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Upcoming pitching schedule
March 19 vs Houston:
Mark Buehrle (five innings)
Sergio Santos (one inning)
Esmil Rogers (two innings)
Justin Germano (one inning)
Minor League Game:
Darren Oliver (three innings)
R.A. Dickey (two innings)
Josh Johnson (five innings)
Work — J.A. Happ
March 20 @ Baltimore:
Jeremy Jeffress (three innings)
Dave Bush (four innings)
Guilllermo Moscoso (two innings)
Minor League game:
Steve Delabar (one inning)
Aaron Loup (one inning)
Work — Brandon Morrow
March 21 @ Tampa:
Claudio Vargas (three innings)
Ramon Ortiz (three innings)
Brett Cecil (three innings)
Minor League game:
Ricky Romero (five innings)
Work — Darren Oliver, Justin Germano
March 22 vs Boston:
J.A. Happ (six innings)
Sergio Santos (one inning)
Esmil Rogers (one inning)
TBD Minor Leaguer (one inning)
Minor League game:
R.A. Dickey (seven innings)
Work — Josh Johnson, Darren Oliver, Steve Delabar, Dave Bush
March 23 vs Atlanta:
Brandon Morrow (six innings)
Aaron Loup (one inning)
Esmil Rogers (one inning)
Guillermo Moscoso (one inning)
Work — Ricky Romero
Q+A with Travis Snider
On what it has been like with the Pirates so far…
"It has been great. We've been working hard and adjusting into the new facility, new city. Been able to see a few of the guys back up in the Dunedin area early on and settling in nicely with the team, the organization and what we're trying to do each and every day."
On joining some the Blue Jays players at a Leafs-Lightning game a couple of weeks ago in Tampa…
"Hockey definitely grew on me the last few years playing in Canada and it was good to see the group of guys, even got to see some of the reporters hanging out by the concession stand. It was just good to see some familiar faces and say what's up to the boys that were in the suite or up in the box area."
More on his new experience in Pittsburgh…
"That first time putting on a different color uniform is something you won't forget. But spending the last couple of months of the season, the offseason, Spring Training, been able to develop some good relationships with not only the players but the coaching staff. The goal here every day is to get better as a whole unit and looking forward to seeing how things play out."
On similarities between Pirates and Blue Jays over the past few years…
"A lot of great talented players that I had a chance to come up with in Toronto and seeing a lot of these guys who got to come up together in the Minors and now playing together in the big leagues it's a familiar setting for me. There's a lot of guys in a similar age bracket with a good mix of veterans, A.J. (Burnett) knowing him, Rod at the end of last year. It made the transition easier knowing some guys and being familiar with the guys' careers that are around the same age as me and have followed similar paths."
On going through Spring Training in a similar location in Florida but with a different team…
"Just get your bearings. Try to figure out where the good restaurants are first of all. If I could make any adjustment, it would probably be closer to Sarasota next year because I found some good places to eat down there. Just getting familiar with Pirate city, the first couple of weeks as we would with Toronto, over at the Minor League complex and now transitioning into the big league stadium. We have a great stadium, they've made a great addition to the batting cages and hopefully some more to come to. We're fortunate to have a good facility to work in every single day and a good group of guys to go with it."
On reflecting and moving past his time in Toronto…
"Really remaining with the focus in the present and learning from those experiences in the past. I've spoken numerous times through different articles and it's really about taking the next step of my career in a new scene, new situation, new group of guys with the same focus and the same mindset I've been developing for the past five or six years.
"Really putting each and every day in front of me and making the most of each and every single day that I'm here instead of worrying about what happened four or five years ago or how I could go back and change the past."
On how the expectations are different between Toronto and now with Pirates…
"Different in the sense that when you don't come up with this organization, I came up with the Blue Jays, and being a young player, getting to the big leagues and experiencing what I went through, there are different kinds of emotions that you go through as a young man, trying to understand and mature through that process. Coming over here, a lot of that stuff is gone. You just show up to the ballpark every single day, you lace up your spikes, you have a list of things to get done and that's your focus.
"There were times, as I've spoken to before, my focus was outside of things that I can control and things that I could have done better. But as a young man maturing in the game you have to learn by experience. You can be as mature off the field, deal with the things I dealt with in my personal life, but until you go through baseball adversity that's what molds us into young men and hopefully makes us stay around this game for a long time."
On no longer having to worry about options remaining on his contract and the possibility of being sent down…
"The option thing is something that every player has to go through at some point of their career. Some guys are fortunate to play well enough in their first couple of years you don't have to deal with it. As I realized, the No. 1 thing is that you play better you don't worry about that kind of stuff. To play better you have to focus on each and every day. Not having that situation from a business standpoint but I don't look at it as an advantage per se. Because as soon as you rest your hat on not having any options left you can be in Triple-A.
"I've seen a number of guys, the first one that comes to mind is Edwin Encarnacion. I remember when he got optioned three years ago and you look at what he has been doing, same with Jose. Those guys who have been through that kind of adversity in their careers and now they're making their strides as Major Leaguers on the big-time scale. You just keep that stuff in perspective and not get caught up in, 'oh I think I'm going to make the team because I don't have any options.' I still have to go out there and play, I have to validate my job in whatever my role is going to be with the team and make sure that I'm doing everything I can to prepare myself."
On his role in Pittsburgh…
"I think it's something with more time will be defined. There's an opportunity in right field to get some at-bats and play. But it's something that I have to continue to earn and something for me not worrying so much about who has a job and who doesn't have a job, who has options and who doesn't have options, my focus remains on what I control, what I have to do.
"That stuff with play out how it plays out and as long as I'm handling stuff on my end I'll just go out there and be prepared for whatever role comes my way. In the past, I didn't deal with those changes whether it was being a platoon guy, batting low in the order, that stuff is so far behind me, whenever you put on a big league uniform you have to embrace whatever role you're in and go out there and play the game."
On playing right field…
"I feel really good. That was a transition beginning last year when I was traded. I played a lot of right field growing up, in the Minor Leagues and even some in the big leagues so that transition from the corner wasn't a big deal."
On Gose….
"Gose has an unbelievable ceiling. I've seen some unbelievable flashes of his talent and what he can do. Getting at-bats on a regular basis, spending time with him and Chad Mottola and some of the veteran guys we had there last year benefitted all of us. Seeing Anthony mature last year as a young player, he could be in a tough situation going into the season this year but he is a guy that I still touch base with from time to time and share a laugh with and understand that there's a lot of things in this business that you can't control. As long as he can keep playing the way he has been playing, I've been watching him this spring and always hope for the best with him."
On Mottola being hired as hitting coach…
"Yes. I think having Chad and Murph there is going to benefit a lot of those guys. Murph has done some great things with a handful of guys there and Chad spent a lot of time with a handful of the younger players so I think the mix between those two, and knowing Chad and Murph for so long, how well they work together I think is going to benefit not only the players but also both coaches because they are great guys, they both have quality stuff that they're featuring for the players. I'm excited for Chad to see what he has gone through the last couple of years, how successful he has been and seeing him get this opportunity I think is fantastic."
Question from Dirk Hayhurst…. Travis, obviously the Canadian food is vastly superior. Meat is better, dairy is better, fish, chicken, all of it. Have you felt, since coming back to the States, that you've had to elevate your game to overcome the adversity set forth by the FDA?
"Yeah, I don't know if I would say the adversity has been there. Growing up there on American USDA food, I felt pretty confident in my ability to overcome any adversity in the kitchen or in the restaurant. It's just something I look forward to keeping putting my time in one day at a time and see what I can do on a grill and in the kitchen."
Upcoming pitching schedule
March 10 vs NYY:
J.A. Happ (four innings)
Brett Cecil (two innings)
Ramon Ortiz (two innings)
Alex Hinshaw (one inning)
Extras — Mickey Storey, Tyson Brummett, Evan Crawford, Juan Perez
Work — Josh Johnson, Darren Oliver, Steve Delabar, Esmil Rogers
March 11 — Offday
March 12 @ BOS:
Justin Germano (three innings)
Claudio Vargas (two innings)
Chad Beck (two innings)
Mickey Storey (one inning)
Juan Perez (one inning)
Extras — Tommy Hottovy, Evan Crawford, Tyson Brummett, three Minor Leaguers
Minor League game: Brandon Morrow (four innings)
Work — Ricky Romero, Esmil Rogers, Brett Cecil, Dave Bush
Upcoming pitching schedule
March 5 vs BAL:
J.A. Happ (three innings)
Darren Oliver (one inning)
Brad Lincoln (one inning)
Esmil Rogers (one inning)
Jeremy Jeffress (one inning)
Neil Wagner (one inning)
Extras — Tommy Hottovy, Evan Crawford, Chad Beck, Tyson Brummett, Mickey Storey
Work — Josh Johnson, Claudio Vargas, Justin Germano
March 6 @ DET:
Brandon Morrow (three innings)
Aaron Loup (one inning)
Brett Cecil (one inning)
Ramon Ortiz (one inning)
Dave Bush (one inning)
Tommy Hottovy (one inning)
Michael Schwimer (one inning)
Extras — Evan Crawford, Tyson Brummett, Mickey Storey, Juan Perez
Work — Ricky Romero
March 7 @ BAL:
Mark Buehrle (three innings)
Justin Germano (two innings)
Evan Crawford (one inning)
Claudio Vargas (one inning)
Alex Hinshaw (one inning)
Juan Perez (one inning)
Mickey Storey (one inning)
Extras — Neil Wagner, Tyson Brummett, Chad Beck
Work — J.A. Happ, Brad Lincoln, Darren Oliver, Sergio Santos
March 8 @ ATL:
Josh Johnson (three innings)
Steve Delabar (one inning)
Esmil Rogers (one inning)
Jeremy Jeffress (one inning)
Tyson Brummett (one inning)
Chad Beck (one inning)
Extras — Juan Perez, Neil Wagner, Tommy Hottovy, two Minor Leaguers
Work — Dave Bush, Brett Cecil, Ramon Ortiz
March 9 @ DET:
Ricky Romero (three innings)
Darren Oliver (one inning)
Sergio Santos (one inning)
Aaron Loup (one inning)
Brad Lincoln (one inning)
Michael Schwimer (one inning)
Neil Wagner (one inning)
Extras — Alex Hinshaw, Mickey Storey, Tommy Hottovy, Evan Crawford
Work — Brandon Morrow, Claudio Vargas, Justin Germano
Dickey on his outing versus Philadelphia
On his outing…
"I felt good today and I feel like where I need to be. My strike percentage again was pretty high and I was ahead of just about every hitter. So mechanically I felt pretty good and these first two or three outings that's what it's about for me.
"It's about getting my body prepared to be able to grow from here. I still have to settle in to about three or four miles an hour in velocity and that should come over the next two weeks."
On whether he's where he needs to be…
"Yeah a little bit at a time. It's hard to make sure that you don't get ahead of yourself. Being a little bit older I have to be smart and make sure that my body is where it needs to be. So far it has been very cooperative and I feel like I'm going to be able to take the next step. They were just aggressive early in the count and got some balls up in the air. "
More on outing versus Philly…
"Today, if you got the ball up in the air it was probably going to go somewhere. That was the case early on but I was throwing a lot of strikes, getting ahead of a lot of hitters. When you see a lot of groundballs like I did today that means the ball is moving late around the plate and that's even a step from last time. I feel like I'm going forward the way I need to. It can be. It usually plays with the ball a little bit.
"I was getting a lot of late movement, especially around the last 20 inches before the catcher's mitt and that's always a good sign when they're hitting the ball into the ground. But the last two or three outings before the spring is over, are the outings I'm going to be concentrating more on results than the process. That's for me right now, where I am."
On whether he's ready for WBC and the added intensity that will bring…
"I think for me, because I felt good today, I know I can step on the gas a little bit more and it be okay. It's good timing because I'm going into a very competitive situation. I'm probably going to be starting on March 8th so it'll be nice to be able to go to those three extra miles per hour and feel like it will be alright.
"Today was a big stepping stone towards that. I went down and threw another inning in the bullpen. I'm going nights in Toronto when I give up two or three in the first or second inning and I still have to fight through six or seven innings. It's a good exercise even mentally for me. "
On working with Arencibia…
"He knows that as the spring goes along, it's going to get better and better, but he has been great. I've been really pleased with the way he has been receiving the ball, he's not mishandling very many.
"A good one is a hard one for anybody to catch so you have to have some grace when it comes to that but he has done a heck of a job. It doesn't matter because all of the guys we have in camp can do it. That's the beauty of my situation. The only guy that doesn't have any experience catching me is one of the guys that probably won't be on the team. So it's a non-issue really. "
On whether he needs to stick with one catcher…
"No. Because they're all learning my nuances, they know what to look for. I'm comfortable with all of them so it gives Gibby a lot of latitude to be able to put in there who he thinks would be the best fit for that day."
Input on who the catcher might be?
"I think one of the beauties about being on a team like this is the manager wants you to be involved. He's talked to me about it, we've had conversations and dialogue about that. It's nice to live in a culture where a manager respects what you say, wants you to be comfortable but I told him the same thing I told y'all. It doesn't matter to me, it's just about throwing good knuckleballs and everybody on that side can catch them just fine."
Will Arencibia catch you at the WBC?
"I anticipate him catching me and I'm pretty sure that's what Joe Torre is thinking. I don't want to speak for him but he knows we've been working hard together and that first game I'm sure he's going to want me to feel comfortable and throwing Mauer or Lucroy having not had any experience with me doesn't seem like the smartest decision but that's up to him. "
On whether he needs a personal catcher picked after WBC…
"The last couple of outings before the spring concludes, it's important to work with the guy I'm going to work with on Opening Day. That's logical. Whoever that is, that's a hint to you guys it's probably going to be the guy that catches me during the year, at least to begin with. It's a real organic thing, a season. It changes and we're really fortunate to have a lot of guys that can handle it well."
Blue Jays upcoming pitching schedule
March 1 vs Tampa:
Mark Buehrle (two innings)
Darren Oliver (one inning)
Sean Nolin (one inning)
Dave Bush (one inning)
Mickey Storey (one inning)
Michael Schwimer (one inning)
Richard Thompson (one inning)
Neil Wagner (one inning)
Extras — Alex Hinshaw, Juan Perez, Tommy Hottovy, Tyson Brummett
Work — Justin Germano, Claudio Vargas
March 2 vs Philadelphia:
R.A. Dickey (three innings)
Josh Johnson (two innings)
Steve Delabar (one inning)
Esmil Rogers (one inning)
Jeremy Jeffress (one inning)
Ramon Ortiz (one inning)
Extras — Three Minor Leaguers, Tyson Brummett, John Stilson, Tommy Hottovy
Work — Brad Lincoln, J.A. Happ
March 3 @ Philadelphia:
Ricky Romero (two innings)
Sergio Santos (one inning)
Aaron Loup (one inning)
Brett Cecil (one inning)
Justin Germano (one inning)
Claudio Vargas (one inning)
Alex Hinshaw (one inning)
Juan Perez (one inning)
Extras — Two Minor Leaguers, Evan Crawford, Tyson Brummett, John Stilson, Sean Nolin
Work — Brandon Morrow
Q+A with pitching coach Pete Walker
Here's what pitching coach Pete Walker had to say during a scrum on Wednesday afternoon regarding several key members of his staff:
Why only one inning for Brandon Morrow when all of the others are going two innings during their first time out this spring?
"It's what he did last year. We're going to stick to what worked for him. He had a great spring last year, came along nicely. Gave him the necessary days off that he needed to keep him fresh and things worked very well so he's going to stick to the plan."
So it was more his own personal decision to go just one inning rather than the club's?
"Obviously it worked last year and he wants to get off to the same start he did last year. It's kind of a mutual decision."
How is the workload determined for other pitchers?
"More or less it's going to be a pitch count. It's going to be 30 pitches and then all of those numbers to start off right now, we've discussed them, and obviously the pitches are the primary importance. If some of those starters are listed for two innings, they certainly aren't going to throw two if it's a long first inning.
"We have time, we're getting them right, most of them are on their five-day rotation right out of the chute. The second outing will only be two innings as well. We have an extra four or five days in the spring so we're going tomake sure these guys are where they need to be at the end of Spring Training to start the season, get the right number of innings and control their pitches throughout."
On Casey Janssen's progress from a shoulder injury…
"He's coming along as expected. It's a little slow, we're still hopeful that he's ready to start the season. If he's not, we'll go to Plan B but we're prepared for that. Right now, he's doing everything he needs to do to be ready for Opening Day and that's his goal."
Janssen's plan for the next couple of weeks?
"He has a couple of more sides and then we're going to get him into a couple of live BPs. But his schedule is subject to change at any time. We're going to take it day-by-day, see how he's feeling. Our goal is to just get him 100% whether it's Opening Day or seven days after that. There's going to be no rush to push him. Obviously, if he's going to be the closer in Toronto we want him to be 100%."
How much work does Janssen need to get in before the start of the season?
"I think with him, that's a tough one because obviously our concerns are him being 100% so it's impossible to put a number on it. We'd like to get him into games by the 13th or 14th of March. Realistically to get him to start the season, he needs to be able to go back-to-back days, he needs to be feeling great after those back-to-back days because when we bring him up to Toronto and he's pitching in front of 50,000 people, the expectations are high, the team's ready to go.
"He wants to be 100%, we don't want to put him in the situation where it's a struggle for the first week or two. We certainly wouldn't do that. I think it's not really a number of innings, it's just after that back-to-back outing, if he's feeling great he's ready to go."
Lots of time remaining to work out the kinks…
"There's plenty of time but certainly we're not going to rush him right now. He's coming along at the pace that the doctors recommended and we're going to stick to it. If there are any setbacks, we'll go to Plan B. Right now, he's feeling good and he's on schedule."
Josh Johnson lost some velocity last year. Wasn't entirely unexpected since he was coming off a shoulder injury the year before. Where do things stand now?
"I think he looks really strong. The conversations I've had with him, and some of the video I've seen of him in the past, he looks really good and he's feeling really good. I'm very encouraged right out of the chute.
"He has turned into a pitcher. He knows how to pitch. He's not as concerned with the velocity being in the mid-90s consistently. if he's in the low 90s at times, he knows how to pitch. He keeps the ball down. He has incorporated that curveball now which is going to help a lot to keep the hitters off balance. But his location and fastball command is impeccable right now and it's fun to watch."
With the curveball in place he could become really dominant if the velocity returns…
"There's no doubt about it. That's what we're hoping for. But what he did last year, if he can just carry that into this season, I know he's really encouraged with the breaking ball. The fastball, if that velocity jumps a click, great. If it doesn't, we still have a super pitcher."
On Esmil Rogers…
"He has a tremendous arm. I've seen quite a few good arms here to be honest with you. There's some power and some untapped power. But he's a guy that came into his own a little bit in Cleveland, struggled a little bit in Colorado. You look at the numbers and you're trying to figure it out, I don't know what was going on there. It could have been the Colorado air. But in Cleveland it came together a little bit, used his slider a little bit more and he knows how to spin the baseball and has a power arm. He seems to be a very athletic kid, just learning and getting better."
Who are the untapped power guys?
"(Jeremy) Jeffress is a guy, tremendous arm. And even some of the non-roster guys I've seen so far. Very deceptive deliveries and guys that can definitely help throughout the course of the season."
Q+A with new Blue Jays hitting coach Chad Mottola
To the surprise of pretty much nobody, Chad Mottola was hired to become the Blue Jays' new hitting coach when John Gibbons was brought on board in November. It was a natural promotion considering Mottola spent the past four years as a Minor League hitting coach and review rave reviews from some of the club's top prospects and struggling veterans.
Last year's hitting coach, Dwayne Murphy, is still on the staff but will spend the majority of his time in charge of baserunning and outfield defense. In some ways it's a perfect mix because Murphy has already established strong working relationships with the likes of Jose Bautista and Edwin Encarnacion. So some of the veterans will be able to continue their work with Murphy while Mottola seems better suited to deal with the younger players on the team.
Here's what Mottola had to say about his overall coaching philosophy and working with Murphy…
Process taking over as new coach, what are things you look to establish…
"What's nice is that I've had a lot of the younger guys early on in their careers so kind of getting them back to where they were and letting Murph continue with the guys he had success with."
Is it tough, though, having your predecessor still on the coaching staff?
"Not a shared position but having Murph makes it different than most… I wouldn't say it's shared but I'm going to let the guys lean on Murph when they need him. Murph's going to be here for outfield and base running which is a priority and I think was needed at times last year. Going into camp, he's going to have those guys more often than being in the cage and being around the cage. When he's needed, he's going to be used, if not when the younger guys, I already have a pretty good relationship with we're going to go with what we had in the past.
"Murph's nickname is pro and it's for a reason. We have a pretty good relationship where there's no ego with either of us. Going into it, having that established relationship makes it easier."
Inherit team that has last two NL batting champions..
"Yeah, for sure. I'm getting to know those guys the first couple of weeks, find out what their philosophies are and build off what they've done in the past."
Approach or philosophy how is it different from Murph…
"There's not going to be much change with the guys who have had success. There are plenty of guys that had success under Murph and then I'm going to kind of work with the younger guys and see what they need to change to be what they can be."
Getting guys in proper head space (ex Lind)…
"One thing about baseball is everyone has hit, everyone has their own opinion and everyone feels like they can fix everybody. One thing is that everybody has good intentions but one thing we're going to concentrate on this year is having one message. So there is no mixed message, there's not anybody trying to sneak in and be like hey I know you've done this.
"With Adam, I played with him, I coached him, we've done everything so we kind of know his personality and how to get him in the right position mentally to hit and I think that's where he was at in the past, it was kind of mental."
Being up with the big league club the past two Septembers must help…
"It makes really simple. Murph and I know eachother, I've sat in the cage hours upon hours and watched him work. He allowed me to work with guys which you don't see in baseball of a big league coach allowing someone to come up in September and say go ahead have at it. So going into it, we have the same thing going, if a guy hops into our cage, my cage, or his cage, there's nothing personal. There's no worries about what he's saying, we know how to work together."
Past years coaches have tried to impart their own philosophy on hitting…
"I work individually. I think that's what's important about this game is that everybody has their own personality and their own style. They're going to strike fear into their own team yet they're going to let different guys have different approaches."
Approach with Lawrie, priorities…
"We have a relationship in the past just getting him to slow down. He gets himself in trouble, the same thing that makes him great is the same thing that gets him in trouble. So just slowing down and quit trying to get the ball at 40 feet, let it travel a little bit."
"The talent in him is unbelivable. The things he does, the way he gets to the front of the box and we're just going to get his quick hands to work in his favor rather than going through swing changes all year. I think we have a pretty good base going into the year and we're going to try and keep it there."
Rasmus made transition to front of the box last year… sticking with that?
"We modified it a little bit but it's one of those things where as time goes on we hope we're not going to see five different stances after an 0-for-4. We're trying to get a consistent base and then we're going to stay there."
What are you trying to modify?
"We're still doing some things, getting his hands a little bit lower and getting him in a better position to hit."
Newcomers does it take time to get familiar with them…
"I think more getting to know their personalities. I think their track records speak for themselves. More than getting them comfortable here, the sooner that happens the better off we are. Guys that have the track records, kind of stay out of their way."
Been with Gibby before…
"Yeah, I actually was in camp for a couple of years, had about a month and a half up in the big leagues with him. As far as our personalities, they're great. Let the guys play and when they need us we'll get involved. But with the talent we have now, it's a good mix."
Hitters facing live pitching Sunday…
"That's all for the pitchers. Spring Training in the first week is for the pitchers. It's one of those things that hey guys, get what you can get out of it, let the pitchers get their work in."
Looking for specific things who are coming back from injuries…
"Just make sure they're healthy. Early on, it's a longer spring this year with the Classic going on, not necessarily numbers for sure, just make sure we're healthy and then worry about the last week getting ready for the season. "


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GOP candidate caught slashing rivals motor vehicles tires.
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Maybe he is trying to get more cars off the road to save the earth from global warming? |
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Just cause they are topless dosent make them sluts. Perhaps they were trying to get a quick tan with the hotter sun. |
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Tea Party Parrot-heads, want the new House to select their speaker through a secret ballot.
Why so members can vote their conscience without fear of retribution from GOP or Republican leadership anywhere in Washington D.C.. |
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Now how will that affect global warming? |
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Ann Coulter wants to Publish List Of Women Who Get Abortions, or have gotten them at all?
There you have it, another WACK-JOB from the bowels of GOP, Republican Tea Party Parrot-head loonies. It's always the ones who can't have children who try and take away the rights of others. |
Jan 5, 2013
She was responding to the loonies that were publishing a list of gun owners. They were aided and abetted by the Fleabagging Democrat douchenozzles. Of course a gutless Sock Puppet hypocrite like you can't figure that out. You frustrated control freaks are a hoot!!! So how many different screen name are you going to use today, coward? |
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Weather is weather, either your in it or watching it from afar. Sin Diego, Ca..
Much like sock puppets and copy and paste companies working for the GOP, Republican and Tea Party or Parrot Heads. Weather must be socked in other wise you'd be at the beach? |
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The democrats always worry about global warming, they think the answer is limiting electricity, when the answer is actually finding technology to resist the tempature.
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No one misses Ron Paul in the U.S. Congress.
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Click your BIC and shut your trap, since those nay sayers have been faulty in thier thinking and were caught takeing payoffs from the world polluters.
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...oh noooo, that so terrible!! since the democrate party, denounces god, embraces islam, ok tax funded abortions, gives guns to our enemies, watches 4 americans die, at real time.......slashes tires? really horrible!! |
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You really have wonder about the ethics of those who turned a blind eye to Nick Conway's (sgvCOG) crimes.
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EPA's madness:
Newly adopted rules limiting airborne soot imposed by bureaucrats in Washington threaten to freeze the choices and toes of individuals living more than 4,000 miles away in subarctic Alaska. Thanks to authoritarian overreach, the freedom of Americas last frontier may not last much longer. To put in context how overly restrictive that is, secondhand tobacco smoke in a closed car can expose a person to 3,000-4,000 micrograms of soot per cubic meter, according to the agency. Mr. Obamas hand-picked EPA administrator, Lisa P. Jackson, has granted herself the ultimate power: the ability to control the very air we breathe. Along the way, her regulatory zeal has raised questions about whether she has strayed beyond the boundaries of the law. The regime is out to turn all of Alaska into a vehicle-free, jobs-free, human-free environment park for limousine liberals. Once you understand that grasping the rest poses no problem. They won't be happy until we all live in tents. Oh but of course they will still live in big houses, drive around in limos and fly in jets. Obama has used the EPA as a weapon in his war against the free market capitalism that is America. They will continue to restrict America's ability to produce it's own energy all the time saying we've got to get off of mid east oil. He will not be satisfied until he has made our once great country a 3rd world shyt hole. |
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text: On 10/14/06, Eric Stout <stout at lost-soul.net> wrote: > blah blah blah, yackity smackity, blah blah blah.... ifconfig should never > have been tossed away. If a connection was down (no carrier), it wasn't > listed in output, easy to parse. Nope, ifconfig says the same thing. I unplug the cable and it still thinks the link is working: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:05:5D:E5:AE:08 inet addr:192.168.1.2 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:171435 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:148330 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:102567868 (97.8 Mb) TX bytes:23695300 (22.5 Mb) Interrupt:10 Base address:0x1000 I don't think this has anything to do with what tool I'm using to query the information or how I care to parse the output. Thanks for the big help. -- Dan


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Gavin Caney
Friday, April 18, 2014
Champions West Norfolk feel they are back where they belong after securing promotion to London North-East Division Three.
The Gatehouse Lane club were relegated from NE3 in 2009 but clinched a return by winning Greene King Eastern Counties Division One this season. It caps half a decade of rebuilding and now West chiefs are looking forward to writing the next chapter in the North Wootton outfit's rich history.
Boss Nigel Richardson said: "This is a new era for West Norfolk. If anyone's ever been to West Norfolk they'll understand we've got great facilities, a great coaching set up and Larry (Lawrence Savage) has agreed to do the captaincy again next year which makes my job a lot easier.
"We've still got great young players coming through and I believe personally we're too big of a club to have been where we were. With all the hard work that everyone's put behind us – that comes from the committee, that comes from the chairman and everyone around the club from Les behind the bar to Gerry who does the food – everyone is really on a high and wants to move forward."
Savage and Richardson are among a small number of West's squad that have experience of higher-level rugby and have been key components of a stunning title success.
And with a team packed full of young and pacy players – coupled with an attacking ethos – the maroons' manager is sure his troops will be able to hold their own come rugby's return in the autumn.
"I've always had the belief that we've got quite a number of players who deserve to have been playing at a higher level," said Richardson.
"What it should do is bring the fringe players on. They should really want to work a bit harder, get their fitness up, and break into the side. They've got a nice period over the summer where we're going to do a great boot camp, and one or two other ideas that we've got, so I'm really looking forward to the challenge ahead."
Top try-scorer Ross Biggs, who crashed over 24 times this term in the league, is delighted by his side's success and feels it's been a glory that's slowly been coming.
He said: "We've been in this league for about four years since we've been relegated and we have been building.
"Last season I think we had maybe a few too many young players but this year, due to players coming back from University and things like that, we've got a lot more senior players in the side and that's brought a much better balance to things."
(Blob par): For more on West's success, listen to the 25th West Norfolk Sports Podcast at www.edp24.co.uk/wnsp
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The film begins with Vreeland talking about her early years growing up in Europe. "The first thing to do is arrange to be born in Paris. After that, everything follows quite naturally," said Vreeland, in her pipe-organ voice. She explained that her mother never thought she was pretty and that was something she carried with her throughout her life. "We were not sympathetic. [She would say] too bad you have a beautiful sister, and you're so extremely ugly. I was always her ugly little monster," said Vreeland.
She invented her over-the-top personality that embraced life as an adventure, whether she was witnessing the coronation of George V, riding horses with Buffalo Bill in Wyoming or viewing Charles Lindbergh flying over their house in Brewster, N.Y. In the documentary, she speaks about her schooling and how she left Brearley after three months, having made no friends and developing a stutter. She enrolled in a Russian school, where she was happy to do nothing but dance.
During the Twenties, she decided to make herself "the most popular girl in the world" and would hang out in Harlem, where the music was great. "I never felt comfortable about my looks until I met Reed Vreeland.…It was love at first sight. Nothing could spoil my happiness. Reed made me feel beautiful," said Vreeland. After they married, they moved to London, where they started a life full of romantic trips around Europe in their Bugatti coupé. "The best thing about London was Paris," said Vreeland, saying that is where she really learned about clothes and became friends with all the couturiers in Paris. She even ran her own lingerie business in London. "One day Wallis Simpson came into the shop and ordered three nightgowns for a very special weekend. She was off to a rendezvous with Edward, the new King of England, and the rest is history."
Once the Vreelands returned to New York City, Diana became serious about her career. "I was going through money like someone goes through whiskey if you're an alcoholic," she said. "We never had that much money. I'm really basically quite lazy." But Carmel Snow, editor in chief of Harper's Bazaar, saw her dancing at the St. Regis and offered her a job. "I've never worked before, and never dressed before lunch," she said. She started writing the "Why Don't You?" column, offering advice on a variety of subjects, and soon was tapped as fashion editor. The film points to many of her discoveries, such as launching Twiggy, advising Jackie Kennedy on matters of style, and coining some of fashion's most eloquent proverbs, such as "The bikini is the biggest thing since the atom bomb." She also discovered Lauren Bacall. "She came smiling into my office with a wide Russian face. Betty couldn't take a bad picture. After I put her on the cover, she got a call from Hollywood," said Vreeland.
Seemingly reminiscent of "The Devil Wears Prada," Ali MacGraw is interviewed in the film about her experience working as an assistant to Vreeland after graduating from Wellesley College, and how demanding a boss she was. "She'd start barking orders, 'Get me a pencil!' and gave her assistants a very hard time, and they always cried during the day," recalled MacGraw, who described one incident where Vreeland "chucked a coat" at her, so MacGraw instinctively chucked it back. "Diana was pretty annoyed," she said.
Vreeland explained after 26 years at Harper's Bazaar and making $18,000, she got a $1,000 raise. "When Alexander Liberman [editorial director of Condé Nast] called to see me, I made up my mind to listen to him." She jumped ship to Vogue, where she eventually became editor in chief. Those were great years for her. "It was her period, with the social, political, civil rights, 'black is beautiful' going on," said Joel Schumacher in the film.
After Vreeland was fired from Vogue in 1971 — which she attributed to "they wanted a different sort of magazine" — she lost her way for a while. "She was not the autocratic, sure-of-herself star. I could see some brokenness," recalled McGraw. But within the year, she got a call from the Met, which wanted to hire her as a consultant, and a new chapter in her life began. Vreeland's annual exhibitions at the Costume Institute, which started with "The World of Balenciaga" (1973) and included "Hollywood Design" (1974), "The Glory of Russian Costume" (1976) and "Vanity Fair" (1977), galvanized audiences. Her exhibitions drew almost one million visitors a year and made the museum a center of fashion excitement in New York and the world. "It became an event. The show was a very big deal," said Calvin Klein in the film.
"I believe in dreams. I think we only live through our dreams and our imagination. That's the only reality we only really have. I can't stand these shows being taken down. I become very attached to them," said Vreeland.
Immordino Vreeland said what she found fascinating about Vreeland was her different way of looking at the world. She acknowledged the costume shows she put on at the Met weren't always historically correct. "But she wanted people to get the feeling of the era," she said. "If it wasn't the view she wanted it to be, she altered that view. It was the word 'faction.' She created a fantasy of her life experience and everyone else's. There's something factually incorrect about it, but it's a wonderfully positive way to look at the world."
Asked what she believed Vreeland's biggest contribution to the world of fashion was, Immordino Vreeland replied, "I think fantasy and originality and a unique vision of what the world should be. She was tough to work with at times, but had a positive outlook, and I think that's so important. She had multiple layers, and she had this life that was so textured, and she gave it to us, and I think that was a great gift. It was this curiosity for life that she had. She had this vision of the world that had no barriers."