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It is important ro NEVER LET ANYONE FORGET just how corrupt GLENVILLE West Virginia in Gilmer County is. The latest test to show corruption, lawlessness, and wrongdoing has just been illustrated with six years of court regarding the COTTRILL ESTATE — Willard Cottrill was murdered for his money and his property, and not a god damn thing has been done about it, or the drug deal real estate sale of the estate which seems to be JUST OK with Judge ALSOP of Webster Springs West Virginia. This article brings forth another kind of corruption and ran with this title a few years back:
GIMME SHELTER from the GSC FRIGHT HOUSE on the HILL in the VILLE!! It is ALL WRONG! There is NO RIGHT at PIONEER VILLAGE and the CHURCH of IKE!
By Free Bird — Revenge of the Ghost Wolf Reporter for the Central West Virginia Secret Seven Coalition/Hurricane Rina McCoy – Crooked County Crooks Editor/Editor Edison – CalPatty Press Editor
Colleges and universities are required by federal law to have a sexual assault policy to deal with rape and sexual assault on campus but when it comes to the CHURCH of IKE there are no laws because IKE MORRIS has bought off the local WV STATE POLICE!!
Most colleges are required by law to make this information widely and easily available to the campus community, but not at Glenville State College where all the young WHITE PUSSY is FREE if you play football for IKE MORRIS and GSC!!…. Oh come on sing it chorus!
Rape, murder!
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
Rape, murder!
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
The brothers are threat'ning
My very life today
Gimme, gimme shelter
Or I'm gonna fade away
This normal policy includes a disciplinary procedure against the perpetrator that is separate from what happens if you report the crime to the police, but in Gilmer County there ARE NO POLICE only people that take orders from SANDY PETTIT Church of IKE Mouthpiece who heads up the democratic executive committee, and they are the same people that allowed Gilmer County Sheriff Mickey Metz to run for magistrate with full knowledge that he had phony credentials.
GIMME SHELTER from the GSC FRIGHT HOUSE on the HILL in the VILLE!! It is ALL WRONG! There is NO RIGHT at PIONEER VILLAGE and the CHURCH of IKE!
Oh, another CHURCH of IKE Storm is threat'ning
My very life today
If I don't get some shelter
Oh yeah, I'm gonna fade away
RAPE BABY It's just a SHOT AWAY!
Gimme Shelter, or I'm gonna fade away!
The only people that have helped any of the RAPE VICTIMS at GSC have been the Central West Virginia Secret Seven Coalition!!
Policies vary enormously and are usually designed by the school to protect itself legally from potential lawsuits by the perpetrator, AMANDA SMITH who was sexually assaulted and almost died in the hospital is bringing a federal lawsuit against Glenville State College for her life and college career being destroyed.
Glenville State leads the STATE of WV in RAPE and their policy after a sexual assault takes place is to call house cleaning to come and clean up the evidence and we got that from a resident assistant at Goodwin HALL.
· Men in fraternities appear to engage in more non-physical coercion and prefer instead to use drugs and alcohol as a sexual strategy and this technique was used on GSC HONOR student AMANDA SMITH while she was held down…
· Every 21 hours there is another rape on an American college campus.
· 90% of all campus rapes occur under the influence of alcohol.
· Men are more likely than women to assume that a woman who drinks alcohol on a date is a willing sex partner. 40% of men who think this way also believe it is acceptable to force sex on an intoxicated woman.
· Alcohol use at the time of the attack was found to be one of the four strongest predictors of a college woman being raped.
· 43% of college men admit using coercive behavior to have sex, including ignoring a woman's protest; using physical aggression; and forcing intercourse; 15% acknowledged they had committed acquaintance rape; 11% acknowledged using physical restraint to force a woman to have sex.
· College rape victims receive external physical injuries in over 47% of all rapes.
· Of the college woman who are raped, only 25% describe it as rape.
· Of the college women who are raped, only 10% report the rape.
· College women are most vulnerable to rape during the first few weeks of the freshman and sophomore years.
· One in twelve college-age men admit having fulfilled the prevailing definition of rape or attempted rape, yet virtually none of these men identify themselves as rapists.
· 34% of completed rapes and 45% of attempted rapes take place on campus. Almost 60% of the completed campus rapes that take place on campus occur in the victim's residence, 31% occur in another residence, and 10% occur in a fraternity.
· 3/4 of off-campus rapes and 7/8 of on-campus rapes involved perpetrators who were known to the victims.
· 78% of the men identified (as rapists) were an acquaintance, friend or boyfriend of the victims.
· Most rapes occur on the weekend.
Brandi Phillips from Glenville State College made a statement on the police report that … "Meghan Ruddlesden came into my room crying and asking to talk to Jodi, I asked why she was crying and then she just started crying hard and then said she was raped!"
The Office for Civil Rights of the Department of Education is responsible for insuring that schools have a fair and equitable policy on sexual assault prevention and response, but those laws don't apply to the Church of Ike and is one rule of law that Sandy Pettit doesn't like! They make up their own laws in Crooked County!
You can file a complaint against your school with them, and pursue the issue like Amanda Smith. The main office is in Washington, but there are branches throughout the country.
In addition to internal administrative remedies available within most schools, but not the HOME OF RAPE GSC a victim may exercise her legal rights against the perpetrator and/or the school under one or more of the following options, explained in more detail below:
• civil lawsuit for negligence
• civil lawsuit for intentional assault and/or battery, emotional distress, etc.
• civil rights lawsuit (under sec. 1983, Title 9 or state constitutional or statutory law)
• criminal prosecution
• "no contact" or "stay away" order in criminal court
• restraining order in civil court
• injunction in civil court
• federal Department of Education's Office for Civil rights
• federal Department of Education's Office on Financial Aid (enforces the "Clery Act" which requires public reporting of campus crimes)
• restraining order in civil court
• state commission against discrimination
• 357 Magnum beside the bed cocked and locked
Put some notches on that GUN and tell that NEGRO to RUN!!
Rape, murder!
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
The Secret Seven Coalition has the most facts and figures and documentation involving the multiple rapes and will bringing all that data forward for a national news service who recently had a 45 minute interview with the SC of the SS for Central West Virginia.
Schools can be sued by the victims as well. Activists like the Central WV SS and the threat of their civil rights suits have forced some schools to put fair and supportive policies in place. If a disciplinary board believes the victim's testimony, the rapist can face expulsion. If you have been raped you have to decide whether to report the rape to the campus police and begin the process through your school and whether or not you are also going to report the rape to the police in the city or county. These are not mutually exclusive processes.
Most of the rape that happens on campuses occurs between people who know one another. This means that you will probably see the rapist in classes, the student center or even in the dormitories.
In the case of Meghan Ruddlesden she met O'Neil Blake on freshman orientation day and he was suppose to come over just to hang out that August 22, but what did the hanging out was the PENIS of the defensive back for Glenville State College Football team, after he pulled out the breasts of freshman popular athlete Ruddlesden in an offensive and threatening manner after she told him to …"STOP, don't touch me, I feel uncomfortable!" However, in the tradition of GSC that was the Que for the BIG P to come out and party like it was a ERIK DAVIS, WILKIE PEREZ, GABE PROPHET, Saturday night with all the thrills of a Butcher Bitches Beach Blanket Bingo Extravaganza!
Consider the impact of this on your ability to have any kind of normal social life while trying to learn and thrive in college!!
Remember every female GSC student is legally entitled to get a stay away order from your school, allowing you to change dormitories and preventing him, the negro, don't lay on your back unless he is black BARR CODE GILMER COUNTY RAPIST from coming near you.
Title IX of the Civil Rights Act gives us the right to equal access to educational opportunities, is good in 49 states, but seems to have no meaning in West Virginia.
"A Civil Right in Gilmer County doesn't mean jack shit for the Crooks from Crooked County that live down by the River can't even fathom that concept!"
Just HOLD ON to your britches and beware of those Butcher Bitches while ya GIMME SHELTER from the GSC FRIGHT HOUSE on the HILL in the VILLE


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SanDisk unveiled its next-generation solid-state drives (SSDs) at the International CES. One series is aimed at the hot netbook market and the other at laptops. The company's new higher-performance SSD for laptops are priced at less than US$250 for a 120GB model and are being positioned as a "drop-in replacement" for hard disk drives to extend the life of existing hardware.
The new G3 notebook and pSSD netbook drives boast sequential read/write speeds of 200MB/sec 140MB/sec, respectively.
If those performance claims pan out, the drive would surpass Intel's 10-channel consumer-class X25-M SSD drives for write speeds. The X25-M model has a sequential read and write rate of up to 250MB/sec and 70MB/sec, respecitively.
SanDisk's new pSSD-P2 and SanDisk pSSD-S2 SSDs for netbooks are 1.8-in. drives built on SanDisk's 43-nanometer multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash memory. They are expected to become available in February in 8GB, 16GB, 32GB and 64GB capacities.
"Netbooks represent the fastest-growing PC segment in 2009 and 2010, yet widespread adoption of SSDs in netbooks has been limited by speed, capacity and cost constraints," Rich Heye, general manager of solid-state drives at SanDisk, said in a statement.
SanDisk did not release pricing for the new netbook SSD drives, saying only that a 32GB modular SSD is priced at parity with 2.5-in. HDDs in reseller quantities.
SanDisk's third-generation of 2.5-in. laptop SSDs are priced lower than other consumer SSDs on the market at $149 for a 60GB model, $249 for a120GB version and $499 for a 240GB drive, according to Doreet Oren, marketing director for SanDisk's SSD business. The G3 series SSDs are expected to be available in mid-2009.
By comparison, Intel's 80GB X25-M drive is priced at US$595.
Doreet said the G3 drives are also the fastest on the market today and are five times faster than 7,200-rpm hard drives and more than twice as fast as SanDisk's previous generation of notebook SSDs, offering 400 write IOPS and 4,000 read IOPS.
"This is definitely the fastest SSD on the market today. This is a totally new controller in these drives, with new flash management software -- Extreme FFS," Doreet said.
SanDisk announced its Extreme FFS advanced flash file system in November, saying it is optimized to work with Windows Vista and has the potential to accelerate random write speeds by up to 100 times over those in existing systems.
SanDisk said it's hoping the new lower prices will prompt companies to choose SSD as a replacement for existing laptop hard drives instead of spending money on all new machines.
"These existing WinXP notebooks can be upgraded to a 60GB SSD for $149, resulting in a system that frequently outperforms a new notebook with a HDD, thereby delaying the need for large capital purchases," Heye said.

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It may be hard to imagine life without your smartphone, but the two of you could easily become separated. The mobile security company Lookout expected Americans would lose more than $30 billion worth of phones during 2012. In New York and San Francisco, police say more than 40 percent of all robberies now involve cellphones.
If your smartphone is lost or stolen, a brand-new Apple iPhone 5 could cost you as much as $900 without the subsidy that comes with a carrier contract. It's enough to make you want to put your smartphone under lock and key — or take out an insurance policy.
A few years back, smartphone insurance may not have seemed worthwhile, but today it's "just plain smart," says Liran Hirschkorn, an independent insurance broker in New York City.
"With the cost of insuring a phone at about $8 to $12 per month, it's well worth it if you lose your phone to have coverage," Hirschkorn says.
But Consumer Reports doesn't think so. Last May, it included cellphone insurance as one of the "insurance policies you don't need." The policies come with lots of fine print, plus your phone may be too old or otherwise not valuable enough to insure.
Doesn't my other insurance cover this?
In theory, your smartphone may already be covered under your homeowners insurance or renters policy. But in reality, it probably doesn't make financial sense to file a claim for a phone, says Hirschkorn, because deductibles on those policies — what you have to pay out of pocket before the insurance kicks in — are typically $500 to $1,000. And that's at the low end.
If you claim a lost or stolen phone under a renters or homeowners policy, you won't net very much, and your premiums could end up increasing as a result.
How does smartphone insurance work?
In many ways, the special smartphone insurance, similar to policies that cover computers and other expensive electronic gear, works like most other types of insurance. The policies cover loss, theft and damage.
Technology insurer Asurion offers mobile phone coverage through partnerships with the major wireless carriers. Monthly premiums start at about $7 and go up to around $12, says Asurion spokeswoman Bettie Colombo. The premium reflects the cost of the phone, she says, so iPhones and other more expensive models bring the higher premiums.
As with other kinds of insurance, there are deductibles and coverage limits. The deductibles range from as much as $199 with Asurion to as much as $125 at competing smartphone insurer Protect Your Bubble and $50 at Safeware, another rival. Common coverage limits are $1,500 per claim and a maximum of two claims within a 12-month period.
Protect Your Bubble may ask that a claim be accompanied by a police report, to make sure that the policy wasn't purchased after the loss. The company also insists on some waiting time before the policy takes effect.
"The device needs to be less than 12 months old, and there is a 14-day waiting period on making a claim," says Stephen Ebbett, president of Protect Your Bubble.
What happens when you make a claim?
Typically, consumers with smartphone insurance can expect a replacement phone shipped to them overnight, to arrive the following business day. Speed is an important part of this type of coverage, says Colombo, because "you need your phone back fast to reconnect with friends, family and professional contacts."
"When Asurion no longer has inventory of a specific phone model, we work with our wireless partners to identify phone models that are equal to, or superior, in features, functionality, operating system, etc.," she adds.
Other smartphone insurers may handle the availability issue differently. For example, if Protect Your Bubble can't get you an exact replacement for your phone, it will send a check for the value, minus the deductible, Ebbett says.
Is the coverage right for you?
In a lot of ways, the question of whether or not to spring for smartphone coverage is a personal one.
"I've found insurance for my smartphone to be a very helpful purchase," says Wendi McAden, a public relations professional in West Hollywood, Calif. "Through clumsiness and absentmindedness, I've left myself victim to stolen phones, phones dropped in toilets, and phones I just couldn't remember where I'd left them."
For McAden, the $9.99 a month she pays to insure her iPhone is really about peace of mind because she knows that losing or breaking her phone won't take a chunk out of her wallet. But, she says, smartphone insurance may not be for everyone.
"For those who may be more responsible, it may not be necessary," she says.
In other words, consumers should weigh the downside risk (the retail price for a replacement) against their propensity to lose or break their phone. Consumer Reports, in questioning the value of cellphone insurance, noted that a 2009 survey by the magazine found that few readers who bought new phones did so to replace phones that were lost, stolen or broken.
When a phone is older or has fewer bells and whistles, do some math to determine whether the device is worth insuring. A deductible coupled with smartphone insurance premiums might easily have you paying too much to replace an outdated phone that's lost, stolen or broken.


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TORONTO - Being forced to pay more for bacon and sausages left a bad taste with some consumers in the last quarter, but Maple Leaf Foods is anticipating that the higher prices will not act as a deterrent for much longer.
The Toronto-based meat processor, which also makes hot dogs and deli meats, said a price hike helped the company achieve a nearly 10 per cent increase in sales in the second quarter, topping $831.7 million. But although its total sales were higher, the prices resulted in consumers buying less.
Maple Leaf president and chief executive Michael McCain said it is a trend he expects to eventually abate.
"As expected, a price increase of this magnitude had a short term impact on volumes," he told an analyst call Thursday following the company's latest earnings release.
"This volume decline was most dramatic after the first weeks of the price increase, but since then, has been steadily recovering. We're cautiously optimistic all our volumes will be restored, but patience is required."
In May, the company raised prices on all its products by an average eight per cent because of an outbreak of the Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea (PED) Virus, which has killed millions of piglets since it was discovered last year.
The virus does not affect humans or the food they consume, but is estimated to have wiped out about 10 per cent of the U.S. pig population and has been blamed for recent increases in bacon and pork prices. Farmers have struggled to control the virus, because little is known about how it spreads and there is not yet a federally approved vaccine in the U.S.
McCain said whether consumers will get used to buying pork products at the higher prices, still remains one of the factors that could hurt the company.
"The pace of which this occurs is one of the outstanding risk factors for the balance of this year," he said.
BMO economist Aaron Goertzen wrote in a report that hog prices are at the highest level since the mid-1990s, but the outlook is somewhat positive because the PED virus looks like it is dying down — for the moment.
"Although a PED flare-up can't be ruled out, futures markets appear optimistic that the worst has passed and are pricing in a sharp decline in hog prices over the remainder of this year and in 2015," Goertzen said.
Meanwhile, Maple Leaf (TSX:MFI) reported a profit of $897.8 million or $6.38 per share in its latest quarter boosted by the sale of its 90 per cent stake in Canada Bread to Mexican company Grupo Bimbo. That compared with a loss of $2.5 million or two cents per share a year ago.
Sales for the three-month period ended June 30 totalled $831.8 million, up from $759.3 million.
The company's loss from continuing operations for the second quarter was $39.5 million or 28 cents per share compared with a loss of $38.4 million or 27 cents per share year.
The results for the quarter included $20 million or 11 cents per share of pre-tax costs related to restructuring and other related costs.
In April, Maple Leave announced it was closing its wiener production plant in Hamilton and moving workers to a new bigger facility in the same city, west of Toronto.
The company also plans to close four meat plants by the end of the year. Once its restructuring plan is finished, it will operate 13 meat plants instead of 22, and two distribution centres instead of 19.
McCain said the company was making "good progress" on its strategic agenda, although transition costs continue to be significant.
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Beat the Streak Report: Thursday, August 19
Since I'm not eligible to win the $3 million Beat the Streak grand prize, I might as well try to help you out. Every weekday, make sure to check out the Beat the Streak Report to improve your odds with all the stats goodness you could ever dream of. You know, assuming you could use an extra three mill.
August 19
Geoff Croke just keeps Rolen along.
Our leader, a.k.a. "gfc2112," is sitting pretty at 43 games after a 1-for-5 performance by the Reds third baseman last night at Arizona.
Was the .285 career hitter a slightly risky pick? Sure — he wasn't among Wednesday's 15 most popular selections.
But he came into the game with seven hits in his last 11 at-bats, and I can't ever fault a streaker for picking against Rodrigo Lopez and a D-backs relief corps that close couldn't the bullpen door, let alone a game.
Anyway, the popular picks also panned out yesterday, with 12 of the 13 most-used players advancing gamers — if you count Joey Votto and Alex Rodriguez receiving the ol' did-not-play pass.
Vlad Guerrero and Albert Pujols led the way, each going 1-for-4 to help a combined 16.6 percent of players.
Time for Thursday's picks
Oh, hello there …
? James Loney: .533 AVG (8-for-15) lifetime vs. Rockies starter Jorge De La Rosa
? Denard Span: .429 AVG (12-for-28) lifetime vs. White Sox starter Mark Buehrle
? Ryan Ludwick: .500 AVG (7-for-14) lifetime vs. Cubs starter Carlos Zambrano
? Miguel Cabrera: .444 AVG (4-for-9) lifetime vs. Yankees starter Phil Hughes
Feeling kinda spicy?
? Howard Kendrick: .409 AVG (9-for-22) lifetime vs. Red Sox starter Josh Beckett
You'll thank me later …
? Adrian Beltre: .186 AVG (8-for-43) lifetime vs. Angels starter Ervin Santana
? Alexei Ramirez: .125 AVG (2-for-16) lifetime vs. Twins starter Carl Pavano
? Jimmy Rollins: .083 AVG (1-for-12) lifetime vs. Giants starter Jonathan Sanchez
? Andre Ethier: .091 AVG (1-for-11) lifetime vs. Rockies starter Jorge De La Rosa
Leaderboard time!
Croke has pulled away from the pack Secretariat style, but "Jeabullseye" keeps chugging along in second place at 28 games.
"rtaylor2001" and "warriorcub" remain tied for third two games back.
They'll to need to kick their picking skills into high gear to make up that 15-game gap. I recommend searching the internet for BTS cheat codes. The one that starts with A, B, left trigger usually works.
Or not.
Top MLB streakers
? Alexei Ramirez: 12 games
? Bobby Abreu: 10 games
? Jose Lopez: 10 games
? Dan Uggla: 10 games
? Carl Crawford: 9 games
? David Ortiz: 9 games
? B.J. Upton: 9 games
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Entering today: 46 game days remaining. Minimum current streak required to have a chance at the prizes (assuming season ends Oct 3rd).
Abbreviations: DL=Streak Start Deadline, CS=Current Streak Needed, TS=Target
(*) Playing for a tie? add 1 to DL and minus 1 from CS & TS
BTS Countdown
Top Prize ($3M): CS:11, TS:57, DL:Aug 8th
*Consolation ($10K): CS:0, TS:44, DL:Aug 21st (pending)
NOTE: Deadline moves backwards each day high streak continues
Survivor Countdown {tickets are for 2011 All-Star Game & Homerun Derby}
Top Prize (2 tickets+travel+hotel+$10K): CS:0, TS:37, DL:Aug 28th
*Consolation (2 tickets only): CS:0, TS:30, DL:Sept 4th (pending)
Well we get two blogs instead of one today but we know things happen. I can't wait until 1 to see who the leader picked but I'm still going as well and here are my picks and I would like to say I should be at 4 in HR BTS but on Monday I changed from Miggy to Stanton and that was a mistake but oh well.
BTS- Hanley, he hits Maholm well and is hitting .393 in Pitt in his career even after the 0 fer yesterday but I like the odds that he hits Maholm against so that is my pick.
HR BTS- Hamilton, he hasn't hit a homer in a few days so he's due and wind is blowing out to right in Balt.
Survivor-Tampa Bay, I had the Twins but Chisox are playing for the division title and they don't want to fall further back so I switched to Tampa. Sonnanstine has been making spot starts for injured players and has been pitching awesome in those spots and Tampa is tied for first so they have a lot to play for so that is my pick.
Good luck to rest of my fellow bloggers today. Moment of truth is in 5 mins.
I like ATL for Survivor. NATs missing Dunn/I-Rod in lineup while AT playing near full strength. Hoping Prado gets a hit or two.
Regarding leader's pick… Gotta wait and see.
Loney hasn't faced De La Rosa this year, he's batting 4th @ home (probably) and is only batting 220 since All-Star break but improving a bit @ 262 for August. Guess we hope for a low scoring game and a lefty reliever facing him in 8th/9th if hes 0-fer at that point. Let MLB deal with tie breaker rules for Geoff & Dick.
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Thursday's Top Picks of the current Top2500, 142 Batters picked overall.
Batter, Times Picked, Percentage
Delmon Young 232 9.28(2ND & 3RD)
Victor Martinez 186 7.44
Hanley Ramirez 183 7.32
Miguel Cabrera 172 6.88(GOOD)(3RD)
Josh Hamilton 154 6.16
Robinson Cano 136 5.44(GOOD)
Vladimir Guerrero 127 5.08
Omar Infante 85 3.4(GOOD)(5TH)
Michael Young 76 3.04
Joe Mauer 64 2.56
Placido Polanco 52 2.08
Derek Jeter 50 2(GOOD)
Nick Swisher 49 1.96(GOOD)
Adrian Gonzalez 48 1.92(currently 0-3)
No Selection 37 1.48
James Loney 32 1.28(1RST)
Alex Gonzalez 13 0.52(GOOD)(5TH)
Yesterday's Top2500 Reset was 15% with J. Hamilton killing the most hopes and dreams. And 5.9% paused.
Highest "No Selection":Pg# 1 with a streak of 21 back to zero.
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UserName, Streak, Page#, Rank, Pick
forcook, 18, pg 3, 55, M. Cabrera(GOOD)
baseballgirlie13, 14, pg 15, 295, M. Cabrera(GOOD)
gamara21, 11, pg, 50, 779, M. Prado(GOOD)
potdude48, 11, pg 59, 779, E. Andrus
GL to all
@vinny1979: Your streak stays steady today, unless pinching. Hanley out of lineup (day of rest) per rotoworld.com
@any one else: Pedroia (foot) out of lineup today
Friday 8-20
Wind blowing out toward left field
HR BTS tip:
Dempster gives up alot of HR's
Jurgin's of Braves is HR hittable (Soriano?)
BTS – ChiSox v. KC – Pierre, Alexi Ramirez, Konerko are hot.
19 hits so far v. Twins tonight
@dragbunt: You picked just about the only Twins to get a hit. Bottom 8th; doubtful Mauer/Span come up again. Delmon Young just pulled; all 0-fer. Add to those 0-fers Polanco, Hamilton, V.Martinez & a few other notables, it's going to be a rough BTS day. Here's hoping Loney joins that group tonight — his game just underway.
I know very little about COL pitchers except of course Jimenez. Didn't even know De La Rosa was a southpaw. Loney is hitting just 221 this year against lefties. Leader doesn't check the splits obviously. But then again, he picked Hanley, who has very similar numbers against lefties, & we all know Hanley moved the leader along a couple days ago against a lefty. Loney is another pick against the odds, will leader's luck hold out yet another day? Currently in 4th, 0 for 2, due up again in 6th/7th.
I guess high batting avg. against the pitcher don't mean Jack when you're not hitting. Then again, the leader should have learned that lesson when he got away with the same MO for how many times? The line between a hit and 0-fer is very thin. You can only skate on that for so long.
Thank you COL manager for not being a lazy bum and bringing in the LHP. That is why COL had so many come from behind wins. They don't give up.
I am quite sure the tiebreaker goes to Dick. He had far less one hit games. According to one of the posts here, he had many multiple hit games up to low 30s. His string of one hit games only started a week before his fall.
Don't rule out Dick yet. He has been furiously regathering himself ever since the new leader started to pack some hit. Dick is back up to 14 now.
Well Loney is 0-3 and is not scheduled to bat again in the game if the Dodgers hold the lead. If they do not get two more baserunners than he is done for the night and he leader will go down tied with Dick George. Wow, that would be crazy to have a tie breaker to decide the winner. If this guy doesn't win I'm not sure anyone will this year.
Is the blog that dead? No one else wants to relieve a little anxiety by pounding on the keyboard?
Loney 0 for 3 after 6 innings, LAD leading @ home. However, only needs 1 more baserunner for a 4th AB in the 8th, barring being pinched hit.
Great run. I wish I could get a run even into the 20's. I've only done that 1 time and it was like four years ago. I'm at 15 now which ties my season high. I had M.Cab today and I am going with him again tomorrow. Here's hoping to getting past my season high. GL to everyone else who still has a chance.
LAD: 7th innning, 2 on, no outs. Loney's spot will bat next inning, if not this inning. Is the "Fat Lady" practicing her scales?
Loney 3rd up in the bottom of the 8th. I wonder what Croaky is doing right now…
Gotta admit. Win or lose, at least this is a bit exciting. Moreso than when kbarr9 game within 2 of Dick George.
Mad props to ya if Loney doesn't come through for ya tonight. It's not easy picking 43 consecutive players to get hits. Believe me, I'd know, considering that this season, I have yet to get beyond 7.
1 out bottom of the 8th, nobody on.. Loney is on deck.
runner on 1st, Loney at the plate
Left-hander coming in to face Loney– Matt Reynolds.
Ball 1
Loney flied out to right field. Good effort.
He flied out! Now Croake will hope for Colorado to tie it up in the 9th..
"Regarding leader's pick… Guess we hope for a low scoring game and a lefty reliever facing him in 8th/9th if he's 0-fer at that point"
Man, did I nail it!!!!! No extra innings please.
It'd still take quite awhile for it to get back around to Loney's position in the lineup.
True, but it's all he can hope for now. I wonder who wins the tiebreaker between those two with 43.
btsplayer wrote: "Don't rule out Dick yet. He has been furiously regathering himself ever since the new leader started to pack some hit. Dick is back up to 14 now."
I've been keeping an eye on him since he was at 11. Seems to be still using his pattern and getting some last AB hits. 14 is 30 away from his high. I'm more interested in trying to not get mathematically eliminated by avoiding the reset starting Saturday-on.
Tie breaker rules for BTS leaders are on rules site. Would be better to split the $10K. The feat is amazing and deserves a nice reward.
Friday Aug 20
Cubs trade Derrek Lee to Braves 2 days ago. Braves are now in Chgo to play the Cubs. Derrek Lee starting at 1b for Braves today. But—I can not take him in HR game as his name is not listed with Brave players. He could go yard off his old teammate Dempster who give up alot of HR and wind in blowing out toward left field today.
@dragbunt104: If you really want Lee for HR BTS, try refreshing the picks page about 10 mins before game locks. BTS may be updated by then showing Lee as a Brave.
Side note. After being traded Wednesday, Lee didn't show up in Braves lineup yesterday. Wonder if he told the team: "Bring my uniform with you guys Friday and I'll just wait here for you."


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New research has found that young women who drink caffeinated beverages on the daily experience changes in hormone levels. How much will your Starbucks and Diet Coke addictions affect your chemical ladyhood? Like being arrested in Arizona, the way caffeine treats your lady hormones depends on your race.
Researchers examined 250 young, female test subjects who drank about a cup of coffee per day and found that drinking caffeine caused subjects' estrogen levels to fluctuate. On a small scale, this isn't necessarily good or bad, but on a large scale— say, if you're one of those people who polishes off an entire pot of eyebrow-singeing coffee before 10 am every day— they're not sure yet.
Most curiously, the study, published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, found differences between the way that women's bodies react to coffee based on a woman's race. White women who drank a cup per day had slightly less estrogen than non-drinkers. Asian women experienced the opposite effect, and their levels of estrogen rose slightly. Black women experienced a less statistically significant rise in lady hormone levels than their Asian counterparts.
But! One more wrench in the gears— women who got caffeine from sources other than coffee experienced a rise in estrogen levels regardless of race. Which brings me to my final point: is coffee racist? Will the lowered estrogen levels that I'd experience as a white lady who drinks a fuckton of coffee cause my boobs to shrink (and, conversely, will drinking green tea like it's going out of style lead to more curviness)? And, most importantly, what are the implications of coffee on that one follicle on my chin that grows a hair like once a year?


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MLS All-Star Game to spotlight KC soccer surge
Ticket sales, fan interest jump over past few seasons
Soccer fans may find no better place to be in the United States next week than Kansas City.
Sporting Park will host the Major League Soccer All-Star Game for the first time, and soccer fans said it's a big honor.
"It's driven by our fans, the passion and support they've shown, and the allegiance, not just to the team and the players, but also to the organization and the club," said Rob Thomson of Sporting Kansas City.
The team's recent renaissance since moving to its new stadium in Kansas City, Kan., is bringing in about $150 million to the city every year. It's also one of the toughest tickets in town, with its 18,500-seat stadium selling out each of its last 27 games.
"Definitely now, we've dubbed this the Soccer Capital of America, and that's what it's become, the epicenter for soccer," Thomson said.
The community is humming with excitement over next Wednesday's All-Star Game, preceded by a week's worth of events downtown. Organizers said they want to make it one of the biggest All-Star Games in league history, delivering more than $20 million in economic development to stores, hotels and restaurants.
Members of a California girls soccer team in town for a youth tournament said they are typically fans of the Los Angeles Galaxy, but they have caught the Sporting KC bug.
"Our coach talks about them because he's a big fan," said player Danielle Alvarez. "We always hear about them and we're more KC fans than we are Galaxy fans, but don't tell Galaxy."
Soccer fans from near and far will be flocking to the area, making it feel like Soccer City for the week. Three Sporting KC players and a manager will be part of the All-Star team.
"It is great because our fans deserve it. Our fans deserve this. The people in the city deserve this, and we want to showcase not only soccer, but Kansas City," said Thomson.
Another marker of Sporting KC's growing success is that during a game in April, the team sold more jerseys during a 15-minute halftime than it did in all of 2005. Merchandise sales for the organization have gone from last in the league to third.


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Robert Falkoff is a contributor to MLB.com.
KANSAS CITY -- Brock Holt was in the lineup for the Red Sox at third base on Friday night vs. the Royals, but the long-term solution at the hot corner is still to be determined, said manager John Farrell.
Holt, Brandon Snyder, No. 1 prospect Xander Bogaerts and Will Middlebrooks have all been in the internal conversation mix.
"When one of the mentioned steps up by his performance and his actions and says this is the one who is going to make us the best team ... that is the bottom-line goal," Farrell said. "There might be some fluctuation to that. I'm not saying the move is imminent. That's just the view that is taken for the four internal names that have been talked about at third base."
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Dems to lift debt ceiling by $1.8 trillion, fear 2010 backlash
In a bold but risky year-end strategy, Democrats are preparing to raise the federal debt ceiling by as much as $1.8 trillion before New Year's rather than have to face the issue again prior to the 2010 elections.
"We've incurred this debt. We have to pay our bills," House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer told POLITICO Wednesday. And the Maryland Democrat confirmed that the anticipated increase could be as high as $1.8 trillion — nearly twice what had been assumed in last spring's budget resolution for the 2010 fiscal year.
The leadership is betting that it's better for the party to take its lumps now rather than risk further votes over the coming year. But the enormity of the number could create its own dynamic, much as another debt ceiling fight in 1985 gave rise to the Gramm-Rudman deficit reduction act mandating across-the-board spending cuts nearly 25 years ago.
Already in the Senate, there is growing pressure in both parties for the creation of a novel bipartisan task force empowered to force expedited votes in the next Congress on deficit reduction steps now shunned by lawmakers.
As introduced Wednesday, the legislation sets no specific targets for deficit reduction, but its 18-member task force — 16 of whom would come from Congress — is promised immense leverage to force change if they can first come together behind a plan.
"This is a defining moment," said Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), one of the lead sponsors, and New Hampshire Sen. Judd Gregg, the panel's ranking Republican, is already maneuvering to try to add the legislation as an amendment to any bill tapped to carry the debt increase.
As explained by Hoyer and other Democrats, that will almost certainly be a pending $636.4 billion Pentagon appropriations bill that includes $128.3 in contingency funds for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The House leadership has held back the bill for weeks, saving it for this moment, but now appropriations clerks have been instructed to have a final package ready to go by Monday.
Leadership staff stressed that nothing was yet final in what has become a year-end negotiation between top Democrats in the House and Senate. But the Senate appears to have been the first to put the $1.8 trillion number on the table. And Hoyer's comments are the clearest yet on the scale of the increase and the expectation that it will be part of a larger year-end legislative train pulled along by the must-pass military bill.
House Appropriations Committee Chairman Dave Obey, who is pursuing job-related measures he would also like to add, insisted that the debt issue is a "leadership call" alone. But the Wisconsin Democrat showed no sign of opposition to the strategy outlined by Hoyer.
"It is December. We don't really have a choice," Obey told POLITICO. "The bill's already been run up; the credit card has already been used. When you get the bill in the mail you need to pay it."
Though Treasury can buy itself time by moving assets around, it is already coming close to the current debt ceiling of $12.1 trillion. Last spring, the Democratic-backed budget proposed to raise this to about $13 trillion, but given the current pace of borrowing, no one now expects that will be sufficient to get through 2010.
In fact, fiscal year 2009 ended Sept. 30 with a $1.4 trillion deficit, which demanded higher-than-expected Treasury borrowing. Most of that was due to the downturn in the economy and spending commitments in place before Barack Obama took office. And as much as Republicans point to the president's economic recovery bill last February as the culprit, only a small share of that $787 billion package was spent by Sept. 30.
The picture in 2010 is different. The administration is predicting the stimulus will hit its stride with much more spending. And there will be a steady escalation of outlays driven by back-to-back increases in 2009 and 2010 appropriations for domestic agencies.
The White House has vowed to be more deficit conscious in its forthcoming 2011 budget due out in February. But the House could vote as early as Thursday on a $446.8 billion year-end package covering more than a dozen Cabinet departments and agencies and representing a healthy 9 percent to 10 percent increase over current spending for the same accounts.
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Debt Ceiling to be raised by $1.8 Trillion before year's end?
In a move that would take the debt ceiling higher than previously envisioned, politicians hope to take the issue off the table for the next year or so. This large of a move would push the ceiling from $12.1 Trilllion to $13.9 Trillion, a staggering increase. My prediction is that will buy them only another year, as the exponential growth in the national debt numbers continue to go parabolic. This is a trend that is not mathematically sustainable. When this trend ends, and it will, you are going to see events that are eye opening, that's a guarantee (ht Bubba).
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Rapper Mac Miller turns heads with new album
Mac Miller had a quick decision to make when Kanye West jumped the street date for his new album: Move his "Watching Movies with the Sound Off" to a different week or stand firm in the face of "Yeezus."
In the end, it was a simple decision. The album was too good to wait.
"I initially just wanted my own space for my album to drop and then Kanye's date came out and it was kind of like, 'OK, that's probably the worst person to go up against to drop an album,'" Miller said. "But I'm one of those weird everything-happens-for-a-reason type people, so I felt that maybe there's a reason I was dropping the same day as Kanye, and I think there was. I think it let people know that I have a long career ahead of me and I wasn't just anything that people put me as before."
Miller entered the Billboard 200 at No. 3 behind West and J. Cole, and much of the discussion that week revolved around Miller as interloper. How did Mac Miller find his way into the top three on the biggest rap release week of the year? And just how many sales did he take from West?
"It's dope," Miller said of the attention while eating curry backstage before his show Monday night at Marathon Music Works in Nashville. Miller sold more than 101,000 copies of the woozy, moody "Movies," which features appearances or production work from Diplo, Flying Lotus, Earl Sweatshirt, Jay Electronica, Action Bronson, Schoolboy Q and Ab-Soul.
It's a redefining moment for the 21-year-old Miller. Cast as the goofy sidekick of Wiz Khalifa and known for his novelty song-turned-celebrity beef with Donald Trump, the quality of Miller's second album is making detractors re-examine his music.
Pitchfork called it "a quantum leap in artistry" and it's gotten solid reviews all around. He even outscores Cole on Metacritic with a 75 average to Cole's 72.
Miller alludes to his public perception on the album in a skit at the end of "Red Dot Music." He allows battle rapper Loaded Lux to go off on him for 90 seconds. Lux begins with "You was Cheesy Mac with the easy raps ..." and it goes downhill from there.
"It kind of shows you that stuff like that doesn't matter," Miller said. "He ethered me on my own album, but the album still plays."
Miller says the album's depth and quality reflects two years of warp-speed development, his move from Pittsburgh to Los Angeles and just how serious he is about the craft.
"There was always a lot more to me than what people wanted to say, that's the only thing that ever bothered me," Miller said as he dragged on a Newport. "But I was also 19. You don't get the fact that everyone's not going to understand who you are at that point. You don't understand who you are at that point. Two years, I feel like I grew 20 years in two years."


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The Standard & Poor's 500 index notched its eighth record high in the last 10 trading days.
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"Huawei is well known by many people in the globe now. However, there are many brands of Chinese phones like Meizu, Letv, Oppo, Homtom, Vernee, UMI, Ulefone, Elephone, Doogee, Leagoo, Mazze, Bluboo, Oukitel and others that won't sound familiar to European audience but offer fantastic value and are well worth your attention. Here, we just select the best-selling models from Huawei for our readers, and you can also find more at our website." John from Top 10 Xiaomi Gadgets states.
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Your home should be the cleanest place in the whole world… and you may think it is, but by using cleaning products filled with hazardous chemicals, you are actually doing more harm than good!!! You can read the alarming facts HERE. The good news is that keeping your home clean and healthful (to you and the planet) is not as hard as it seems. And contrary to popular belief, these green cleaners work just as well as the chemical ones. I know because I use them!
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- Get the dirt.
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None of the 51 deer collected in follow-up sampling for chronic wasting disease (CWD) tested positive for the disease. Kansas State University lab analysis was completed Monday, Feb. 20th.
"This suggests that the presence of CWD in this part of the country is a relatively recent event, and that the prevalence of the disease in the deer population is low," said Lloyd Fox, big game project leader for the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks.
KDWP staff conducted additional sampling of deer in Cheyenne County last week, in response to the state's first occurrence of CWD in a wild deer. A total of 51 deer – 29 mule deer and 22 whitetails -- were taken within a 15-mile radius of the site where a Cheyenne County hunter shot a whitetail doe which tested positive for the disease. Tissues from deer collected in the follow-up sampling were submitted to Kansas State University for analysis to help monitor any potential additional occurrence of CWD.
CWD attacks the central nervous system of infected animals, and is within a group of similar diseases known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE). While CWD can spread among deer and elk, it is not known to transmit to humans, livestock, or other animals. More information on chronic wasting disease is also available on the Internet at the Chronic Wasting Disease Alliance website.


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In Honour of Stefania Mason: Palma il Giovane and Pierre Jean Mariette
Stefania Mason has been internationally recognized as the most eminent authority on the art of Jacopo Palma il Giovane (1544–1628). Pierre Jean Mariette (1694–1774), one of the greatest art collectors of the eighteenth century, owned several drawings by Palma. This essay aims to identify Mariette's sheets and verify whether the attributions of this great connoisseur can be sustained.
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The Man of Sorrows and Royal Imaging: the Body Politic and Sovereign Authority in Mid-Fourteenth-Century Prague and Paris
In the fourteenth century, the salvific and Eucharistic meanings of the Man of Sorrows accrued a political dimension that harnessed the figure's potency for the state. Two of the most powerful rulers of the third quarter of the century used the humble and abased figure of Christ in their sacred art to legitimize and sanctify their sovereignty, shaping their own public images as terrestrial representatives of Christ's heavenly reign. Examined here are relevant works of art commissioned by Charles IV, King of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor, and his court, and the Livre de sacre of Charles V Valois of France. That the two Charleses, uncle and nephew, collected holy relics to express both deep piety and their royal prerogatives, and together exchanged confidences in three personal meetings point to the likelihood that their trusting relationship established a new connotation for the Man of Sorrows which marked royal authority.
The Artist and His Double. Portraits of Artists in Seventeenth-Century Venice
'La scoltura è […] senza comparatione': Tullio Lombardo and the Narrative Relief
Tullio Lombardo's approach to narrative relief sculpture was grounded in the debate over the paragone or relative merits of painting versus sculpture, but it was also informed by the example of two earlier masters, with whose work he was well acquainted: Donatello and Andrea Mantegna. In particular, Tullio drew upon elements from both these masters in the design of the Chapel of the Arca del Santo in the basilica of St Anthony in Padua, a project that he began with his brother Antonio in 1500. Tullio's basic concept of fusing relief sculpture with an architectural perspective stems from Donatello's bronze reliefs for the high altar of the Santo, and the earlier sculptor remained an important interlocutor for Tullio across his engagement with the relief cycle for the chapel, an engagement only terminated with his death in 1532. The debt to Mantegna is more general, in part because Mantegna's approach to painting was profoundly influenced by Donatello; yet there were two areas of Mantegna's oeuvre that served as a crucial example for Tullio and his brother during the 1490s: the canvases of Caesar's Triumphs and the small-scale paintings in grisaille. These works embodied an ideal of rilievo, which Alberti had described as the goal of painting and sculpture. They demonstrated knowledge of the classical world virtually unrivalled at that time, as well as furnishing a new morphology of figural types saturated in the antique. That the Lombardo brothers were aware of Mantegna's work is confirmed by a comparison of Mantegna's drawing after the Calumny of Apelles in the British Museum with a drawing attributed to Antonio Lombardo in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A comparison of the two drawings shows that the Lombardo brothers were familiar with Mantegna's graphic style and sculptural approach to narratives. In short, Mantegna's paintings furnished a model for creating figural types and narratives all'antica, without which the sculpture of the Lombardo brothers and their followers would not have developed as it did.
On Donatello as a Wood Sculptor in Padua and His Influence
The wooden carved polychrome Crucifix from the Chiesa dei Servi in Padua, attributed to Donatello, has undergone restoration financed by the Italian Ministero dei beni e delle attività culturali e del turismo. As soon as the restoration works are completed, this piece of an excellent artistic quality will be returned to the church community and to the scholars, in a form it has never been seen before.
After a miraculous bleeding of Christ in 1512, this work of art was considered a thaumaturgic relic and was located in the chapel in cornu Evangelii, built at the expense of Bartolomeo Campolongo. It had remained there until it was taken to the restoration laboratory, where a coat of paint imitating bronze – that had covered the sculpture until 2012 – was removed.
This short essay illustrates the most important features of the Crucifix, advances a hypothesis on the date when the bronze coat of paint was introduced and analyzes some practices connected to this object of worship, venerated until the mid-twentieth century: it was preserved in an altar protected by glass and hidden from sight by a curtain.
Paolo Veronese: Master of Elegance at the French Court in the Seventeenth Century
This paper explores some aspects of the fortune of Paolo Veronese in seventeenth-century France. Although his name is often associated with his skills in large-scale compositions and decoration, with such emblematic paintings as the Feast in the House of Simon the Pharisee – gift of the Serenissima to the King of France in 1664 – it appears that Paolo was probably even more appreciated for his elegant and sophisticated representations of female figures. This particular aspect of the critical fortune of Paolo Veronese has been assessed through a broad range of art treatises and paintings in French collections, revealing how these female figures were perceived and admired for their grace, elegance and their representation in harmonious colours.
Observations on the Decoration of the Oratorio della Purità in Udine
It is well known that the Oratory of the Purità in Udine was built following the wishes of Patriarch Daniele Dolfin in order to replace a secular theatre standing on the spot; the new building was inaugurated on 28 June 1760. The story of its decoration, which involved Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo, has been fully studied but not so its iconographic programme attributable to Patriarch Dolfin himself. This essay investigates the contents and symbolism of the wall narratives in the Oratory which were determined by what may be construed as a series of diagonal intersections creating a star-like shape possibly alluding to the Virgin Mary.
A Frieze by Palma il Giovane in Palazzo Grimani di San Luca
After his father Hieronimo's death in 1570, Marino Grimani, who was to become doge in April 1595, fell responsible for the completion of the magnificent family palace built on the Canale Grande after a project by Michele Sanmicheli. In 1578 Marino ordered a series of paintings by some of the major painters in Venice to adorn his apartment on the first floor of the palace. The payments for these works are still in the family archive, now preserved in the Archivio di Stato of Venice, and were published by this author some twenty years ago. Palma il Giovane figures among the artists involved, and this was his first documented commission, a frieze composed of family portraits and allegories in one of the principal rooms. New research has uncovered the major part of these portraits, which prove very useful in understanding the painter's style in the first years of his career. They also bear witness to the political and cultural ambitions of the patron who ordered them.
«Gran forza et gran vivacità». Understanding Antonello da Messina in Venetian Collecting of the Renaissance through the Papers of Marcantonio Michiel
One of the earliest sources for Antonello da Messina's paintings is the valuable manuscript written by Marcantonio Michiel and entitled Notizia d'opere di disegno (Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana). Beginning in 1521, Michiel took over twenty years to add to his opus magnum. The manuscript shows evidence of many layers and kinds of writing and employs different types of ink, indicating that the material was continually updated and amended. An examination of the document leads to new insights, especially concerning Michiel's description of Antonello's Saint Jerome in his study (London, The National Gallery) and two of the artist's portraits dated 1475 once in the home of Antonio Pasqualini, a wealthy Venetian merchant.
Archival research together with an investigation of literary sources encourages new readings of Antonello's paintings and their Venetian patrons and owners. Analyzing and comparing the cartellini and labels on these works calls for new interpretations. Such is the case for example of the Portrait of a Young Man (Berlin, Staatliche Museen) formerly in the Widmann and Vitturi collections in Venice whereby a new proposal can be suggested by identifying the source of the moralizing inscription at the bottom edge of the panel. New research also sanctions the correction and integration of previously known information on the basis of the valuable Manoscritti Francesconi.
Claudio Ridolfi Between Jacopo Palma and Federico Barocci
Composition, Gesture and Meaning in an Early Painting by Veronese
Veronese's very early canvas in the London National Gallery, now generally believed to represent the Conversion of Mary Magdalene, exhibits compositional devices and formal preferences favoured by the artist throughout his working life and several of these are analysed in the article. The prominent hand gestures are also typical of the artist; they relate closely to gestures in other early paintings and this leads to a discussion of the significance of repeated gestures and their meanings in different contexts. The article concludes with a reconsideration of its subject matter and a reconsideration of the case for the painting representing the healing of the woman 'with an issue of blood' who touched the hem of Christ's garment.
Four Early Drawings by Domenico Tintoretto
This essay publishes four drawings as belonging to Domenico Tintoretto's youthful period when, alternatively, he collaborated with his father or worked independently. The author substantiates assigning the first of the four sheets to Domenico (its current whereabouts unknown) as first advanced by Hans Tietze and Erika Tietze-Conrat who recognized its connection with Joachim Expelled from the Temple in San Trovaso. Similarly, the altarpiece of the Coronation of the Virgin in San Giorgio Maggiore is also entirely by Domenico, and a drawing in the Uffizi (Gabinetto dei disegni e stampe) can be associated with him. The third sheet (Besançon, Musée des Beaux-Arts) is Domenico's study of a head dating to the 1590s and characterized by the intense facial expressivity typical of the artist. The last drawing (Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen) once bore an attribution to Veronese, but it is here given to Domenico as a preparatory study for his portraits of seated women which were among his greatest successes of the 1590s. Domenico continued to produce such sheets for the rest of his career, but rarely were they as successful as this one.
The Collector's Eye: Viewing Veronese's Chiaroscuro Drawings in Late Sixteenth-Century Venice
Modern scholarship has assumed that Veronese's own words and ideas are recorded in a series of inscriptions on the versos of some elaborate chiaroscuro drawings. These autonomous drawings include a group of religious allegories that were originally at least six in number, some of which were admired by Carlo Ridolfi when in the Muselli collection in Verona. Although Ridolfi apparently recorded the inscriptions on three of the Muselli drawings, there are significant differences between his account and the actual inscriptions. A number of secular allegories also bear inscriptions on the versos in the same handwriting. This article argues that these inscriptions were written by a patrician collector who may have been a patron of Veronese, and who assembled a book of drawings that would give delight to lovers of 'virtù'. His free-flowing reflections recorded in the inscriptions were stimulated by close scrutiny of the drawings, but were based on his visual memory of these and other sources; they were not intended as accounts of the iconography of the drawings. His thoughtful comments reveal aspects such as his theological interests and his moral sense of the responsibilities of noblemen. Although the collector's precise identity cannot presently be established, I suggest that his inscriptions provide insights into the conversations of virtuosi as they looked at drawings and other works of art in the intimate sociability of the Venetian studio or collection.


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Hello everyone. I have an idea. It could be very good or it could be impracticable. I put it to you to comment at the next meeting. Please pass it to another meeting group that it is better suited if appropriate. Thank you.
I propose to only the forest, that I pay return airfare to Australia in exchange for willing and wanting bodies to work at my organic property doing mainly revegetative stuff but a bit of 'whatever needs doing'thrown in. I have a background in ecology and this place is as sustainable and respectful of earth as is possible. Only sensitive people work here with a respect for the environment considered top priority.
It is extremely healing to be here and would be wonderful for those who really need to get away/respite from the city, whocan perform the tasks required and who have character refernces in addition to whatever other skills they may hve accumulated.
I could combine this with other healing if appropriate eg vibrational medicines, sound release work, emotional healing, guidance counselling/chatting about problems they carry.
I want to ready this place for the next chapter in my life and finding good reliable workers here is not easy as it is a slow paced isolated town but so beautiful, relaxing and creative. Perfect for grey cemented psyches wanting to feel free and at peace. I write this feeling it could be just the thing for some. I was a little saddened to see a decline in health and spirit of a few people since I was last there.
There can be simple accomodation here and better energywise if not only one but two or three. At a rate of $20 Australian dollars per hour, we could work out a set length of this time for this WORKING RESPITE HOLIDAY in the highlands of South East Queensland. Och aye. Would attach photos but do not know how. There would be a man working on site in a coordinator role and the coming and going of Australian trade workers as required. It is a lovely little town with a community feel.
Over to you...what say you thus far wise Forest Counsel? If it works out after the first trial period one, we could do it again, and again....til I leave it.
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Bourjos will try to play through pain
ANAHEIM -- Peter Bourjos' right wrist doesn't feel 100 percent healthy, but good enough to play on -- and that's essentially how it'll be for the rest of this season.
The Angels' center fielder, out since getting plunked on the wrist on June 29, has felt fine during batting practice the last few days. He'll play in his first rehab game for Triple-A Salt Lake on Thursday -- the same day Jason Vargas is slated to throw five innings and about 75 pitches -- and is expected to be there for 4-7 days.
"The fracture is stable; it is what it is," said Bourjos, who has a .333/.392/.457 slash line in 40 games this season. "I'm either going to tolerate the pain or I'm not going to be able to."
Bourjos will play in Round Rock, Texas, from Thursday to Sunday. After that, the club will determine whether he should travel with the Salt Lake Bees for their series in Albuquerque, N.M., or join the Angels in New York.
Bourjos, 26, said offseason surgery to remove the bone from his wrist "is an option, but I haven't really thought about it yet." The discomfort he feels "depends on the day," and he's been told he can't really make the wrist any worse by playing with it.
"Some days it's better than others, and I think that's how it's going to be," said Bourjos, who will wear a protective guard during his plate appearances. "Maybe in two to three weeks, it can get to the point where it's consistently better and I'm not going to have any pain. But I think at this point it's just going to be up and down. I don't think there's any point in just sitting here and doing nothing. I'm going to try to play with it and move on."


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If you go down the basic necessities of mankind. Food. Water. Shelter. Love. Etc. Babies learn pretty quickly how to stuff food or anything slightly edible into their mouth to survive. As we grow older. We learn how to discriminate what we hastily ingest. Unfortunately, some of us learn to put even more hazardous materials into our bodies out of emotionally driven necessity. And still others perfect the art of stuffing and inhaling their food, healthy or not. And then there is that special class of people who can stuff and inhale unhealthy fare, seemingly to no end. And incredibly, still walk among us...
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Is this going to be etched?
What's the overlap in the red circle?
Also I am assuming the 2K resistor is going on the under side of the board?
I am guessing that you don't have a schematic?
Using the breadboard layout on the libs google code page which has given me the working prototype.I'm just sruggling with the conversion from arduino to minimal 328 circuit.
QuoteUsing the breadboard layout on the libs google code page which has given me the working prototype.I'm just sruggling with the conversion from arduino to minimal 328 circuit.I can say that not using a schematic to route the PCB in Fritzing has gave me quite a few boards that are now coasters. Designing a schematic in Fritzing is next to impossible. Just make sure you re-recheck your routing on the PCB. I dropped Fritzing because of it's schematic downfalls. If you plan on making more PCBs, I would highly suggest moving to Eagle.
Crystal is rather far from the processor. I believe Atmel recommends as close as possible with a ground plane.No bypass capacitors?I believe the TLC5940 datasheet calls for a capacitor of several microfarads across VCC and GND.
Codelink - still building the schematic for this =(
I prefer DipTrace, and I've been using it for the last year for my personal projects. I know Eagle might be more powerful and has a gigantic user base, but I like DipTrace better. The free version is great and should be enough even for more advanced hobbists.Back on topic: ditch that layout, since there are several problems with it:- the crystal is too far from the 328- there are sharp corners in the traces. Never, NEVER route traces with 90º angles.- there is no bypass capacitors for either chip- it is good practice to use every space left in the board (in its signal side) for a copper pour linked to the ground net.If you decide to go ahead and use that circuit anyway, that one is easier done with a perfboard, rather than etched. Make use you use DIP sockets, instead of soldering the chips directly to the board.
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The Today show's top producer on Wednesday defended Matt Lauer against stories that have portrayed the anchor as difficult to deal with during the show's slide in the ratings.
The longtime morning champ has slipped behind ABC's Good Morning America in the ratings over recent months, after more than 15 years of being the unquestioned leader in the morning. The new ratings order has solidified since Ann Curry's tearful exit as Mr. Lauer's co-host in June.
"Matt has been the heart and soul of the show for a long, long time, and any of the stuff out that has portrayed him in an unflattering light as being difficult to work with is patently false and it's been tough to deal with," said Jim Bell, Today executive producer.
One tabloid report last week described Mr. Lauer as an "anchor animal" who berates the staff and inserts himself into show decisions, which Mr. Bell described as "patently false." He also denied an online report that Mr. Lauer would be asked to take a pay cut if the show's ratings don't improve. Today has also consistently shot down stories that Mr. Lauer played a behind-the-scenes role in Savannah Guthrie's replacement of Ms. Curry.
Asked if viewers were taking Curry's dismissal out on Today, Mr. Bell said that "it's more complex than that."
"Any time there is a change, especially in the morning, it takes a while for people to process that change and we're still going through that," Mr. Bell said. "That's OK. We understand. We get it. We love our team and we really feel positive about the show we are doing and we are taking the long view here."
Today has actually taken pride in seamless anchor transitions in the past, such as when Meredith Vieira replaced Katie Couric, Ms. Curry replaced Ms. Vieira and Mr. Lauer took over for Bryant Gumbel. This one hasn't worked, at least for now.
Bell denied reports that he would leave Today for another job at NBC, saying "this is the best job in the world."
After a 17-year winning streak in the ratings, Good Morning America overtook Today during a couple of weeks last spring. With the exception of two weeks when Today broadcast from the London Olympics, the ABC show has won consistently since Ms. Curry's dismissal, by margins as much as 800,000 viewers.
Good Morning America has succeeded with a lighter, more pop culture-oriented show. Its on-air team of George Stephanopoulos, Robin Roberts, Josh Elliott and Lara Spencer has clicked during NBC's turmoil. Today has long been a huge cash cow for NBC, and a permanent change in the morning's pecking order would have big financial implications.
"For a long time, they tried to do a version of the Today show," Mr. Bell said of ABC. "It didn't work well, so they have tried to do a different show. We are different shows right now. Despite however that might be working in the short term, for our show, it's in our best interests to be who we are and not try to do what someone else is doing."
Asked for comment, ABC spokesman Jeffrey Schneider said: "I think the audience has spoken loud and clear about its preference in the morning."
He said Today, which featured a Curry interview with Libyan President Mohammed Magarief on Wednesday, will be making its differences with Good Morning America more apparent in coming months.
"While we recognize in the short term we're going through a difficult period, we're not going to compound it by suddenly doing a different show from the one we all feel good about, which is a smart show, a relevant show and an important show to do," he said.


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Staring down the irrational wing of the GOP
The Nobel Prize-winning game theorist Thomas Schelling wrote in his most important book, "The Strategy of Conflict," that a man who shows up on your doorstep with a knife and threatens to stab himself if you don't pay him $10 is more likely to get the money if his eyes are bloodshot. I translate this important observation to my law and business students this way: In negotiation, the crazy person wins.
If your counterpart is willing to act in a way that harms both sides rather than making any concessions, you are outflanked. As a rational individual, you should give in, because doing so will make you better off than you otherwise would be, even though your concession will reward your irrational, uncooperative and completely maddening counterpart. You might not want to part with $10, but you probably want a suicide on your doorstep even less.
The world is not fair, I tell my students. Live with it. You can either be a grown-up and accept this fact, or indulge your childish desire to retaliate, which feels good in the short term but makes you worse off in the long run.
My students often express frustration at the searing injustice of my lesson, so I would imagine they are celebrating this week's illustration by congressional Republicans of an important limitation on the "let the crazy person win" principle. It is proper strategy to concede to a lunatic in a one-off negotiation encounter, but not necessarily if you know you will have to negotiate with him again in the future. If repeat interactions are in the cards, the benefit of minimizing your losses today needs to be weighed against the long-term costs of encouraging the man with the bloodshot eyes to double-down on crazy the next time because your response has taught him that doing so works.
This is why parents should not give in to a 3-year-old willing to throw a temper tantrum in the grocery store check-out line until he gets candy. A single candy purchase won't hurt him, and buying one beats causing a scene in public any day of the year, even if it might spoil his dinner. The problem is, plunk down a dollar for Skittles and you might not have a pleasant trip to the store for years. The same logic accounts for why governments in general should not concede to terrorist groups that threaten to kill a hostage, even though the pressure to do so is often great.
For much of his presidency, Barack Obama has chosen to be the rational grown-up, making concessions to the bloodshot-eyes caucus in Congress in the face of its constant threats to shut down the government, default on the national debt, or both, in the absence of completely unrelated concessions. He can see that their threats are not idle, and he can calculate that the ransom demanded is cheaper for the American people than the cost of a complete impasse.
Unsurprisingly, many congressional Republicans seemed to believe right up until midnight on Sept. 30 that the president would once again concede. After all, postponing the Affordable Care Act's penalty for not buying health insurance for one year or repealing its medical device tax, as the Republicans demand as the price of peace, would be far less injurious to the country than closing the government for an indefinite period of time or refusing to pay our bills.
But Obama and his congressional allies have finally come to terms with the fact that you cannot reasonably expect to pay off the bloodshot-eyes caucus only once. Its members will be back to threaten to wreak havoc on the entire country — themselves and their constituents included — again and again.
The polling data demonstrating that even most Americans who oppose the Affordable Care Act fault the Republicans for the current government shutdown shows that they intuitively understand that the president has no plausible choice other than to stand firm, whatever the wreckage that ensues, until the bloodshot-eyes caucus finally sobers up.
Russell Korobkin is faculty director of the Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Program at the UCLA Law School and the author of "Negotiation Theory and Strategy."
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This Atlas raises interesting questions as to whether rates of antibiotic use following surgery are a possible area for quality improvement".
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