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In the first book of the series, Piper Reed, Navy Brat, nine-year-old Piper stays busy while her father, a Navy Chief, is on shit duty for six months. How does she stay busy? She goes on adventures with new neighbors, Christmas at a spaceship beach house, a trip to New Orleans, and especially the upcoming Gypsy Club pet show.
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The first book in the series, Beezus and Ramona, features 4-year-old Ramona and her older sister, Beezus. Even though Beezus knows sisters are supposed to love each other, with a sister like Ramona and her huge imagination, it seems impossible.
Louis is a trumpeter swan, but he had no voice. Though he is frightened when his father explains to him that he is different from the other cygnets, Louis is resourceful and determined. This is a timeless tale of love, courage, and freedom that will capture the imagination of every listener.
While sorting through difficulties in her friendship with her neighbor Margaret, eight-year-old Clementine gains several unique hairstyles while also helping her father in his efforts to banish pigeons from the front of their apartment building.
Poor Stanley. He's a perfectly normal boy until one morning he wakes up flat. Ending up four feet tall, a foot wide, and half-an-inch thick, Stanley discovers that being flat is not only novel (he can slip under cracks), but also exciting. He is mailed off to California in a large envelope; he can be flown like a huge kite; and one night, disguised as a shepherdess, he hides in a painting in the art museum and foils some thieves.
Volume one contains stories of Arthur's Mystery Envelope, Arthur and the Scare-your-pants-off Club, and Arthur makes the Team.
Listened to the popular abridged tales read by the author! Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Enormous Crocodile, and The Magic Finger are included.
The first audio book contains three tales featuring Amber Brown; in the first, Amber copes with her best friend moving away; in the second, Amber travels to London with the hope of reuniting her recently divorced parents; in the third, the plucky third grader moves up to the fourth grade where she longs for a new best friend.
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Introduction: Debate continues among clinicians regarding the merits of self-inflating (SI) and non self-inflating (NSI) bags. We sought to compare the variability of ventilation between the two bags in a neonatal lung model.
Methods: We compared a SI type (Baxter) and NSI type bag (Drager, Rusch). We tested 5 RCPs and 20 nurses on each bag type. We used a Siemens test lung with a pressure manometer. Subjects were asked to achieve PIP=30, PEEP=4, f=30. PEEP was controlled on the SI bag by using a PEEP valve, and on the NSI by controlling flow into and out of the bag. Data were gathered for 8-10 minutes. PIP and PEEP were measured and stored via computerized pneumotachography (Ventrak, Novametrix Inc.). Results: 8717 breaths were analyzed. The distribution of PIP and PEEP sorted by bag type are described in figure 1. We found statistically significant differences in PIP, PEEP and frequency between the two bag types (Mann-Whitney U test all P values < 0.01). Mean ± SD and Coefficients of Variation (SD/Mean) are represented in table 1.
Self-inflating bag | 28.7 | (±2.3) | (0.079) | 6.1 | (±1.2) | (0.204) |
Non self-inflating bag | 26.0 | (±2.3) | (0.182) | 3.0 | (±1.9) | (0.641) |
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Discussion: We found statistical significance between bag types but felt that these differences were not clinically important for PIP. Differences in PEEP were more concerning. It is interesting to note that the NSI bag yielded significantly more breaths under all conditions that were far below the 10th percentile for PIP, suggesting a greater variability of ventilation with the NSI type bags. This is also demonstrated by the much higher coefficients of variation for both PIP and PEEP for the NSI bag. This suggests that maintaining stable ventilatory parameters is more difficult with a NSI bag.
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Tonight, at 7 p.m., Charles Parrish, 95, of West Chester Township, will share his experience living through the civil rights movement at the Live the Dream: Our Declaration of Unity program at Liberty Township's Cornerstone United Methodist Church, 7600 Princeton-Glendale Road.
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Things I discovered yesterday evening:
- On a 1 - 10 scale of sliminess, I thought peeled peaches would be a 5. They are not. They are at least an 8.
- It may be easy to pit a peach when it has a non-slip coating on it (i.e. a peel). It is no longer as easy to pit a peach when they are reading 8+ on the sliminess scale.
- Every single one of the peaches I cut up this evening attempted escape.
On the upside, it really is very easy to peel peaches.
Peeling Peaches
You want to get a medium to big pot of water boiling on the stove and have a large bowl of ice water handy. I worked one or two peaches at a time, which I'd recommend so the hot water stays hot and the cold water stays cold. It also ensures that you don't leave peaches in the boiling water for too long (which would result in boiled peaches, not peeled peaches).
Cut an X in the bottom of the peach.
Dunk the peach in the boiling water. Count to 30 or 60. The water shouldn't stop boiling. I have to count out loud or I forget.
After 40 seconds or so, scoop the peach out of the boiling water with a slotted spoon (you can drop in a second fresh peach immediately, start counting again). The skin of the first, just-boiled peach should be peeling back where you sliced into the bottom. Dunk the first peach in the ice water.
Fish your peach out of the ice water (are you still counting? keep counting, just fish out the second peach when you get to 40 or so and drop it into the ice water). Peel back the skin at the edges of the X. The skin should peel off very easily.
I found I got a good rhythm going between slicing the bottoms of peaches, dunking them in the boiling water, then the ice water, then peeling. You may want a lid handy for the pot of boiling water to keep it from cooling down too much.
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Laboratory code
The code for the laboratory to get the Moon Tears changes from game to game. It is determined by the order you find the five bomber kids. Each of them have a number on their back. The code is their numbers in the order that you found them. To find out what the code is, you must first pop the balloon with a bubble, arrow, or Zora Link's boomerang (preferably the bubble). Then, talk to the small kid who was trying to pop it. Tell him you want to try his test, and if you can locate and catch all five kids before the next morning you will receive the code. To catch a kid, run up to him. When he starts to run away, stand still. After running a short distance, he will stop running. When he stops, shoot him with a Deku Bubble Attack. The kid should be caught. Note: The kid carrying the Cucco must be shot once before he starts running, then again after he stops.
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The Escherichia coli Extracellular Death Factor EDF Induces the Endoribonucleolytic Activities of the Toxins MazF and ChpBK
The Escherichia coli Extracellular Death Factor EDF Induces the Endoribonucleolytic Activities of the Toxins MazF and ChpBK
Molecular Cell, Volume 41, Issue 6,
Pages 625-635,
Publication Date 18 March 2011
Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2011.02.023
Maria Belitsky
Haim Avshalom
Ariel Erental
Idan Yelin
Sathish Kumar
Nir London
Michal Sperber
Ora Schueler-Furman
Hanna Engelberg-Kulka
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada, The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem 91120, Israel
Corresponding author
These authors contributed equally to this work
► E.coli EDF amplifies the endoribonucleolytic activities of MazF and ChpBK ► EDF binds directly to MazF; MazF and ChpBK are probably sensors of EDF ► Peptide-protein modeling show parallel contacts of EDF-MazF and MazE-MazF
Escherichia coli (E. coli) mazEF is a toxin-antitoxin (TA) stress-induced module that mediates cell death requiring the quorum-sensing pentapeptide NNWNN designated EDF (extracellular death factor). E. coli toxin MazF is a sequence-specific endoribonuclease cleaving single-stranded mRNAs at ACA sequences. E. coli ChpBK, a toxin homologous to MazF, is a sequence-specific endoribonuclease cleaving single-stranded mRNAs at ACA, ACG, and ACU sequences. Here we report that, in vitro, the signaling molecule EDF significantly amplifies the endoribonucleolytic activities of both MazF and ChpBK. EDF also overcomes the inhibitory activity of the antitoxins MazE over the toxin MazF and ChpBI over ChpBK. EDF sequence is important for both functions. Moreover, direct sequence-specific binding of EDF to MazF has been confirmed. Peptide-protein modeling revealed parallel contacts between EDF-MazF and MazE-MazF. These findings are intriguing, since most known quorum-sensing molecules monitor gene expression on the transcriptional level, while EDF monitors posttranscriptionally.


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The growing opportunity cost of ignoring social media has led even the most 'old school' businesses to get started with this engaging form of market communication. However, the lack of understanding of how to implement a social media strategy has raised the barrier to entry for many in this group. I've put together an easy to understand three-step process for jumpstarting your social media strategy.
If this is your first time interacting with social media, remember this: Social media is simply a communication channel. Social media alone cannot build your brand or attract new customers. Brand building and market attention are generated through value-add content and conversations. Social media is only a messenger, but it may be the most important one you have since it enables your organization to instantly reach millions. Targeting your audience, engaging in conversations and providing value are all at the core of social media's benefits.
Social media is valuable because it allows anyone to engage, communicate and provide value to a target market. If your market is so niche that only a few people in your industry interact on social media platforms, targeting these platforms becomes even more essential. These niche markets typically have interactions that are much more meaningful since you can get closer to a 1:1 interaction with your target market. The first step is to find out which social media platform has the largest following of users that define your target market. Here are a few steps to get started:
Visiting a social media platform will be like visiting a new country for someone new to social media. Even if you may not pick up on it immediately, it's important to understand and embrace the customs and lingo of the citizens.
Understand customs by reviewing and monitoring user posts. For example, you may find that your industry's LinkedIn group forbids any work topics on Monday mornings. In this case, you would obviously want to avoid launching industry value-add content during that time.
Local lingo typically uses unique abbreviated words or an idea tagging structure to deepen communication. For example, a Twitter hashtag is simply a way of tagging an idea or sentiment to add context to a short statement that could otherwise be misunderstood. You may also find that your target groups on these platforms have their own unique dialects within the broad social media lingo. Many of these platforms have user guides such as the Getting Started with Twitter or the LinkedIn Learning Center. Use these guides to embrace the local customs and the lingo to enhance market communication.
Speak up! After you have done your research in Step 2, it's time to jump in and join the conversation. Conversational topics are just as important as business advice. Many new social media users want to know how many posts should be business related versus personal. The best way to determine this ratio is to look at the posts that are happening within these social media groups and follow the trend.
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Be sure to avoid creating an 'echo chamber' by duplicating one social media post across multiple platforms. Many organizations fall into this trap because they feel that they can easily scale messaging and cover their bases across multiple social networks. Social media users will reject or ignore these types of posts, so no real upside exists by using an echo chamber strategy. Above all else, engage genuinely with users and provide value-add content to get the most out of social media channels.
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We have an older house, built in the 60's. When we moved in, we had an issue with the roof leaking a little and we ended up with a few water damage spots where the paint on the ceiling started pealing off. There is also areas where no water damage is, yet the paint has started to crack and peal on it's own. I think it looks like the paint layers have built up over time and now it's pealing off. We're wanting to redo the paint now but we're not sure how to go about it all. We want it to look nice and be done the right way. How do we make sure the ceiling and walls are prepared correctly and that the paint won't peal off again? Any help is great. Also, we're expecting in 2 months and we don't want paint that would be harmful to breathe or touch, so please keep that in mind. Thank you for your help!
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Tuesday September 28, 2004
Overlooked? Just Schill!
Good morning, All!
It seems to me that everyone around the country is finally coming to grips with the reality that Johan Santana will win the 2004 American League Cy Young Award. Twins fans have been saying that since probably early August. But much of the rest of the world didn't seem to realize it until Santana reached his 20th win on Friday night. Despite the fact that Curt Schilling has 21 victories to Santana's 20, Johan has been far superior in every other pitching category.
But it almost seems like the tone that some people want to take on this issue, sometimes yours truly included, that this is a clear-cut choice. Some people make it almost seem as if a vote for Schilling is a 'dumb' choice. And that isn't fair. The fact is that Curt Schilling is having a Cy Young-like season. Let's just look at his numbers for a second.
W-L ERA IP H BB K K/9 WHIP OppBA CG
2004 21-6 3.26 226.2 206 35 203 8.07 1.06 .239 3
These are certainly the numbers of a Cy Young candidate. Great won-loss record (best winning percentage in the league). Very good 3.26 ERA is second in the AL. A WHIP below 1.20 is great, so 1.06 is really impressive, good for second-best in the league. Even the .239 average is solid, 4th in the AL. Schilling's strikeout rate dropped by a couple of strikeouts per nine innings.
The only problem for Schilling (or really, just for his Cy Young chances), is the fact that he is behind the Twins Johan Santana in these categories. Here are Schilling's numbers along-side Santana's.
W-L ERA IP H BB K K/9 WHIP OppBA CG
Schilling 21-6 3.26 226.2 206 35 203 8.1 1.06 .239 3
Santana 20-6 2.62 223.0 153 53 260 10.5 0.92 .193 1
Santana ranks second to Schilling in Wins and Winning Percentage. Santana ranks fourth in innings pitched. But he leads the league in strikeouts, ERA, WHIP and Opponent's Batting average. These, unlike Wins, are categories that a pitcher can actually control.
Because of these numbers, and the fact that Santana is just one win behind Schilling, I absolutely believe that Johan Santana should be the AL Cy Young winner. But the point of my rant is to say that everyone must also admit that Curt Schilling is having a really strong season as well and deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as Santana. Schilling is a very strong second place finisher!
Poor Curt Schilling. This will likely be the third time in the last four seasons that he has put together an incredible statistical season on the mound, and he is still without a Cy Young Award to call his own. At least this season, with the help of a few horrible Pedro Martinez outings, Schilling is the best pitcher on his own team.
Curt Schilling came to he Arizona Diamondbacks before the trade deadline in 2000, for four major league ball players. He teamed with Randy Johnson to give the D-backs an incredible 1-2 punch at the top of their starting rotation. The two were Co-MVPs of the World Series when Arizona beat the New York Yankees in the 2001 Fall Classic. They remained teammates until Schilling was traded to Boston this past offseason.
Schilling put up amazing numbers in 2001 and 2002, but in each year, Schilling finished a distant second to Johnson in the NL Cy Young voting. Here are the numbers:
Schilling 22-6 2.98 256.7 237 39 293 10.3 1.08 6
Johnson 21-6 2.49 249.7 181 71 372 13.4 1.01 3
Schilling 23-7 3.23 259.3 218 33 316 11.0 0.97 5
Johnson 24-5 2.32 260.0 197 71 334 11.6 1.03 8
In both years, Schilling was remarkable and worthy of the title "Cy Young Winner," but in each case, Johnson was just better. That doesn't take anything away from Schilling at all.
There have been a lot of great pitchers who never won the Cy Young Award. One of the most dominant pitchers or all time, Nolan Ryan, has the same exact number of Cy Young Awards as I do. One of the arguments against Bert Blyleven's Hall of Fame candidacy is that he never won a Cy Young Award, so he was "never the best pitcher in his league." When you combine that thinking with the fact that Nolan Ryan received over 98% of the Hall of Fame vote, it all seems a bit fishy, doesn't it?
Curt Schilling has put up some incredible numbers the last seven or eight seasons. Is he a Hall of Famer? Probably not. But has he been a great, solid, dominating starting pitcher who deserves mention in any 'great pitcher' discussions? Absolutely.
So, Twins fans, or others who feel strongly that Johan Santana should be the consensus, unanimous Cy Young Award winner, and I certainly agree. But let's all try to point to Santana's incredible numbers and not downgrade everything that Curt Schilling has done.
OK, I believe that Johan Santana should, and will, win the AL Cy Young Award. I also believe that Randy Johnson, despite his barely over .500 record, could win the NL Cy Young over Jason Schmidt, Jake Peavy, Roger Clemens and Roy Oswalt.
So, what kind of Cy Young race would we have if Randy Johnson and Johan Santana were in the same league. (Actually, there is also an award called the Warren Spahn Award, which is given to the best left-handed pitcher in all of baseball). Here are their numbers side-by-side;
W-L ERA IP H BB K K/9 WHIP OppBA CG
Johnson 15-14 2.65 237.2 167 44 282 10.8 0.89 .193 4
Santana 20-6 2.62 223.0 153 53 260 10.5 0.92 .193 1
To me, their numbers are such a toss-up, that the W-L record would probably have to be the final determinant.
What do you think? E-mail me.
The Twins and Yankees are playing a series which could very well be a precursor to one of the ALDS series. If the Twins fall to 3rd place among the three division winners, they will play the Yankees in the first round.
My personal opinion is that home-field advantage in the first round doesn't really matter to the Twins. Sure, it would be nice to play Game 5 in the Metrodome, but with Santana and Radke, I would take my chances anywhere. So, it really comes down to whether I would prefer to play the Yankees or the Red Sox in the first round.
Well, the Red Sox will match Santana and Radke with Schilling and Martinez. Game 3 would likely match Derek Lowe with Carlos Silva. These are all tough pitching matchups, but I feel the Twins match up well. The Yankees pitching staff is a mess. At this point, their rotation would likely be Orlando Hernandez, Mike Mussina and who knows (Vazquez, Brown, Lieber?). Both team's have impressive offenses, which would hopefully be nullified by the Twins pitchers. The question, of course, is which team would the Twins hitters be better able to hit.
It really makes for an interesting series the next three days in Yankees Stadium. Obviously the Twin will do their best to win each game. At the same time, how much do they want to show the Yankees, with the possibility being that the teams will start a playoff series next Tuesday? Johan Santana and Brad Radke are both scheduled to pitch, so 1.) how far do they go and 2.) what types of pitches and pitch patterns should they use? They do need to get their work in. I'd say just go all out and try not to make a big deal out of it. Fact is that the Yankees have had scouts following the Twins for a long time already, I'm sure.
Here are those pitching matchups for the series:
Tonight - 6:05 - Kyle Lohse (8-11, 5.31, 1.63, .306) vs Orlando Hernandez (8-1, 2.87, 1.24, .224)
Wednesday - 6:05 - Johan Santana (20-6, 2.65, 0.92, .193) vs Jon Lieber (13-8, 4.37, 1.31, .298)
Thursday - 6:05 - Brad Radke (11-8, 3.48, 1.15, .265) vs Mike Mussina (12-9, 4.59, 1.30, .274)
Any thoughts on the Twins., the playoffs, the roster? E-mail me.
Just 14 games were played this week as four teams had byes. Things were bunched up among our experts as well, especially heading into Monday night's game. Even after the game was complete, we had three people who led the way with an 11-3 record. Mike Brasel continues to dominate the league. Jeremy Kovash shared the title, the second time he has be atop the board. And Melissa Olson jumped up the chart with a leading 11-3 week as well. Brasel grabbed another game on the two nearest competitors in the overall leader board, Aaron Gleeman and Ryan Maus.
To see all of our picks, please click here.
Week 3 Total Name Site W
L Win% W L Win % Mike Brasel Fantasy FB Guru 11 3 78.6% 36 10 78.3% Jeremy Kovash Wolf Lake Mgr 11 3 78.6% 31 15 67.4% Melissa Olson SethSpeaks.net 11 3 78.6% 28 18 60.9% Aaron Gleeman Aaron's BB Blog 10 4 71.4% 33 13 71.7% Ryan Maus Twins Chatter 10 4 71.4% 33 13 71.7% Seth Stohs SethSpeaks.net 10 4 71.4% 28 18 60.9% Ben Jacobs Hardball Times 10 4 71.4% 28 18 60.9% John Bonnes The Twins Geek 10 4 71.4% 24 22 52.2% David Bergner Baseball Savant 9 5 64.3% 31 15 67.4% Michael Labuda ChiSox Daily 8 6 57.1% 28 18 60.9% Vic Quick KDUH-TV Sports 8 6 57.1% 28 18 60.9% David Bloom Ya Gotta Believe 8 6 57.1% 27 19 55.7%
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Let me first start by establishing a little credibility. I have been in IT for 16 years, I work as a Data Center Solution Architect for a Fortune 500 outsourcing company. My background and specialization is around server and infrastructure technologies within data centers and transformative technologies (leading edge IT trends).I started to play WOW just after launch, around December or January 2004. I have played at varying levels of dedication ranging from casual to hardcore raider.
Now for the topic I'd like to bring up. I have seen the Tuesday maintenance for as long as I have played the game and to this day, I just don't understand why an alternative approach to maintenance has yet to be identified. The blizzard customers pay for a service and when you pay for a service, you expect it to be available.
The Data Center technologies available around the initial development of the game are very different from technologies that exist today. We have seen the emergence of virtualization with tools like VMware and Citrix. We have seen Unix move forward with similar virtualization tech like the IBM AIX Logical Partitioning and the virtual I/o components. What these technologies have enabled architects to do is become more flexible with the availability of enterprise applications to the end user. Data is more flexible to be shared and load balanced as a result, thus eliminating the conventional maintenance requirements for older system architecture.
In today's Data Center, applications are available 24/7 commonly with 99.99% availability requirements in terms of Service Levels. In some extreme cases, you will even see 99.999% which equates to just 5.26 minutes a year. With the availability we see from blizzard its closer to 95% availability (8 hours of downtime per week). This is completely unacceptable in today's standards.
I would like to hear from Blizzard as to the reasoning behind this limitation in the Wow application framework that requires such a sizeable downtime to the customer.
I don't have much time to play these days, but when I do, it always seems like it's during a maintenance window!
I understand why the maintenance is taking place, defrags, scanning, probably some purging at the DB level to clean up the DB structure and records. We all get that, but why do other MMO's not have this same limitation? I have played Rift, Star Wars the Old Republic (too many more, those are just the ones I currently have accounts on) and these games may have a couple hours here and there but nothing even close to the service interruption we see on WOW.
If there are limitations within the environment that can't be avoided, perhaps performing the maintenance at a time that has the least impact to customers? Each server has a time zone, instead of taking the servers down in the middle of the day, moving the downtime for a specific timezone to the lowest traffic time at 3am server time.
One item that I am overlooking completely is labor. If the reason for this maintenance is less technical in nature, simply to give the support team a break, that's a different topic altogether. I'm all for keeping employees happy, but there are some happy mediums that can be struck to minimize the impact to the end user.
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His lineage as a horseman has no end and now Berry Cellan is bringing his love and knowledge of horses to Blackfoot - with the Intermountain Equifest 2012 - an event for horse enthusiasts of all kinds. Equifest is a three-day expo (June 29 through July 1) at the Eastern Idaho State Fairgrounds and will give horsemen and spectators an opportunity to network, show their skills and see what's new and exciting in the horse industry.
A public meeting to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the four proposed concepts for the project at the intersection of Groveland Road with US26 is from 4 - 6 p.m. Wednesday at the Groveland Elementary Cafeteria. The meeting will be in an open house format. Drop by anytime. Safety is the primary purpose for the project. The intersection has the highest crash ratio of any intersection in Bingham County. Steam coming off the potato processing plant, under certain conditions, eliminates visibility. The project is in the initial development phase. Public input is desired.
Science Fun was on display at the 4-H Day Camp Monday afternoon. Students used materials found in almost any kitchen to do experiments. Ingredients included vinegar, baking soda, food coloring, Ziploc bags, Dawn dishwashing detergent, Mentos, pop rocks and Diet Cola. Explaining why a Mentos fountain works, 4-H Coordinator Debbie White said, "Mentos is a mint candy with a hard shell with small holes in it," she said. "Carbon dioxide is in the soda. "The carbon dioxide sticks to the Mentos candy; the carbon dioxide builds up and then explodes, White said.
When Glenna Hale steps into the All-American Diner at 902 West Highway 39, she sees a bit of American from the 1950s. There's a poster for "The Long, Long Trailer," a Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz movie, another advertising Pepsi for five cents and one featuring a 1954 Ford pickup. "I like it," Hale said of the decor. "It brings back memories. I like all the old pictures of pickups and that. It's cool." It doesn't hurt that the food is good, too.


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Matt Moore enters the 2012 MLB Season as the No. 4 starter for the Tampa Bay Rays. At the tender age of 23, Moore has already stymied hitters at every level of the minor leagues and diced two of the MLB's best lineups -- the New York Yankees and the Texas Rangers. He has not had a FIP above 3.00 since 2007, when he was an 18-year-old in the Rookie League.
Since 1992 (over the last 20 seasons), there have been 166 23-year-old pitchers to twirl over 100 innings in the majors. Of those pitchers, 58 were rookies. The 166 averaged a 4.19 ERA and 4.29 FIP with ~162 IP, while the 58 rookies averaged a 4.38 ERA and 4.45 FIP with about 142 and 1/3 IP.
Compare those numbers to the projections for Matt Moore:
System | IP | ERA | FIP |
Steamer | 149.0 | 3.50 | 3.80 |
RotoChamp | 160.0 | 3.21 | 3.12 |
Marcel | 41.0 | 3.95 | 3.64 |
FG Fans (45) | 168.0 | 3.26 | 3.23 |
ZiPS | 145.0 | 3.72 | 3.81 |
Each of these systems has their own strengths and weaknesses. At present, Steamer is widely reputed as the best pitching predictor, while years of correlations studies have shown the FanGraphs Fans predict playing time better than any other system. Marcel is by far the simplest of the systems, and it offers perhaps the purest, most unbiased information available because it merely looks three-year averages (thus the low playing time).
So the projection systems unanimously predict sub-4.00 ERAs, but one of the important distinctions here is that the run environment has changed pretty dramatically over the last three years. A 4.38 ERA used to be an admirable feet. For instance, in 1996, the league ERA was 5.12, but in 2011, the league ERA was 3.95.
For these instances, it's helpful to examine ERA- and FIP-, which adjust to league standards. In that 58 rookies group, the average ERA- came out to 99 and the group's FIP- comes out to 101. If the league ERA and FIP holds over from 2010-2011 into the 2012 season, then Moore's projections look like this:
System | IP | ERA- | FIP- |
Steamer | 149.0 | 89 | 100 |
RotoChamp | 160.0 | 81 | 82 |
Marcel | 41.0 | 100 | 96 |
FG Fans (45) | 168.0 | 83 | 85 |
ZiPS | 145.0 | 94 | 100 |
Using a 3.95 league ERA and 3.81 league FIP.
We can see two groupings here: The optimistic (RotoChamp and Fans) and the less optimistic (Steamer, Marcel, ZiPS). In the last 20 years, there have been only six 23-year-old rookies to manage a FIP- of 85 or better: Roy Oswalt (62), Tim Hudson (73), Aaron Sele (74), John Thompson (77), Tim Lincecum (80), and Travis Wood (84).
Can Moore be as good or better than this group? Certainly! Can he also be as good as David Price was in his 23-year-old rookie season (104 ERA-, 109 FIP-)? That's very possible too.
I believe there is a general consensus that Moore has all the ingredients necessary to be an even better pitcher than Price, but we certainly should not expect him to out-pitch Price this year. Looking at the Fans' predictions -- especially when compared to the Steamer and Marcel numbers -- I suspect that fans (read: we) may need to pull back our expectations a bit with Moore.
Is he great? In a big sense, yes. Will he great in 2012? Relative to his age, probably, but relative to the league, maybe less so. If he can maintain a FIP- under 100, stay healthy, and pitch 150 innings or so, then it will be a very victorious season. That's what I'm telling myself, so when he goes out and pitches 200 innings and wins the AL and NL Cy Young awards (just for his excellent interleague play), I will be all the more pleased.


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Chicago Public Library
Special Collections and Preservation Division
Neighborhood History Research Collection
Millennium Park/U.S. Equities Realty Collection
c. 1999 - 2005
54 linear feet
Historical Note | Scope Note | Provenance | Access
Box Summary | Box and Folder Inventory
U.S. Equities Realty is an international commercial real estate firm, headquartered in Chicago, with a demonstrated passion for art and architecture. Since its founding in 1978 by Robert A. Wislow and Camille P. Julmy, the company has been responsible for a number of major projects in Chicago, including the development of the Chicago Public Library's Harold Washington Library Center, the Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies, Comer Children's Hospital at the University of Chicago, co-development of One Financial Place in Chicago, and the redevelopment of the John Hancock Center and Willis Tower, formerly Sears Tower.
In spring 1999, U.S. Equities Realty was retained by Millennium Park Inc., the group representing the Park's private donors. In this role the company managed the entire design and engineering phases of the Jay Pritzker Music Pavilion, designed by Frank Gehry, as well as Gehry's
In addition to managing the Frank Gehry projects, U.S. Equities Realty oversaw the extremely intricate engineering and fabrication of Anish Kapoor's monumental Cloud Gate as well as the design, construction and production of Jaume Plensa's Crown Fountain. The firm also acted as the donor group's advocate on all city-administered work and construction affecting the Park's enhancements.
In addition to development and project management, U.S. Equities provides asset management and leasing services, real estate consulting and financial and investment services. Its
Additional Information
For further information about U.S. Equities Realty, researchers are encouraged to consult the company's website at www.usequities.com.
For a brief history of
For a detailed history of the Park, researchers can read Timothy J. Gilfoyle's Millennium Park: Creating a Chicago Landmark, published in 2006 by the
For information about the construction of
For a thorough history of the international garden design competition for
The U.S. Equities Realty Collection consists of sixteen CDs with over 6,000 photographs that document construction of most major sites in
With funding from the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation these photographs have been fully described. Over 5,000 were selected for the Library's website at http://www.chipublib.org/images/millennium-park/index.php. The grant also provided resources to print the images on 8 x 10 Kodak Endura paper, which meets optimum preservation standards for color prints. The prints are available to researchers in the Reading Room of the Special Collections and Preservation Division.
The images have been arranged by site and then by "chapters" that describe the stages of construction; for example,
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Renderings and Models... |
The dates of the photographs were extracted from automatically generated metadata that accompanied the digital photographs. In some cases these dates refer to the date the photos were downloaded from the camera, rather than the date they were taken. Photographs with no date in the metadata were assigned a "circa" date based on the original file name and by reviewing similar images.
Each photograph is assigned a unique number; for example, Cloud Gate 2003.4.21.3. This photograph of Cloud Gate was taken in 2003 on April 21st and is the third image made that day.
In addition to the photographs, the collection has a folder with reproductions of informational panels displayed outside the tent that covered Cloud Gate during the final polishing and sanding in 2004 and 2005.
The U.S. Equities Realty Collection was donated to the Chicago Public Library in 2006 by U.S. Equities Realty. It was processed in 2008 and 2009 with a grant from the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation which was awarded to the Chicago Public Library Foundation in 2007. The photographs in this collection are courtesy of U.S. Equities Realty and the men and women who built Millennium Park.
The U.S. Equities Realty Collection is available for research in the Reading Room of the Special Collections and Preservation Division on the 9th floor of the Chicago Public Library's
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Cloud Gate | 19 Boxes | |
Crown Fountain | 42 Boxes | |
Jay Pritzker Pavilion | 17 Boxes | |
14 Boxes | |
Millennium |
2 Boxes | |
Lurie Garden | 1 Box | |
McCormick |
1 Box | |
General Construction | 1 Box | |
Full Park | 1 Box | |
Documents | ||
Cloud Gate, informational panels | 1 Box |
Documents | ||
Box 1 | ||
Folder | 1 | Reproductions of informational panels placed around Cloud Gate explaining the final sanding and polishing processes while the sculpture was completed, c. 2005 - 2006 |


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Robert Day (29) of Glenrock was northbound on WYO 95 when his vehicle left the roadway on the right side and contacted the guardrail. Day then overcorrected the vehicle steering to the left going back into the northbound lane. His vehicle then went into the southbound lane where it collided into Shane Brow's (36) vehicle head-on. Day, who was not wearing a seat belt, was thrown into the front windshield of his vehicle. Brow is also from Glenrock.
The crash caused the temporary closure of WYO 95 until the crash scene could be investigated and cleared. Troopers investigating this crash will be looking into drug/alcohol use soon as possible.
Milepost #: 3.5
Highway: WYO 95
*Location Info: 2.5 miles north of Glenrock in Converse County
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May 13th, 2010, 09:38 AM | #1 |
Redreck Cadillac
PT engine swap
I been asked by a friend to swap an engine on his 2001 PT Cruiser. I've done plenty of swaps just never a PT. Should I worry about any thing big like having to drop in out the bottom or does it come out the top good?
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May 13th, 2010, 10:02 AM | #3 |
Keep on truckin
most front wheel drives come out alot easier as a whole subframe assembly. once you get that on the ground just seperate the trans and pull the engine out. putting it back in is alot harder if you don't have a lift to work on.
May 13th, 2010, 08:46 PM | #5 |
Redreck Cadillac
I do agree it would be easier but I did read a bit on line and it says it can be done just that is is a pain in the butt.
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Extended trips into beautifully cosmic electronics
Rachel Evans aka Motion Sickness Of Time Travel kicks off the newly minted A Guide To Saints label with two extended excursions, with the first clocking in at the twenty minute mark, and the second just over fifteen minutes. Both tracks showcase Evans' trademark style of intricately layered woozy synth explorations and vocal manipulations. "Traces" is the first in a series of "Cassette Diaries." As a press release explains, "Cassette Diaries is a series of momentary musics - recordings made in short periods of times - be that a day, a week or a little bit more.
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Artist: Motion Sickness Of Time Travel
Online Release Date: 08/10/12
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Just caught the lastest N.A.F.C. tv broadcast, the hard work and revamped shows look great. I for one would like to thank the producers of it and those working to keep our site fresh and up to date for the hard work , it really makes a good point to be just a part of this club.
Tight Lines.........,
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Northland Nature: Spring birds at a prairie stopover
Anyone traveling to the south during late March is able to leave winter behind in the Northland and enter into the coming spring.
Anyone traveling to the south during late March is able to leave winter behind in the Northland and enter into the coming spring.
With each mile going in that direction, the changes become more apparent. Such was the situation with a trip that I recently took in late March.
Subzero temperatures and a new snowfall gave us a sendoff. We had more than twenty inches of snow on the ground and ice covering nearly all the waterways, moving or still. The ice and snow remained with us until we left Minnesota.
It was not until the southern part of the state that we could see the ground that had been blanketed for such a long time. In Iowa, we finally saw rivers breaking free from the ice grip, and at several sites, we glimpsed open water in lakes as well.
Besides the changes in weather, I always seek migrants that are heading in the very direction that I am leaving. Along the roadsides of I-35, I saw bald eagles, red-tailed hawks and a couple of trumpeter swans.
But it was in central Iowa when the spring began more to appear. Flocks of Canada geese flew over and congregated in fields while the first robins showed up on lawns. Here too, I saw groupings of juncos, and it was a delight to hear songs of cardinals.
Our route took us to the west where we paused in central Nebraska to observe one of nature's great happenings: the spring flight of the sandhill cranes. Each March, a section of the Platte River in the middle of the state is host to approximately one-half million of these tall birds. The cranes wintered in states to the south and will breed in the far north, but they stop here to feed and rest as the thaw reaches further north. They feed in the surrounding cornfields while resting is done on the numerous gravel bars of this flat wide river.
Here, too, the cranes display in a series of dances and leaps for pair bonding. These antics make crane watching even more interesting. Each morning they leave the night sites of the river and take flight to the fields and food. Late in the day, they reverse the route.
Not only are the birds large and their flocks huge, they are also very loud. Days near the Platte River at this time are never without sights and sounds of the sandhill cranes.
With all this happening from the cranes, it may seem that it is hard to notice that they are not alone here. While watching the cranes, I also saw nearly a dozen kinds of ducks and many more species of songbirds. While they were fewer in number, the ducks were into the new season. Mallards, gadwalls, pintails, ring-necks, scaup, wigeon, shovelers, redheads, canvasbacks and green-winged and blue-winged teals all showed their bright plumage.
Nearby in the parks and woods, songbirds tried out their new tunes for the season. Despite the chill of the mornings, I heard regularly the songs of mourning doves, robins, cardinals, juncos, song sparrows and red-winged blackbirds. Some of these birds will be in the Northland later this spring; others go more to the west.
While the sandhill cranes congregate in numbers of hundreds of thousands, it's hard to believe that others could be as numerous, but when watching the many flocks, often in the hundreds of snow geese, it is possible that another water bird may be as abundant during these spring days on the prairie.
For most of the Northland, geese usually means Canada geese. They come back in March and with large bodies and loud sounds, they are hard to not see during ice-out time. But here in the prairie, they were left far behind by their smaller cousins. Snow geese are called that since the bodies are covered with white feathers and black wing tips. Scattered among the whites were some of a darker phase often called "blue morphs."
Like the sandhill cranes, the snow geese are feeding and resting as they move north and like some of the cranes, they nest in the arctic region. Most pass to the west of the twin ports in their spring migration, though I have seen a few during most years.
Whether it was the cranes, geese or various other water birds or the singing songbirds, they all spoke of the new season and an eagerness to move to their homelands.
Retired teacher Larry Weber is the author of several books, including "Butterflies of the North Woods," "Spiders of the North Woods" and "Webwood." Contact him c/o firstname.lastname@example.com.
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