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I think over the last month or so it has become pretty obvious who the Pirates should have out on the mound if they end up in the wildcard playoff game come October.
The popular consensus throughout the year had been A.J. Burnett, which I fully understand, but no longer agree with. Burnett is a spark plug--he's got the intensity, determination, and skill set to go out there and get the job done; however, I think there is someone in our rotation who is currently a better option.
Francisco Liriano has been a show stopper since his first start as a Pittsburgh Pirate, and short of the collapse at Coors Field a couple weeks ago he has been phenomenal. He's averaging 9.4 strikeouts per 9 innings pitched, and has carried an ERA of 2.53 over 19 starts--leading him to a record of 14-5.
I know Burnett is a product of not getting the necessary run support when he pitches, but it's a tired argument when he has given up at least 4 runs in his last 3 starts. There is the argument that Burnett has more playoff experience--which he clearly does. But the wildcard playoff isn't like any of the other playoff series. It's win-or-go-home.
The last three "losing streaks" we've experienced have ended with Liriano completely shutting down the other team. Additionally, he is going deep into games, averaging 6.4 IP per start. That might not sound great, it might be what you expect to get out of your starters, but two of those starts were complete games, and the comparable IP per start from the other four starters go as follows: Burnett- 6.3, Locke- 5.8, Cole- 6, and Morton- 5.7 (These numbers were calculated by taking Innings Pitched/Games Started).
I'm looking forward to feedback, but I am failing to see how Liriano would not have earned the right to start the game if we do end up in the wildcard playoff.


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SAN DIEGO (CBS 8) - So you've taken your pooch to the beach and he's covered in sand, and you just don't have the time of the money to take your dog to a professional groomer. Now there's a self-service, coin-operated dog wash that will do it all.
In theory, the All American Coin-Operated Dog Wash makes a lot of sense.
"We serve a lot of people that go to Dog Beach and Fiesta Island, which you know is a sandy beach," Greg Finley said.
And in practice it saves a few bucks too, with $10 for 10 minutes of services from shampoo to flea treatment to conditioner to blow dry.
"The dogs like it. The water's warm, it's like a doggie spa," Greg said.
But theory and practice don't count when it comes to my two-year-old rescue lab Cozmo. You see, taking a bath is not his favorite thing. But with a little coaxing, coercion and the promise of treats to come, let the dog wash begin.
Step one, shampoo. Next comes the rinse. It's not Cozmo's happiest moment, but he shakes it off. Now to be pampered with some luxurious conditioner.
"They're Tropicare, which is a well-known brand of groomer-quality product," Greg said.
If Cozmo didn't like his 10 minutes at the spa, you can bet how he feels about the blow dry. Actually, he's more of a towel dry guy. By the way, if you're headed for the All American Coin-Op Dog Wash, bring along an old beach towel for a final dry off.
They are currently offering a car wash-dog wash special. I should have just put the dog in the car and ran him through the wash with the windows open.
It's been said, "every dog must have its day." But today surely wasn't Cozmo's.
All American Coin-Op Dog Wash3768 Rosecrans St. San Diego, CA 92110(619) 298-0624

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Nursing Management of Cardio-thoracic and Vascular
Surgeries from
April 2-9, 2003
The overall
purpose of the workshop is to update and improve
upon the knowledge and skills of nurse practitioners
of various levels concerning bio-technical advancement
and challenges in the area of cardio-thoracic and
vascular surgeries.
milk, beyond doubt, is unparalleled in nutritional value. The
protection it provides to infants against diseases, and financial
and social implications it has for a poor and over populated
country like ours cannot be over-emphasised. Nurses as important
members of health care team, play a pivotal role in collaborating
and implementing the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI)
policy of quality infant and mother care.
hospitals create an environment, which supports women in their
desire to breastfeed. Staff at baby -friendly facilities provide
assistance to breastfeeding mothers and implement policies which
safeguard the breastfeeding relationship. Besides, it encompasses
the entire spectrum from prenatal planning and training, for
promotion and support of breastfeeding, to actual breastfeeding
practices. While breastfeeding is integrated with Maternal and
Child Nursing specialities, it is imperative that breastfeeding
practices in child survival be given due emphasis.
Trained Nurses Association of India therefore, emphasises the
promotion of breastfeeding as a key strategy for child survival,
as well as reproductive health. In terms of actual practice
the TNAI advocates focusing on training in correct breastfeeding
practices which includes the re-establishment of a breastfeeding
Trained Nurses Association of India accepts the concept and
the definition of BabyFriendly Hospital as framed by the UNICEF/WHO
and National task Force as given in the foregoing para and believes
that in order to be Baby-Friendly, all hospitals must fulfil
the criteria for following the ten steps to successful breastfeeding.
Each facility providing maternity services and care for new
born infants should have the following:
1. A written breastfeeding policy that is routinely communicated
to all health care staff.
Step 2. Training all health care staff in skills necessary
to implement this policy.
Step 3. Informing all pregnant women about the benefits
and management of breastfeeding.
Step 4. Helping mothers initiate breastfeeding within
a half an hour of birth.
Step 5. Showing mothers how to breastfeed and how to
maintain lactation, even if they should be separated from their
Step 6. Giving newborn infants no food or drink other
than breast milk.
Step 7. Practising rooming-in, allow mothers and infants
to remain together 24 hours a day.
Step 8. Encouraging breastfeeding on demand.
Step 9. Giving no artificial teats or pacifiers (also
called dummies or soothers) to breastfeeding infants.
10. Fostering the establishment of
breastfeeding support groups and refer mothers to them on discharge
from hospital or clinic.
Trained Nurses Association of India acknowledges that to establish
Baby-Friendly Networks, there is a need to harmonise its efforts
with other maternal and child health care groups, the local
hospitals, nursing homes and maternity centres, the community
and above all with the government.
TNAI through its Branches all over the country, can work towards
establishing centres for conducting training programmes on B.F.H.I.
and collaborate with governmental and non-governmental organizations
to enable hospitals and maternity centres to become Baby-Friendly.
TNAI urges its State Branches to adopt the following plan of
action to achieve the objectives of Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative.
The plan should also include Training in Ten Steps to successful


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How do you use classifieds? Are you merely trying to get rid of some of the clutter around the house or is selling through classifieds an additional income?
If your classifieds usage is done for more than to clean the garage for the spring, you need to be conscious about how you are going about the process of using classified ads.
There is no reason you should be spending an abhorrent amount of time working on perfecting your classified ads and making sure each one hits just exactly the right demographic. That's not to say that you shouldn't shoot for the right buyer that is going to have to have your item, but we don't want your classifieds listings to turn into a full-time job.
For example, growing up, my father used to own a sports and Hot Wheels collectibles business that morphed several times from a fun hobby for the two of us together to a baseball card showcase vendor to a store in a strip mall to a flea market booth to a online listing to an auction site to an online classifieds site.
By the time I was in high school, I could rattle off the values and distinctions between thousands of toy cars, figures, playsets and sports cards. However, the joy of collecting those things had all but vanished because it had become a full-time job for me to supply all the online content for my father's small, burgeoning business.
Rather than working smarter, I worked harder. I stayed up until the wee hours of the night writing and processing through in-depth listings. It never occurred to 14-or-15-year-old me to cut down on the ordeal by streamlining the process.
Finally, my dad found me asleep at the computer desk one morning where I had apparently passed out the night before. When he asked why I didn't go to bed, I told him about how it had become a habit for me to stay up to finish everything up. He gave me one of those loving father grins and told me we were going to find a way to make things easier/quicker.
Together we ended up compiling four or five different template computer documents that just became a fill-in-the-blank for the description of each item. Suddenly, I was doing twice as much work in half the time.
Take a lesson from my teenage self and streamline your classifieds listings with the usage of a template that will allow you to cut the amount of time it takes you to construct your classifieds ads. You don't have to rewrite the same stuff over and over. With a couple of templates (depending on how varied the products you list are), you can trim down the time and effort it takes for you to list your classified ads.
Also, if you ever have to re-list your items, you should copy and paste your classifieds' descriptions into a Word document that you can save and have available if you ever want to quickly re-list an item. This will help trim away the excess time you spend re-typing stuff two, three or twenty times.
Hopefully, these couple of tips will help you trim away the fat and just get right to the meat of placing your classified ads so you can post more classifieds in less time.


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Archives: Health
A quick update
John here. I just wanted to give everyone a quick update on how Maggie is doing these days. Yesterday, she started her third of four weeks of daily chemo. Some days are better than others in terms of the side effects, and even though it's a pretty rough process, we know it's for the best in the long-run. However, knowing that doesn't really help much, especially on the bad days.
We've had some amazing support from family and friends, and we couldn't be luckier when it comes to the doctors and nurses we see every single day. Through all of the surgeries, blood draws, infusions, meetings, follow-ups, check-ups, and all of the other daily activities, we are constantly reminded of, despite everything, just how lucky we are. Seriously, if you're a doctor or nurse, you should know how much you're appreciated. If you're not a doctor or nurse, thank any that you know.
Emmett, Lucas, and Cooper haven't left Maggie's side in the past months since all of this has been going on. Surprisingly, Cooper has actually stepped up to be Maggie's protector. She's been staying at her parents' house during the week since she gets her treatments in Indianapolis, and I've been going back and forth from there and Bloomington, and the dogs have stayed with her. The first few nights, when things started getting bad, Cooper slept on Maggie's feet the entire time and even growled at her parents when they came to bring her food, tea, medication, or even another blanket. He finally came around and realized they were there to help, but you've got to appreciate his level of concern for Maggie. Truly amazing that little guy is…
These next two weeks are going to feel like forever, but once they're done, things should start to get a little better for her. Again, a big "thank you!" to everyone who has sent a kind word, had a positive though, sent a card, or even just posted something nice on her Facebook page. Your continued support means more to her than you can ever imagine, and I truly appreciate everyone keeping Maggie in your thoughts.
I apologize that I don't have any cute dog pictures to go along with this post. Hopefully, we'll have some good pictures of Maggie feeling better covered in a pile of dogs in no time!
*Maggie didn't proof this post, so I apologize if there are any grammatical errors!
On the receiving end of a pet therapy visit
At 4:30 today, I will finish my first week of interferon.
At 4:30 – a mere five hours from when I'm writing this – I get to walk out of that horrid chemo room and have two whole days without blood tests, IVs, a stream of doctors and nurses… just home with my boys! (Okay, the chemo room isn't that bad. Everyone gets their own little cubby with a recliner, and they bring you blankets and drinks. But. Still.)
Though this week has been rough, rough, rough, I had an unexpected but pleasant surprise: I was visited by a therapy dog!
That scruffy little girl is Molly Brown, and she visits the oncology wards at the hospital where I'm doing my treatment. They have 25 therapy dogs, all of which are Cairn terriers and Westies because the woman told me they're hypoallergenic. (I haven't researched this, but… can anyone verify whether or not that's true? I was thinking that she just meant they don't shed, but when I looked at their pet therapy program, those are the only two breeds they allow in… thoughts??)
Anyway, when they wheeled her in I was super excited to have a dog there, a little fuzz ball I could pat for a moment. It was different from Emmett's and my experiences because this little gal couldn't walk on the floor – she was wheeled in the wheelchair – and her person had to hold her while the patients patted her. I wanted her on my lap! Boo!
While I was really happy to have a dog there, it gave me a patient's perspective on therapy dogs, something that I never could have had as just a handler. I took away some thoughts for do's and don'ts for the future, especially if Emmett and I ever work with patients getting chemo.
This hasn't been an easy week, but having Molly Brown visit definitely helped! Well, that and my guys crawling into bed to snuggle me every day when I get back from the hospital!
Have a great weekend, everyone!
On dogs, love, and pawprint socks
Happy Friday, everyone!
I spent yesterday having my third – and final! woot! – surgery to get ready for interferon on Monday. For the first month it's two hours every day, so posting might be even more sporadic than it is now. We shall see! Because I'm looking for silver linings and such, imagine how excited I was to see these were my hospital-issued socks yesterday!
Anyway, I meant to post this poem on Valentine's Day, but the week got away from me… Enjoy, and have a great weekend!
How Falling in Love is like Owning a Dog
by Taylor Mali
First of all, it's a big responsibility,
especially in a city like New York.
So think long and hard before deciding on love.
On the other hand, love gives you a sense of security:
when you're walking down the street late at night
and you have a leash on love
ain't no one going to mess with you.
Because crooks and muggers think love is unpredictable.
Who knows what love could do in its own defense?
On cold winter nights, love is warm.
It lies between you and lives and breathes
and makes funny noises.
Love wakes you up all hours of the night with its needs.
It needs to be fed so it will grow and stay healthy.
Love doesn't like being left alone for long.
But come home and love is always happy to see you.
It may break a few things accidentally in its passion for life,
but you can never be mad at love for long.
Is love good all the time? No! No!
Love can be bad. Bad, love, bad! Very bad love.
Love makes messes.
Love leaves you little surprises here and there.
Love needs lots of cleaning up after.
Somethimes you just want to get love fixed.
Sometimes you want to roll up a piece of newspaper
and swat love on the nose,
not so much to cause pain,
just to let love know Don't you ever do that again!
Sometimes love just wants to go out for a nice long walk.
Because love loves exercise. It will run you around the block
and leave you panting, breathless. Pull you in different directions
at once, or wind itself around and around you
until you're all wound up and you cannot move.
But love makes you meet people wherever you go.
People who have nothing in common but love
stop and talk to each other on the street.
Throw things away and love will bring them back,
again, and again, and again.
But most of all, love needs love, lots of it.
And in return, love loves you and never stops.
Taylor Mali
Mali. Taylor. "How Falling in Love is like Owning a Dog." What Learning Leaves. Newtown, CT: Hanover Press, 2002. Print. (ISBN: 1-?887012-?17-?6)
Lucas' big adventure
Lucas always has been our healthiest dog. (Since he has the most behavioral problems, we think it's a fair trade!)
The other day, he started to behave strangely, not his usual self. When he doesn't feel well, he follows us around like a little piece of Velcro on our pant leg. He paws at our legs and cries.
Now, as an aside, Lucas is a barfer. He's seen three vets over the years, and none found a reason for it… he just barfs, usually when he's hungry.
All day, Lucas tried to "go" but just couldn't. He'd get in position, but nothing would happen. Then he threw up, and it wasn't his normal barf. (Sigh. Typing that sentence just now made me realize that, yes, I can identify my dog's "normal" barf. Please tell me I'm not the only one?!)
That afternoon, he kept pacing. He wouldn't settle. When he started doing laps around our living room, I went from worried to panicked.
I worry about bloat with him. He's a big, active guy. Logically, I should have realized that it couldn't be bloat because his symptoms weren't particularly acute and didn't coincide with eating any food or drinking any water. Plus, Cooper was at doggy daycare, so it wasn't wrestle mania all day.
But when John got home from work, Lucas still couldn't settle, and he started to drool. We called the vet, who thankfully agreed to see him even though they were about to close.
They did x-rays as soon as he walked in the door and found tons of gas bubbles and… something. A lump of something soft but without a defined shape. She gave him medicine to relieve the gas and gave us two options: surgery on the spot or come back at 8 am to repeat the x-rays. She said that if it were her dog, she'd wait until morning. (I LOVE when vets say that. It makes me feel much better about my decision when they contextualize it to their animals if that makes sense.)
So we decided to wait. Before he left the vet, she gave him a shot of an anti-nausea med on his back.
At this point, Lucas – our fearful, dog-reactive dog – had been in the waiting room with other dogs. He had been taken by a tech to the back for x-rays and held stretched out, crying, while they got the films. He had gotten pills and pokes and prods. As she was giving him the shot, he had reached his limit and bucked trying to get away.
Ten minutes later, John brought him home. He walked in and the first thing I saw was blood caked in the back of his fur.
When he bucked, the needle jabbed him. The poor guy was uncomfortable, had an upset stomach, and then was pouring blood. Since his stomach was still under pressure, he didn't want to settle still. We bribed him onto his bed (thank goodness for canned salmon), applied pressure, and – 10 minutes later – it stopped.
We got him cleaned up, tucked in his bed, then we ate dinner and settled in to watch TV.
Every few minutes we'd check on him in his bed.
And that little bugger… After a horrid, stressful, painful day, he wagged his tail in tiny little flickers each and every time we checked on him.
Even though he felt terrible, he was so dang sweet the whole time. Yet another lesson to take from my dogs…
(By the way, he was totally fine at his x-rays the next day. She said that it could've been a chunk of food that fermented in there – who knew – or that he had been stressed or something, which can cause their stomach to stop working temporarily. It was a weird situation, but thankfully it turned out a-ok.)
Gentle giants (and a gentle pipsqueak)
Sometimes, these monsters just amaze me. I'm not as patient with the dogs as Maggie is. I don't always think everything that they do is cute. Frequently, I get annoyed with things that they do, even though they're just being dogs. Granted, the last few weeks have been stressful for me (Maggie, too, I suppose…) and I've felt a little stretched at times. But, for all of the barking, the jumping, the messes, the pulling things out of the garbage, the refusal to allow a new toy to survive longer than 20 minutes, every day these guys make me realize just how special and unique dogs really are.
Not once have the jumped on Maggie since all of this has started. Not once have they gotten too pushy with her, or gone after her medications, or the other items associated with her recovery. In fact, they've been nothing but gentle with her. I'm amazed that they're still terrified of the vacuum cleaner while simultaneously realizing that they need to be careful around Maggie.
Any instances like this where your dog seemed to just know?
To update everyone, we got the pathology results back from Maggie's last surgery. That set of lymph nodes that were removed came back cancer-free, which means that even though the cancer started to spread it didn't get very far. The past month has sucked, but "cancer-free" did a pretty good job of cheering everyone up.
The post that's only a little bit about dogs
I kept thinking that I wanted to wait until I had something meaningful or insightful to say before I wrote this post, but today it occurred to me: I got nothing.
Two weeks ago I got word that a pink splot on my back is actually malignant melanoma. Hence, only two posts in the last two weeks. Hence, I dropped off the Facebook and Twitter trains. Hence, the dogs are now allowed on the bed.
I entered this bizarro stage of inertia where time slowed to a stop, but I didn't get a single thing done – other than watching TV and scratching the dogs.
We're getting doctors and tests and surgeries lined up. Things are moving along, though slower than I would like. My big surgery is on the 23rd, and I realized yesterday that sitting around and waiting just isn't me.
I'm not the kind of person to do nothing, so now I'm trying to catch up on everything, get ahead on work, maybe/finally post the holiday coupons I have for you guys, and so on.
Honestly, though, it's times like these that make me realize just how wonderful it is to have dogs in my life. A pile of pups snuggled up in bed with me is just the thing to turn it all around. (Not to mention all the help from my amazing, incredible, fabulous hubby, friends, and family, too!) Right now, in fact, Emmett is splayed across my legs so I have to hold my laptop at an angle. Cooper is snoring right next to me. Lucas is usually here too, but he's busy barking at the UPS guy right now. Plus, they still need attention, they need food, they need walks, and they need to play, so caring for the dogs has been a huge relief… just to do something normal when nothing else seems normal.
So that's that! We're trying our best to keep it light, focus on the positive, all those old cliches. If you know any cancer jokes, please share! Laughing is so super helpful right now!
In the meantime, snuggle your pups! These guys are the best doctors I could ever ask for!
Weight loss with a wag: 5 fabulous tips
Editor's note: Ah, the season of indulgence! What begins with a candy binge on Halloween ends with a champagne toast on New Year's. All the decadence and celebration can cost not only your waistline (or is that just me?), but also your pup's (or are my guys the only ones who get a full Thanksgiving dinner?)!
In today's guest post, author Peggy Frezon shares her five fabulous tips for a healthy and happy holiday season!
The seasons are changing and so is my weight…but not for the better! Diets are difficult to maintain in times of transitions. The weather changes and often, so do our routines. It's more difficult to get out in the wind and cold, and maybe even snow and ice, to walk our faithful friend. It gets dark earlier. Snuggling up with a TV show or a good book after work seems more appealing than exercising. We may be more motivated to cook and try out some tempting fall recipes. And then there's the holidays! What's a gal and her dog to do?! Here are a few tips I learned while dieting with Kelly that helped us stay on track.
1. Find new ways to get physical together. Walking is always good, but if you can't get motivated for a long walk or hike, rack up some extra play time. Playing with your dog in the leaves is totally fun! And when the weather is yucky, move playtime indoors and fetch, chase or tug!
2. Keep a before picture on the fridge or cupboard. When my diet motivation droops, I think of how far I've come. I've lost 41 pounds, and I don't want to start back at square one. Looking at that "before" picture helps keep me from slipping up. If your dog has lost weight, too, why not add his "before" picture nest to the doggy treat jar?
3. Make holidays about the people (and the dogs) not the food. We probably can't get away without thinking about turkey and cranberry sauce at Thanksgiving, at least a little bit. But be sure to put your main focus on socializing with loved ones, counting your blessings and spending some quality time with your pooch.
4. Seek out support. If you're having a real hard time keeping up your good habits, join a weight loss support group such as Weight Watchers, or join the gym with a friend. Surround yourself with supportive people who will help you stay on your program.
5. Remind yourself that its good for both of you! Being overweight can contribute to diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, joint problems, and even some types of cancer…for both people and dogs. Losing weight helps us feel better.
Peggy Frezon is the author of Dieting with My Dog (October 2011, Hubble & Hattie). She is an award winning writer and regular contributor to Guideposts magazine and Chicken Soup for the Soul books, and staff writer at Be the Change for Animals. She blogs at "Peggy'sPet Place." Kelly loves her pink bunny toy, and chasing squirrels.
VCA Offers Free Boarding for Pets Affected by Texas Wildfires
I received this information today and thought it was important to pass along on a Sunday evening. Our thoughts are with the families who have been affected by the wildfires.
To help those affected by the Texas wildfires, select VCA Animal Hospitals in the state of Texas (in and around both Austin and Houston) are offering free boarding for companion animals.
Austin-area hospitals:
VCA Ben White Animal Hospital
2417 W. Ben White Blvd
Austin, Texas 78704
VCA Northwest Hills Animal Hospital
3426 Greystone Drive
Austin, Texas 78731
VCA Tanglewood Animal Hospital
2110 Slaughter Lane, Suite 120
Austin, Texas 78748
Houston-area hospitals:
VCA Tomball Veterinary Hospital
28800 Tomball Pkwy
Tomball, Texas 77375
VCA Woodlands Animal Hospital
428 Rayford Road
Spring, Texas 77386
VCA Spring Animal Hospital
1811 Spring Cypress
Spring, Texas 77388
VCA Ashford Animal Hospital
12633 Whittington
Houston, Texas 77077
And then there were fleas…
Cooper and I returned home from BlogPaws on Sunday, both jazzed and exhausted! More to come about our experience, including tons of amazing pics of the dogs of BlogPaws. If you're on Twitter, you may have already seen his road-warrior photo, but here's my favorite Coop pic:
We also came home to unwanted visitors…
Lucas returned from "camp" with fleas. (He IS on Frontline!) There was a good discussion on Facebook about dealing with fleas, and we're trying everything we can think of!
Have you faced fleas before? Any tips or tricks? How long did it take to get rid of them? All advice welcome and appreciated!!
The Cooper story
For the past three weeks, I've been staring at Cooper.
It's getting to the point, I think, where he's ready to move out. "My lady is WEIRD," is what he's thinking. Because I felt like as soon as I took my eyes off of him, something bad would happen.
I am, in fact, aware that I'm neurotic.
Anyway! If you missed the last Cooper story, here's the summary: He has horrible, painful, fur-falling-out allergies. We put him on an antihistamine. A few days later he started convulsing. We took him off the antihistamine. He kept convulsing.
Which brings us to last Thursday.
He had been off the antihistamine for long enough that it was definitely out of his system, yet he was still having episodes of tremors. His blood test and urinalysis from the initial exam came back clean. His vet decided to repeat the urinalysis and do a neuro exam.
So here's where we need to pause the story for a quick aside: She's doing some eye test where the lights are off and she's examining his eyeballs with a bright light.
"Oh," she said with a slight hint of surprise. Since I was already on edge, I had another cardiac arrest at her "oh."
She flipped on the lights. "He has a hemorrhage in his left eye," she said. She goes on to say something about the blood vessels are a good sign or something as she put drops to see if it had ulcerated. (Vets, I'm sorry. I'm probably getting these words wrong. I was very busy hyperventilating and only caught one or two out of five terms.) Then she said, "Does he crash into stuff?"
Um. Yep. So anyway, that's unrelated to the allergies, unrelated to the tremors, but we did get an antibiotic ointment that we need to smear on his eyeball three times a day. So that's awesome.
Anyway, he passed his neuro exam and his urinalysis was fine, so our vet called a neurologist to consult.
Throughout this whole ordeal, I kept saying over and over again, "This is serious. This isn't nothing. Your head doesn't shake uncontrollably for no reason. It's not nothing."
Well, turns out it's nothing.
You know that saying that goes something like when you hear hoofbeats, think horses not zebras? We were, of course, operating with that philosophy. He started a medication –> he got head tremors —> probably it was the medication.
The neurologist went through his info and came back with a different diagnosis.
Idiopathic head tremors.
Of course, "idiopathic" is just another way of saying "we don't know what's going on here."
But it's a genetic situation. It's common in bulldogs and dobermans. It doesn't have anything to do with brain function, organ function, disease, etc.
It's a muscle thing. It just happens.
So after all that…. it's nothing.
His vet doesn't want him on the antihistamine anyway, which I'm totally on board with because it sort of makes me wonder if this genetic situation wasn't latent, and then the drug kicked it into gear. I don't know?
So unfortunately, he's still suffering with his allergies, but now on top of it we have to smear eye ointment for another week. And I'm still watching him very, very closely.
He had one other bout of head tremors on Saturday night but hasn't had another since.
I think that every single time it happens, I will have a heart attack. We're going to monitor the situation really closely, and we have a great vet who's reading up on the literature about the condition.
For now, though, I'm starting to slowly get used to taking my eyes off of him for short periods. I don't want to stop watching for even a second, even to blink, because I'm still worried, though I'm also a little relieved.
For now.
Lastly, I chose to include all these cute pics of Cooper sleeping not because he sleeps a lot… He does, in fact, crash a lot as he rips around the house, wrestles and plays with the big boys, pummels bugs in the backyard, and so on. When he does rest or nap, I photograph it as evidence. So these four pics are the four naps he's taken over the last week or so!


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LAS VEGAS -- Casino operator Wynn Resorts Ltd. did better than expected in the first quarter, benefiting from higher revenue in China and Las Vegas, and it turned a profit in contrast with a loss a year earlier.
The Las Vegas-based company said Thursday that it earned $27 million, or 22 cents per share, for the period that ended March 31. That's compared with a loss of $33.8 million, or 30 cents per share, a year earlier.
Wynn Resorts says its revenue in Macau, the Chinese gambling enclave, increased 31.6 percent, and revenue in Las Vegas rose 9.3 percent.
Total revenue was $908.9 million, compared with $740 million a year earlier. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters expected Wynn to earn 14 cents per share on revenue of $850 million.
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News: Nicki Minaj Shows Off Her Nail Game, Lands New Fashion Deal
Sunday, Oct 23, 2011 9:55AM
Young Money's Nicki Minaj continues to generate headlines as of late with a new business venture which sees her launching a personalized nail polish line.
Based on a post from Nicki's MyPinkFriday.com website, the polish will be retail ready next year.
Now you can now have Nicki Minaj at your fingertips, literally. Nicki has teamed up with OPI Nail Lacquer bringing lots of cute & fun colors for the barbz mittens. "Super Bass Shatter","Fly", "Metal 4 Life" & of course, "Pink Friday" (just to name a few). Available for purchase in 2012! (My Pink Friday)
A few of her various colors will be based off Nicki's hit records.
Each color in the nail polish line is inspired by one of Nicki Minaj's songs--"Metal 4 Life," "Fly," "Save Me," "Did It On Em," and "Super Bass Shatter" are just some of the shades that will be available. Nicki's nail polish line will be sold in Sephora and other cosmetic retailers and department stores, although there's no exact release date yet. (BET)
Last year, Minaj teamed with MAC Cosmetics to launch a line of special lipsticks which sold out shortly after its release.
Pink 4 Friday Lipsitck: A Limited Edition Lipstick personally designed by Nicki Minaj to celebrate the release of her debut album Pink Friday. Featuring a bright, creamy pink satin formula, Nicki's shade is only available online for four Fridays starting November 26, 2010, while supplies last. Pro discount not applicable. (MAC Cosmetics)
Outside of makeup, the self proclaimed Barbie made headlines earlier this month for multiple BET Hip-Hop Awards wins.
Best Hip-Hop Video: Chris Brown & Lil Wayne's "Look At Me Now", Best Live Performer: Lil Wayne, Lyricist of the Year: Lil Wayne, MVP of the Year: Nicki Minaj, CD of the Year: Kanye West's "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy," Best Hip-Hop Style: Nicki Minaj, Hustler of the Year: Jay-Z, Viewer's Choice: Chris Brown & Lil Wayne's "Look At Me Now" (BET Hip-Hop Awards '11)
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A woman is dead after a late-night shooting in downtown Round Rock involving local police officers.
According to the Round Rock Police Department, at around 11:30 Sunday night, 911 received a call reporting a woman with a handgun inside a club. When officers arrived on the scene, they found the woman about a block away from the venue. She allegedly admitted to officers that she had a gun, then proceeded to pull it out of her purse. Officers tried to get the woman to turn the weapon over to them but she refused.
Officers used a pepper ball gun on the woman, as well as a taser gun, but it was not enough to subdue her. She allegedly pointed her gun at the officers, prompting them to shoot.
"Anytime there is a deadly threat toward somebody else or the officers, at that point, the response from the officers will be with deadly force," said Chief Tim Ryle with the Round Rock Police Department.
The identity of the woman, who has a Round Rock address but is believed to live in Williamson County, has not yet been released. None of the police officers involved in the shooting were injured.
This is the second officer-involved shooting involving the Round Rock Police in two weeks.
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To date, more than 1,800 men and women in the Block 2 parishes have volunteered to assist with the Campaign. In a video produced for the Holy Name of Jesus website, Bishop Burbidge invites parishioners in the 53 parishes to accept the invitation to attend a reception in their parish. He notes that in almost every reception, at least one person will remark how the presentation addressed their questions or concerns.
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The camp, which runs from Tuesday through Friday, will teach kids about water resources, the built and natural environment, recycling, horticulture and wellness. It will be held at Sertoma Park.
Sioux Falls' Sustainability Program is hosting the camp in conjunction with AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps. Kids from kindergarten to fifth grade are invited to attend. Registration is free.
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And this year's Nobel Prize in Literature goes to Tomas Transtromer.
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Praised by the judges for "his condensed translucent images" which give us "fresh access to reality", Tranströmer's surreal explorations of the inner world and its relation to the jagged landscape of his native country have been translated into 50 languages.
Born in Stockholm in 1931, Tranströmer studied at the University of Stockholm and worked as a psychologist at an institution for young offenders. His first collection of poetry, 17 Dikter (17 Poems, was published in 1954, while he was still at college. Collections including Hemligheter på vägen (1958) and Klangar och spår (1966) reflected on his travels in the Balkans, Spain and Africa, while the poems in Östersjöar (1974) examine the troubled history of the Baltic region through the conflict between sea and land.
He suffered a stroke in 1990 which affected his ability to talk, but has continued to write, with his collection Sorgegondolen going on to sell 30,000 copies on its pubilcation in 1996. At a recent appearance in London, his words were read by others, while the poet, who is a keen amateur musician, contributed by playing pieces specially composed for him to play on the piano with only his left hand.
Tranströmer has described his poems as "meeting places," where dark and light, interior and exterior collide to give a sudden connection with the world, history or ourselves. According to the poet, "The language marches in step with the executioners. Therefore we must get a new language."
Of course, seeing that Transtromer is Swedish, a lot of critics are going to get their hackles up, such as this line that opens the same Guardian article: "The Swedish Academy has responded to accusations of insularity over recent years by awarding the 2011 Nobel prize for literature to one of their own." Snarky!
I don't actually think this is very controversial at all, but others do . . .
Anyway, congrats to Transtormer and to New Directions, Green Integer, Graywolf, Ecco, and his other publishers. And speaking of ND, the podcast going up tomorrow is a special discussion about the Nobel Prize, with the first half recorded yesterday before the announcement, and the second half today. So Tom can share the excitement of the ND office . . .
The publisher's blurb for Oleg Pavlov's The Matiushin Case promises the prospective reader "a Crime and Punishment for today," the sort of comparison that is almost always guaranteed to do a disservice to both the legendary dead and the ambitious. . .
One hundred years have passed since the start of World War I and it is difficult to believe that there are still novels, considered classics in their own countries, that have never been published in English. Perhaps it was the. . .
In the London of Hédi Kaddour's Little Grey Lies, translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan, peace has settled, but the tensions, fears, and anger of the Great War remain, even if tucked away behind stories and lies. Directly ahead, as those. . .
One of the greatest services—or disservices, depending on your viewpoint—Bertrand Russell ever performed for popular philosophy was humanizing its biggest thinkers in his History. No longer were they Platonic ideals, the clean-shaven exemplars of the kind of homely truisms that. . .
The best way to review Alejandra Pizarnik's slim collection, A Musical Hell, published by New Directions as part of their Poetry Pamphlet series, is to begin by stating that it is poetry with a capital P: serious, dense, and, some. . .
Upon completing Albertine Sarrazin's Astragal I was left to wonder why it ever fell from print. Aside from the location, Astragal could pass as the great American novel. Its edginess and rawness capture the angst and desires we all had. . .
When my eyes first crossed the back cover of Fabio Genovesi's novel Live Bait, I was caught by a blurb nestled between accolades, a few words from a reviewer for La Repubblica stating that the novel was, however magically, "[b]eyond. . .
"I preferred the war to the plague," writes Curzio Malaparte in his 1949 novel, The Skin. He speaks of World War II and the destruction it has wrought on Italy, the city of Naples in particular. But the plague he. . .
With the steady rise of feminist scholarship and criticism in recent decades, it is little wonder that the work of Louise Labé should be attracting, as Richard Sieburth tells us in the Afterword to his translation, a "wide and thriving". . .
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With so many Seminole fans scratching their heads this past week over the debacle in Wake Forest, I have found myself asking questions and really searching for answers from various places, friends, blogs, and websites. More than just being disgusted with the situation, but asking why are we here in this situation. I've heard a number of issues, many of them here on TN, but wondered what has to be addressed first. In other words, what are the most impacting issues in a ranked format and thought I'd try my first FanPost in order to get some feedback from others.
So, here are my thoughts and I would love to hear from others.
1. Let down from Oklahoma loss
2. Maturity/Experience (mentally and physically) of team, especially leaders.
3. Injuries- never seen this many, especially key players (EJ)
4. O-line run blocking
5. Stupid Penalties- especially personal fouls
6. 3rd down defense
7. Too much pre-season build up
8. Offensive lack of reading defense- from quaterback checks at the line to RB blitz pick up and WR blocking
9. Some coaching- Hudson sticks out to me, some Trickett but think he's trying to make the best with bad options
10. Hunger/Passion/Concern from players
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Research Associate, Institute for Cell-Material Sciences(Bioscience and Biophysics)
September 30, 2010
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Kusumi Lab, Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences, Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University
53 Kawahara-cho, Shougoin, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan
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Single-molecule tracking and manipulation approaches for elucidating the "Membrane Mechanisms", i.e., fundamental physical properties of the plasma membrane that enables membrane functions, including (1) signal transduction in the plasma membrane, (2) activity-dependent reorganization of the neuronal network, particularly remodelling of the synapses, and (3) interactions between actin-based membrane skeleton and the plasma membrane.
Job Description: To carry out single-molecule tracking and manipulation of molecules of interest (including varous signaling molecules, adhesion molecules, scaffolding molecules, molecules that are involved in synapse reorganization), elucidating the spatiotemporal regulation mechanisms for their recruitment and interactions
A Ph.D. degree in life science-related fields, physics, and chemistry
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March 31, 2012 (Could be renewed up to five years)
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Winners announced at Casual Connect Europe 2014
The Casual Games Association (which hosts to the Casual Connect Europe show and exhibition) has announced the winners of Casual Connect Europe showcase's Indie Prize Awards. The games were judged by Nick Berry, Facebook; Arseny Lebedev, Signus Labs; Oscar Clark, Applifier; Ilja Goossens, Chartboost; Colin Behr, Vungle; George Bain, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe; Shailesh Prabhu, Yellow Monkey Studios; Massimo Caporale, Marmalade; and Philipp Rogmann, Gameradar. Plus a number of selected journalists but none from GoMo News. Yulia Vakhrusheva, director of Indie Prize, commented, "Indie Showcase served well to the participating developers in terms of growing their businesses and learning about the hottest trends in the industry."
The Indie Prize Scholarship provides the opportunity for qualified indie development teams to showcase their games at Casual Connect, the conference for professional developers and publishers in the video game industry.
The best mobile game prize went to Blek by Kunabi Brother, Austria.
Arpita Kapoor of Mech Mocha based in India won most prominent female Indie.
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Best Story - Detective Grimoire by SFB Games, UK
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Best Browser Game - How Smart Are You? by Entertainment Forge, Philippines/Serbia
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The Tampa Bay Rays signed ex-Yankee utility IF Jayson Nix. Reports are that ex-Yankee A.J. Burnett may retire.
The BBWAA suspended that writer who sold his ballot to Deadspin.com for one year and that writer won't ever be allowed to vote for the HOF anymore. It's too bad that they also didn't do that for other writers, like the one who voted for Jack Morris and only Jack Morris, or the one who voted for Armando Benitez. Armando Benitez? Really?
Or, for that matter, kick off all 16 writers who did not vote for the winningest living pitcher, Greg Maddux. Maddux won 355 games, and never a whiff of PEDs. To find an MLB pitcher who won more games than Maddux over the course of their career, you need to visit a cemetery.
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PG- Anthony Johnson Backup- Ronnie Johnson
SG- Terone Johnson Backup- Anthony Johnson
SF- Dj Byrd Backup- Donnie Hale/Jay Simpson
PF- Travis Carroll Backup- Sandi Marcius/Jacob Lawson
C- AJ Hammons Backup- Travis Carroll/Sandi Marcius
Anthony Johnson PG : I think he'll start at the beginning of the year at least because he really developed into a great player towards the end of the year last year. He will be a major weapon for Purdue, but i believe him and RJ will be sharing some playing time at the PG position.
Terone Johnson SG: Not deep in this position what so ever, we have no pure shooters, but terone johnson can get the job done, he can hit shots if he wants to, he had such a great performance during the big ten tournament and the NCAA tournament neraly averaging 14 ppg. Terone johnson is our best ATR (attack the rim) player.
DJ Byrd SF: Most definitely Purdues best shooter for next year, even though he was struggling towards the end, I think he will be our leading scorer and the captain of the team we need him to lead our team to at least a 20 win season.
Travis Carroll PF: Well hopefully he has a breakout season this year, he is the best we have at this position he needs to crash the boards, also i think Jacob Lawson and Sandi will get alot more playing time in this posistion then last year.
AJ Hammons C: He is a giant, he will be playing a major role, he will get our rebounds, put backs and all that good stuff down low. I can see him averaging 8-10 ppg as a freshman and around 7 Rebounds per game. He is a solid player.
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A Clever Travel Companion is one who doesn't fall victim to the swift hand of the pickpocket it seems. It's also the clever name for the pickpocket proof travel underwear with secret and secure pockets, designed by seasoned traveller Johanna Denize, that we're giving away this month.
The Swedish-born American resident had been pick-pocketed one two many times for her liking, and it was after one theft, she tells us, on the Trans-Siberian Railway, that left Johanna stranded in the middle of nowhere without money, that she decided to take things into her own hands and design the perfect thief-proof travel clothes.
I've never – touch wood – had anything more than a cotton singlet stolen while travelling. It was in a casa particular in Cuba many years ago and I probably would have given the thing to the woman had she asked. I wasn't too happy that my host stole from me, but I was sympathetic to her circumstances and it wasn't of much value. Have I jinxed us now?! But there are times when we travel that I worry about more valuable things.
We're sensible when we travel and we do take precautions. After all these years on the road you naturally become street-wise. We're also picky about where we stay and if we can't be and we doubt the security of the accommodation, we'll use the in-room safe or hide things in our locked luggage. We haven't worn money belts since our first backpacking trip around Mexico some 20 years ago.
Back then we only tucked the silly things into our pants and strung them around our necks because we were inexperienced overseas travellers and the guidebooks said to. After that first trip, we never felt the need to wear money belts. They were uncomfortable and they quickly became damp from our perspiration, causing our passports and notes to get wet. I think we abandoned them a week or two into that two-month trip.
Over the years we learnt that the best thing to do is to simply dress as you normally would at home, so you don't stand out as much. But still, there have been many occasions when I've wished I could have had some secret pockets to tuck some cash, a credit card or passport into. Mainly going out at night, to bars, pubs and clubs, when I've not wanted to carry a handbag or purse, and we knew we'd be walking a dark alley or two.
There are lots of things wrong with the design of 'travel clothes', as comfy as they can sometimes to be. I rarely wear them, except when we're going hiking or travelling in extreme conditions – I love my UV-protected shirt and couldn't live without my thermals – but the biggest problem is their lack of small, interior, zipped pockets where some cards and cash could be secreted away. How hard could they be to insert? I would always pay extra for a hidden pocket or three.
And this is why I was so excited when Johanna contacted us to tell us about her terrific travelling underwear with their secret pockets, offered to send us samples to try, and suggested we give some away to our readers.
We did try them – they arrived in Sydney a little under a week after she placed the order – and we're still wearing them, and we love them. I've been wearing mine (a cute black tank-top and hipsters), even when I haven't needed to hide anything in the pockets. Tomorrow we've got a long travelling day, a border crossing, and we'll be taking several types of transport, so while I'll need my passport handy, I will stash some cash away.
You can choose between cool cotton t-shirts, tank-tops, long-johns, fitted underwear for him and hipster briefs for her, in grey, black, white, and stripes. The sizes are what I'd call 'global', which means that while they're produced in the USA they're not those gigantic sizes you often get in the States. I'd recommend getting fitted sizes as this is underwear after all, so you'll want to wear them under things.
The prices are also reasonable for the USA – or even Australia, the UK and Europe – starting at around $23 a piece. They're available online at Johanna's site www.clevertravelcompanion.com and on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk, however, you can go in the running to win some right here. All you have to do is tell us why you want a Clever Travel Companion. Details below. Good luck! And if you win some, let us know how you like them.
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LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - A driver zipped past oncoming cars, across a parking lot and into the front of a Louisville store. It happened Thursday night at an appliance store on St. Andrews Church Road and surveillance cameras were rolling as it all happened.
Anthony's Appliance assistant manager Tina Woods wasn't there to see it happen. Instead the owner casually slipped it into a late-night phone call to her home.
"As we was finishing up our conversation he was like, 'Oh, we've got a vehicle sitting in our shop. Can you get down there?'" Woods said. "So I drove on down and well and behold ... I thought he was joking."
Then Woods saw the car, sitting between an oven and a washing machine, in the middle of the store.
"You ever heard dynamite go off?" said J. R., who lives upstairs. "Ok, that's what it sounded like ... It shook the building. I thought I was going to have to take another shower."
He wasn't sure what had happened.
"When I come downstairs and come out the door and turned this-a-way and I seen the whole front of it gone and I said, 'What the...?'" J. R. said.
He came down just in time to see the driver crawling out of her wrecked car, "all bleeding, busted up ... She lives close by so she had to have known that the road don't go straight through."
Woods is still tallying up the damage - easily in the thousands of dollars - and cleaning up. All the while, she's keeping Anthony's now-replacement doors open.
"Business as usual," she said. "We've got our loyal customers that come in."
The driver of the car, Destiny Abell, 20, was arrested on charges of operating a vehicle under the influence. A police report says she admitted to smoking marijuana.
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Jay Cutler's ups and downs, the personnel shuffling and erratic play of the offensive line and Mike Martz's scheme are juicier topics than a defense that has kept the Bears in games almost every week.
It's not the talk of the town like it once was earlier in Lovie Smith's tenure, but the defense is looking like the team's strength. After holding the Vikings to 240 yards and 13 points in a big Week 10 win, the Bears' "D" is ranked fourth in the league, and only the Packers have allowed fewer points per game.
"Going into the season you look at personnel (on defense) and we felt pretty good," Smith said Sunday. "We had a lot of guys that have played at the highest level, so we thought we would be pretty good, but they are showing it each week. They are playing dominating ball at times.
"Of course it's early in the game, but I like where the defense is right now and I think we will be at the end of the season."
Smith's cover-2 zone is bending at times, but not breaking very much and it's playing opportunistically. No team has more takeaways than the Bears, who have 14 interceptions and 10 fumbles recovered. They have caused more than twice as many as turnovers as their Week 11 opponent, the Dolphins, who have 11.
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The Bears did an excellent job of keeping the Vikings from putting themselves in 2nd-and-short and 3rd-and-short situations. Doing that allowed the Bears to play their strong hand — work out of the base cover-2 and force QB Brett Favre to settle for shorter passes underneath.
The Vikings had 1st-and-10 on 13 different occasions in the second half Sunday, and the Bears held them to gains of three yards or less eight of those 13 times. They only allowed Minnesota to gain more than five yards on first down two times in the final two quarters, and allowed the Vikings to gain just 79 yards in the second half.
If the Bears can keep putting offenses in predictable passing situations on a consistent basis, this defense should continue to thrive. They have the pass rush to force quarterbacks to settle for underneath throws, and the linebackers and defensive backs are doing a good job of flowing to the ball and not allowing receivers to pick up many yards after the catch.


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Part of Lesson Plan: Pose to Pose
Activity Overview / Details
The focus of this lesson is to teach students how to plan and animate a scene or a sequence using the pose to pose approach. In oder to animate in this method students must understand the following terms and concepts.
1. Keyframes: Drawings that establish the beginning and end of an action or sequence. The drawings that tell the story.
2. Breakdowns: Drawings usually located half way between to key frames that begin to breakdown the action into parts.
3. Inbetweens: The majority of the drawings located between keyframes and breakdown positons that provide most of the movement in an action or a sequence.
4. Timing Charts: The charts created on sets of drawings by the Lead Animator that provide directions to Assistants and Inbetweeners about the timing and position of additional drawings in an action or sequence.
5. Ease in/Ease out: Sometimes referred to as slow in and slow out. The gradual, or slow start or finishing of an action. Consists of more drawings at the beginning or end of a action that provide a more life like movement.
6. Frame Rates/Ones/Twos/Threes: In animation drawings are either filmed on ones/twos/threes. Meaning in one second you could utilize and have a drawing on every frame, or you could have a drawing filmed every two or three frames. Most film and video animation is done on twos or threes. High end productions may utilize ones. Hence on an average you could have 12 to 15 drawings a second, depending on the speed/timing of the action taking place on screen.
Read, Discuss, and Review the handouts.
Look at the Pose to Pose notes and examples from Osamu Tezuka, Preston Blair, and Warner Bros.
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- How to Read Timing Charts Handout [ Download ]
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This Christmas box is made from a pattern by Sheila Landry. I started it before Christmas but only got it finished now that Spring has arrived and I can get back out to the workshop. The top and bottom of the box are made from mahogany and the sides from maple. I inlaid (not perfectly !) some birds eye maple veneer into the lid. After scrolling the sides I laminated a dark veneer to the insides. I cut the letters in maple and overlaid them on to the lid. The finish is 2 coats of lacquer followed by light sanding a coat of Minwax finishing wax.
Comments always welcomed.
-- Anna http://richmondcarvers.com/
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#1 posted 144 days ago
Very pretty box – well done.
-- Ron, Eugene, OR, "Curiosity is a terrible thing to waste."
#2 posted 143 days ago
WOW, Just WOW! That is absolutely extremely fine scrolling beside the construction of the box itself is superb. Will favorite this 'en.
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#3 posted 143 days ago
That is a beautiful box!
-- Dan P.
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#5 posted 143 days ago
Your box really turned out lovely! The contrasting woods add a very nice touch, along with the inlay. I also really like the way your used maple for the words, instead of cutting them out of the mahogany. Very nice touch!
-- Jesus is the ONLY reason for ANY season.
#6 posted 143 days ago
Great box, I like scrollsaw boxes. Very nice work and build.
-- Tom D
#7 posted 143 days ago
Lovely box, and very nicely done.
-- John, British Columbia, Canada
#8 posted 143 days ago
Anna that is a very nice box
-- Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#9 posted 143 days ago
Very nice box and amazing scrollsaw work. You did an excellent job Anna, thanks for sharing.
-- Dave.......Keep calm and make more sawdust....
#10 posted 143 days ago
Stunning box. Incredibly beautiful.
-- Mother Nature created it, I just assemble it. - It's not ability that we often lack, but the patience to use our ability
#11 posted 143 days ago
Oh, Anna! What an incredible job you did on this! I love the wood you used. The contrast in colors is really stunning! And I love the raised lettering as well. It is truly a treasure. :)
-- Designer/Artist/Teacher. Owner of Sheila Landry Designs (http://www.sheilalandrydesigns.com) Scroll saw, wood working and painting patterns and surfaces. "Knowledge is Power"
#12 posted 143 days ago
Very nice job. I love the inlay and the other changes you made to the pattern. By the way since you live in balmy BC you should be in your shop all winter long. Just kidding. Really beautiful work on the box.
#13 posted 143 days ago
Beautifully done Anna! Thanks for sharing.
-- God bless, Candy
#14 posted 143 days ago
You did a really nice job on this box.
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#15 posted 143 days ago
This is just beautiful and stunning work. I am completely mystified as to how someone can do work this fine.
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john tortorella would rather stick his finger in his eye than talk to media. He is a master at deflecting attention away from his players... The more the media focuses on torts press conf, the less they are talking about his team. He's pretty crafty. Reminds me if 04 when torts got into it with hitchcock and took all the attention off us players and on the coaches verbal battle. Smart:-)Chris Dingman, via Twitter in defense of his former coach John Tortorella
Record when team has won Games 1, 3, 6 of series Like Boston: 6-10 (.375) Record when team has won Games 2, 4, 5 of series Like Ottawa: 10-6 (.625) Record when team has won Games 2, 3, 5 of series Like Florida: 10-4 (.714)James Mirtle, The Globe and Mail Granted this is a very small sample size, but it's nice for the numbers to be on the side of the Panthers for a change.
He's at the hospital in surgery. He has his forearm cut but we don't know; that's why he's at the hospital. We don't know to what extent or how severe, if any tendons or anything were cut we don't know but it was pretty severe. As soon as it happened he skated straight to the bench and we were on the penalty kill and he'd never do that and they took him from the game right away.Detroit Red Wings coach Mike Babcock talking about Darren Helm, who had to leave tonight's game after getting cut in a collision with Alexander Radulov. Quote supplied by Nashville Predators PR. Skate injuries can be absolutely ghastly, so hopefully this isn't anything serious.
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"Where design becomes a reflection of you"
Cherry Creek Cabinetworks, Inc., located in Mankato, Minnesota, produces high-quality, custom-made cabinets for residential construction, home remodeling, and commercial projects. Read more »
What our clients are saying
"We feel among the elite to have had our kitchen designed by you. We always receive compliments on it and the next question is always wanting to know who did it for us."
Ken & Jan – New Ulm, Minn.
"My family and I want to thank you all again for all you did to bring about our fabulous kitchen and bathroom. Your professionalism, thoughtfulness and many laughs made it a memorable and bonding time."
Susan – Mankato, Minn.