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Thats awesome! Seriously. Wright idolizes Cal Ripken, not just for how he played the game, but because he played his whole career with one team. This was one of Wright's goals from the start of these negotiations, and he actually helps that happen by limiting the chance of being way overpaid in years when he'll probably be less productive.
The Mets are off on Monday and begin a three-game series against the Atlanta Braves on Tuesday at 7:10 p.m. at Citi Field.
Robert Gsellman (0-1, 5.09 ERA) will face Julio Teheran (1-1, 3.52 ERA) in the opener.
Tags: Atlanta Braves, Michael Conforto, Travis d'Arnaud, Washington Nationals, Yoenis Cespedes, Zack Wheeler
For a full box score of the game, click here.
Things you should know about today's game...
1) Daniel Murphy's first-inning grand slam and Ryan Zimmerman's two-run shot in the eighth extended the Mets' losing streak to four games for the second time in nine days.
2) After allowing the first three batters to reach and the slam to Murphy, Zack Wheeler surrendered one hit and two walks with four strikeouts over his final six innings. He worked a season-high seven frames and was charged with four runs on four hits and two walks while fanning six.
3) Michael Conforto went 3-for-4 and hit his second leadoff homer of the series. Neil Walker slugged a two-run shot to cut the Nats' lead to 4-3 in the third.
Tags: Michael Conforto, Zack Wheeler
The Mets (8-10) will try to salvage the final game of a three-game series with the Washington Nationals (12-5) on Sunday at Citi Field at 8:08 p.m.
The Mets have lost three straight games and seven of their last eight. ... They are now 10-26 in their last 36 home games. With losses to the Nationals on Friday and Saturday, the Mets have now dropped six of their last eight series against Washington.
Tags: Washington Nationals, Zack Wheeler
The New York Mets are targeting a Tuesday return for outfielder Yoenis Cespedes, manager Terry Collins told reporters before Sunday's game against the Washington Nationals.
Cespedes, who is not in Sunday's lineup and missed games on Friday and Saturday due to a hamstring injury, took indoor batting practice and is available to pinch hit, according to Collins.
Collins said Cespedes told him he felt "a lot better" on Sunday since leaving Thursday's game in the fifth inning, but added he wanted to be cautious after Cespedes came back too early from a quadriceps injury last August and missed 14 games.
Tags: Lucas Duda, Travis d'Arnaud, Wilmer Flores, Yoenis Cespedes
In this week's Meet the MetsCast, comedian Steve Hofstetter, MLB Network Radio's Rob Brender and I discuss the week's best off-beat moments and topics about the Mets, including...
An injury-plagued Mets offense continued to struggle in Saturday's 3-1 loss to the Nationals, stringing together just two hits on the day.
The Mets were held hitless until Juan Lagares' single in the sixth inning, which set up Asdrubal Cabrera's RBI single to put the Mets on the board. Cabrera's hit was the second and final one of the game for the Mets, who have dropped three straight and seven of their last eight after a five-game winning streak.
The Mets have only been able to score more than four runs one time in their last eight games, during which several players have been sidelined.
The Mets played without Yoenis Cespedes, Wilmer Flores, Lucas Duda, and for the most part, Travis d'Arnaud. Cespedes missed a second straight game after departing Thursday's game with a hamstring injury, while Flores and Duda were both placed on the disabled list. D'Arnaud, dealing with a sore wrist, was not in the lineup on Saturday but pinch hit in the ninth.
Tags: Asdrubal Cabrera, Juan Lagares, Lucas Duda, Travis d'Arnaud, Wilmer Flores, Yoenis Cespedes
Jacob deGrom had ten strikeouts for a second straight outing, but walked a season-high six batters and earned his first loss of the season on Saturday as the Mets dropped the second game of a three-game series with the Nationals.
DeGrom gave up three runs on eight hits in five and 2/3 innings behind little run support from the Mets offense, which generated only two hits on the day.
Tags: Jacob deGrom
For a full box score of the game, click here.
Things you should know about today's game...
1) The Mets did not collect a hit until Juan Lagares singled in the sixth inning. Asdrubal Cabrera's RBI single two batters later was their last hit of the game.
2) Jacob deGrom had the strikeout pitch working, fanning 10 in 5 2/3 innings, but he also walked a career-high six and allowed three runs on eight hits.
Tags: Jacob deGrom
The Mets (8-9) play the middle game of a three-game series against the Nationals (11-5) at Citi Field on Saturday at 4:05 p.m. Jeurys Familia walked in the winning run in the 11th Friday as the Nationals beat the Mets, 4-3
The Mets have lost six of seven games and are 4-6 at home this season. ... In seven of New York's last eight games, the winning run has scored in either their last at-bat or their opponents' last at-bat, including a six-game stretch from April 13-19, that was the longest such streak in the majors since Oakland had a six-game streak from May 28-June 3, 2004. The Mets are 2-5 in those games.
Who is starting today for the Mets
Jacob deGrom, who missed his scheduled start against Washington Friday with a stiff neck, will start Saturday at against the Nationals and Gio Gonzalez at Citi Field. First pitch is 4:05 p.m.
DeGrom has a 1.89 ERA and 0.84 WHIP with four walks and 22 strikeouts in 19.0 innings (three starts) this season.
Tags: Jacob deGrom
For a full box score of the game, click here.
Things you should know about today's game...
1) Jeurys Familia tossed a wild pitch and walked consecutive batters in the 11th, the latter forcing in the eventual game-winning run. Bryce Harper, who opened the scoring with a two-run homer in the first, doubled off Josh Smoker with one out and scored on Familia's walk.
2) Matt Harvey gutted his way through a season-high seven innings and surrendered three runs, all coming on a pair of homers. He allowed four hits and two walks while striking out a pair in his 108-pitch outing.
3) Michael Conforto and Curtis Granderson both went deep and finished 2-for-4. Granderson tied the game twice, with a two-out RBI single in the fourth and with his first roundtripper in the sixth.
Tags: Jeurys Familia, Matt Harvey
In this Friday's feedback edition of the MetsBlog Q&ACast, Gotham Baseball's Mark Healey joins Matthew Cerrone to answer voicemails, Tweets and comments from Mets fans about...
The Mets (8-8) open a three-game series against the Nationals (10-5) at Citi Field on Friday at 7:10 p.m. With the team making three errors, the Mets lost to the Phillies, 6-4, on Thursday night.
The Mets have lost five of six games and are 4-5 at home this season. ... They are in the midst of 32 consecutive games against N.L. East opponents to start the season. ... The Mets went 2-4 in series against the Nationals last season, going 7-12 overall.
Who is starting tonight for the Mets?
Matt Harvey, who allowed one run on seven hits while walking two and striking out five in six innings this past Sunday against the Marlins.
Tags: Matt Harvey
Yes, the Mets are getting hammered with injury and illness. Frankly, so much has happened in the last 48 hours, I've literally lost track.
In case you're in the same boat, here's where things stand...
Yoenis Cespedes had his hamstring examined by doctors on Friday and will likely miss at least a few games, Mets manager Terry Collins said Friday.
Cespedes exited Thursday night's game at the end of the fifth inning with what the Mets initially called a cramp.
He later said he felt a "shock" rather than a hamstring cramp, according to Mike Puma of the New York Post.
Cespedes appeared to injure himself when he was on the bases, and limped off the field.
Tags: Yoenis Cespedes
The Mets have placed Wilmer Flores (knee infection) and Lucas Duda (hyperextended elbow) to the 10-day disabled list, the team announced Friday.
Flores, who spent Wednesday night in the hospital, will remain in the hospital throughout the weekend to receive IV fluids.
T.J. Rivera, who is in Friday night's lineup at third base, and Sean Gilmartin have been called up from Triple-A Las Vegas.
Tags: Lucas Duda, Sean Gilmartin, TJ Rivera, Wilmer Flores
Mets catcher Travis d'Arnaud, who left Wednesday's game against the Phillies due to a right wrist contusion, was scratched from Friday night's lineup after having trouble throwing before the game, manager Terry Collins said.
Rene Rivera is starting in d'Arnaud's place on Friday night.
D'Arnaud hit his throwing hand on Aaron Altherr's bat when trying to throw out Cesar Hernandez at second base on a steal attempt. He remained in the game until the sixth but was replaced by Rene Rivera in the seventh.
Tags: Travis d'Arnaud
Mets 3B David Wright fielded grounders and tossed lightly overhand on Friday as he continues to rehab his right shoulder impingement, reports Dave Lennon of Newsday.
Wright played catch and took batting practice on Wednesday as he returned to his rehab program.
"If David Wright could throw the ball across the infield, he could play today," Collins said. "Except, we've got to get him some at-bats, which he hasn't had, but he's taking batting practice today. His hands are still very, very good -- I mean, this guy doesn't miss anything. It's about getting that arm back and how long that's going to take no one knows."
Tags: David Wright
Jacob deGrom, who is dealing with a stiff neck, will have his start pushed to Saturday, with Matt Harvey starting in deGrom's place on Friday, reports Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports.
Harvey will be pitching on regular rest since the Mets were off on Monday.
DeGrom has a 1.89 ERA and 0.84 WHIP with four walks and 22 strikeouts in 19.0 innings (three starts) this season.
Tags: Jacob deGrom, Matt Harvey
The injuries suddenly are mounting. And the Mets have dipped to .500 with five losses in their last six games. So perhaps it's not an ideal time to be facing the division-leading Nationals, who are off to a 10-5 start.
Yet a day after Yoenis Cespedes departed the series finale against the Phillies with a cranky hamstring that will prompt an MRI, as and Lucas Duda (hyperextended elbow), Travis d'Arnaud (bruised wrist) and Wilmer Flores (infection) all sat out, the Mets now get their first measuring stick against Daniel Murphy and the first-place Nationals on Friday at Citi Field.
During Thursday's broadcast on SNY, Ron Darling broke down the segment saying "3 different pitches: Fastball up and out of the strike zone, changeup where the bottom fell out and a perfectly placed curveball on the outside corner."
Syndergaard had 10 strikeouts against the Phillies and ranks 3rd in the NL in strikeouts. He has 30 strikeouts this season and has seven with his fastball, 11 with his change up and 2 with his curve.
Syndergaard throws his fastball 50 % of the time, change up 19.5 % and curve 10.8 % of the time.
Mets outfielder Jay Bruce started at first base Thursday for the first time since 2014, when he played just three games filling in for Joey Votto and the Reds.
In the wake of Lucas Duda needing to have an MRI on his hyperextended elbow, and with Wilmer Flores unavailable with an infection in his knee, Bruce handled first base, where he started one game and practiced during spring training.
Tags: Jay Bruce
April is National Donate Life Month and today, April 21, is Blue & Green Day to help raise awareness.
Nearly 10,000 New Yorkers, including former Met Ed Kranepool, are among the 118,000 people nationwide who are currently awaiting organ transplants.
One organ donor can save 8 people and impact up to 50 lives.
Noah Syndergaard labored through seven innings Thursday against the Phillies, though he struck out 10 batters for the first time this season and threw a season-high 114 pitches.
Syndergaard gave three earned runs as the Mets struggled defensively and committed three errors.
"For the most part, I thought I threw pretty good. Except for that second inning [when] things got a little fluky," Syndergaard later said. "You just have to have a short-term memory and forget about it and get back on the mound. ... I felt great. I thought tonight was the best my mechanics have been in a long time."
Tags: Jeurys Familia, Josh Edgin, Noah Syndergaard
This season, thanks to Citi, each time the home run apple goes up at Citi Field, another step is taken in the fight against childhood hunger.
For each Mets home run at Citi Field this season, Citi has pledged to donate $2,000 to No Kid Hungry. Every dollar donated provides 10 healthy meals, meaning each Citi donation provides up to 20,000 meals to kids in need in NYC and throughout the U.S. Learn more at NoKidHungry.org/onedollar.
Michael Conforto again made the most of his opportunity to play, picking up two more hits and making key defensive plays in left and center field Thursday during the team's loss to the Phillies.
Conforto started in center field and made a diving catch in the second inning to rob a base hit.
Tags: Michael Conforto
The Mets open a three game series with the Nationals tonight at Citi Field at 7:10 p.m on PIX11.
Jacob deGrom (0-0, 1.89 ERA) will pitch for the Mets. DeGrom tied his career-high with 13 strikeouts in his last start, which ended in a no-decision.
Tanner Roark (0-2, 3.50 ERA) will make his third start of the season for the Nationals. Roark is 3-1 with a 2.08 ERA in eight games against the Mets in his career
Tags: Jacob deGrom
Mark Healey will be joining me today for my new MetsBlog Mailbag podcast, during which we'll answer questions about the Mets and anything else you want to ask...
If you want to send me a question on Twitter, use #MetsBlogMailbag. Or, to leave a recorded message, call 1-831-SNY-METS or use the following widget on your computer or Speakpipe app..
For a full box score of the game, click here.
Things you should know about today's game...
Tags: Matt Harvey
The Mets (8-7) wrap up their three-game series against the Phillies (5-9) at Citi Field on Thursday at 7:10 p.m. On the strength of two Jay Bruce home runs, the Mets beat the Phillies, 5-4, on Wednesday night.
Jeurys Familia, who spent the first 15 games on the suspension list due to the alleged domestic violence incident he was involved in during the offseason, was activated before the game.
Who is starting tonight for the Mets?
Noah Syndergaard, who allowed two runs (one earned) on six hits while walking none and striking out four in 6.0 innings this past Friday against the Marlins.
He has a 0.95 ERA and 0.84 WHIP and has walked none while striking out 20 in 19.0 innings (three starts) this season, while having yet to allow a home run...
Tags: Noah Syndergaard
Mets closer Jeurys Familia, who completed his 15-game suspension for the domestic violence incident he was involved in during the offseason, was activated from the restricted list prior to Thursday night's game against the Phillies.
In addition, C Kevin Plawecki was activated from Triple-A Las Vegas, with RHP Rafael Montero and LHP Sean Gilmartin optioned to Triple-A Las Vegas to make room on the roster for Familia and Plawecki.
The Mets also transferred 3B David Wright to the 60-day DL.
The team's starting pitchers have made it into the seventh inning only four times in 15 games, resulting in their bullpen having faced 254 batters, which is third most in the National League...
Tags: Jeurys Familia, Kevin Plawecki, Rafael Montero, Sean Gilmartin
Mets first baseman Lucas Duda, who hyperextended his left elbow during Wednesday night's game has been sent for tests and is unavailable for Thursday night's game, manager Terry Collins said.
Duda exited Wednesday's game after a first base collision with Cesar Hernandez in the fifth inning.
Hernandez ran into Duda's arm as the first baseman reached for an errant throw by Robert Gsellman after he fielded a slow ground ball off the mound.
Tags: Lucas Duda, Wilmer Flores
In a post to MetsBlog yesterday, Matthew Cerrone detailed five ways for the Mets to handle their Jose Reyes situation, which included exploring trading for a third baseman later this summer.
"The two guys that makes the most sense are White Sox 3B Todd Frazier and Royals 3B Mike Moustakas, both of whom have strong track records and are set to be free agents at the end of this season," Cerrone explained.
However, according to Toronto Star reporter Richard Griffin, if the Blue Jays don't can't improve on their disappointing 3-11 start to the season, they may soon consider dealing All Star 3B Josh Donaldson.
Jose Reyes is a mess right now. You know it. I know it. He knows it. And, more importantly, the front office knows it, which is why they're already building contingency plans at third base, despite it being just 15 games in to the season...
According to people close to the team, the Mets are not married to playing Reyes at third base, though you wouldn't know it from listening to Terry Collins talk to reporters after the game.
The plan before the season was to have Reyes fill in at third base until David Wright returned from the disabled list. Then, once Wright was back, Reyes would shift to being a super utility guy playing most days (either at third, shortstop or second base) while continuing to bat leadoff.
However, it's not an ideal world and he's struggling in his current role...
Tags: Jose Reyes, Matthew Cerrone
Mets RHP Noah Syndergaard is a freak of nature whose blazing fastball has been chewing up hitters since his Major League debut in 2015.
What makes Syndergaard so special is that he's a starting pitcher who regular hits triple digits with his heater. All of the other pitchers who regularly hit triple digits (such as Aroldis Chapman of the Yankees, Tommy Kahnle of the White Sox, and Joe Kelly of the Red Sox) do so in relief.
Here are Syndergaard's five fastest pitches this season, courtesy of Statcast:
- 100.9 MPH sinker to J.T. Realmuto of the Marlins on April 9, resulting in a ball.
- 100.4 MPH sinker to Christian Yelich of the Marlins on April 9, resulting in a ball...
Tags: Noah Syndergaard
Mets outfielder Jay Bruce hit two home runs, including the game-winner, and drove in five runs with three hits out of the cleanup spot during Wednesday's 5-4 win over the Phillies.
With the score tied in the eighth inning, Bruce homered on the second pitch from Edubray Ramos, sending the ball just over the right-field wall to give the Mets the lead.
"It's great," Bruce said after the game about his experience so far this season. "Like I said, individually, I don't really take too much time to think about what I'm doing or my success or anything during the season, but it was good to be a huge part of that tonight and get a win for us coming off a tough four-game skid."
In the sixth-inning, he crushed a three-run home run off starter Vince Velasquez, prior to which he also doubled in the first inning that led to Yoenis Cespedes being thrown out at home plate.
Tags: Jay Bruce
Mets RHP Robert Gsellman threw seven innings Wednesday against the Phillies, during which he allowed three runs and seven hits while striking out seven batters.
Gsellman, who still qualifies as a rookie, later told reporters that he spent time this past week working with pitching coach Dan Warthen to gain better command of his slider.
"I've been working on it consistently and today was the best it has been," he added.
Tags: Robert Gsellman
The Mets will close out their series with the Phillies tonight at Citi Field at 7:10 p.m on SNY.
Noah Syndergaard (1-0, 0.95 ERA) will pitch for the Mets and make his fourth start of the year. He allowed two runs -- one earned -- on six hits in his last start against the Marlins.
Aaron Nola (1-0, 3.27 ERA) will make his third start of the season for the Phillies. In his one career start against the Mets, the right-hander allowed six runs in four innings.
For a full boxscore of the game, click here.
Things you should know about today's game...
1) With the scored tied in the eighth inning, Jay Bruce belted a two-run home run -- his second of the game -- to put the Mets up 5-3. With the Mets trailing in the sixth, Bruce crushed his first of the day, a three-run home run with two outs in the frame.
2) Robert Gsellman improved over his first two starts and pitched seven strong innings, allowing three runs while striking out seven. He pitched into the eighth but was removed after a leadoff double from Aaron Altherr. However, Altherr would come around to score with two outs when Jerry Blevins gave up a bloop single to Michael Saunders.
3) Addison Reed pitched for the second straight day and earned the save, although he did allow one run on a Daniel Nava sacrifice fly.
The Mets (7-7) will look to snap a four-game losing streak in the second of three against the Phillies (5-8) at Citi Field on Wednesday at 7:10 p.m. Zack Wheeler allowed one run in five innings, but Jose Reyes' error with two outs in the eighth helped Philadelphia tie the game. They went on to score four runs in the 10th to win, 6-2.
Tags: Robert Gsellman
This season, during every Mets home game on SNY, you can enter for a chance to win Mets tickets and be featured as the Mets Trivia Drive contestant live on SNY.
Just follow @SNYtv on Twitter and during the 5th inning look for the SNY 5th Inning Sweepstakes Presented by your Local Ford Dealers question.
Tweet your answer to @SNYtv using #SNYFord5thSweepstakes to be automatically entered to win.
Mets farmhand Wuilmer Becerra last played in the outfield on May 31, 2016. He expects to return there within a month.
Becerra, the third prospect acquired from the Blue Jays in the December 2012 trade for R.A. Dickey, underwent surgery last summer to repair a torn capsule in his right, throwing shoulder.
A natural right fielder, the 22-year-old Venezuelan exclusively has served as a designated hitter this season with Class A St. Lucie. However, as his rehabilitation program revs up, he is now throwing baseballs at 120 feet. Becerra soon will clear another hurdle by throwing to bases.
In this week's MetsBlog Q&ACast, host Matthew Cerrone talks with Rich Coutinho about the state of the Mets, as well as his new book, Press Box Revolution, after which Brian Erni joins the discussion to look at the upcoming series against the Phillies and Nationals...
It's been a rough four days for the Mets, during which they've lost four times, all of which ended in the opponent's final at bat. As a result, the Mets look listless and sloppy and now are in jeopardy of falling below .500...
"We'll dig out of it, we'll get through it," manager Terry Collins told reporters, reassuring himself after the game. "You've got to go out there, you still have to get outs and you've got to make pitches and that's not what we're doing."
In addition to their bats becoming chaotic, their fielding and base running has also been messy.
In last night's game, the light again shined on Jose Reyes, who hit seventh in the order, had just one hit, struck out and left three men on base. Reyes also dropped a pop up hit above the third base line with two outs and a man on first base in the eighth inning. They mistake allowed the Phillies to have runners on the corners instead of ending the inning and the Mets still up one run.
Tags: Jose Reyes, Matthew Cerrone
Zack Wheeler gave up just one run and four hits in five innings Tuesday against the Phillies.
Wheeler (1-1, 5.52 ERA) threw 99 pitches and struck out seven batters in his third start of the season, which ended in a no-decision after the game went into extra innings.
"He is a guy that throws a lot of pitches," Mets manager Terry Collins said after the game. "We certainly hope that as we get into the warmer months and warmer days (that) he goes deeper into games because you can't keep using your bullpen."
Tags: Zack Wheeler
The Mets will play the second game of a three-game series with the Phillies tonight at Citi Field at 7:10 p.m. ET on SNY.
Robert Gsellman (0-1. 9.28 ERA) will pitch for the Mets and make his third start of the season. Gsellman gave up eight runs and five hits in 4 1/3 innings against the Marlins last Thursday.
Vince Velasquez (0-2, 9.00 ERA) will start for the Phillies. The Mets scored five runs with five hits in five innings against him last week in Philadelphia.
For a full box score of the game, click here.
Things you should know about today's game...
1) With the Mets leading by a run and a man on first and two outs in the eighth, Jose Reyes dropped an easy pop-up that would have resulted in the third out of the inning. Instead, Jerry Blevins surrendered a game-tying double to Andres Blanco.
2) The Phillies scored four times off Rafael Montero and Sean Gilmartin in the 10th.
Tags: Jose Reyes, Rafael Montero, Zack Wheeler
The Mets (7-6) open a three-game series against the Phillies (4-8) at Citi Field on Tuesday at 7:10 p.m. The Mets, who were off on Monday, lost the last three games of their recently-completed series against the Marlins in Miami.
The Mets have won 15 of their last 17 series against the Phillies and have gone 17-6 against them at Citi Field since July 30, 2014. ... The Mets have out-homered the Phillies, 79-34, since the start of the 2015 season. ... The Mets have hit 18 home runs over their last eight games and are second in the majors with 22 home runs overall this season.
Who is starting tonight for the Mets?
Zack Wheeler, who allowed three runs on four hits while walking one and striking out four in 5 2/3 innings against the Phillies in Philadelphia on April 12. All three runs scored after Wheeler exited, coming home on a grand slam surrendered by Hansel Robles.


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WEST POINT — Robert Parker has been named volunteer fire services coordinator in Clay County.
The Daily Times Leader reports that Parker was hired this week by the board of supervisors.
Parker comes to Clay County from Starkville where he was a lieutenant in the Starkville Fire Department for 10 years. He also was an instructor at the Mississippi Fire Academy for 12 years.
Parker will oversee the county's seven volunteer fire departments.
Parker says he will conduct classes soon for volunteer firemen, such as rope rescue classes and other fire and rescue related classes.

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Any news???
Any news???
Wayne Beck
RIP Moose 2/6/00-1/21/10
Bull's Harley Road Hog 5/1/10-(in training)
Bull's Kunte Kinte 11/7/12-
26 dogs called back in the Open to the land blind: 2,7,9,11,12,14,15,16,18,19,27,29,31,35,36,40,41,45 ,47,48,50,53,54,56,65,69
Open callbacks to waterblind which starts tomorrow morning at 7:30 a.m., 16 dogs: 2,7,9,14,15,16,18,27,29,31,35,40,41,47,65,69
Amateur callbacks: 5,9,10,11,12,14,15,17,21,23,24,25,26,27,30,32,35,3 7,38,40,41,45,47,51,53,54,58,59
Partial Derby Results:
1st Drew Clendaniel - Lucky
2nd Cal Rumbley - Maddie
3rd Jenny Grasse - Flo
4th Kristen Hoffman - Ice
Lots of Jams but don't have numbers. Congratulations to all!
How about Q? Congrats drew and lucky!
Wayne Beck
RIP Moose 2/6/00-1/21/10
Bull's Harley Road Hog 5/1/10-(in training)
Bull's Kunte Kinte 11/7/12-
Amateur callbacks to water blind: 5,10,12,14,15,17,21,25,30,37,41,47,51,54,58,59
16 dogs back
Open callbacks to water marks, 10 dogs: 2,7,9,14,15,27,35,41,65,69
Any final updates on open and the the other stakes?
Congratulations to Lola and Steve Bireley on there 4th place in the Open!
Mike McDaniel


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git-update-server-info - Update auxiliary info file to help dumb servers
git update-server-info [--force]
A dumb server that does not do on-the-fly pack generations must have some auxiliary information files in $GIT_DIR/info and $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY/info directories to help clients discover what references and packs the server has. This command generates such auxiliary files.
Update the info files from scratch.
Currently the command updates the following files. Please see gitrepository-layout(5) for description of what they are for:
Written by Junio C Hamano <email@example.com>
Documentation by Junio C Hamano.
Part of the git(1) suite


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Two at PPPL elected fellows of American Physical Society
Posted November 12, 2003; 07:51 p.m.
Robert Kaita and Neil Pomphrey, physicists at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory , have been elected fellows of the American Physical Society.
They received the lifetime appointments in recognition of their contributions to the field of plasma physics. APS officials announced the fellows during the society's Division of Plasma Physics annual meeting in October. The APS rules limit the maximum number of fellows selected each year to be no more than half of 1 percent of the division membership.
Kaita was honored for his research concerning the fundamentals of heating plasmas to the temperatures required for fusion. Plasma is a hot, ionized gas used as the fuel for the production of fusion energy. Kaita has been involved in many projects at PPPL since joining the lab as a postdoctoral fellow in 1978. Presently, he is co-principal investigator of the Current Drive Experiment-Upgrade and the head of Diagnostic Operations for the National Spherical Torus Experiment.
Pomphrey, who joined the PPPL staff in 1983, was cited for his pioneering theoretical and computational investigations of fusion plasmas interacting with magnetic fields and circuits. His work serves as a foundation for predictions of plasma performance in magnetic fusion energy devices such as stellarators. The National Compact Stellarator Experiment is planned as the centerpiece of the U.S. effort to develop the physics and determine the attractiveness of the compact stellarator as the basis for a fusion power reactor. It is being designed and is scheduled to operate beginning in 2007 at the PPPL, in partnership with Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
The PPPL, which is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and managed by the University, is a collaborative national center for science and innovation leading to an attractive fusion energy source.
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"Do We Hate It Too?: Faculty Attitudes Towards Teaching Peer Review"Wednesday, February 22
Student Union 301
"Do We Hate It Too?: Faculty Attitudes Towards Teaching Peer Review"
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RIC's Second Annual Writing Week
Join us for a week to celebrate writing at Rhode Island College
College Lecture Series Speaker: Composition Specialist Lad Tobin, October 19th from 12:30-2:00, Faculty Center South: "Self-Disclosure and Teacherly Ethos"
Writing Awards: October 19th, 12:00-12:30, Faculty Center South. Winners of the 2010-2011 FYW Awards will read from their essays/projects and receive their prizes. Look for the winning essays on the FYW Program's website.
Magnetic Poetry Board: Stop by the Adams Library lobby. Write a haiku with magnetic poetry. Take a picture of your poem and send it to firstname.lastname@example.com. Look for your haiku on display this fall at our website (listed below) and around campus. (Brought to you in conjunction with the Open Books, Open Mind Committee.)
National Day on Writing: The RIWP is organizing a Writing Marathon, to take place on RIC's campus. Visit their website (www.ric.edu/riwp) to locate the map and writ-ing stations for the day.
First Pagers: Every wonder how faculty write, or what they write about? Stop by the display outside the English Department (Craig-Lee 264) and check out some of the first pages of in-progress faculty projects.
For information, Contact:
Becky Caouette
RIC's First Annual Writing Week (2010)
Join us for a week to celebrate writing at Rhode Island College!
- Workshop: Responding Effectively to Student Writing: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 from 2:00-3:00 in Craig-Lee 255. We'll talk about how best to respond to student writing in person, on paper, and electroni-cally, and we'll think about how to make feedback helpful and useful.
- National Day on Writing: Wednesday, October 20th from 10:30-2:30. The Writing Marathon kick-off begins at 10:30 at Alumni Lounge in Roberts Hall. Then, find a place to write anywhere on campus (try writing in a group, so that you can share!). Return to Alumni Lounge at 1:30 for sharing and refreshments. This is a nationwide event from NCTE, but our local marathon is brought to you by the Rhode Island Writing Project (RIWP), the Writing Center, and the First Year Writing Program.
- College Lecture Series Speaker: Thursday, October 21st from 2:00-3:30 in the Reinhardt Room, Adams Library. Christina Ortmeier-Hooper, of UNH, will deliver a talk entitled "Second Language (L2) Writers in the Composition Classroom: Perspectives and Possibilities"
Christina Ortmeier-Hooper on Second Language Writing
Speaker Christina Ortmeier-Hooper will deliver a talk entitled "Second Language (L2) Writers in the Composition Classroom: Perspectives and Possibilities" on Thursday, October 21st at 2:00 p.m. in the Adams Library Reinhardt Room. This talk is made possible by the College Lecture Series, The First Year Writing Program, and the Writing Center, and is part of RIC's First Annual Writing Week (October 18-22; more details to follow). All are welcome to attend.
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More Americans living with pacemakers, study says
Study: Use of pacemakers increases 50 percent in last decade
JANESVILLE, Wis. - A new study by the American Heart Association shows more Americans are living with pacemakers than ever before.
The use of pacemakers has gone up 50 percent in the last decade, according to the study.
"My chances of even being here are so small that it has to be a miracle. That's all it can be, is God's miracle," said Les Johnson from Delavan.
His wife, Kitty, said that Les collapsed after a morning run last August.
"I heard this thud, I turned around and he was lying flat out on the brick walkway," Kitty Johnson said.
One the most common heart problems is an irregular heartbeat. Dr. Tom Teelin, a cardiologist with Mercy Health System who specializes in studying heart rhythms, said a pacemaker can be a good alternative to open heart surgery.
"Les was really doing everything a physician would want their patient to do -- dieting, he was exercising," said Teelin.
Les had quadruple bypass surgery in 1992, and Teelin said scar tissue may have caused Les' heart problem.
"Basically that scar became electrically unstable and his heart rate became so fast it couldn't support blood pressure and he passed out," Teelin said.
Les now wears a defibrillator.19388594
"It's constantly watching the heart rhythm like a watch tower at an airport looking for any unstable heart rhythm, and should that happen it has the ability to then to treat it, and it does so by giving a shock to the heart or, in some cases, it can pace it out of the rhythm," Teelin said.
Although he doesn't remember what happened, Les and his wife said they are more confident on their morning runs.
"If that same incident should happen again, I'll get kicked like a mule and I'll be back at it again," Les said.
He and Kitty said this experience has strengthened their faith.
Teelin said that in the last month they've had about eight patients whose lives benefited from getting a pacemaker or defibrillator. With the device and medication, he said most people will be able to lead relatively normal lives.
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By Chris Kieffer/NEMS Daily Journal
TUPELO – Band directors play an important role in dropout prevention, the leader of Booneville's school district said Friday.
So, too, do football coaches, math team leaders and others who supervise various extracurricular activities.
Booneville Superintendent Todd English said during the CREATE Foundation's seventh-annual Dropout Prevention Summit that such activities are important to his district's strategy to keep students in school.
"We spend money on extra-curricular activities because they play a major role in our dropout prevention plans," English said. "If you find things to keep students involved, you will graduate them. If you don't keep them involved, the person selling Oxycontin will."
The summit drew an audience of educators from the 17-county CREATE area to the Advanced Education Center. Speakers addressed early-childhood education, building character, dual-enrollment classes and the need for collaboration.
English said the district's plan includes working with childcare providers, screening students in kindergarten to determine struggles and then addressing them, coordinating efforts between schools and making frequent contact with parents.
He said the impact of caring people is also important.
"Everyone knows of a coach who has arranged for someone in the community to keep the power on in someone's house for the weekend," he said. "Keeping the lights on caused someone in our community to graduate instead of dropping out to get a job."
Meanwhile, Danny Spreitler, executive director of Monroe County's Gilmore Foundation, spoke of the need to pay attention to students early.
Spreitler provided information about the Gilmore Early Learning Initiative, which works with childcare centers in the county and provides them with curricula and resources. This year, the foundation partnered with the Amory and Monroe County School Districts to offer pre-K classes on their campuses.
"We must care about our young children because in Mississippi we have tremendous issues that impact you as educators," he said.
Staff from the program met with kindergarten teachers to determine what was needed to best prepare students for school. The program's direct cost is $311.12 per child, Spreitler said.
Spreitler also spoke to the need for collaboration between all programs that serve 4-year-old children.
Representatives from Itawamba Community College outlined the school's dual-enrollment options. It partners with school districts to offer a variety of classes in which students earn college credit while still enrolled in high school. Included are dual-credit courses which provide both high school and college credit.
While those classes have been thought to be for advanced students, ICC's Sara Johnson said, the college wants to make them available to most students. Eligibility guidelines include completion of 12 core credits and a 2.5 grade-point average or a 16 ACT score.
ICC Vice President for Economic and Community Services James Williams provided an update on the college's participation in Mississippi Works. The program is designed to help at-risk students or recent dropouts earn a high school diploma through dual-credit enrollment at a community college.
Williams said the program will match the students with a life-coach and will aim to teach them such skills as critical thinking, problem solving, creativity and adaptability that will be needed for the workforce. It will offer several pathways, including manufacturing, office assistant, nursing assistant, culinary arts and welding.
However, ICC President David Cole said, the program needs partners from public school districts.
Another approach to reducing dropouts is to build character traits in students, said two leaders of Tupelo's Integrity Time. The character education company provides a curriculum, plus games, songs and activities to help teach students positive behavior traits.
Weekly lessons can be taught in about 30 minutes, said Sara Berry, and include dinner discussions worksheets to guide conversations between students and parents. It is now being offered in 10 Northeast Mississippi school districts, as well as 18 states and six countries.
"It is my strong belief the dropout problem is not only an education problem, it is also a character problem," Berry said.


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Charlie McCreevy, the EU's Commissioner for the Internal Market and Services, wants to nearly double the European copyright term in sound recordings - from 50 years to an astounding 95. Join us and stop overextending copyright.
If you read Commissioner McCreevy's declaration this month to bring American-style copyright terms for sound recordings to the EU, one might have thought that it was all a done deal. He gave the impression that he had consulted with everybody who counted in the matter, balanced all the arguments, and had all the powerful players on his side.
The German Constitutional Court (the Bundesverfassungsgericht) ruled today on a what the German press is calling "a new basic right" - one that guarantees the confidentiality and integrity of computer systems.
The court spelled out the protection as part of its judgement (available in German) on the constitutionality of a law that let police infiltrate a suspect's computer by using trojan horses or rootkits. Such police powers had been repeatedly called for by the Federal Minister of the Interior, Wolfgang Schäuble, as well as the head of the German Federal Police.
We've long been concerned about the human rights risks of printer tracking dots for anyone who publishes printed works with modern technology. Tracking dots are the secret marks that many popular color laser printers and photocopiers scatter across every document they touch. The marks, almost invisible to the eye, uniquely identify the printer that produced the document, and, as EFF uncovered, can even automatically encode the time and date it was created.
Anonymous self-publication and distribution have been, and remain, a vital political communication channel in many countries. A telltale pattern readable by government officials is a tool that oppressive states everywhere would love to have -- not to mention the general threat to individual privacy countries more respectful of human rights.
It's been almost a year since EFF opened an office in Brussels and focused our attention on political lobbying in the heart of the European Union. In that time, we've learned a great deal about how policies become EC law and how decisions get made in the EU.
Can a rightsholder force an ISP to hand over a subscriber's identity in a civil copyright infringement lawsuit? In the U.S., the answer is a clear yes - as evidenced by the music industry's more than 20,000 lawsuits against alleged individual filesharers. In Spain (and perhaps other EU countries) the answer is no, at least for now.
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I have a group on Ravelry to talk about questions, thoughts, ideas regarding my patterns, share pictures and organize kal. This is the group: emmafassioknitting.
I started knitting when I was five while watching my Swedish mother stitching. Since then it has been a costant hobby …and in the last years almost the meaning of life itself- The creativity and the texture of the yarns involved are pure joy.
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I did a demo for a 4-H group.
After the demo they said that they would like to make a donation to a dog charity of my choice and I realized that I don't have a dog charity.
What are some good dog charities?
I did a demo for a 4-H group.
After the demo they said that they would like to make a donation to a dog charity of my choice and I realized that I don't have a dog charity.
What are some good dog charities?
IMO you should support something local.
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Morris Animal Foundation
is the largest nonprofit foundation dedicated to funding research studies to protect, treat and cure animal diseases
lab-rescue.org rescues Labradors in MD and VA. They would welcome a donation.
I would recommend Retrieving Freedom. They train service dogs for injured veterans and also children with diabetes
"War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it"
Kristi Wilder's Life is Labs Rescue. (http://www.lifeislabs.org/, but the Facebook page is more up to date). They rescue from the high kill shelters in Georgia.
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Any of the breed rescue organization.
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Elevating the Principles of Net-Zero Buildings to Teach Us About Building Sustainable Communities
A few weeks ago, at the Greenbuild conference in San Francisco, I attended a session that featured NREL's Research Support Facility (RSF) in Golden, CO. The session's speakers described the design and construction process of the RSF, a net-zero energy building (NZEB) that today serves as a model for performance-based design.
The possibilities presented about achieving net-zero energy at scale were exciting: How do net-zero design strategies alter the discourse about how we design and build? Does NZEB necessitate a paradigm shift in the way we imagine and deliver buildings?
With my inner architecture geek fired up, I attended our own Congress of Cities Conference the following week. There, I had an opportunity to sit in on the Energy Efficiency workshop as Mayor Henrietta Davis of Cambridge, MA, along with Kurt Roth of Fraunhofer USA, presented the M.L.K School. This net-zero energy project, taken on by Cambridge Public Schools and the City of Cambridge in 2012, is to serve as a pilot project for achieving net-zero, specifically in schools.
"For Cambridge the process of planning and designing a net-zero school has changed the way we think about energy in all our buildings. It has made us think about what energy we really need to use in our existing city buildings and will surely change some of what we do even in buildings not slated for full scale renovation or rebuilding."
As Mayor Davis clearly states above, the process of planning for and designing net-zero buildings offers a new perspective on how we interact with and use energy in our communities.
Additionally, through the workshop sessions I realized that the focus on a life-cycle perspective (which the NZEB process elevates) offers principles applicable not only to energy efficiency in buildings, but also to the larger dialogue on taking sustainable communities to scale:
The Power of Integrated Design. At the San Francisco Greenbuild session, speakers described the need to effectively integrate and coordinate the various building components and processes in order to achieve maximum energy efficiencies. With NREL's RSF, they spoke about the high level of coordination that took place between the various 'designers'—the architect, engineer, contractor and operations/maintenance company—in order to ensure that energy efficiency was a prioritized goal (on par with scheduling and cost savings) throughout the process. Through open lines of communication, each 'designer' in the process ensured that their building component was as energy efficient as possible with relation to the various other components working in parallel.
Sustainable communities emerge from the thoughtful design and integration of the various components of a place. While many of us are aware of this, do our planning practices actually encourage dialogue between the various 'designers' of the city—the architects, the transportation planners, the youth and the civic and faith-based organizers? Often, city planning is happenstance, pieces of communities clashing and colliding into places; and while there is beauty in the intersections that emerge, sustainable cities necessitate greater coordination and communication between these traditionally unlikely partners. Create spaces that encourage open communication- the first step is to have everyone working together.
The Plug Load Problem. In both sessions, the speakers used the example of plug loads—essentially the energy consumed by what you and I plug into a socket rather than the energy it takes to heat or light a room– to describe how much end users impact the overall building energy use. To be able to achieve a NZEB, they emphasized 1) incorporating this variable into early energy modeling for the building and 2) creating an education process whereby end users (if known) understand the NZEB principles and the effects of their actions on overall building energy use.
Now this sounds quite simple, but how often do we forget that different communities are created for and occupied by different types of users? While we may not 'model' a community like we do a building, we certainly envision outcomes early on. So, in the design/visioning/ goal-setting process, the first step is identifying who the end users are (think: age, demographics, socioeconomic status) and how they already occupy spaces. The second step is creating an educational component to the process so that "the users" understand the effects of their individual actions and are better equipped to make day-to-day decisions. Focus on the end user from the beginning—the key lies in the operation not just the planning.
The Passive Design Potential. A critical component of designing a NZEB is incorporating passive design strategies—strategies that maximize the energy provided by natural systems as much as possible. Rather than defaulting to purchased energy, passive design creates a process whereby ambient sources of energy such as daylighting and natural ventilation are maximized. Both sets of speakers demonstrated that understanding the site and its "passive assets" was critical to minimizing the number of energy- consuming products that would make NZEB goals more difficult to achieve.
In the case of moving towards sustainable cities, how quickly do we assume that the 'right' answer in one place is the 'right' answer in another? The fact is that each city has its own geographies, typologies, assets, and so forth. The strength of encouraging passive design strategies in net-zero building is that the excess addition of systems and components takes a second seat to the inherent assets of the site.
In the creation and implementation of a sustainability vision for a city, identifying those assets and qualities that already progress a city's sustainability goals are not only low-hanging fruit, but often more successful in the long-term than imposing programs or policies that may not fit. Build more with less-every community has untapped assets waiting to be utilized.
As NZEBs are still relatively recent in the sustainability conversation, I'm excited to see how building and energy rating systems develop and what lessons we continue to extract from the whole process!
Stay tuned and share your thoughts with us –comment below or email us at email@example.com.


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Dating Advice ???
I had a fling with a girl a while back and now…I WANT HER BACK!!
First…the story:
She was a stripper/dancer and I met her while she was working. I only bought her 1 drink and no lap dances. My friend "jokingly" said, "hey…you should get her number" when she was hanging out around us. She obviously heard it and looked at me and gave me a dirty smirk. Before we left the club…she approached me and gave me her number. Who am I to reject that…right? So…I got her number.
I never really wanted her number and it never really occurred to me to date her. I just figured…pay her for a "good time", leave and go on with our usual lives just like most guys do at the strip club. I figured it was just a fake number also. A couple days later…I called to see if it was a "real" number and turns out it was. We ended up text flirting for a couple more days. Basically…I got to know her a bit. We like the same music. Have similar interests. Lived pretty close to each other and have the same personalities. I decided to ask her out on a date.
I took her out on our 1st date to a casual restaurant for some food and drinks. IMO, it went "SMOOTHLY". It was charming, innocent and discreet. Lots of talking and flirting. No kisses. Light touching and a hug at the end of the night.
Now…the "UGLIER" side of the story:
1. She calls me her "CLIENT". I am assuming she not only sees herself as a "stripper"…but also as a "hustler". I never really took it seriously and thought nothing of it because most of our conversations were pretty light hearted, innocent and warm.
2. She is young compared to me. She was 21 at the time and I was 28. It's not too big of a spread IMO.
3. She is a "BIG" time Druggie/Partier. She smokes a lot of marijuana on her free time and loves to drink and party hard.
4. She is taller than me. I am 5'5". I am guessing she is 5'6"-5'7"…but easily 5'9"-5'10" with shoes/heels…depending on the height of the heels.
On our second date…we went out to a Skrillex/Zedd concert. We had a "GOOD ASS" time. We laughed, danced and enjoyed ourselves. We both ended up drinking and doing drugs (ecstasy). My entire fault…I bought the drugs =). I gave her plenty of space/freedom to talk/meet other people. At the end of the night…I told her I could not drive her home. We ended up getting a motel.
At the motel…we talked and laughed for about an hour. I told her I was going to let her sleep on the bed and that I was going to sleep on the floor. I went to sleep on the floor…10 mins later…she says to me… "I want to cuddle".
After about 5 mins thinking about it…
I could tell she was testing me by her tone of voice. I asked myself if I really wanted to have SEX with her…and right than and there…self-consciously…I knew that she was testing me and that I SHOULD NOT have sex with her.
(It might have been the drugs) but for some CRAZY ASS REASON…my mind came to the conclusion that…if I DID NOT have sex with her…she might think I was GAY!!!!
So I immediately thought…well shit I don't want her to think I am GAY. So I jumped into bed with her and I immediately started to touch, caress and kiss her on the face, neck and shoulders.
After about 15 mins of caressing and touching…I decided it was now or never to make the "first kiss". It was clean, light and warm. It lasted EXACTLY 1.5 seconds and was imo "princess-like" for her. It was not a stupid sloppy tongue kiss.
I believe if I would of stopped here and we decided to call it a night…I would of still been seeing/dating her.
But nope…10 mins later…we are on a full-blown MAKE OUT session!!! Things lead to another and all our clothes came off.
I told her I wanted to "taste" her. She agreed and I gave her a good long oral sex session. We did not have intercourse as I could not get a hard-on because of the drugs and I did not have a condom. I gave her an ORGASM and we ended up kissing and cuddling the rest of the night away until we fell asleep.
The next day…we woke up talking and joking/laughing. I kissed her genitals as I was helping her put her panties back on. We talked about what happened last night and that I gave her oral sex. We left the motel and I got her home and to work. When I dropped her off at work…I gave her a quick little "peck" on the lips and said I would call her later in the week.
A week later…I called her up again to see if she wanted to hang out. She texts me: "I am seeing someone". I was like…WTF!!!
I texted back that I was not disappointed, understood and that both of us were good people and that she could be anything she wanted to be. I ended up never calling or asking her out again after that text. It's been about 2 years now.
My problem:
I want to date/see her again. She is ALL I ever think about.
Truth is…I think I fell in "LOVE" with her that night. I don't know if its puppy love, lust or just the adrenaline rush of us being together…but…I TRULY wanted a committed relationship with her.
Its cliché but to me…it feels like a real life "Pretty Women" with Richard Geere and Julia Roberts.
Imo she is "HOT" and looks a little like Taylor Swift. She is Hispanic (but looks totally Caucasian), slim, cute butt, nice tits with an adorable face. Even though she had a lot of bad qualities…they never really bothered me because in a way…I was in "awe struck" by her beauty.
I NEVER treated her like a stripper. I always treated her with respect, dignity, integrity and lots of attention, adoration and kindness. As a matter of fact…I think that was one thing she liked the most about me… I "NEVER" really saw her as a stripper when I first met her at the club. I looked past all that and really saw her as a person with better qualities and bigger/better ambitions, dreams and goals.
I am really confused but also hurt and angry at the same time.
1. Did I move too fast? I think I should have played it a little slower right?
2. Is it because I am short and not tall enough? She joked about my height and belittled me a bit. But it did not bother me. In fact…I even told her that it was ok for her to wear heels if we were to go out more.
3. Was it just lust/puppy love and the best outcome is the 1 nightstand and not a committed relationship…?
4. Maybe she had a BF while I was seeing her and maybe I was only a "side" thing/fling and therefore she cheated on her man…?
5. She was probably too young and wild for me anyways right…?
6. Maybe she just never had the same feelings or attraction that I had for her…?
7. Was I too "clingy"…? I really did not call or text her all that much.
8. Is it possible to get back with her…?? If so, how…??
Thanks for the advice/input/tips.
You are in love wit a strippah... bad news. Such a racket, those girls only want you for the paper in your pocket.
Real talk though I work with quite a few current and ex-strippers and even now being "retired" and having hung the heels up they still have that mentality of how much money they can get out of something and are super thursty/self-centered in that regard. Move on and save yourself the child support later.
Now that I think back...F$%K!!! IT WAS THE MOTHER F$%CKIN DRUGS!!!
Damn it. Sex, drugs and Rock n roll or my case (EDM/dubstep)!!!!!!!!!!
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I'm taking a big jetfalcon on the toilet right now as I read this.
Gotta hand it to him, puts more effort into his trolling than anyone ever.
Yah, DCSnow wouldn't put in this much effort.
hahahaah that was hilarious.
so you're 30 now and in love with a 23 year old stripper you met 2 years ago and didnt even fuck her haha.
Lol. Get over it. You sound desperate.
The only difference between a hooker and a stripper is 20 dollars and location. Screw the stripper get Tinder and go to town.
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RE:Any news on the Elwha?
Ah the new regime. Let's see now; repeal the forest practices laws, open wildlife refuges to oil drilling, give us more arsnic in our water, relax air polution standards, withdraw from global emission treaties. So what nice things may they be planning for the Elwha!
The Elwha dams under the old administration were purchased by the Department of the Interior and funds appropriated for generating the DEIS for their removal. Basically a plan of action needs to be decided and the funds, about 72 million if I remember right, appropriated at the Federal level to get rid of them.
Most enviromental groups, especially Washington based groups breathing a sigh of relief over the removal of the insideous Mr. Gorton, were biding their time until the the Bush administration settled down and cabinet positions were assigned.
The entities that would now be championing the removal of the dams and the return of the salmon runs are now under such an onslaught of potential national and global degradation of this countries environmental practices that the Elwha removal may suffer for lack of inertia.
It is doubtful that the new cabinets dealing with the Interior and ecology will do little to continue the good works of the former administration. The removal of the Elwha may suffer for this.
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Again the ball is in our court.
RE:Any news on the Elwha?
Thanks Bri - I was referring to the dam situation, plans for removal, silt strategy, etc. Particularly what would the new regime do to Babbitt's work in getting federal approval to have it removed.
Is there a date for removal?
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Anything new on one of my favorite rivers on earth? I still love her even though ravaged by an illegal dam that caused the 100 pound race of chinook to perish, not to mention the effect on other species.
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Fairbanks, Alaska—ARSC summer interns Jose Antonio Figueroa and Vahid Ajimine are two of only four students selected from a national field of HPC scholars to be recognized by DoD's High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) at its 2010 Users Group Conference (UGC)this week in Schaumburg, Ill.
Figueroa and Ajimine participated in ARSC's Summer Research Program for undergraduate students last year. They were sponsored by HPCMP's Joint Educational Opportunities for Minorities (JEOM) program, which places students from underrepresented groups at DoD research facilities throughout the country to work with scientists and HPC specialists on computationally intensive problems.
The two were invited to present the findings of their ARSC research projects at the annual DoD UGC June 15.Figueroa's project is titled, "Development and Optimization of a Parallel Simulated Annealing Algorithm for Solving Surface Structures." Figueroa was a junior studying electrical engineering at the Universidad de Puerto Rico at the time of his internship. He worked with Tom Trainor, an associate professor chemistry and biochemistry at UAF. Figueroa is currently studying at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Rhode Island as part of a cooperative education program and expects to graduate in May 2011.
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The Fairmont Pittsburgh was crackling with energy last Tuesday afternoon during the third annual Leadership Pittsburgh Champagne Lunch & Connection event. It was the largest turnout to date for the event, which thrilled luncheon chair Dolly Ellenberg and LP president Aradhna Oliphant, who welcomed everyone.
Mayor Bill Peduto and Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald spoke about the important work done by the organization over the past 30 years. "I think 2014 is going to be a terrific year for this group," said Mr. Fitzgerald. Nearly 300 guests were greeted with a glass of bubbly before they disappeared into the crowd of former and present Leadership Pittsburgh class members.
Bill Strickland, CEO of Manchester Bidwell Corp., was introduced after lunch by board chair Bob Buzzelli, He delivered the LP "Briefnote," emphasizing that nothing is impossible when it comes to helping those less privileged, especially children. The room erupted with applause and a standing ovation. Among the minglers and movers were Fifth Third Bank president Julie Hughes (event sponsor), Art Stroyd, B.J. Leber, Sarah Miele and Annie Lewis.
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