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This Stardust Personalized Mod Frame has a twinkling star background that engulfs your photo with pixy dust look. Our Twinkling Stardust Frame is made of plastic measuring 8 inches high x 6 1/4 inches wide and holds one - 4 x 6 inch photo. These Mod Frames will make unique guest favors for any special event.
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hello I am in charge of putting on a prom for autistic teenagers and I would like to purchase approximately 80 of the Stardust picture frames and I was wondering since it was for disabled children what kind of a price could you give us.thank you so much it would be greatly appreciated and a very kind gesture can't wait to hear backAsked on 3/4/2014 by patty from n.j.1 answer
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Book Description:This irresistible book is about: a father; his five-year-old son, Michael (intelligent, crafty, addicted to stories); Michael's best friend Stefan (stalwart listener, equally addicted to stories); and, well—what else?—a story. Oh, and a wolf. It is as Michael always demands: a Wolf Story, which begins one night at bedtime and spins wildly on through subsequent bedtimes and Sunday outings to the beach and park in a succession of ever more trickily tantalizing episodes. Waldo the wolf is sneaking up on Rainbow the hen, when Jimmy Tractorwheel, the son of the local farmer, comes along. After that, there's no knowing what will happen next, as while stalled in traffic jams or nodding off at night, the boys chime in and the story races on and Waldo finds, if not necessarily dinner, his just desserts. First published in 1947 and wonderfully illustrated by Warren Chappell, William McCleery's Wolf Story is a delicious treat for fathers and sons and daughters and mothers alike.
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Amazon Web Services is opening a datacenter in Beijing, where a limited number of companies will be able to host applications from early next year.
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The RTA is adding 12 additional city buses to help accommodate crowds leaving Daytons fireworks display on Sunday, July 3 at RiverScape MetroPark.
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How's everyone? Just thought I'd pop in and say ola.
Hope you're all doing well. I must browse the forum one of these days to see what you've all been up to. I've been so far removed for ages that I don't even know what to say!
Just wanted to say hi at least. :D
well, i think i have lost count of the sofas.....we were not able to get leather this time...little disappointing but i have picked one that i really like, well DH doesnt seem to mind it either....but it was certainly my taste :D it will have enough color and pattern in it, that it should complete the living room. :laugh: so it better end here!
cmm, it sure sounds as though you have been really busy. Glad to hear that your kitties are doing great...wow! 10 months already! As for me, im doing the same ole same...still trading off sofas and working on the living room... :hairpull: oh well, keeps me busy! Great to hear from you!
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wow girl...been wondering where you have been hiding out.....im also curious if you ever finished your living room...now dont leave us hanging! nice to hear from you.
Hi :) Did you ever finish decorating your living room??
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First of all, sorry if it's the wrong forum, I feel like being brainwashed after all the problems (trying to solve them, searching on the web, downloading packages, configuring packages, compiling, linking, etc)... And I'd like to apologize for the long post too :-p I've spent long hours (and some nights) on making a php module called php_paradox working on win32, the module itself I could compile with visual studio (lucky me I had developed an another module recently, so I did not had to do from the beginning), but this php module uses a shared library called pxlib, and pxlib uses some other packages, like libiconv an libintl. First (and the only time I succeeded), I used the binary distribution of pxlib (dll, lib and h files included), only had to compile iconv (visual studio needed the header files), but I could only do that with mingw. Then I compiled the php module with visual studio. So far so good, but there were some problems:
So I wanted to recompile everything on cygwin (see Footnote #1);
First the configure of pxlib failed on several places, I could correct those (some missing dependency and so), then the compiling failed because of corrupt includes in the source (maybe configure went wrong? - din't noticed then), but finally I could compile it. As a result I got the cygwin binaries (lib.a and lib.la), but then I have no idea how to turn these into a windows dll (well finally I found out I could do that with gcc, but the resulting dll was huge again), but I could not figure out how to make the lib files needed for visual studio, and that the header files generated by configure can be used for the (non existing) lib file or not. And I'm also afraid of being dependent on the cygwin dll's, that I'll need to keep them along the generated dll...
Then I thought to compile php from scratch (with cygwin), but I have no idea how to make the mod_paradox module compiled with the whole package (but as a shared library), or that is there a way to compile only one extension with the php's build system, not the whole thing?
To summarize (some) dark areas of my knowledge: How to build proper, distributable win32 shared libraries (dlls) with .lib and .h files using cygwin?
Any advice are welcome!
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Tried to compile pxlib with mingw too, but tons of packages were not present, like perl, and within that several perl packages like html::parser, and that I could not install into mingw, upon compiling I get long lines of c syntax errors (while the code looks okay).
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All of this are caused by a stupid printf(stderr,'...') line in pxlib, which fills the error log with debug messages when using certain functions in php...


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1. My Cv:s are not behaiving properly. When I use move or stretch command to move a couple of components, the actuator moves away from the cv. The body moves as it should but the actuator moves the double distance.
When I just move one cv it works fine. I think it something with the body symbol. I made it myself from a general valve symbol (just changed some lines).
2. There is alson al ot of cv junk in the datamanager. There are a lot of actuators (pistons) in the list, named as control valves but without a tag.
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Ron Silver, the owner of Bubby's restaurant in Brooklyn, recently put a word on his menu you don't often see anymore: lard. The white, creamy, processed fat from a pig. And he didn't use the word just once.
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Dr. Zainab Alwani, an Islamic studies professor and community activist, was the second of the female speakers, on a panel entitled "The Apple's Rotten Core: The Social Implications of Domestic Violence." She listed a number of statistics related to domestic violence, including that an average of four women in the United States die every day because of domestic violence.
Alwani was clear that domestic violence constitutes oppression (zulm) in Islam, as an act that violates sacred laws created to protect the rights of spouses and children. She listed a number of different forms that domestic abuse may take, including emotional abuse, using children against spouses, using male privilege, financial abuse, sexual abuse, and name-calling or making fun. She pointed to the murder of Asiya Hassan by her husband, and the murders of Amina and Sarah Said by their father, may they all rest in peace, as some of the more high-profile examples of where domestic violence within our communities can lead.
The solutions that Alwani proposed for addressing domestic violence included looking to the example of the Prophet (pbuh) and to the Qur'an for guidance, and remaining aware of the importance of accountability within Islamic law. She encouraged friends and relatives of people being abused not to be afraid to step in and help where possible.


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A man who left his dog at the summit of Mount Bierstadt in Colorado will face animal cruelty charges.
The charge was filed after the Clear Creek County Sheriff's Office completed an investigation into the "abandoned and injured" dog found on the Colorado fourteener earlier this month.
A group of volunteers rescued the dog, a German shepherd, who was spotted wandering at an elevation of about 13,000 feet. She was carried off the mountain on Monday.
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In the towering downtown of its namesake metropolis, the Sam Houston Hotel is the height of history and luxury. This boutique hotel built in 1924 earned spots in the National Register of Historic Places for its classic architecture and on travel top-lists for its revised contemporary design, new in 2013. The Sam's 100 rooms and suites are complete with free Wi-Fi, granite-walled bathrooms with glass showers, terrycloth robes, and aromatherapy bath-and-body products, beds with elegant duvets and pillow-top mattresses, and 40-inch LED TVs.
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - It remains to be seen, of course, whether any of the 22 players West Virginia signed to NCAA national letters of intent Wednesday can actually play football at the Division I level.
But, as always, signing day was by far the most optimistic day on the football calendar.
Whether it be the addition of yet another potential stud running back (a surprise) and a talented quarterback (no surprise), bolstering the offensive line with five additions or adding four defensive backs that Dana Holgorsen said can help shape WVU's secondary into one of the best in the country, there were no down sides to any of the recruits.
Then again, Holgorsen did inject at least one logical bit of sanity into the process.
"I hate saying too many good things about guys until they're here making plays,'' he said.
By all indications, though, several of the 22 players the Mountaineers signed at least have the potential to make plays.
The signing class - which includes 15 who have yet to arrive on campus, six mid-year enrollees and Pitt transfer running back Rushel Shell (who was put on scholarship for the spring semester and thus counts in this class) - included 13 of the 14 prospects who were committed but not signed, plus two additions.
The most notable of those additions was running back Donte Thomas-Williams, a four-star recruit from Durham, N.C., who rejected offers from a long list of schools that included national champion Florida State, Clemson, Florida and Ohio State, among others. The 6-foot, 220-pounder ran for 2,400 yards and 24 touchdowns as a senior, caught 20 passes and had running backs coach JaJuan Seider almost giddy with possibilities.
"He's an every-down back because he can catch as well as he can run,'' said Seider, who along with receivers coach Lonnie Galloway recruited Thomas-Williams. "The most impressive thing I saw when I went to see him play was he was the first guys down on kickoffs. He just loves to play.''
If there are others in the signing class who received as much hype as Thomas-Williams, they were probably quarterback William Crest and cornerback Dravon Henry, both considered four-star recruits.
Crest is a 6-2, 210-pounder from Baltimore's Dunbar High School, which sent both Tavon Austin and Marvin Gross to West Virginia. Galloway recruited Crest - as he had Austin five years earlier before leaving for a job at Wake Forest - and getting Crest was apparently his No. 1 objective.
"When Lonnie got hired a year ago,'' Holgorsen said, "his first duty was to head to Baltimore and make sure we got William here.'' He also said, in regard to Crest, that, "Clearly we have a need at quarterback.''
Where Crest fits into West Virginia's rather tenuous quarterback situation immediately, though, remains to be seen. He won't arrive until summer, at which time he will be behind Clint Trickett, Paul Millard and Skyler Howard, the latter a junior college quarterback who is a part of the signing class and is one of the six early enrollees.


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Add a CommentIt is an excellent bio. My only complaint is he does not always trace a quote or passage back to its original source: I dislike looking for the provenance of a line and then see him cite another one of his books. That's downright lazy.
Chernow's LONG book attempts--mostly successfully--to put flesh and blood on the guy on the dollar bill. The reader learns that Washington was a very fastidious man, but enjoyed such things as dancing, flirting with attractive women,and living beyond his means. He was courageous but could not come to grips with slavery until shortly before his death. The book destroys the illusion that the founding fathers were in agreement as to what the new nation should look like and how it should operate. Washington and Jefferson were bitterly opposed to one another. The reader also wonders how it is possible that American forces were able to win the Revolutionary War, being grossly underclothed and underfed. All in all a very worthwhile and informative book,which could have benefited by more judicious editing to cut the length.
Did a great job of covering a long and complex life. Definitely adds dimensions to the usual cardboard cutout. While it does try to get into people's heads it seems to me it does so with careful research into what people wrote for publication and in letters to many audiences public and private, including reports of who-said-what-to-whom. Nothing can be as simple as "just the facts" with real history because its all about imperfect human beings operating on imperfect information.. In order to learn from the times it is necessary to dig deeper.
Ron Chernow has won the American History Book Prize, sponsored by the New-York Historical Society, for Washington: A Life. The Society said the biography of George Washington will "undoubtedly become the definitive life of our first president." Included in the White House Library presented to President Obama on January 20, 2011, by the American Booksellers Association.


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Lindsay Lohan sentenced to jail: Will this be the rock bottom she needs?
Lindsay Lohan, the actress who is famous for Mean Girls (2004), has been sent to jail (from July 20) for violating her probation on a drink-driving charge. Marsha Revel, the Beverley Hills superior court judge who ordered the 90 day sentence, has also mandated a spell in rehab as an in-patient for Lohan. The actress, who's 24, had broken a previous probation order, and had been photographed in recent months with a bulky SCRAM bracelet (alcohol monitor) strapped to her ankle. That contraption in itself shows that the court had little faith in Lohan's ability to abstain from booze by herself.
I find Lindsay Lohan's history to be profoundly depressing. This is a beautiful young woman who was once a sweet and innocent child actress. These days she looks puffy and tired and often, sad to say, older than her 24 years. She's beginning to develop that boozy coarsening of the features, the raddled look, the bad complexion, the fuzzy eyes – all the things that go with a reliance on alcohol. And it's just a fact of nature that booze hurts women's bodies faster and more severely than it does men's.
Child stars, as I have written before, seldom live contented, stable lives once the first starburst of success has evaporated and they have to face adult life and responsibility. Their attempts to grow up may be further hampered by grasping relatives and parents who have suddenly come into great wealth, who may be confused about their loyalties and obligations.
Actually, it all comes to money – doesn't everything? Money is the enemy of the addict or alcoholic because money enables the addiction to flourish. Booze and drugs are expensive, and addicts use lots and lots of them. Very few young people, whether they're Hollywood starlets from deprived backgrounds, or junior aristocrats, are able to deal with a sudden influx of cash. It's almost bound to destabilise a person.
We can only hope that this sentence helps Miss Lohan to find the strength to sort out her life. I think it's true that addicts need to reach rock bottom so that they can start climbing back up. People can experience lots of rock bottoms, of course. They can bounce along the bottom interminably. So let's hope, for her sake, this is her rock bottom.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Not everybody can say they've been hugged by the prime minister of Israel. How many West Virginia boys grow up to be brigadier generals? Or huddle with bigwigs in the White House? Or trot around the globe at the elbow of the Joint Chiefs of Staff?
Charlie Stebbins owes all that to the Air Force Academy.
At 74, the amiable Charleston native looks back on a mind-boggling military, business and academic career spurred by his serendipitous enrollment at the academy in 1957.
Equipped with several degrees, including a doctorate in aerospace engineering (that tells you something), he taught aeronautics, math and thermodynamics at the academy, spent a year as a planner in Vietnam, then worked four years at the Pentagon poring over the defense budget and war plans.
He joined the National Security Council under President Carter, then served as executive assistant to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Heady stuff.
He finished his working life as business school dean and academic leader at the University of Charleston.
Through it all, he picked up enough anecdotes to fill a book. He's working on it now.
"I lived on MacCorkle Avenue right across the street from the Montessori School. It was McGwigan School then. My father was employed at the Naval Ordnance Plant in South Charleston. My mother and father divorced when I was 6.
"When I was about 9, my mother remarried, and we moved up on Bridge Road next to the fire station. I graduated from Charleston High in 1957.
"Sarah and I started going together in 1954. Her father was Harry Brawley. Her sister is Harriet Nottingham, the world's greatest pharmacist at Rite Aid. When we came back to town 10 years ago, people would ask who we were. We would tell them that Sarah's sister was Harriet Nottingham, and we had instant credibility.
"My father had two years of college, and my mom had no college, so they didn't push me to go. When I found out Sarah's parents had enrolled her at WVU, I got a little panicky. I thought I would like to go to West Point. Neat uniforms.
"Sen. Byrd was already committed to someone for the West Point appointment and asked if I would consider the Air Force Academy. I got some literature. It looked pretty neat. The congressmen and senators could nominate 10 people, 80 nominees from West Virginia. We took exams, and four of us finally made it in.
"I went to the Air Force Academy in July 1957. It was a horrible year. You sat at attention and had to run everywhere you went. 'Yes, sir. No, sir. No excuse, sir.' Once I became an upperclassman, I liked it.
"I graduated with a major in engineering and science. They put me into Cal Tech in Pasadena, and I got a couple of degrees. I thought I was God's gift to the academic world. The first test, I worked my tail off. I came out with 40 percent. It was humbling.
"The academy had just opened a small research lab, and I wanted to go back. After a couple of years in this research job, I wanted to go to pilot training.
"I had just finished my doctorate at Colorado University. I was heading for pilot training when I developed a small arrhythmia. The Air Force said I'd better not go.
"My time in the lab was up. Then the faculty dean asked me to be his executive assistant. Sarah was working at the academy. She taught the people who became computer science teachers, so she was really a pioneer.
"So I stayed in that job for three years and went to Vietnam for a year. All my classmates had gone and paid their dues, so I volunteered. My job was to do detailed plans for closing the last two bases in Vietnam, in Da Nang and Saigon. I also worked on the plans for the repatriation for prisoners of war.
"I thought the war was ill-advised. Guys who were in the thick of it would have a different opinion. I was only shot at once. To me, it was more of a staff job, inconvenient being away from home and a little frightening at times, but not much.
"Back from Vietnam, I went to the Pentagon. I knew some guys there and wrote a letter to them. I was a major and got promoted to lieutenant colonel there.
"We were in a little office that was frankly a sweatshop. We worked our tails off, 110 hours a week. I spent nights on the floor in my office, and Sarah would bring the camper and park it in the parking lot so I could go out and get three hours of sleep. It was a nightmare.
"I was working on arms control, the defense budget, about everything you could imagine to do with the military. There were seven of us in this exclusive little shop. Two were Rhodes Scholars and all of them had Ph.Ds.
"It was a time of intellectual growth for me. I sat at the feet of masters of the art and learned to deal with politics in Washington and the Defense Department.
"After almost four years, I was burned out. Then someone in the military nominated me to be a staff member at the White House just after Carter was inaugurated in '77.


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NASHVILLE — The House voted 72-23 Thursday to declare that the Legislature "recognizes the destructive and insidious nature of United Nations Agenda 21," which Republican supporters said is a covert attempt to destroy American rights.
Democratic critics, however, said HJR587 buys into a bogus conspiracy theory and the U.N. program for "sustainable development" has laudable goals of easing poverty and hunger.
"Children have imaginary friends; Republicans have imaginary enemies," said House Democratic Caucus Chairman Mike Turner of Nashville after the vote.
The resolution, which amounts to a statement of opinion with no legal effect, was sponsored by Rep. Kevin Brooks, R-Cleveland. All Republicans present voted for it, joined by seven Democrats. All 23 no votes came from Democrats.
In debate, Rep. Glen Casada, R-College Grove, said Agenda 21 uses "nice words" that have hidden meanings. For example, he said discussion on "carrying capacity of the planet" means putting a cap on the earth's population and that, in turn, can lead to "forced abortions" as are now a government policy in China.
"It doesn't say forced abortions," he said. "I has this nice word, carrying capacity."
Rep. Rick Womick, R-Murfreesboro, said Tennessee towns are adopting Agenda 21 ideas, including the "government run amok" in his hometown. In Murfreesboro, he said the government has told the owner of a barbecue restaurant he must repaint his red building.
Similarly, Womick said that in Cocke County there is a proposal to prohibit construction above 1,500 feet in altitude, which would cover most of the county.
Rep. Jeanne Richardson, D-Memphis, said she was "taken aback" by the Republican viewpoints. Agenda 21, she said, is a "kind and compassionate" outline of ways for "combating poverty and preventing the starvation of children.'
Manning Proposal: Without any debate, the House unanimously approved a resolution urging former UT quarterback Peyton Manning to sign a professional football contract with the Tennessee Titans.
HJR785 declares the Legislature "wholeheartedly supports the Tennessee Titans signing Peyton Manning and urges Mr. Manning to remember his roots in the Volunteer State as he makes his decision about where to play football in 2012."
Military Claims: Knoxville legislators have won passage of a bill that will makes false claims of military service a misdemeanor crime subject to a $500 fine or six months in jail.
The bill, sponsored by Rep. Bill Dunn and Sen. Becky Massey, was approved 33-0 in the Senate this week after 93-2 approval earlier in the House. It now awaits the signature of Gov. Bill Haslam.
Dunn said lying about military service amounts to "theft of valor" and should be a crime.
Nursing Revision: A bill to revise the state Board of Nursing, pushed by a legislator whose dealings with the board prompted a TBI investigation, was sidelined Thursday after another lawmaker said the bill "may have some retaliatory intent."
Rep. Tony Shipley, R-Kingsport, was cleared of any wrongdoing in the TBI investigation though a district attorney general said some tactics by Shipley and Rep. Dale Ford, R-Jonesborough, amounted to "hardball politics." They dealt with the board in ultimately successful effort to have the panel reverse the license revocation of three nurses.
On the House floor, Shipley said the revisions in SB2313 were appropriate because "we've been round and round with abuses of nurses by that board."
Rep. JoAnne Favors, D-Chattanooga, a nurse by profession, then said she objected to "your description of abuses by the board" and added, "This bill may have some retaliatory intent and that concerns me."
Shipley initially rejected Favors' request that he postpone a vote on the bill. But after questions on the revisions within the bill were also raised by Republican Reps. Joey Hensley of Hohenwald and Mathew Hill of Jonesborough, legislators voted 47-44 to take it off the floor and send it back to committee.
Sex Change: Legislation authorizing amendment of birth certificates of persons undergoing sex change operations to reflect their new gender has been killed on a voice vote in a House Health and Human Resources Subcommittee.
Sponsor Rep. Jeanne Richardson, D-Memphis, said Tennessee is the only state in the nation that does not allow for such a revision after a sex change operation.


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Left tackle Michael Roos is practicing again and definitely wants back on the field Sunday. The shape the Tennessee offensive line is in, the Titans certainly need him Sunday with the Chicago Bears visiting.
Four of the five starting offensive linemen are on the injury report as the Titans (3-5) prepare to host Chicago (6-1). Left guard Steve Hutchinson is the only lineman not listed with center Fernando Velasco recovering from a concussion and right guard Leroy Harris and right tackle David Stewart both having hurt their right knees in last week's loss to Indianapolis.
Roos sat out last week as he recovered from an appendectomy, snapping his 119-game consecutive start streak. Now that he's had 10 days to recover, Roos may be healthier than some of his line mates.
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This just in: The New York Mets are unwatchable on days that Matt Harvey isn't pitching.
Terry Collins is working with a lineup that, on any given night, has six or seven automatic outs sprinkled in among a couple of major league hitters. David Wright and Co.—though this is no fault of the captain's—are 28th in the league in hitting and last in on-base percentage, a part of the game that Collins and Sandy Alderson have attempted to make of paramount importance.
His pitching staff, outside of the aforementioned phenom and the sporadic, solid Jonathon Niese start, has been abysmal. The team is 7-2 in games started by Harvey, and 9-22 in others. Outside of Harvey, everyone has been serving up a nice buffet of batting practice and gopher balls.
No team in baseball swoons like the Mets swoon. Their slides are a perfect storm of anemic hitting and pathetic pitching.
But, just as all teams do every summer, the Mets have an opportunity to make improvements at the trade deadline. The team has sat idly by as the deadline has come and gone these last few seasons. Even a marginal improvement is necessary this time around.
While it may be two months before the trade deadline, it's never too early for speculation. Here are four possible trades the Mets could make in late July.
Daniel Murphy is one of two hitters on the New York Mets that currently appear to be worthy of a roster spot on a major league baseball team, and the team's .230 batting average would be even uglier with his .300 clip.
But, the Mets finished in fourth place in the National League East with him, and they can certainly manage to do so without him.
The risks of trading for a relief pitcher are obvious, as the best bullpen arms of one season don't usually garner that title the next season, but the risks of Sandy Alderson sticking with his current bullpen are higher. Before Saturday's day game against the Chicago Cubs, the Mets boasted the second-worst bullpen ERA in the National League next to the lowly Houston Astros.
Murphy is a good player, but it is questionable whether he is an essential part of the club's nucleus as they head in a new direction of youth and hope.
One of the Mets' best prospects, Wilmer Flores, has been honing his craft at second base in Las Vegas after playing primarily third base and shortstop the last two years.
The Mets' main issue has been finding a home for Flores on the diamond, but that could be solved by trading Murphy. It's unlikely that Flores will hit for the average that Murphy has over the last two years, but he'll bring some legitimate power to second base—a luxury the Mets haven't enjoyed since Edgardo Alfonzo left town.
Who that setup man may be is something we'll leave the general manager to decide.
Swapping an everyday second baseman for an eighth-inning pitcher may seem like an iffy prospect, but blown leads leading to late-inning losses can decimate a team's morale, something that Mets fans have become all too familiar with in this early 2013 season.
This has nothing to do with John Buck's recent swoon, which has been mitigated by the catcher reaching base in five of his last six games.
This has to do with the fact that the New York Mets just signed Rick Ankiel to assume a legitimate role as an outfielder for their team.
Is this ball club that far gone that the front office resorted to signing a 33-year-old outfielder who was cut by the Houston Astros? The answer is clearly yes. If you can't hold a spot on the Astros, you don't belong in Major League Baseball
It looks like Buck has surpassed the high point of his production this season, but the Mets would be wise to try to get something out of him this summer while there is still some semblance of the early season power.
No outfield prospect in the Mets minor league system is remotely near ready to take on a starting spot in the outfield. Matt Den Dekker is hardly a young prospect, and he still has a few weeks to go before he returns from his wrist injury. The team's top outfield prospect, Brandon Nimmo, is just 20 years old and light-years from a MLB call-up.
Translation: This outfield is terrible, and it's going to remain terrible.
There have been grumblings about the Mets reeling in Cincinnati Reds outfielder Shin Soo Choo this offseason, but that couldn't be any less of a foregone conclusion. Acquiring a starting caliber outfielder at the deadline should be on Alderson's to-do list.
If the New York Mets have one thing going for them, it's the surplus of young pitching talent to spare in the minor leagues.
Other than Zack Wheeler, who would likely be unavailable barring a can't-miss blockbuster trade, the pitching prospects in the minors should be up for grabs.
Noah Syndergaard would be tough to part with, but he's too far from the majors to deem untouchable. That leaves the likes of Rafael Montero, Luis Mateo, Domingo Tapia, Michael Fulmer, Hansel Robles and Stephen Matz, among others.
Montero has shown more promise than the rest of his peers thus far in Binghamton. He has compiled a very respectable 3.47 ERA, but it's his K/9 (10.4) and BB/9 (1.2) that help to tell the true story of Montero's potential. And at just 22 years old, there will be suitors for the six-foot righty.
Teams around the MLB love to stockpile young arms for exactly this purpose. There is no way that all six of the latter pitchers will develop into quality pitchers, so the Mets would be best served to send a few elsewhere in exchange for a major league outfielder or a prospect that is nearly ready to join the show.
This obviously won't be the most popular idea on this list, but drop the pitchforks and think about it for a second. Early in the season, numerous outlets reported that the New York Mets were contemplating the idea of swapping Zack Wheeler and Travis d'Arnaud for Miami Marlins slugger Giancarlo Stanton.
Based on Jeffrey Loria's propensity to ship talent out of town on a whim, this trade seems like it is the Mets' to make.
However, that would effectively put an end to Sandy Alderson's long-term plan and probably wreak havoc on Jay Horowitz and the rest of the Mets' public relations department. But that doesn't mean it wouldn't be a sensible baseball move.
Wheeler and d'Arnaud have already had some health issues early in their career (d'Arnaud especially), and Stanton is a proven major leaguer who would have no problem handling the dimensions of spacious Citi Field. Stanton would also provide some protection for David Wright, a help that has not been afforded to the franchise's best player since Ike Davis was sapped of his hitting ability.
But, Stanton is set to hit arbitration at the end of the season and is currently on the shelf with a bum hammy, two factors that could throw a wrench in this prospective swap.
Don't count on this happening, for Alderson is very set on his plan for the future of the organization, but it's a fun idea to entertain.


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This is a tiny little chart I made for a few friends who are very new to the game and often can't get their head around how much of a difference one or two pips can make!
Reading the chart: If your hand is unsuited, match your hole cards in the lower left half of the table. If your hand is suited, match your hole cards in the upper right half of the ...
When I tell my non-poker playing friends that I play poker they thing I'm gambling - until I give them the following explaination.
Poker, played correctly, is not gambling in my opinion. And I think this is a good way to explain EV to non-poker players or new players. The idea in poker is to do two things - make correct decisions based on available ...
Probability: the chance of a particular outcome.
More precisely, the probability of any given outcome is the ratio of all the favorable outcomes and every outcome that is possible. (so favorable / everything)
The probability of throwing 6 with a dice is exactly 1/6 because all the sides are perfectly equal, there are 6 of them but only 1 is favorable in ...
You can use some ICM-training programs, like: ICM Trainer - it can help you understand how to play late phase of a tournament (when to push/fold).
You can also use some Equity calculators - using those you can understand relative hand strenght in given circumstances. I recommend: Equilab
There are also many programs, which can help you analyze your game. ...
The best interactivity is playing with other real opponents. Just open a poker client and keep playing. If you are to scared to play for real money play for play money. After you finish your session do a hand review. Pick a couple of hands which you remember as tough or pick the ones where you won most or lost most and see what you did to get to this ...
If you're doing this entirely by hand, tracking hand count and hands per hour is a bit overkill in my opinion (unless you're single tabling I suppose). If you figure that on average there are 85 hands an hour per table, you can use that time to instead watch the table.
I would definitely factor in your mental state, I use 1-3, as well. This will help you ...
Even if you read all books all strategies ,you will not play that way. you need some practice.
play for some cent blinds and learn from it.
best programm to learn poker is : pokerstars.exe
I played some years and when i stop for some time and start again i sometimes still do stupid mistakes. It's simple and easy, you need practice to stay good.
Say we have a $1 million raffle that has only two tickets: a winner and a loser.
I give you a random ticket and tell you that you MUST sell it. How much money should you sell it for? (I.e. how much is it worth?)
A. $1 million?
No, because it could just as easily be worth $0.
No, because it could just as easily be worth $1 million.
C. $0.5 million?
I don't know exactly what you mean by interactive learning. The best way to learn is to read the basic theory and then practice and practice. If you're very very new to the game, playing micro-stakes online is a good starting step. After you do that for a while, call a few friends and play a few hours at your house (or at their house). Or go to a local ...
What is neccessary to know is the following:
Did he start to play poker after he was a successful hedge fund manager?
There are some people who get successful and this time by successful I mean having money and after they got the money, they started playing poker. And there are of course guys who are good in poker and love it an do their normal job as ...
First of all it's important to explain that EV is a concept rooted in the law of large numbers, and which poker players use to calculate risk and reward. I'll get back to this concept.
When calculating EV a poker player takes a few things into consideration:
1) The size of the pot
2) The probability of winning that pot
2) The size of the bet they're faced ...
Having such a memorization mechanism that allows you to have a decent starting hand chart in your head is only going to help you in very very early stages of learning the game.
There are a lot of books and poker strategy websites where such charts can be found. I've noticed that those charts encourage you to play your hand if it's strong (medium to big ...
Say that we decide to bet on coin flips.
In the first case, I will give you $1 every time that it is heads, and you will give me $1 every time that it is tails. Simple logic will tell you that since 1/2 of the time I owe you $1 (heads) and the other 1/2 of the time you owe me $1 (tails) that if we flip the coin enough times, it will even out. In this ...
If you have a simple 6 side dice you can arrange a simple demonstration.
Tell your friends you'll give them 1$ in every throw if the result is 3-6, and they have to pay 1$ if it is 1-2.
Tell them you're going to play 5 rounds and what they expect in terms of money won / lost. Then play the game and compare the results to their estimation.
Intuitively they ...
TwoPlusTwo poker forums. Nothing else.
I highly recommend the following collection of forum posts / articles. These are the finest writings about the basics and more advanced concepts of the game, these will put you lightyears ahead of micro / small stakes competition. I remember when i first came by this around 2008, I got so hooked :) Have fun!
Before I start, let me say that if you are from outside the US I would definitely take advantage of sites that offer rake-based-membership. In the US, we have DragTheBar, which offers free membership based on the rake taken from your hands at Carbon Poker.
I would even go a step further and say try every single site that offers a free trial. Stagger them ...
pokerstrategy.com is GOLD. They have many articles covering different topics and parts of online poker. Also they do classes, so they stream screen of lecturer and you can directly ask the lecturer about his play. It is really best way to jump into poker right from the start.
(My referal link: http://cs.pokerstrategy.com/#referrer=asketak )
I strongly recommend reading all the Doyle Brunson articles from his website . In this wonderful collection of articles, Brunson talks about limit & no-limit hold 'em, when to call, raise and fold.
"How To Play" section of WSOP is another great resource worth spending time on.
The best books for novice is basically anything from David Sklansky, especially "No Limit Hold 'em: Theory and Practice"
As you get more advanced, you need to tailor the sources you read to game you play. If you play SNG, then you need to read about SNG. Collin Moshman wrote rally great books covering SNG and heads up situation.
If you play tournaments, ...
The problem is that you can't teach someone a subject matter if they're not really interested in it. Poker is a great game, but unless the student wants to learn, they're not going to. Imagine you showed up at one of these get-togethers, and one of your friends said, "Hey, let me teach you Chess. It's an awesome game, but it's complicated. You'll love it." ...
The most important thing is that you should be aware of the fact that you cannot teach poker to someone who doesn't like the game. Yes, it's a great game and yes, I enjoy it very much. But, as much as it hurts, it doesn't mean that my friends should like it too. Judging by what I read, they don't seem to like it that much. So, before everything, make sure ...
I'm in exactly the same situation, down to every cruel aspect of it. It's actually quite amazing, something that people without knowledge of probability distributions would call a huge coincidence :D .
I think the problem in your approach is the fact that you throw a huge amount of information at them. Texas Hold'em (and poker in general) is a game with a ...
Read the rules and then head off to your favorite (or soon to be favorite) site that lets you play for play money. Once you feel ready for real money, transition over. The sites available vary by geography, so you'll need to poke around to find the ones accessible to you.
Personally I read the rules, watched WPT and WSOP, and played a lot on Poker Stars as ...
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