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Diamondoid monolayers as monochromatic electron source
Contact: Wanli Yang,
Diamondoids are nanometer-sized molecules that feature diamond-crystal cage structures. Adamantane, the smallest member in the family, consists of one cage structure, diamantane two, triamantane three, tetramantane four, and so on. On all of these, the dangling bonds on the outer surfaces are terminated by hydrogen atoms. Because of their potential to possess novel properties of both diamond and nanomaterial, intensive efforts have been made to synthesize the larger diamondoid molecules, but to no avail. This situation was finally changed in 2003 when significant quantities of higher diamondoids were found in petroleum by researchers in MolecularDiamond Technologies. Now, scientists from Berkeley Lab, Stanford University, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Germany have used photoelectron spectroscopy at the ALS to reveal an intriguing feature: monochromatized electron emission from a self-assembled monolayer of diamondoids. This discovery has immediately attracted the attention of people who are searching for materials for next-generation electron emitters. Read more...
Publication about this research: W.L. Yang, J.D. Fabbri, T.M. Willey, J.R.I. Lee, J.E. Dahl, R.M.K. Carlson, P.R. Schreiner, A.A. Fokin, B.A. Tkachenko, N.A. Fokina, W. Meevasana, N. Mannella, K. Tanaka, X.J. Zhou, T. van Buuren, M.A. Kelly, Z. Hussain, N.A. Melosh, and Z.-X. Shen, "Monochromatic electron photoemission from diamondoid monolayers," Science 316, 1460 (2007).
A first look at yeast fatty acid synthase
Contact: Yong Xiong,
Fatty acids are the major constituents of eukaryotic and bacterial cellular membranes. They are used for functionally important post-translational protein modifications, and chains of fatty acids are the main storage compartments of an organism's chemical energy. Fatty acid synthesis is carried out by fatty acid synthase (FAS), which catalyzes cycles of multistep chemical reactions that are essentially the same in all organisms. FAS uses one acetyl-coenzyme A (CoA) and seven malonyl-CoA molecules to synthesize the 16-carbon palmitic acid, the most abundant fatty acid in eukaryotes. Now, for the first time, a group of researchers has determined the atomic structure of yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae FAS derived from two crystals of the enzyme, using data collected at ALS Beamlines 8.2.1 and 8.2.2, as well as other synchrotron facilities. Read more...
Publication about this research: I.B. Lomakin, Y. Xiong, and T.A. Steitz, "The crystal structure of yeast fatty acid synthase, a cellular machine with eight active sites working together," Cell 129, 319 (2007).
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Chuck Fadley, ALS long-time user and a physicist with Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division and at UC Davis, was presented last month with an award from the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science for his development of characterization methods based on photoelectron spectroscopy and synchrotron radiation and for his mentoring of young scientists. Chuck received the award while attending the Sixth International Symposium on Atomic-Level Characterization for New Materials and Devices in Kanazawa, Japan. He is one of the world's foremost practitioners of photoelectron spectroscopy.
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She said it far too calmly to match the words and their significance.
"Joe's been shot."
In hindsight, it's probably because I wasn't the first person she'd told.
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Kelly Valeri (second from left) stands with her husband and siblings at the Bills vs. Steelers game in Buffalo, N.Y., on Nov. 28, 2010. Her brother Joe Hofstetter, left, was one of the firefighters shot in Webster, N.Y., on Christmas Eve.
My mother has a lovable habit of slightly exaggerating things, so when I woke to a text requesting me to "call as soon as you get this," I wasn't overly worried.
It was Christmas Eve. I hadn't wanted to navigate the inevitable crowd at the grocery store the night before, so I set my alarm and got up early instead. I was too groggy to write out a list, so I tossed on some clothes and grabbed my phone, purse and the recipes I intended to make that afternoon.
It wasn't quite 7 a.m., and I
didn't want to wake my husband or our kids, so I waited to call until I was in the car.
"Hey, Mom, everything all right?"
The world changed after that. I heard her, but I didn't understand. Nothing in my body was responding the way it's supposed to. My hands were shaking, my chest felt hollow and my mind was forming more questions than I could articulate. I was instantly confused, angry and desperately fearful.
She was only able to tell me my brother was one of a few firefighters shot while responding to an early-morning fire in my hometown of Webster, N.Y. Later we learned, in addition to Joe, two responders were killed and another seriously injured.
At the time, though, there were no answers. He was in surgery. All we could do is pray.
I drove the block back home, raced upstairs in tears to relay the news to my husband and say goodbye. I promised I would be back in time to read "The Night Before Christmas" to our kids and help tuck them into bed. He understood and begged me to drive carefully.
The next four and a half hours in the car were some of the most agonizing of my life. Phone calls were the only thing that punctuated the silence. I have the good fortune of being friends with a TV news anchor who was covering the story and attending all of the press conferences. My family was frequently too busy with emergency personnel to keep me in the loop, so he did.
Other than a necessary stop for gas, I drove straight to the hospital. I was admittedly in a daze, but I remember standing at the pump feeling the desire to scream the fact that gun violence affected me. It wasn't in some faraway city where it could be dismissed as something tragic. I wanted to tell everyone what it felt like. I wanted to break down.
But I knew Joe hadn't, so I couldn't.
When I arrived at the hospital, fire trucks lined the entryway all the way to the street. My brother David met me in the lobby. We passed hundreds of first-responders on the way to the emergency wing, all there just to show their support.
My eyes welled up at the sight of them.
Although my entire family discouraged me from coming - even going so far as to take turns passing around the phone to yell at me for even considering it - what they didn't understand is that I needed them. I physically needed to be there, surrounded by the communal grief in order to finally feel free enough to exhale mine.
I stayed three hours. During that time I shared a lot of heartache, but the 15 minutes I got to see Joe was undoubtedly therapeutic. He was badly injured, suffering a shattered pelvis and permanently has a bullet fragment lodged in his spine, but he was very fortunate, and so were we.
The drive home was a bit more concrete, but the fact that I hadn't showered or eaten all day started to settle in as I navigated the snowy roads in the dark. I stopped again for gas and still fought the urge to yell about it to anyone who would listen.
As I stood in line to buy a hot coffee and a bag of chips for dinner, I inadvertently shoved my hand in my coat pocket and discovered the recipes inside. I thought about how differently the day could've gone -- for better or worse.
The grocery stores all closed early for the holiday. There would be no homemade cinnamon bread, no quiche, no pineapple sausage on Christmas morning.
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I got home in time to tuck my children into bed, kiss them goodnight and told them to dream of sugarplums.
Gun violence affected me, but it will not get the best of me. I spent Christmas Day feeling very fortunate, joyous and blessed.
It took a horrible tragedy to remind me, but the best gifts in life truly don't come in a box.
Hold onto them with all of your might.
Kelly Valeri is a former Altoona Mirror copy editor. She lives in State College with her husband and two children. She's happy to report that her brother is "doing well, but he's still in a lot of pain. He's making great progress with physical therapists, and we're all hopeful he'll be able to return to his active lifestyle and firefighting soon."


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When a recently released ex-convict was taken into custody Thursday in a couple of holiday thefts at Walden Galleria, her first words to a state parole officer were, "What took you so long? I was all over the media."
That was the account that Cheektowaga Police Capt. James Speyer gave when announcing that Judith M. Nestel, 64, had been arrested at about 9 a.m. at her Bailey Avenue apartment.
Nestel, a former Buffalo and Town of Tonawanda resident, was released Dec. 19 from the state's Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for women after serving nine years and three months of a 12-year prison term for arson.
A photo of Nestel walking through Walden Galleria after one of two thefts from employee areas at two mall stores was released to the news media Wednesday and broadcast, including on buffalonews.com.
Police and Walden Galleria management appreciated help from the public and news media, Speyer said. "We got tips that resulted in her arrest," he said, "and they are still coming in even though she is now in custody and awaiting arraignment in Cheektowaga Town Court [today]."
Wednesday, police described the Walden Galleria thief as a woman about 5 feet, 4 inches tall and weighing about 180 pounds who walks with a limp.
They said she first struck at about 2:25 p.m. on Christmas Eve, entering the employee locker room at BEBE and taking a wallet from an unlocked locker.
Police believe she returned at about 1:10 p.m. Saturday, this time going to the employee locker room at Pottery Barn and taking items from a worker's purse.
Nestel is a twice-convicted felon, according to state prison records.
She pleaded guilty in June 2003 to setting two fires at a Huetter Street apartment building in Buffalo in September 2002. Nobody was injured in the fires, which Nestel set because of a grudge with another building resident, according to Buffalo News accounts from that time.
State Supreme Court Justice Russell P. Buscaglia sentenced her Sept. 3, 2003, to 12 years in state prison.
She was sentenced as a second felony offender because of her conviction in 1999 for a Buffalo robbery.
In exchange for her pretrial guilty plea in the apartment building arson, Nestel was spared prosecution in a third case involving a July 2002 theft of a purse containing credit cards and $80 cash at Kenmore Mercy Hospital, according to News archives.
Nestel was charged in the Walden Galleria thefts with four counts of fourth-degree grand larceny and one count of petit larceny. Because of her criminal history, she could face up to 16 years if convicted as charged.
Under her release terms from prison last month, she was to be on post-release parole supervision until December 2017, according to state prison records.
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After a week of work in the sweltering central Florida sun, the Stetson Hatters football team will holds its first scrimmage of fall camp on Saturday night.
The scrimmage is scheduled for a 7 p.m. start from the practice fields at the Athletics Training Center on the Stetson campus and is open to the public.
The scrimmage will give the Stetson coaching staff a chance to evaluate their young team, made up almost entirely of freshmen and redshirt freshmen. Those evaluations will go a long way towards determining who will play when the Hatters open their first season in 57 years on August 31.
"This first week has gone by fast," head coach Roger Hughes said between two-a-day practices on Friday. "You get a sense that you are running out of time."
The biggest concern facing the coaching staff from the very start of camp last weekend was conditioning. The players did not report to camp in the kind of shape Hughes had hoped to see, so they have spent extra time during the first week on conditioning.
"We were not in very good shape and we have been trying to catch up with that, and that is hampering our ability to put things in," Hughes said. "When you come in out of shape you are more susceptible to the nicks and bumps and bruises that we are dealing with right now. That has been a concern."
Hughes said the team has worked hard during its first week, but not as hard as they need to work.
"It is not that they aren't working hard, it is the fact that they think they are working hard and they don't fully understand what is coming," Hughes said. "What we are trying to get them to do is think differently, to think at a higher level to push themselves through. We are at that point in camp where we have some bumps and bruises, but the kids have to fight through that and understand the difference between pain and injury. Right now, some of the kids understand that, and some of them don't."
The Hatters coach said that those players who understand that difference are going to have a leg up on others who have not practiced because of small, nagging, injuries. Saturday's scrimmage will go a long way toward determining who will play, and who won't, when the Hatters face Warner in the season opener.
"I think the first thing we want to do is get those evaluations done," Hughes said. "We have to start setting the depth chart and some of those guys who are not participating because of a nagging injury or whatever have to realize that they are going to miss the boat if they don't get on board."
The Hatters held their first two practices in full gear on Thursday and Friday morning, but the team has not focused on a lot of contact yet. Much of the work has been on installation and getting the more than 50 first-year players up to speed.
Plus, after a week of drills in practice that have been centered on conditioning, in addition to extra conditioning in the morning for those who did not meet expectations, the players legs have been a little heavy when the opportunity for contact has been available.
"We really haven't hit each other yet," Hughes said. "We have hit, but I really wouldn't call what we have been doing hitting. I think that is combination of being tired, being a little nervous and just not knowing what to expect. As you are learning, you can't just react. I think that, as we get more comfortable with the schemes, that some of our true freshmen are going to have some impact.
"We are almost back to where we were last year because all of those kids are learning new stuff. The older kids have done a great job of helping the younger kids acclimate and getting them taught so that, hopefully sooner rather than later, they can begin to react rather than thinking when they are doing things."
The scrimmage on Saturday will focus a great deal of attention on special teams play as well as a number of specific situations. Hughes said he will be especially interested in watching how the offense operates in game-like situations.
Season tickets for the return of Stetson football are still on-sale, but good seats are going fast. Visit www.gohatters.com/tix to order tickets or call 386-738-HATS to order by phone.
Fans can also follow the Hatters online via social media on the official Stetson Athletics Facebook page ( https://www.facebook.com/stetsonhatters ) and through the Stetson Football Facebook page ( https://www.facebook.com/stetsonfootball ). On Twitter, follow the Hatters @StetsonHatters @StetsonFootball and @JohnB_Stetson.
Fans should also remember to signup for Hat-Alerts, the official Stetson Athletics Text Messaging service at www.gohatters.com/text .
As the countdown clock continues to wind, also visit the Stetson Football A-to-Z Gameday Guide ( www.gohatters.com/gameday ) to get all the information you will need for making the 2013 Stetson football season successful.


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Coach Ronnie Posey and the Bayfield High School girls basketball team will start the season with a 1-2 punch.
But it�s not a 1-2 inside-outside punch or a 1-2 offensive-defensive punch, either.
Rather, the Wolverines themselves were victimized by a 1-2 preseason punch of illness and injuries. And plenty of both.
�We�ve had some unfortunate injuries. We lost one of our starters before the season started,� Posey said.
Jordan Edwards, expected to play a starting role as the Wolverines seek a second consecutive appearance at the CHSAA Class 3A Elite Eight, underwent back surgery in the offseason and will not be available for court duty.
�But she�ll still be an active part of our team ... just not on the court,� said Posey, who led the Wolverines on their historic journey to the state tournament at Colorado State University in Fort Collins last season.
�And we�ve got two others who are still ... limping (with leg injuries),� Posey said as the Wolverines prepared for the season opener at 7 p.m. (varsity) today at home against Bloomfield, N.M.
Chanel McCloskey has been sidelined along with McKaela Knickerbocker, who battled an ankle problem during the recently completed volleyball season.
�McKaela ... I think will be fine. But right there is a lot of our speed,� Posey said of the three key injuries. He said the BHS lineup will be �wide open� because of the early injuries and the graduation of a big senior class last year.
�But I have to commend the girls this year. Their attitude, their �coachability� ... it�s great,� Posey said.
�They are eager to work, and they are fun to work with.�
Seniors Kirby Brown and Layne Bulwan return with experience from last season.
�Layne�s a senior; she�ll be (a leader) out there,� Posey said.
They�ll be joined by juniors Carrie Yost and Jaida Ross.
Destini McGehey �will play a huge role,� Posey said. �She�s worked really hard on her game.�
Knickerbocker and McCloskey will be worked back into the lineup as they return from injury.
The Bayfield head coach said the 2012-13 players learned from last year�s senior-dominated, state-qualifying team.
�These girls played against a team that was the best in the league every night in practice,� Posey said.
The current Wolverines will play pressure defense, but the team likely won�t full-court press to the extent the last two BHS girls varsity teams did.
�They (current Wolverines) understand the philosophy (of pressure defense). They just need confidence ... time on the court,� Posey said.
The team learned a lot in its scrimmage earlier this week against Ignacio.
�It did show us some things to work on,� Posey said. �That Ignacio team is very athletic, quick. They are loaded this year.�
Posey, battling a tortuous case of the �valley crud� along with many others at BHS, said the Wolverines improved as the scrimmage progressed.
�We�ll try to build on the positives (from the scrimmage) and work to get ready,� said Posey, his voice sounding like he was talking into a Campbell�s soup can at the end of a string.
The 2012-13 string for the Wolverines will start against Bloomfield � 7 p.m. today at the BHS gym.


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A band that used to be good back in the Cheshire Cat days. Now they write shit songs that are way overplayed and constantly sung by my little 10-year-old brother.
Thank god they broke up.
Thank god they broke up.
Brother: Na na na, na na na, wooo.
Me: Oh dear lord.
Me: Oh dear lord.
ayon kay Flaming ika-14 ng Hunyo, 2005
To not be punk at all.
"This band sucks, they're so blink 182!"
ayon kay Boozy400 ika-28 ng Agosto, 2006
a band that used to be allright, but then made the music video "i miss you", in which they dress up like backstreet boys. this video is even worse than "all the small things"
in the words of NOFX, a REAL punk rock band, "they got sold out"
ayon kay punk as fuck ika-16 ng Oktubre, 2004
Blink182 is a rock/pop band.. used to be a bit more hardcore and relatively punkish, but never really punk. For one thing, you can understand the lyrics. Still pretty good band, just not punk. Sold out? Maybe. Who cares?
"Blink182 isn't punk. Neither are you. Shut up."
ayon kay Davey ika-15 ng Agosto, 2004
A very weak band. They have/had a large fan base mainly because no one these days knows what good music is. There is almost no skill involved(except for the drumming which is great). Almost anyone could pick up a guitar or bass and play half their songs. Not punk, just bad.
person 1: hey look at me im so cool because i listen to crappy music like blink-182.
person 2: shutup and listen to some music that takes a bit of skill and concentration to create.
person 2: shutup and listen to some music that takes a bit of skill and concentration to create.
ayon kay punk_is_dead1111 ika-09 ng Hunyo, 2006
a poser "punk" band from SoCal that thinks that saying "fuck" 300 times in a song really makes them "grown up" and "tough". They are neither, and they ain't punk in the least. They started hitting the big time in the late 90s. Many of their songs are full of toilet humor. Their music is totally derivative and chumpy. Blink 182 sucks.
1. Blink 182 has songs with disgusting topics. "Fuck a Dog", and other tunes (like "Carousel - almost nothing but a string of profanities) should indicate to you a total lack of brains and maturity.
2. Carol sang out the lyrics to Blink 182's song "Carousel" in front of her parents. Ooooh, she thinks she's so rebellious! She's only looking like a fool.
2. Carol sang out the lyrics to Blink 182's song "Carousel" in front of her parents. Ooooh, she thinks she's so rebellious! She's only looking like a fool.
ayon kay American TV watcher ika-06 ng Nobyembre, 2007
A band with a lead singer that has a squeaky annoying voice. The music itself is okay, but the singer....sucks.
hm...this is some good music...until the guy starts singing....
ayon kay you want to know who wrote this that badly? ika-24 ng Mayo, 2005


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Character created by stand-up, X-rated black comedian Rudy Ray Moore who had its peak on the blaxploitation film movement of the 1970s. Dolemite represents the quintessential pimp with lots of ho's at his charge and able to whoop ass with his muthafuckin'kung fu skills.
Dolemite is the master of Pimp Fu.
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A tough black mineral that won't cop out when there's heat all about.
It's dolemite, baby!!!
โดย Professor Farnsworth 10 มกราคม 2004
Dolemite-fly nigga from the 70's who was pimping ho's, hustlin mad money, and layin motha fuckas out with his pimp cane.
โดย Strictly4nigga 17 มีนาคม 2003
1970's Comic/Actor Rudy Ray Moore.
Dolemite is his characters name. Pimp and a hustler, Dolemite is three times as bad as Shaft.
Dolemite is his characters name. Pimp and a hustler, Dolemite is three times as bad as Shaft.
Sit down and watch Dolemite stick it to the white devils.
โดย Rob Niclas 12 เมษายน 2005
The human tornado. Similiar to a Shaft or a SuperFly.
Dolemite is the...see above.
โดย whitemale_98 30 ธันวาคม 2004
A neo-con loser known to peruse auto enthusiast web sites.
Dolemite got smacked when he called the social activist a hippy.
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Situated 500 km's along the east coast of South Africa. Take a scenic drive to the heart of the Garden Route and experience the magic and tranquillity of Peace of Eden. Conveniently situated 6 km's before Knysna on the west side, and only 8 kms off the N2 ( a main National Highway) along the country road to Rheenendal Village and the Millwood Forests and only 15 minutes from Knysna Town.
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PITTSBURGH - Andrew McCutchen hit a solo home run off Jonathan Broxton with one out in the ninth inning, lifting the Pittsburgh Pirates over the Cincinnati Reds 2-1 Saturday night.
A day after getting no-hit by Cincinnati's Homer Bailey, the Pirates won with eight hits.
McCutchen's 31st homer helped Pittsburgh keep a record 20th consecutive losing season at bay for at least a day. The All-Star hit a 2-2 fastball from Broxton (4-4) a couple rows deep in right-center before getting mobbed at home plate by his teammates.
Joel Hanrahan (5-1) worked out of a two-on, two-out jam in the ninth, setting the stage for McCutchen. Pedro Alvarez had two hits for the Pirates, who won for just the seventh time this month.
Cincinnati, trying to keep pace with the Washington Nationals in the race for the National League's best record, again struggled to score runs. The Reds wrapped up the NL Central earlier in the week but have now scored just five times in their last four games.
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Today: CIncinnati at Pittsburgh, 1:35 p.m.
Pitching matchups: Reds RHP?Johnny?Cueto (19-9) vs. Pirates LHP?Wandy Rodriguez (12-13)
A lone run on Friday was more than enough to preserve Bailey's gem, and a game-tying single in the eighth by Scott Rolen on Saturday appeared to the Reds life. The Pirates loaded the bases in the bottom of the inning off Cincinnati reliever Logan Ondrusek, but Starling Marte popped out harmlessly in foul territory.
Hanrahan came on in a rare non-save situation and worked around a couple of walks to get to the bottom of the ninth. Josh Harrison lined sharply to center to lead off the inning and McCutchen smacked a Broxton offering into the stands to help the Pirates improve to 77-81.
Pittsburgh needs to win its final four games to avoid extending the longest losing season streak in North American professional sports history, and the Pirates' seventh walk-off win of the season improved their record to just 14-34 since Aug. 8.
Back then Pittsburgh was trying to track down the Reds for the division lead. The bottom fell out shortly thereafter and getting no-hit for the first time on Friday night provided an ugly exclamation point on a collapse that turned a once-promising season into one that would end without a winning record for the 20th straight time.
While the Reds focus on the playoffs, Pittsburgh is already working on next season.
Kyle McPherson, who is trying to get a jumpstart one of the open rotation spots in 2013, finally found some solid footing in his third big-league start. The 24-year-old failed to get out of the fifth inning in each of his previous two outings due to command issues that led to bloated pitch counts.
There were no such issues against the Reds. Cincinnati led off the first with a pair of sharply hit singles but couldn't score, and McPherson allowed just four hits over his six innings of work, striking five and walking just one.
Problem was, the Pirates couldn't get anything going off Mike Leake. Pittsburgh ended any chance of getting no-hit for a second straight night early when Josh Harrison singled with one out in the first, but otherwise Leake matched McPherson zero for zero.
The Pirates finally took the lead in the seventh on a RBI-double by Alex Presley, but Jason Grilli gave it away an inning later when Rolen's single to left scored pinch runner Denis Phipps.
NOTES: The series concludes on Sunday. Johnny Cueto (19-9, 2.83 ERA) starts for Cincinnati against Pittsburgh's Wandy Rodriguez (12-13, 3.79) ... The Pirates drew their 17th season sellout of the season on Saturday and topped 2 million in attendance for the fourth time in franchise history.


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cheap, inexpensive, low quality
This is an el cheapo cigar.
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2. cheap(from mock spanish)
I would not buy an el cheapo if I were you.
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when a person is "highly" cheap
..you call them el cheapo.
..you call them el cheapo.
"My mother is el cheapo"
by nilaun December 17, 2009
Defined from the "Money Game" on The Price is Right, the lowest possible number on the board.
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Someone who is cheap. Usually refers to a small tipper.
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A nickname for passe recording artist Darren Hayes (formerly of Savage Garden) - who is known for his love of money, and definitely not for his altruism.
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It's her birthday, so in honour of Mary's mum and the detective agency's namesake, I thought I'd give an update.
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Phenomenal (Who Wants Dinosaurs?!)
The creativity and collaboration keeps coming.
I've been getting amazing input for bigger stories, interactive maps, games, resources, animation, live-action, stage presentations, radio plays, audio books, international translations, merchandising... You... Read more
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What Would You Like To See Next?
After all, I'm here for you and for the kids in your life.
We've sold out of our initial super-big-mega-awesome-thank-yous.
What should take their place? Calendars would take a long... Read more
I am.
You're lovely. This is incredible. The opportunities for extending this beyond the first three books are pouring in; people want to see this entire project become larger... Read more
New Stretch Goal: Twenty Five at Twenty Five!
So, here's something I know I can do without needing third party or much additional budget – although I'm breaking my own Project Management rules:
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New Stretch Goals / Rewards Tomorrow!
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400%. This is all those adjectives I keep using, such as "amazing", "incredible", "overwhelming" and "astonishing". Superlative? I'm going to need to bust out the thesaurus so you... Read more
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Book Two Unlocked! And Now...
I've been using the word "wow" a lot since this started, just five days ago.
But, wow.
We've funded the first book, and in the last two days, have funded... Read more
We made boingboing!
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We're now 2/3 of the way to funding the second book in the series.
Thank you!
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94%, Green Light immanent, and thinking about overfunding
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And I was getting to decorating cookies.....which always makes for a good day. :)
So I got a little CRAZIE with the photos. ha ha
I was enthralled with how pretty these Americolor gels looked all staged together.....so I just HAD to take a photo of them too. :)
But I digress.....back to the heart cookie tutorial.
For this particular heart pattern, I used a larger heart (over 4") to accommodate the border.
To make the border fairly uniform, I found a small heart cutter to trace a border line with a yellow food color marker.
It doesn't matter if the line's not perfect....because you're going to cover up your markings with icing.
Pipe a outline of the inner heart with a #2 round tip and then flood the inside with a #4 round tip.
(I use the same consistency icing for both outlining and flooding using the 10 second rule.)
I dry each "layer" or addition of icing with a heat gun to give it a nice sheen, lessen bleeding, and prevent sink holes (especially when doing small areas). For more on the heat gun, check out this post.
Once the inner heart has dried for a while (at least 30 minutes), I add the outside border outline (with a #2 tip) and dry it with the heat gun.
I let the outline dry for about 10 minutes, and then fill in the border with a #4 tip.
By letting the outline dry first, you get a more "puffy" look to the border.
At this point.......you can use your imagination and add whatever you'd like to this simple heart.
I forgot to take a photo of the addition of the writing "iloveyou" on the center heart and the white border dots and stitches I added when the border was wet.
Both are simply done with white icing using a #1 and #0 tip.
But certainly don't limit yourself to my particular design.
Run with the basic idea and make it your own.
This was my first time using my new half sheet lids. This is a much prettier photo with all the happy hearts inside than the ones I took of just the plain pans and lids. :)
And the finished heart.......
Much more to come.
You can also check out my Valentines cookies from last year. I went a little CRAZIE as usual. ;)
Valentine's Day.....here we come!


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ATTICA - It was like that one scene in Space Jam, where all of Michael Jordan's TuneSquad team was sitting along the sidelines with injuries, bumps and bruises.
However, if you watched the movie you would know that ToonSquad didn't give up and they didn't quit; they overcame adversity and defeated the Monstars in the final minutes. Seneca East did the same thing Saturday afternoon at home, battling through three injuries and lots of physical play to pick up a 72-67 overtime win against Norwalk.
Not to mention Ashton Daniel became the fourth Tiger to eclipse the 1,000 point career mark.
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Seneca East's Ashton Daniel shoots over Norwalk's Hannah Souslin during Saturday's game.
"It feels good, we've had three physical teams this week. We had Edison, Carey and Norwalk and we ended up 2-1, so overall it was a good week and we'll take care of ourselves tonight and tomorrow and come back strong next week," Daniel said.
Unlike Michael Jordan, there was no pressure for Daniel as she wasn't going to Moron Mountain if the Tigers lost or she didn't hit the 1,000-point mark. Not even an injury could phase Daniel.
"We knew she'd get it today one way or the other, and even though she'd got injured, she would have came back and tried," coach Dave Stallings said.
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Seneca East 72,
Norwalk 67 OT
Norwalk: Hannah Sousla 1-0-2; Kailee Flowers 3-0-6; Kaiti Beveridge 7-3-20; Sydnie Fetherolf 6-2-14; Jacelyn Thomas 8-4-20; Makayla Cook 0-0-0. Totals: 27-10-67.
Seneca East (9-4): Lauren Sprenger 3-3-9; Jessica Enders 0-0-0; Brittany Brookes 2-6-10; Emily Depinet 2-0-4; Cameil Ruffing 0-0-0; Ashton Daniel 7-6-20; Hannah Hahler 2-3-7; Amber Enders 1-0-2; Seina Adachi 7-5-20. Totals: 24-23-72.
Norwalk128221411 - 67
Seneca East1217151216 - 72
Field goals: Norwalk 27-59; Seneca East 24-47.
3-point goals: Norwalk 3-18 (Beveridge 3); Seneca East 1-10 (Adachi).
Foul shots: Norwalk 10-15; Seneca East 23-35.
Rebounds: Norwalk 23 (Thomas 7); Seneca East 34 (Hahler 10, Depinet 9).
Turnovers: Norwalk 15; Seneca East 25.
Seneca East led 29-20 at the half, with Daniel accounting for nine of the points. She was just a layup or jumper away from the 11 needed to reach the milestone.
She got her chance 18 seconds into the second half, but tight defense from Norwalk's Sydnie Fetherolf led to Daniel taking a tumble and the Trucker's scoring on the other end.
Meanwhile Daniel was left at the far end of the court still clutching her right shoulder. She left the game moments later and returned midway through the period with a taped right shoulder.
"I came back not only for thousand but for the team; came back to help them get the win because that was the most important thing today," Daniel said. "Oh, it was crazy, but we didn't let it (the injury) be a distraction. Everybody stepped up tonight and it feels good; we came back and everybody participated and helped with the thousand."
It wasn't long after, 1:44 left in the third quarter to be exact, that Daniel grabbed an offensive rebound from a missed Brittany Brookes' shot, put it back in while being fouled, and her 1,000th career point was scored.
Immediately after, fans, friends and family erupted with excitement and officials stopped the game while Seneca East Athletic Director Frank Speziale acknowledged the accomplishment.
"It was emotional. It's a big point in my career and I was happy to get it and everybody was happy for me in the crowd. It was just emotional to see," Daniel said.
She then shared a big hug with Stallings before heading back onto the court.
"I'm just proud of Ashton, I'm happy for her. I wish her old coaches could have been here to witness this because they all had a piece in this," Stallings said. "She's put the work in, it's not like anything has been handed to her."
Scoring 1,000 points doesn't just happen overnight, though. Daniel credited the success off the court as much as on, as well help from her team.
"It's a lot of hard work, a lot of time in the gym, working in the off-season and working with your teammates, just hard work basically."
Daniel came back on the court, sank her solo free throw and continued to pile on points, finishing with a game-high 20. Seina Adachi, a freshman foreign exchange student from Japan, matched Daniel's scoring output.
Norwalk's Kaiti Beveridge and Jacelyn Thomas led the Truckers with 20 points a piece.
Daniel has 1,009 points to date.
But it's more than just about a number to Daniel. Being one of four seniors and a team captain, there are still a few goals she wishes to accomplish before her high school basketball career is over.
"We want to have a winning season and pull through in tournaments, and just get as far as we can since we have four seniors on the team and it will be our last time playing," Daniel said.
Seneca East battled back and fourth deep into the fourth quarter and went into overtime matched at 56 with Norwalk. The Tigers opened the lead from there, and when a Daniel layup with 1:19 left made it 68-59, there was no looking back.
For Stallings, it was a complete team effort.
"We've got 22 girls in the program and they're 22 good girls. They work together, they root for each other, which is the key; just a great group of kids. I couldn't have walked into a better situation," he said. "I just want to thank the kids; the kids don't quit."
For Seneca East girls basketball, calling it a "grand" day would be an understatement.


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WASHINGTON — On Dec. 5, 2007, EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson prepared to send the White House an extraordinary document. It declared that climate change imperiled the public welfare - a decision that would trigger the nation's first mandatory global-warming regulations.
Johnson, a career scientist, knew that his draft would meet with resistance from antiregulatory ideologues at the White House, but he believed the science was solid.
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BERKELEY SPRINGS - The Morgan Arts Council launches its 27th season for Summer Concerts in the Park with a seven concert line-up that begins Saturday, July 6 and continues through Aug. 17.
The music in the series ranges from the New Orleans soul, jazz, rock and gospel of Brother Joscephus and the Love Revolution to the Tidewater Blues of Phil Wiggins and the Chesapeake Sheiks, to the boogie woogie sounds of the Daryl Davis Band. Bluegrass, country and traditional music are presented by Linda Lay and Springfield Exit, and folk-pop by Julie Adams and Steve Hill. "Untraditional" bluegrass is performed by Banana Express and jazz by the Martinsburg Jazz Orchestra.
All summer concerts are at 5:30 p.m., staged along the mountainside that marks the western border of beautiful Berkeley Springs State Park. This year, the nearby Star Theatre serves as rain location.
The free summer concert series was the brainchild of the late Linda Fallon and was introduced in 1987 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Morgan Arts Council. In the years since, it has become MAC's best known program drawing more than 50,000 attendees over the years with many returning year after year.
"It's hard to believe we've been doing this for over a quarter of a century," said Jeanne Mozier, MAC secretary. "And each season concert planners come up with a perfect blend of music types."
Major sponsors for the series are Lot 12, Best Western Berkeley Springs Inn and Star Theatre.
"The tourism industry supports the concert series for its draw during the summer," Mozier said.
Additional funding support comes from the National Endowment for the Arts and the West Virginia Commission on the Arts as well as local hotel-motel tax revenues.
"We also owe great thanks to the Department of Natural Resources for letting us use the park," Mozier said. "Nothing beats sitting on the lawn and watching the kids - and adults - splashing in the springpools along with the music."
For detailed information on the concert series and participating performers, pick up a series calendar around town, check online at www.macicehouse.org or call 304-258-2300.


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Now that fall is here and school is in session, it is important to get into routines that make mornings run more smoothly. Following is what happens on an average day in the Anderson household. Hopefully, you can get some ideas and tweak the schedule to fit your needs.
6:25 a.m. - I return from the gym (I included this part so you will be impressed). If it is a good day, no one is awake yet and I can make coffee, eat my oatmeal and soak in a few blissful moments of silence before crazy time begins. If it is a bad day, my youngest is sitting cross-legged on the hall floor waiting for me. "Hi, Mommy! Will you read me the comics and make me a smoothie?"
6:45 a.m. - My oldest daughter's alarm clock rings; it sounds like a submarine dive alarm. She usually is stricken with temporary paralysis and I have to walk into her room to turn it off before I go insane. I remind her that she is the one who wanted to take a shower.
6:59 a.m. - My husband comes out of our bedroom wearing a ridiculous hat and no shirt. He offers to take the girls to school if they miss the carpool.
7 a.m. - Fearing peer embarrassment, my oldest finds her way to the shower looking like she needs an intravenous caffeine drip. My youngest, if not already awake, gets up. Straight out of bed, she resembles Phyllis Diller.
7:13 a.m. - I dig through the clean, unfolded laundry to find dress code clothes that they can wear to school.
7:19 a.m. - My kids emerge from their rooms, announcing that they are all ready for school. I remind them that they need to wear shoes.
7:20 a.m. - Mealtime. They order like they are at a breakfast counter. "I'll have two pieces of toast; one with butter, one with cream cheese, and a peach." I make whatever I feel like fixing.
7:23 a.m. - A fight breaks out; often caused by one of two things, - my youngest singing the wrong words to her sister's favorite songs ("The Puma has It") or my oldest criticizing her sister's clothing, "Why are you wearing Christmas socks in October?"
7:30 a.m. - I remember to pack lunches. I have packed lunches every school day for the last 5 years. I still forget sometimes.
7:31 a.m. - I realize that there are no ice packs in the freezer because the kids took them to bed with them in order to cure the headache/stomach ache/leg ache that struck them the night before.
7:35 a.m. - Cram time: spelling words, state capitals, states of matter, subjects and predicates - whatever we forgot to study prior to the day of the test.
7:37 a.m. - Someone gets hit by a projectile. The nature of the flying object varies seasonally; lately it has been a volleyball.
7:40 a.m. - Five minutes until carpool. My reminders are met by "I know" followed by my continued insistence that they wear shoes to school. My oldest disappears into the bathroom to perform mysterious rituals in the mirror.
7:45 a.m. - The sweet, sweet sound of the neighbor's daughter ringing the doorbell to collect the girls for school.
7:46 a.m. - I take a deep, cleansing breath, raise my coffee cup to my lips ... and notice that one of them forgot their backpack.
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5 Reasons Internet Access in America is a Disaster
Right now, I'm typing this column from a friend's shed. At 1:30 a.m. -- it's 100 degrees inside. There is no bathroom. It smells like oil and gasoline from the lawnmower behind me. Why? Because Internet access in a large part of America is kind of fucked.
When you hear people complain about it -- say, when somebody jokes about how jealous they are of their Korean friend's 50 MB/s connection -- everybody assumes they're complaining about how long it takes to torrent an HD movie or whining about a latency disadvantage in Call of Duty.
But that's not the real problem. First of all, I work on the Internet -- it's my full-time job, my employer's office is 2,000 miles away. And second, there are big chunks of the USA where, if you moved there right now, you can't get broadband Internet access at all, no matter who you offered to blow for it. So for all of you out there who are having to pause periodically so more words will load, let's run down all of the ways that Internet access in the USA is shit.
Some of Us Just Plain Can't Get It
The reason I'm having to access this article from a makeshift connection in a tool shed is that last month I finally moved out of my old apartment that would have been classified as a war crime if POWs were held there. I got to the new place, called up my friendly ISP to have the connection set up and heard them say that service was unavailable there. Not that particular hour or day -- but unavailable, period. Keep in mind this apartment isn't in the middle of the Sahara, it's located right in the middle of a small town in the USA. Fine, I called another ISP. They said the same thing. This was a problem because it means I could not fucking telecommute to work until a friend finally felt sorry for me and ran a line out to a corner of a building he owns.
The computer is made of beetle droppings.
I'm not an isolated case -- up to 10 percent of the country can't even get basic broadband. That may not sound like a lot if you're among the people who can get it, but in rural areas of the country, there are huge stretches of Internet dead zones (take Nebraska for instance -- the FCC recently reported that more than 300,000 people -- almost 20 percent of the state -- can't get even low-end broadband).
So in my case, I live in a town in the Midwest with about 2,000 people and was told by the area's DSL provider that they are currently "maxed out" on connections -- if I wanted one, I had to wait for some meth-head to go to jail so that his connection frees up and I can take his spot.
He's right there in the weeds, officer! Get him!
It is, of course, about money -- to them, upgrading their capacity isn't worth it if there aren't enough potential non-meth head subscribers to pay for it (here's a tech for one provider citing $750,000 as the cost to add a new terminal to carry additional DSL lines).
It's made out of this.
America has been through all of this before, by the way -- the exact same situation played itself out in the early days of telephone service, when it was too expensive to run a line out to a smattering of customers in some rural farming community (this was back when such communities had only moonshine to entertain themselves, before advances in meth technology rendered it obsolete). Those people didn't get service until the government forced AT& T to do it.
Often There are No Real Options for Service (and No Competition)
"Now wait a minute," some of you are saying. "Even in a small town like yours, if DSL providers are dropping the ball, the free market should introduce alternatives to compete for all of that money generated by methamphetamine sales."
Hey, sure enough, I got a flier from the cable company offering service. I called and the woman on the phone told me that this service was more of an optimistic hypothetical than an actual "service" you could "buy," but that I should call back every day until it became available. I actually tried that, for 31 days, told each time to try again later while she presumably masturbated at the thought of my pain. The last call I made, another woman said, "It should be very soon because they're physically laying the lines now. I'd call back in a month and a half."
I know, that's what I thought, too!
A motherfucking month and a cockshitting half? "Very soon" doesn't mean what she thinks it means. If it does, I wonder how she'll react when I tell her I'll pay my bill "very soon."
OK, maybe you've seen those ads for satellite Internet (like HughesNet, which specifically advertises their service to places that have lots of corn fields). Even if I was fine with the price and speeds (it's about 400 percent more expensive than DSL, and gets about a third of the speed), when I called I didn't even get that far -- I was informed that they have a 200-meg limit on downloads per day (you can get that boosted to 400 megs for the low, low price of $90 a month). Let me break that down for you: My last Windows security update was 300 megs. That's auto-updating, which means it happens in the background without me noticing.
Their solution? Don't download shit.
"Thanks for your business. You can't eat any of this.
By the way, that's from their announcement page. And on that page, they give us great news! They're currently increasing the cap! By 25 megs. In my job, I'll use that in about 20 minutes. Again, I'm not complaining that this, for instance, eliminates services like Netflix. My work requires me to download dozens of large files (high res images and video) per project, every day, seven days a week. When Brockway talked about bandwidth caps a little while back, it scared the shit out of me. I had no idea how fast I'd run into it.
Just to emphasize that I exhausted every possibility, I found out that DIRECTV and my local electric company both offer a wireless connection called Blue Sky. If you don't have a direct line of sight to their tower (a tree or another house is in the way), you can't get it. OK, a half an hour with a chainsaw later, I had that shit covered. What's the next step?
I mean besides breaking it to the landlord that I didn't cut the tree.
Their representative did some quick figures and said that after installation, equipment and startup fees are all added, I'd be paying about $600 cock-shrinking dollars just to get it going. And that's not counting the $90 per month to use their "just above dialup" speeds, which is not fast enough to stream even a low quality YouTube video. Oh, and it's an 18-month contract -- with no early termination. If I decide their service is too horrible to use a few months later, the $90 bill keeps coming every month until the 18 months are over.
Those Who Have Access Still Lag Behind the Rest of the World
But I only use my situation as an example. I don't want you to think that my message here is, "Don't move to small town America unless you hate the Internet as much as you love meth!" This is a nationwide problem. You'll hear politicians talk about improving broadband infrastructure and if you're happy with your own service, you may not understand what the big deal is.
These guys certainly don't.
Beyond people in my situation, there's just the overall speed of the system as a whole. For instance, if cable Internet had been real rather than a cruel psychological experiment, the fastest speed they offer is 15 megs-per-second. I'd be paying roughly $70 a month for that.
Now compare that to other countries like South Korea, where the average user boasts 15 megs-per-second -- nearly quadruple the speed of the average user in the USA (which I would still kill for, compared to my current 0.0 Mbps download rate). The USA barely ranks in the top 20 in Internet speed worldwide, behind countries like Romania and Iceland.
Don't celebrate, assholes. Your Internet sucks, too.
Oh, and next year, Korea is implementing a 1,000-meg connection. Japan already has one -- for the same $70 per month my cable company charges for their fictional service. Korea claims that theirs won't be anywhere near that expensive.
But don't be discouraged. Chattanooga, Tennessee is working on one themselves. It'll cost around $350 per month.
Oh well, at least they'll probably have it.


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All that was missing was a birthday cake Friday at Peccole Park.
Bradey Shipley, though, supplied all the rest of the fun as the Wolf Pack cruised past the Northern Illinois Huskies, 7-3, in front of a crowd of 566 in the home opener. The Wolf Pack junior celebrated his 21st birthday by striking out 10 in eight innings and allowing just four hits and a run.
"I felt good out there," said Shipley, who tossed 70 of his 110 pitches for strikes. "I was just glad to get out with a win."
Shipley earned his first victory of the season by dominating the Huskies. He didn't allow a hit until the fourth inning and just two Huskies reached base through the first seven innings.
"Sometimes when he's out there pitching, I sometimes get too relaxed," smiled Wolf Pack first baseman Kewby Meyer, whose two-run home run gave Shipley a 5-1 lead in the fifth inning. "I just think he's going to strike everybody out."
Shipley fanned eight of the first 14 Northern Illinois hitters. He also got Huskies' leadoff hitter Jamison Wells on strikes with the bases loaded in the eighth inning.
"We pitched well off my fastball," said Shipley, who also had to pitch in front of about a dozen scouts sitting behind home plate with radar guns. "We set the hitters up pretty good. They didn't really have a general idea about what was coming."
Shipley retired the first dozen Huskies hitters, seven on strikes.
"He threw strikes, got ahead of the hitters and did a real nice job," said Wolf Pack coach Gary Powers, who has now won 915 games in 31 seasons with the Wolf Pack.
Powers said he didn't hesitate to let Shipley go back out to the mound for the eighth inning despite a big lead (7-1) and having already thrown 88 pitches.
"He was fine and he still felt strong," Powers said. "He was still making his pitches. His max is 110 pitches and that's exactly where he finished."
Shipley struggled a bit in the eighth, allowing two hits and his only walk of the day.
"He got a little tired at the end," Powers said. "But he was OK."
Shipley, who pitched two complete games last year, understood why Powers lifted him after eight innings.
"I wanted to go back out for the ninth," he said. "But coach is just looking out for the best interests of the team. I was fine with it. I have faith in any guy we throw out there."
Colby Blueberg mopped up the ninth, allowing two unearned runs on three hits.
"It's only the second series of the year," said Shipley, who allowed five hits and four runs in his first start of the year last weekend against Kansas. "We have to take things slow right now."
Eight innings and 110 pitches isn't exactly slow, especially in February.
"I wanted to avoid a fistfight on the mound trying to take him out," joked Powers.
Shipley is now, officially, one of the best pitchers in Wolf Pack history, according to the record book. His career earned run average of 2.86 is now second in Wolf Pack history (since 1970) for pitchers with at least 120 innings. And his .733 career winning percentage (11-4) is eighth in Pack history for pitchers with 12 or more decisions.
The scouts behind the plate, though, came to see his 95 mile an hour fastball.
"I didn't even notice them," Shipley said. "I can't focus on that stuff."
Shipley, instead, focused on making quick work of the Huskies.
"I threw a lot of fastballs and we didn't really have to go to the curve until the fourth inning," said Shipley, who also benefited from a couple of nice catches on well-hit line drives by leftfielder Brad Gerig and center fielder Jamison Rowe.
The Wolf Pack gave Shipley a 3-0 lead with three runs in the second inning. Scott Kaplan tripled home Gerig, who had singled to start the inning. Kyle Hunt singled home Kaplan and Meyer drove in Ryan Teel with the third run.
Meyer, hitting in the second spot in the order, went 2-for-3 with three RBI. His home run in the fifth inning stayed just inside the foul pole down the right field line.
"I knew it had enough to go over the fence," said Meyer, a sophomore from Hawaii. "I just didn't know if it was going to stay fair."
The home run was just Meyer's second in two seasons with the Pack in 200 career at-bats. His only other home run came last April 22 at Sacramento State.
"That's my first one here," Meyer smiled. "It feels good to finally get one in this park."
Meyer hit .324 as a freshman with 34 RBI and is now hitting .389 (7-for-18) with four RBI this season.
"We like him in that second spot because if the leadoff guy doesn't get on base, he has a real good chance of getting on," Powers said. "We don't really use our two hitter like a typical two hitter. We just like him up there in front of those other guys (Brooks Klein, Austin Byler, Brad Gerig) because he's a good average hitter."
"Wherever my team needs me to hit, that's OK with me," Meyer said.
The Pack put the game away with a pair of runs in the sixth. Kaplan and Teel both got on base by getting hit by a pitch and Rowe and Klein drove them both in with groundouts.
The Wolf Pack, now 3-2, and Northern Illinois (0-5) will play a doubleheader at Peccole on Saturday (11 a.m.) and finish the four-game series with a single game on Sunday (11 a.m.).


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At least five outbreaks of Norovirus, also known as the stomach flu, have been found in Weld County, with the majority of the cases in nursing homes.
Four cases involving multiple people infected by the illness have been found in nursing homes and one case was related to a family gathering, said Weld County Department of Public Health and Environment spokesman Erik Aakko.
He said the health department would not be releasing the names of the nursing homes where the outbreaks have occurred.
"Usually when it starts, the nursing home or assisted-living facility starts to take more precautions cleaning up and making sure the facility is decontaminated," Aakko said. "The challenge is it's so highly infectious, when someone gets sick, they may not even know they are spreading it."
Norovirus is a highly contagious bug that is the leading cause of outbreaks of diarrhea and vomiting in the United States, according to a news release.
Last year, Weld County had a total of eight outbreaks of the virus, with seven of the outbreaks occurring at long-term care facilities, Aakko said.
"This is not an unusually high amount we're seeing this year," he said.
Aakko said if someone comes down with the illness, it's important the person disinfect surfaces they use, wash their hands and don't prepare food.
He said it can take several days to clear someone's system and the virus can remain present for several weeks.
Norovirus infections aren't always reported to the health department, so the exact number of cases is unknown, Aakko said.
Norovirus spreads by contact with an infected person, by touching a contaminated surface, or by eating contaminated food or water.
The most common symptoms are diarrhea, vomiting, nausea, and stomach pain, according to the release.
Other symptoms include fever, headache, and body aches. The incubation period for norovirus can be anywhere from 12-48 hours after exposure. There are no medications to prevent or cure norovirus. One of the most common complications from norovirus is dehydration.
For more information, go to www.cdc.gov/norovirus/index.html/.