.6
7 NY Mets 66 2,584,151 39,153 93.2 68 31,849 72.3 134 35,447 82.3
11 Colorado 65 2,093,172 32,202 63.8 68 30,351 68.3 133 31,256 66.0
Well the Mets fans have no chance in the WC and still outdrew the Rockies fans by a lot. They average around 32,202 and the 3 games series was under 30,000. If we had those totally in those 3 games than are % would be under 40%
Actually probably should've read the Rockies average.
Weight 294 lbs.
Height 6-4
Bats Right
Throws Right
Holy crap Broxton weight 294?
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Clayton Kershaw isn't concerned with pitch counts
The left-hander, usually limited to around 100 pitches a start by Dodgers Manager Joe Torre, wants to be know for going deep into games.
Dodgers starter Clayton Kershaw would prefer to be judged on when to come out of a game based solely on performance and not pitch count. (Alex Gallardo / Los Angeles Times / August 19, 2009)
September 4, 2009
Clayton Kershaw says he understands why the Dodgers are monitoring how many pitches he throws, that he even appreciates how Manager Joe Torre limits him to more or less 100 pitches every time he starts.
But he doesn't necessarily like it.
"It's nice to know that they're trying to take care of my arm," the 21-year-old Kershaw said. "At the same time, you never want to be taken out of a game."
Kershaw, who starts today in the opening game of a three-game series against San Diego, said he has given a lot of thought to the subject of pitch counts.
He said he knows that pitchers get hurt more often these days, but that they also have longer careers.
"I think everybody's arm is different," Kershaw said, adding that he thinks his prized left limb is the kind that can withstand the heaviest of workloads.
Kershaw said he wanted to one day be known as a pitcher who gets replaced strictly based on his effectiveness, not on the number of pitches he has thrown — like Tim Lincecum or Matt Cain.
"The reason people say they're in the upper echelon is because they're effective for so long," he said. "That's where I'm trying to get."
Fighting history
The Dodgers' bullpen has pitched 467 2/3 innings, the second-most in baseball. (San Diego ranks first with 476 1/3 innings.)
In the previous 12 seasons, only one team that had a bullpen that ranked in the top 10 in the majors in innings pitched during the regular season played in the World Series — the 2007 Colorado Rockies, who were 10th with 528 2/3 innings.
No World Series-winning team in that span ranked higher than 19th in that category and six of the 12 championship clubs ranked in the bottom five.
But bullpen catcher Mike Borzello scoffed at the notion that the Dodgers' heavy use of relievers would spell doom come October.
Borzello said this team reminds him of the 1996 New York Yankees, for whom he was a bullpen catcher. Like these Dodgers, those Yankees didn't have starters who routinely pitched deep into games.
The Yankees' bullpen that season ranked sixth in innings pitched and had a 4.10 earned-run average, 11th-best in baseball. The '09 Dodgers have a 3.23 ERA that ranks first.
Of course, there's one major difference.
"I had a little secret emerge," Torre said, recalling the '96 Yankees.
That secret was Mariano Rivera, who often pitched two innings of middle relief.
I'm hoping we won't even come closed to the Rockies bullpen number of 528 2/3 innings but I won't hold my breath on it.
Good Morning, ITDland ~ hope everybody has a great Friday and fantastic weekend. We really need to take care of business and sweep the Padres. I want to put the Rockies and Giants far away in our rear view mirror! GO DODGERS!!!!!
I just notice Garland is wearing Wolf old number.
Wow everyone in starting lineup except Manny has over 10 or more gidp's. We grounded into a total of 119 dp. I really want to see where they ranked us maybe I could find it on espn.com were his team.
With all the talk earlier today about the Dodgers' need for offense, its worth noting the Dodgers are 54-10 when scoring five runs or more this season,
Ouch didn't know that.
PHILADELPHIA — The Giants have changed venues, but not their dreadful luck.
Having left Philadelphia, where they entered the series having lost 10 of their previous 14 games at Citizens Bank Park, the Giants will resume activity Friday at Milwaukee's Miller Park, where they have dropped 14 of 18 games since the start of the 2006 season.
Due to a scheduling quirk, the Giants will have visited the Brewers twice in three of the last four seasons by the time this weekend is over. They needed Ryan Sadowski's six surprising shutout innings to help them avoid a sweep in their June 26-28 series at Milwaukee.
Sadowski's no longer with the club, but the Giants will have their new good-luck charm on the mound: Barry Zito, who's 4-2 with a 1.92 ERA and a .225 opponents' batting average in nine starts since the All-Star break. He has yet to allow more than three runs in any game during this span.
Zito entered the season with an 0-3 record and a 10.05 ERA in three starts at Miller Park. But he broke that spell on June 27, allowing three runs in 5 2/3 innings while receiving no decision.
I like those numbers in Milwaukee's and I mean to deleted were his team. Dang I hate when I type so fast and don't proofread what I wrote.
Current winning percentage leaders in the NL:
1. Dodgers .593
2. Phillies .588
3. Cardinals .585
Where has the lead gone?
phan, you're back…what an extraordinary pleasure. See, the very first thing you have to say after a good night's sleep is meant to needle and grate on people's nerves. You still don't get it, do you? If you want to talk baseball, fine. The Dodgers still have the best record in the National League, thanks to your post. Have a pleasant evening.
Where has the lead gone? Up since it came down to 2 games a few short games ago. We all know the Dodgers got off to a great start and anyone who reads this blog on a regular basis would know that even while winning there has been a lot of criticism of the team's overall performance during losses and wins. No one on this blog wrote any of the national articles calling the Dodgers the best team in baseball. We get it that the Dodgers have some stiff competition in order to win a championship but as memory serves me the past two Dodger World Series winners were most likely not the best team but played the best when it counted most. The same thing could happen this season. Yes, we get uncomfortable when the lead diminishes as any fan would but we all know and have agreed that the only lead that matters is at the end of the season. So we don't need anyone reminding us how the team is doing.
Or Birk one could simply attribute it to the Dodgers playing a majority of its games in the toughest division in the National League.
Hi, phan! As long as you're going to be with us regularly, some of us might like to know something about you.
Where do you live?
Do you get to see Phillies' games frequently at the stadium?
How long have you been a Phillies phan?
I myself have been a Dodger fan for over 50 years with first exposure through home game TV broadcasts. I've actually personally seen the Dodgers against the Phillies more than against any other competition back when I attended college in Philadelphia. I believe back then the old stadium was called Scheib Park, and my best memories are from games matching Drysdale and Robin Roberts.
If we come up against the Phils in the playoffs, it should be interesting, and may the best team win. There's no doubt where our ITD bunch stands on that, nor I suppose where you're coming from. I must say that I wish our management had secured Lee instead of letting your team add him; however, I think that in a short series all bets are off, and the hot team at the time usually wins. If we can all have a good discourse, I'm all for interacting with fans from other teams and other points of view.


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Akimbo player is the most comprehensive audio book player in the market. It is specifically tailored for audio book formats (M4A, M4B, MP3) and comes equipped with various features such as: identify chapters and covers in all types of books; maintain position and volume per book; partial speed control support (see below); allow numerous ways to change your position (from configurable step button to a "go to any position" dialog), bookmarks and more…
IMPORTANT NOTE: due to the differences in audio capabilities between different Android OS versions and device models, it is recommended you install the trial version before using this application, to ensure that your audio files are playable on your device: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.akimbo.abp.trial
Read the full manual at https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0ByHIlLQe6aBabWRJOVE2MFBDbVE&export=download&hl=en
Notable features:
• Supports all the major audio book and other audio formats: M4A, M4B (including iPod chaptered books), MP4, MP3, ogg vorbis.
• Reads cover images and chapter information from within audio book files.
• Parses WMA and FLAC (actual ability to play depends on your device).
• Maintain your last position and last set volume level for each book.
• Partial play speed control (IMPORTANT: requires purchase of Presto app and is limited to MP3 and OGG formats, will not work on M4B books).
• Allows bookmarks for each book.
• Configurable step buttons for quick shifts forwards or backwards.
• Easy to use "go to" dialog that will take you instantly to any chapter or position throughout the book.
• Home Screen Widget.
• Allows a one-click automatic download of covers for any book, or for your entire library at once.
• A configurable "lock" mode, which prevents accidental changes of position during play.
• Sleep Timer, pausing play after a specified time.
• Loads your entire library at once: offers a one-click scan of any folder tree on your device.
• The player screen offers a host of accessibility and experience improving features, including large-font and human voice indication (and approval) for your actions.
• Allows undoing and redoing any accidental change in position while listening.
For easy listening to your audiobook without looking at the screen (while engaged in some other action or for the visually impaired) it offers a range of accessibility features (including human voice indications) as well as an option to lock the player against accidental changes.
The player is highly recommended not just for audiobooks, but for any episodic format, such as music albums or podcasts.
A note on permissions:
• Internet access is only done at your express request to download covers (it is never launched without a user pressing the download cover button). No personal information is ever sent outside your phone.
• Access to your phone's state is required to pause the player when a call comes in. No other use of this permission is made.
• Writing to the external storage is required if you choose to save the app's data (library, images, etc.) on the SD card, instead of the device's internal storage. No other use of this permission is made.
• Battery status and wake lock permissions are used to prevent locking the device (when configured by the user) when playing or when playing while connected to a power source.
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As summer fledging hummingbirds leave the nest, Siskiyou County residents will have the opportunity to observe more of this unique species in their own backyards. There are a few easy steps one can take to help and protect these birds while also enjoying their presence.
Perhaps the most beneficial action is to keep a garden or backyard habitat-friendly by planting plenty of native plants.
The Kalmiopsis Audubon Society's website explained that "native plants support 10 to 15 times more wildlife species than non-native plants." Established native plants will not only be easier to tend, but they will sustain hummingbirds during their natural migratory cycle, not to mention other pollinators such as bees and butterflies.
The website has a list of recommendations, including garden flowers such as bleeding hearts and fox gloves, and vines like honeysuckle.
If one wants to actively entice hummingbirds to his or her backyard, red, orange and pink flowers are often considered the best bet as hummingbirds seem attracted to these plants. A study in PLoS Biology suggests one reason for this preference is that competitive insect pollinators have a harder time locating flowers in this color spectrum.
Hummingbird feeders are also an option. Gardenweb.com recommends a red-colored feeder with perches and guards to protect against insects. The best food solution will be a mixture of four parts tap or well water to one part white granulated sugar. Let it cool, and only keep the mixture in the feeder for two or three days, or in the refrigerator for one week.
GardenWeb adds that commercial mixes have unnecessary additives, and it's even been suggested the red dye can be harmful to the birds. Sugars other than white granulated should also be avoided, and honey can be toxic since it ferments rapidly.
Dr. John Alexander, executive director of the Klamath Bird Observatory (KBO), recommends regularly changing water and cleaning feeders if you choose to use them.
When asked if artificial feeding methods prevent hummingbird migrations, Dr. Alexander said he could not give a definitive answer as the question was something research would need to delve into.
He did recommend keeping track of bird migration cycles through resources such as BirdLife.org and also noted strong genetic instincts tell the birds when it is time to leave.
Dr. Alexander further suggested keeping the garden and backyard as free of anthropogenic, or human-based, threats as possible. Examples of anthropogenic threats include machine injuries and poisonings from pesticides.
A recent study published in Nature Communications, authored by Scott R. Loss of the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, suggested that free-ranging cats, both feral and domestic, were the leading anthropogenic threats faced by birds. The study's abstract stated the number of birds killed annually by free-range cats was 1.4 to 3.7 billion.
Although Alley Cat Allies has petitioned against the study's methods, a cat-free garden remains a safer place for most avian visitors.
Jaime Stephens, science director for the KBO, noted there are four native species in the Klamath area: Anna's, Calliope, Rufous and Allen's hummingbirds. Northern Siskiyou County hosts the black-chinned hummingbird as well.
Four of these species are migratory, spending winter at various southern winter habitats. The exception is the Anna's hummingbird, which sticks around all winter as it can sustain itself on native plants during those brumal months.
Hummingbirds are not listed as either threatened or endangered, but signs point to the Rufous hummingbird already experiencing significant population declines.
Stephens pointed out the Rufous hummingbird was noteworthy as the species has the largest migration for a bird its size, following flowering plants for 8,000 miles twice a year between Alaska and Mexico. As a bird shared by Canada, the U.S. and Mexico, its conservation is a "tri-national responsibility."
"They're a species that will be negatively affected by climate change," Stephens said, adding the important role hummingbirds play as pollinators.
She further noted that while the Allen's hummingbird has not experienced the same decline, it does have relatively small breeding distribution, limited to southwest Oregon and western California.
"Their entire breeding population is basically in our backyard," Stephens said.
Hummingbirds: Unique species in the air
As summer fledging hummingbirds leave the nest, Siskiyou County residents will have the opportunity to observe more of this unique species in their own backyards. There are a few easy steps one can take to help and protect these birds while also enjoying their presence.


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A Delaware Valley foot and a Pennsylvania ring-and-vase turning combine to develop a period-style design.
By Charles Bender
Pages: 55-57
From the April 2009 issue #175
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Years ago, when I first began my business as a period furniture maker, a close friend and mentor jumped on board to help kick off my backlog of work. He was a widely known collector of William & Mary furniture – his home was touted as the "mini-Winterthur" – and while he had no personal woodworking experience, he did know 17th- and 18th-century American furniture better than anyone I knew. He should have, considering he began his collection immediately following World War II. His initial project for me was to create a piece that is currently nonexistent in the antiques world. He wanted a Pennsylvania William
& Mary wing chair.
With his passing earlier this year, I've reflected on that project with great fondness. We spent hours together researching period frames, turnings and foot variations. We felt strongly that wing chairs existed in Pennsylvania during this time period. These chairs were found in other regions of the Colonies; certainly they would have existed in Philadelphia. This city was the center of the Colonies for wealth, education and furniture making. Yet no chair of this type has ever been offered for sale on the antiques market.
With the help of some of the East Coast's leading collectors, antique dealers and museum curators, we came up with a design that represents what could have been made in Philadelphia in the late 17th century. We settled on a distinctly Delaware Valley version of a Spanish foot with concave flutes that form the "toes" that, while bolder and more dramatic than their New England counterparts, are fairly simple to carve. And we've adapted this design to use for a footstool.
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Posted by Editoress on 07/8/02
Maurice Johnson
We received news that a long time member of the Edmonton cycling community passed away on Friday as the result of being involved in a car/bike collision at the end of June.
The following is part of an e-mail that was sent to members of the Juventus cycling club:
Maurice Johnson, passed away at 2:30pm Friday. He was 82 years of age.
Maurice had been hit by a car while out on a training ride on June 29th and was recuperating at the Grandview Hospital after having surgery to repair a broken pelvic bone and hip.
For those who do not know the legend of Maurice it is suffice to say there has never been a better cyclist in these parts of any age group. He rode for New Zealand before the war on both the road and track and would have represented New Zealand at the Olympics if World War two had not stopped the games. At one time he held the New Zealand hour record. When he was 75 years old he was still doing the 40km individual time trial under the hour and last year at the age of 82 he managed a one hour, one minute and 12 second fourty kilometer time trial.
For everything Maurice was on the bike he was so much more off it. He was a gentleman; kind and considerate never complaining and never boasting his accomplishments (they are many). He personified the reason we ride a bike.
Maurice will be missed.
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9/11 - Government Sponsored Terror Exposed - By PaCmAn
9/11 - Government Sponsored Terror Exposed
Presented to you by PaCmAn:
After WW2 the Black Pope from the Vatican made sure that thousands from the German, Nazi elite
could escape to Alaska on false passports.
Later when the Nuremberg trial was over, das "SS" / The new world orders elite
went to USA and a very few to Russia and England.
The reason for all of this when it became public was "to contain them before the enemy did" .
This black opp is now public, and is called "project paperclip"
look it up for yourself,
do NOT believe me in any of this !!!
Here they were given free hands to setup the global version of das "SS", all the "Secret Services"
(CIA, Mossad, KGB, MI5, MI6 etc.) This fact alone should be enough for people to wake up to the
fact that they are NOT living in a "free" and "open" / "happy" democracy. When ever you hear about something "secret", you
should know that its the global shadow government and its not fiction but the real deal.
Further more they created N.A.S.A. to keep the monopoly on the weaponizing of space :?
They created N.A.T.O. ( Which is runned by a Nazi lodge from 1954 just called "The Bilderberg Group" ) to get
in complete military control of the whole world.
Hitler was setup by Prescott Bush and the British royal family for alot of global ambitions, but on
the top of the list were the total centralization of power in the form of U.N. and N.A.T.O. to re-
introduce the populations into slave-hood and use global conflicts to reduce the population of earth.
Hitler did just like Nero when he torched Rome to get the excuse to expand the empire, he burned
down his own Reichstag... Adolf Hitler and Franklin D. Roosevelt had big plans that wasn't really
their own... They began planning the construction of WTC 1+2 and made sure from the beginning that they
were all set to get blown into pieces.
This plan were the one JFK refused to carry out in 1962, and resulted in him losing his head in order
for the chief of the CIA (behind the assassination) to enter the White house... This man was also a Bush...
The son of the man behind Hitler, the most power full Nazi the world have ever known.
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At this point in time they wanted to use a home made terror attack on the US with planes flying into
high buildings inside Manhattan, in order to invade Cuba, in order to start a new world war.
In 1993 the top of the FBI got in trouble and later had to step back when it came out that THEY were behind the WTC bombing where WTC 1 was going to fall into WTC 2 from a very powerful car bomb standing against one of the buildings main columns, and then explode both buildings into dust. That didn't work, because their brown patsy with turban on his head found out that the "exercise" was going ahead with a LIVE and also very power full bomb. In other words: They didn't get their Iraq war because "only" 7 people died, and would have to try again in 2001. Here the elite is getting kind of desperate, because now they are behind plan - You know: The SUN cults plan of world domination by population reduction, in order to use the "new age" aka the period starting after the sun cults transitional period from 2012-2150, that they are going to use to setup a new world order and then announce a new year ZERO with a VERY small dumbed down human population on this planet.
That did not work as planed at the time... BUT:
Then the grandson (Bush Jr.) of the ultimate nazi (Prescott Bush) got his government to execute the
terror attack, "the new pearl harbor" as they call it (NOTE: Pearl Harbor were also a false flag opp.)
This time it would be to... well, I will let you read their own words...
This is a quote from the PNAC document about how the global, Nazi elite can get their excuse to take over the whole middle east:
"Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one,
absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor..."
And this is what they said about getting the population of the west to submit to this kind of
pure madness:
"And advanced forms of biological warfare that can "target" specific genotypes may transform biological
warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool."
-- from "Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources For a New Century,"
September, 2000.
:shock: THEY ADMIT TO A 9/11 PLOT 1 YEAR BEFORE IT HAPPENED, SO WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR? :shock:
Source: http://www.newamericancentury.org/
Webarchive: http://web.archive.org/web/200507010000 ... ntury.org/
Learn more about PNAC !!!
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The terrorists are NOT who you think they are:
Secret Service create the terror, to bring in the new world order
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Maby you should break the ice in the classroom by telling everyone the FACTS about N.A.T.O.?(these days it's the NATO summit here, today's the last day of school this week!!!!! ).
The nazi "SS" Lodge from 1952 (with first meeting in 1954 after their own patzys had been shoot or hung after their own Nuremberg show trial) THEY NOW OWN N.A.T.O.
The Royal, Nazi Elite lodge called Bilderberg (Created by the Nazi SS officer and royal bloodline: Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands) doesn't just control or run N.A.T.O.: THEY OWN IT !!!
Just think about this: The very bloodline elitist behind this "new world order" / nazi ideology (Royal elite and the Rough child family) behind ww1, ww2 and much much more now OWN the information ALL western mass media is allowed to talk about PLUS they OWN the new (coming to a town near you soon) "world police force" / "World military force".
The terrorists are NOT who you think they are: Secret Service create the terror, to bring in the new world order - NO TO GLOBAL DICTATORSHIP !!!!


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House approves 15-cent gas tax increase
Money would go toward road, bridge repairs
State lawmakers on Wednesday moved closer to raising the gas tax in New Hampshire.
Supporters said the 15-cent increase in the gas tax is necessary to pay for upgrades to New Hampshire's crumbling roads and bridges. But opponents said the idea would only hurt those who can least afford it and backfire on the economy.
The proposal was expected to pass the House, although many thought the 44-vote margin would be closer. It's just the first step in a long road before higher prices are seen at the pump.
"By not properly investing in roads and bridges, we face an infrastructure crisis that's on its way to becoming a catastrophe, not just a crisis," said bill sponsor Rep. David Campbell, D-Nashua.
Campbell said the increase would be spread out over four years.
The House killed an amendment proposed by former House Speaker Bill O'Brien that would have directed all Highway Fund money to the Department of Transportation and away from the Department of Safety. After the vote, he took a shot across the aisle.
"If we are in session, folks, you might want to stay home and watch your wallet, because this House, this Legislature, is going to come and try to take money out of it," said O'Brien, R-Mont Vernon.
Opponents said increasing the gas tax would have a ripple effect on the price of other goods.
"Not only is it going to affect the fact that you'll pay more at the pump, but this is going to affect those costs of goods that are being transported into our state," said Rep. Pam Tucker, R-Salem. "The cost of milk, the cost of eggs -- all of those things will also go up."
"One is that we certainly are very dependent on good roads and bridges to get into the state, as we import 85 percent of all of our food products, food and beverage products coming into the state, come by road," said John Dumais, president and CEO of the New Hampshire Grocers Association. "At the same time, we are concerned about the higher costs of gasoline. Every penny counts, no question about it."
At 18 cents per gallon, New Hampshire's gas tax hasn't changed in more than two decades. Supporters also want the potential money raised to go toward finishing the Interstate 93 expansion project, but the selling point centers on public safety.
"Our heavier vehicles and firetrucks can't use certain roads, and because of that, it is an issue of public safety," said Majority Leader Steve Shurtleff. "And it's something that's got to be addressed, and now is the time."
The bill now heads to the Senate Ways and Means Committee for review, and many think the 15-cent increase could be pared down significantly. Many observers said any increase in the gas tax will be a tough sell in the Republican-majority Senate.
"Would you rather pay a higher gas tax and have better roads, or keep the status quo?" said Joseph Mooneyhan of Manchester. "I would keep the status quo. Maybe try to do something in between."


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A statewide survey and follow-up interviews by the research team document a deep and growing concern over the severe conditions facing the ranching community. More than one-third of interviewed ranchers expect devastating impacts to their operations if drought conditions persist.
UC Davis postdoctoral researcher Leslie Roche and colleagues surveyed 511 ranchers across the state about their management decisions, including how they respond to drought. She is following up the survey with in-depth interviews to dig deeper into the specific factors affecting each ranching family and, so far, has met in person with more than 60 ranchers across California.
"Last year's drought has really been on a lot of people's minds," said Roche. "But because this winter drought has hit so hard, it's an extremely prominent concern among ranchers right now."
She noted that ranching is often the sector of California agriculture that is most vulnerable to drought because it depends on rain-fed systems, rather than stored water or groundwater.
In 2013, California experienced its driest year on record, and the state's current snowpack is just 17 percent of average. As a result, the state government and the U.S. Department of Agriculture have declared drought emergencies for California.
A statewide drought, such as the one that occurred from 1976 to 1977, would today exacerbate the effects of earlier regional droughts, according to many of the ranchers who responded to the UC Davis survey. With already conservative numbers of cattle in their herds, ranchers must now consider culling their herds to stay afloat as production costs rise.
California ranchers are accustomed to surviving drought. With a Mediterranean climate, drought conditions occur for about four months every year during the summer dry season. The last two winter wet seasons, however, have been below normal, forcing many ranchers to already implement drought plans. Most ranchers interviewed said that three to four of the last 10 years have been in drought. When asked if they consider themselves adaptive managers, almost all said, "you have to be."
"Multi-generation ranchers, who have been viable in this state for a long time, have a lot to tell us from their own experience," said Ken Tate, UC Cooperative Extension specialist in the Department of Plant Sciences at UC Davis.
"They have to have flexibility and options in order to adapt," Tate said. "Those who have less flexibility -- fewer types of forage, fewer places to go with cattle -- tend to be the ones having a harder time adapting to drought because their 'toolbox' is smaller."
The UC Davis research team discovered that 99 percent of the ranchers surveyed depend on other ranchers as a trusted source of information. The team's participatory research is tapping into that knowledge and experience so that it can be shared widely to the benefit of other ranchers, as well as policymakers and researchers. The survey is connecting campus directly to ranchers, opening up a wealth of research opportunities that will shed light on what management practices under what conditions work best for California ranchers. Through this study, state and federal resource-management agencies and drought-assistance programs are gaining a better understanding of what drought and other important issues mean to the ranching industry.
Information on how ranchers are dealing with the drought now is giving others in the agriculture industry a comparison of how extensive the drought's impacts will be for them later.
"Other folks in ag are watching," said Tate, "because they're looking to planting time coming up soon for the summer crops, and they don't know how much water they're going to get."
Other researchers involved in the study are Mark Lubell and Tracy Schohr of UC Davis, Justin Derner of the USDA Agricultural Research Service, Bethany Cutts of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Lynn Huntsinger of UC Berkeley. The project is funded by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, and the survey was conducted in partnership with the California Cattlemen's Association and the California Farm Bureau Federation.
More information about the survey can be found online at the Rangeland Watershed Laboratory.
Media contacts:
- Ken Tate, Plant Sciences, (530) 754-8988, email@example.com
- Leslie Roche, Plant Sciences, email@example.com
- Pat Bailey, UC Davis News Service, (530) 752-9843, email@example.com


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As much as politicians in Illinois have had a tradition of corruption, the people of Illinois have had a tradition of accepting it, even expecting it — and long before Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich was accused of trying to put a Senate seat up to the highest bidder.
By Kate Zernike
The New York Times
Otto Kerner, who served as governor in the 1960s, was found to have accepted bribes in the form of racetrack stock only after the track owner deducted it on her taxes as the cost of doing business.
After Paul Powell, an Illinois secretary of state, longtime state legislator and infamous dealmaker, died in 1970, associates discovered $800,000 in undocumented cash in shoeboxes, briefcases and strongboxes in his closet, a considerable cache for a man who had never earned a salary of more than $30,000.
Mr. Powell had emerged unscathed from a grand jury investigation into accusations that he bought stock in a harness racing company. As he said, "It wound up with the grand jurors wanting to know from me where they could buy racetrack stock."
The state's unusually lax laws have allowed corruption to flourish — in fact, prosecutors say, it was the threat of a new campaign finance law that takes effect in January that set Mr. Blagojevich on a last spree of pay-to-play. The tradition was established by the immigrants who settled the state in the 19th century and nurtured by a stubborn system of machine politics that other states eradicated long ago.
"There is this attitude among politicians, and frankly among citizens, that this is the way things are," said Kent Redfield, a professor of political science at the University of Illinois at Springfield. "Politics is for professionals."
The surprise for many Illinoisans last week was not that their governor was arrested, but that he could be brazen enough to try to sell a United States Senate seat when he was already under federal investigation.
Now the culture of his adopted home state threatens to dog President-elect Barack Obama, whose vacated seat in the Senate Mr. Blagojevich is accused of putting up for auction, much as swampy Arkansas politics dogged the last young Democratic politician elected on a platform of change, former President Bill Clinton.
Blagojevich, Obama, Jesse Jackson All Tied Together
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incence, meditation, gold and donations. they are expected to buy food, flowers, give money, paste bankbills into money trees ...
i think the poor people's generousity went too far ... even i had to close my wallet after a while.
incence, meditation, gold and donations. they are expected to buy food, flowers, give money, paste bankbills into money trees ...
i think the poor people's generousity went too far ... even i had to close my wallet after a while.
we packed only bikinis, snorkling stuff and shorts for a long weekend on koh samet.
typically it was the coldest and rainiest day since october.
25 degrees and i caught a flu ;)
a beautiful stroll along the beach with banana pancake made us smile again.
and crazy tourist stuff and detailed toilet signs.
everything can be sold at a thai market. even some hairy friends:
or a t-shirt with the swedish word for friend?!
my friend flew outside europe for the first time and jumped directly on a motor bike for a thai massage!
then dried octopus at bangsaen beach - i'm proud of her!
the markets is the heart of thailand.
people eat, meet, sell and shop at the thousands of markets you can find in every corner.
pottery market at the scandinavian village:
crazy thai couture and oyster omelette at the nearby evening market.
stina needed to cool down the pace with some ice cream.
at a 5 star hotel for alltogether ... 15 euro?
i just had one ugly bikini, but buying a new in thailand is not as easy as i thought.
only tourists use them and bangsaen is genuinely thai.
but a beautiful mall in the next city had everything.
even a wedding fashion show!
i spent the valentines day at 9 tempels. and so did many turtle doves.
this was what i expected:
but i also got to see this in another of the 9 temples we visited:
now i am confused.
robots, skeletons, animals Vs monks, bonsai trees and white buildings.
what is this religion all about?
temple number one after a sleepless night in the bus.
thai people love soft drinks, and so does buddha?
apple milk bubble tea in my hand.
and pool bubbles underneath my foot.
the recipe:
1/3 white wine
2/3 soda water
+ pomelo
my aunt has a cavalier who watches over her and never leaves her side.
feeling feminie.
my first manicure and pedicure ever. felt like a princess, but the loooong waiting made me almost fall asleep.
luckliy they had the thai news on tv. it really differs from our news reports with a lot of entertainment and official ceremonies.
but nothing compared to the cheezy adverts they have.
i love most things i have experienced (especially this day), but not the constantly loud cacophony of music.
have a lovely day <3
resting day
the thai way
thai people seem to eat everywhere and anything.
it's not just about energy, it's a lifestyle.
i had to smell at the durian, but this one i won't dare to try!
i shine like a blanket here, but at least i don't need bleaching beauty products like people here use.
<3 tom yam.
my aunt fed monkeys at the nearby mountain.
this one was the king of the car.
below the hill is thailand's biggest oyster farm.
guess i also have to give them a try?
they were scaringly humane. i'll find out what species?
coconut water, fresh jack fruit, grilled prawns and spicy scallops together with my aunt stina.
= already the most delicious day of the year!
i want to try these dried octupuses some day.
our beautiful prawn vendor.
oh my
i'll fly
to thai
sigh (of gratitude)
mom organised a farewell dinner with memories of christmas.
when i return i hope that this winter will be just a memory.
ultimate weather boredom today: grayness (only one shade), slush, rain and a cool wind.
perfect for packing, working, cleaning and eating well.
together with saga i hosted my 1st radio programme.
our small team of students has made it all: concept, content, music and technique, but it wasn't a piece of cake.
technical challenges, 13 hours working days and plans that change more often than i change socks.
our "radio mom" malin made this utterly serious poster:
we celebrated this rollercoaster week with croissants, fruits and sparkling
- during the night, in the morning, from glasses or from coffee mugs!
later i skyped with my aunt and started packing.
but i had to take a break and introduce anni to johan & nyström.
matcha latte, lemon cake and an engaging discussion.
she has not been accepted to the philosophy programme at cambridge without a reason.
red topping & top reading.
mom and "baked" pastry of today. i have never been a great fan of the traditional runeberg torte, but i am a fan of the man it's named after.
so we turned it raw!
... but managed to destroy 2 mixers. luckily pas deluxe.
worth it? i would argue yes, but not sure about rest of the family.
happy runeberg's day!
why not bike away from conflicts, global warming and other worries?
or just throw the problems into the worry shredder!
i tried both of course ;)
these past weeks have been though but inspiring and the upcoming one is the final test.
i will host the uni radio among other things, but on sunday the big adventure begins:
3,5 weeks at my aunt's place in thailand!
sometimes even i see science as bright, fun and dynamic - heureka!
why not learn starch digestion through ball games?
or simulate cultivation or antigravity on mars: i really liked biology in school, but honestly never really cared about other scientific subjects. probably the formulas and the high level of abstraction scared me away.
... but i think it's not a gender thing.
i had a great sushi dinner with mom the other day and really longed for it. but i always have cravings for sushi ;)
you might wonder what a ..... am i doing here?
i watched another psychosis simuation and then tried a digestive system chaperon to learn where the intestines are placed inside me ;)
heureka might mostly attract kids, but is enlightening for all of us.
in the radio report i sat next to a lonely old man on a bench. he whispered crazy words of wisdom into my microphone.
i really miss our theory of knowledge classes in high school. is there such thing as absolute truth? became a hectic debate.
... or is there even a clear border of madness? i think it is relative and can be just a healthy spice, but always lagom.
i did my 1st live radio reportage today and got a major psychosis
... in a simulator at the world's 1st exhibition of mental problems!
it was kind of challenging when the interviewee appeared just 2 minutes before we went on air and the simulator actually started working a second after the red light went on.
improvisation really is cold shower for all senses and i enjoyed my 6 minutes of radio madness.
do you see someone familiar in this version of the scream ;) ?
i find this painting by edvard munch so fascinating that i actually wrote a short story based on it in 9th grade.
i feel a bit like mårran today, but yummy exotic fruits keep up the thai fever!
i might have lost my mind because i'm watching jungle moomin at the moment ;)
speaking of mårran, stella had a one man theatre performance at kuu a couple of weeks ago. in deforst this cool tove jansson character cried and melted my heart (... as well as the ice cream ;) )
the last week's been too cold, too dark and too busy for photoblogging. i was the producer of our first radio talk show ever called helium and i'm so proud of our team i could ... levitate ;)
working the whole weekend
but got a evening date
with my best mate
pizza partying
extra everything
trying to kill my tummy bug with some fresh air (-10 degrees).
in a couple of weeks i will be flying towards the equator.
a slow walk in eskimo clothes in this winter wonderland wasn't too bad ;)
luna gave my bed linen with picturesque motifs for birthday.
i even spotted my beloved diana f+
now it has its place in my heart, but also on my heart.
sweet dreams are made of these ...
like a chameleon. the wall changes pattern according to the colour of the light.
alarm clock ringing at 4:45.
a nice "recovery" after the holidays.
i shoot this for an article that never needed to be written.
cygnaeus was a lovely old school and i felt like becoming a small student again!
... i might regret it on monday morning ;)
after a short training i almost fell asleep in the shower, but luckily i had a relaxing and delicious evening in front of me.
my old highschool gang (-mahanta) had a great chat at fafa's.
nice to have the fresh law graduate from england back.
this close friend is studying in the same kingdom, but she returns next week. our forth "member" flew already to london on sunday.
yes sabina, falafels are actually great!
i had never tried real ones, only avoided the gooey wannabees that they serve at unicafé when the veggie food run out.
after a great epiphany dinner i (sort of) accepted that the holidays are over and "moved" back to tölö.
my amaryllis had jumped off the windowsill.
fine - i get it! christmas really is passé.
but it got replaced by a fresh orchid from a photo friend.
it triggers the thai fever!
photo editing, basso radio, buying yoga shorts, dentist and exotic smoothies = calm tuesday chill.
i feel like my art is geeting rooted. this is me and others seem to like it - acceptance.
documenting with my lensbaby in the blue hour.
seems like it is the best light we have for now - either shades of grey or dark as in a sack.
dad was called my "assistant" yesterday, and not without a reason. he gave feedback on my choice of pictures, bought paper with me, visited kinuskilla to plan and measure, lended his printer ... and his height was useful when hanging the photos. invaluable in other words!
and as you see photography has flooded into my veins from both parents. here are dad's vernissage photos:
toasting with good old friends!
what is the link between these four women? a connection to me and the camera.
stella and paul after cake.
the leica lovers.
check out some more here!
i didn't have time for photography at the opening night, but luckily mom and dad brought their cameras.
for the first time i show you photos taken by someone else than me.
here are mom's documentative captures from yesterday:
these helsinki girls were not the only ones struggling to find the way, but i am so grateful that they made it!
- which one is your favourite? discussed mom's good friends (intitially her's but now also my friends).
some cousins popped by between the little man's, my god son's, soccer games nearby.
my god parents bought some art works - thank you!
talented photo buddies who arrived from as far as hangö!
eagerness, creativity ... crazyness ;) ?
thank you for coming, and for all the flowers!
what a vernissage!
thanks guys - i hope this won't be my last one. around 40 guests oriented themselves out to kinuskilla this rainy saturday.
and for you who missed it, it will hang there until the end of february. i might even organise a second meeting there later this month!
i already sold some copies, but please buy more ;)
my brother an his chef friend hosted a new year's dinner with farang menu at my parents home. i was a proud and drooling big sister.
this is parts of his "school bag". we left the gentlemen for parties elsewhere.
i brought my lensbaby with me. it needs care and practice.
we celebrated pre-new year at erika's on monday.
jonna leads the wine tasting and we had chocolate, chocolate cookies, chocolate fondue ... ;)
time to calm down when erika started the fortune telling ceremony. i asked questions about coming events and it seemed logical.
me and luna both asked about thailand and the same tarot card showed up! we have to be prepared to wait for something and keep our things in order ...
so, as long as i have the right attitude this will be a great year!
this saturday 4th of January from 2 to 4pm at kinuskilla. the exhibition hangs there until the end of february. welcome!
rafaela is now leaving for an exchange programme in the middle of canada.
i will miss my "prima skinka" <3
we had a relaxing evening at her family's house with board games, packing, physiotherapy, fish soup and fresh dates.
some people say christmas is over, but i choose not to believe them.
and tonight we have one more reason to celebrate: new year's eve. will you make any promises?
i made one last year and it held, this year i promise to focus on sleeping.
i'm reading a travel guide about thailand and dreaming away ...
9th of February I will fly towards my other aunt who lives there, and a week later luna joins!
hope to buy silk, dive, make excursions and meet elephants <3
today it was our turn to host the christmas party.
cake, cake and more cake.
read, relax, laugh and drink mulled wine like our elves during the night ...
is that it unites people. first 4th advent with the family, then ginger bread baking and mulled wine with the girls and finally more mulled wine with family friends.
of these lovely people five were homeflewn from abroad.
two of my bestest: the scott and the german.
these two i have known since birth! and they have not disappeared anywhere ;).
we might be the smallest, but certainly not the most quiet: we made a christmas carol trio.
and the silly bakers! we made tricolore ginger breads since three people made and brought dough of totally different colour.
these look nice, but we managed to cause a smoke disaster as well ;)
welcome to helsinki during the darkest day of the year!
at least we see the cosy chrismas lights, but thank good we now move towards brighter times!
today's saldo:
christmas candies * 3
gingerbread spiced granola
dried apple rings
= a day made for cooking
thanks luna for inviting me over!
i snooped around in her aesthetic home and was impressed by her carob from malaga, the maaany pillows, her freezer full of homemade food (like mine), and her beauty table.
these are lunar colours. she is a lady, but with a practical and an adventurous (rather cleptomaniac) edge <3
i woke up hungry and made us a satsuma & sharon salad with ginger.
luna soon joined and cooked christmas porridge with plum or apple jam, i took both ;)
this was our view from the breakfast table.
slow poetry before a short slippery sunshine run along the river.
buddies chatting and sweating together, like in the old days <3
one of my best friends has lived in åbo for 2,5 years and i haven't visited her - until now!
but better late than never.
our early evening turned into a
late night show with petite μ and luna
in the moonlight ...
i lived high up at luna's, but also visited my summer friend frida's cosy christmas home.
candles & coregonus lavaretus.
my lussecats ended up in these peoples tummies.
sem is chewing with severe concentration.
et voilà!.. we did not run out of energy.
tears, hugs, and laughter. most of my class mates flew back home and left me here in the wet darkness.
i will certainly let these girls guide me around if (no, when!) i ever go to munich.
i was buying chestnuts at stockmann and stumbled upon my old class mate. i sat down in her makeup chair and abracadabra: the petite troll looked polished.
only a quick makeup was possible, because being still and quiet is impossible when you have a couple of years to catch up.


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Jabrin fort is located about 200Km southwest of muscat or 40 Km from Nizwa. Jabrin Fort was built by Imam Sultan bin Saif Al Ya'arubi in 1670. It was a castle initially and afterward two towers were added to it and it was transformed to a fort when Imam moved his capital from Nizwa to Jabrin. You may find defensive measures such as hidden holes for shooting and for pouring boiling date oil on the invaders behind the gates just like those in Nizwa fort. The fort includes many rooms for Imam and his wives, guests and soldiers,a large date store, a stable at the first floor! a Mosque and a Quran school at the roof top, a spacious kitchen and a beautiful courtyard in addition to separate prisons for men and women. The fort also has its own water wells and an irrigation channel (Falaj) flowing through it. The castle has rooms and ceilings decorated with fine carvings. Jabrin fort arguably is the most impressive fort in the Sultanate and the details and carvings in the rooms and balconies are most elaborate. Finely painted flowers and symbols are found on the ceilings in the 'living' rooms. After his death Imam was buried in this fort and his very modest tomb lies within the fort.
Modern civilization began right here in the Tigris-Euphrates river valley. Also known as the Fertile Crescent or Mesopotamia, this is the place where, six thousand years ago, agriculture, writing and mathematics were brought into widespread use.The term "Middle East" comes from the British navy, which used it to describe the countries on the trade route from Europe to India and China. Everything from Afghanistan to Morocco may possibly be classified as "middle eastern", depending on whom you ask -- and when.Only a partial list of past Empires in the middle eastern territory includes Sumeria, Babylonia, Persia, the Ottoman Empire and the Roman Empire!When northern Europe was still lurking about in slimy cold stone castles playing chess, the Middle East was enjoying the flowers of poetry, luxurious craftsmanship, music and literature. In fact, the Renaissance in Europe was partly inspired by stories brought back from the middle east by travelers along the trade route.Strategic location, religious history and the world's largest supply of crude oil have kept the Middle East at the center of world activity for centuries. The saga continues.Text by Steve Smith.


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Registration will be open from 6:45 to 8:00 for all riders due to the
warm weather.
Ride for Schools is an organized fundraising bike ride that will raise
money and awareness to benefit our local public schools. With 100% of
the fundraising proceeds given to participating public schools, this is
a great way to have some fun while helping to make sure that our
children get the education they deserve.
The ride will take place on June 27th 2015 with options of 25 and 40
mile routes, both starting and finishing at Aloha High School. Riders
for the 40 mile route will start between 7:00 AM and 7:30 AM, and Riders
for the 25 mile route will start between 7:30 AM and 8:00 AM. All
participants will pay $25 (early registration price) to register for the supported bike ride, and
are then required to commit to raising a minimum of $35 for the
participating school district of their choice (see list below). 100% of
the fundraising proceeds will be given to the schools.
Local public schools are in dire need of our help. The majority of funding for public education comes from state and local taxes, but these sources are unable to fully fund programs that are needed to educate our children. Oregon schools have the third highest class sizes, and one of the shortest school years in the nation. Our schools have been forced to lay off thousands of teachers and students are being crammed into overcrowded classrooms. Our children and our communities deserve better.
100% of the fundraising proceeds will be given to participating public schools.
Each school district has its own challenges, so each will use the donations they receive differently; some will use the money for teacher salaries to support smaller class sizes, other districts will use their donations to help support programs like homework clubs and summer school, others may buy new textbooks or computers. However they choose to allocate the donations, all will use the money to benefit our children by improving their education.
The options for schools districts to donate to in Ride For Schools 2015 are Beaverton, Hillsboro, Lake Oswego, Portland, Tigard / Tualatin, and Sherwood.
The 25 mile route is relatively flat with a total of 460 feet of climbing over the length of the course. Riders will pedal past farmlands and orchards along country roads as they head out of Beaverton and into Hillsboro. This is sure to be a fun ride, and a great way to support your local schools.
The 40 mile route is the more challenging ride. It has 1640 feet of climbing with some rolling hills and a level 4 climb up Holly Hill. Riders will pedal past farmlands and orchards along country roads as they head out of Beaverton, into Tigard, along the outskirts of Sherwood, and into Hillsboro before returning. This is sure to be a great ride for those that like to be challenged, and a great way to support your local schools.
Help spread the word, by posting this downloadable poster at your work
or favorite community bulletin board: Download Poster
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Professors critique standardized test
October 03, 2011
In an effort to better understand the experience of their students, Mary Stuart Rogers Professor of Education Ruth Shagoury and Instructor of Teacher Education Andie Cunningham decided to take the Praxis Reading Specialist Test, a two-hour, 120-question exam required to obtain a reading endorsement.
Their analysis of the exam, captured in this article for Rethinking Schools, brings up concerns about political subtext and questions whether the test measures what matters for a successful teaching career.
"In the long run, we can't stop the damaging effects of standardized testing on the children until we examine the impact it is having on teachers as well as on the larger culture of schools." Read the full article at Rethinking Schools.
Teacher Education at Lewis & Clark


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Tori Spelling's fourth pregnancy was anything but smooth sailing.
The 39-year-old actress and reality star opened up to Us Weekly in its latest issue about the life-threatening condition that posed danger to her and her unborn baby.
Twenty weeks into her pregnancy with baby Finn, Spelling was diagnosed with placenta previa, in which the placenta covers the cervix and causes severe bleeding. Her risks included the possibility of catastrophic hemorrhage that could even force termination of her pregnancy. (The condition resulted in part from conceiving Finn just one month after daughter Hattie's birth last October and having had three prior C-sections.)
U.S. & World
Tori Spelling released from hospital after emergency surgery
Spelling spent 10 weeks hospitalized and four months on bed rest. "I just remember thinking, I can't leave three children behind," she says. In addition to baby Finn, Spelling and husband Dean McDermott are parents to Liam, 5, Stella, 4, and Hattie, 12 months.
After nine massive bleeds, Spelling welcomed Finn on Aug. 30, but underwent emergency surgery three weeks later as a result of her C-section scars reopening.
"When they put him in my arms I was like, 'We made it,''" she told the mag. "We have an insane bond. We've been through hell and back."


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Sets of 3 Maps or 3 DVDs
We have three Maps and three DVDs covering the waterways of the Fens. These are now available in sets of three at discounted prices. They are still available individually as River Nene – Maps or DVDs Middle Level Navigations – Continue reading Sets of 3 Maps or 3 DVDs