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You can't protect your baby from every knee-bump suffered while learning to walk. But you can make sure poisons and medicines are kept where kids can't possibly get to them and provide a safe environment for exploration.
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While runs had been hard to come by for the Red Sox before Friday night's 10-3 victory over the Indians, Jake Peavy hasn't done much to help his own cause lately. The right-hander has allowed at least four earned runs in five of his last six starts after posting a 2.87 ERA in April.
On Saturday, he'll look to right the ship at Fenway Park against Indians rookie lefty T.J. House, whom he faced June 3 in Cleveland.
House threw 5 2/3 innings in that 5-3 Cleveland win two weeks ago, scattering two runs, two walks, six hits and four strikeouts. Peavy took the loss by allowing five runs and eight hits.
Peavy has surrendered 28 earned runs in his last 37 2/3 innings, which spans six starts. In his last start, a 4-0 loss to the Orioles on Monday, Peavy missed on a just a few pitches, but that was the difference. With the way his team's offense has backed up its starters recently, a pair of solo homers and one two-run shot by the Orioles is all it took.
Boston's offense, which entered Friday with the third-fewest runs scored in the American League, has picked up in the last two days. The Red Sox have scored at least five runs in back-to-back contests for just the second time in 16 games.
"You know that runs are a premium. We know that," Peavy said. "But you can't go out there thinking about that. If you're thinking about that, you're thinking about the wrong thing. You might be a touch careful, but that's the last thing I want to do. You've got to be aggressive. If it takes your aggressiveness away, it ends up going against you."
House, meanwhile, could lose his spot as a starter once Zach McAllister returns. McAllister is scheduled to make a rehab start with Triple-A Columbus on Saturday, lining up with House's turn in the big league rotation.
But the 24-year-old right-hander, who has a 5.24 ERA, 1.57 WHIP and 2.0 K/BB ratio in 22 1/3 innings this season, is trying to take care of his responsibilities.
"You just play. One thing I've learned early, and one thing they've always told us, is just let those guys make the decisions," House said. "That's their job. My job is to just go out there and help the team win. if I can continue to do that, then whatever happens, happens, but I'll be happy with myself, that I went out and gave this team a chance to win."
Red Sox: Pawtucket busy with rehab assignments
• Clay Buchholz had his first rehab start pushed back to Saturday after Triple-A Pawtucket's Friday night game was rained out. He has been the 15-day DL since May 28 with a hyperextended knee.
Third baseman Will Middlebrooks was scheduled to serve as the designated hitter Friday and play third Saturday as he recovers from a broken right index finger, but his schedule will be pushed back a day. He's expected to DH in Game 1 and play third in the nightcap.
Outfielder Shane Victorino is expected to play right field for Pawtucket on Saturday. He's recovering from a second hamstring injury --- one that's had him on the DL since May 23 and caused him to miss the first 22 games of the season. Boston manager John Farrell said there's no plan to play Victorino anywhere but right field during this assignment.
Left-hander Felix Doubront is scheduled to make his third rehab start Sunday with Pawtucket. He's been on the DL since May 21 with a strained left shoulder and has thrown 8 2/3 innings, allowing eight hits, four runs and a walk with five strikeouts, in a start each at Double-A Portland and Pawtucket.
Indians: Cabrera's defense takes dip
• Shortstop Asdrubal Cabrera made a throwing error in the second inning Thursday night, giving him a league-high 12 miscues entering Friday. Cabrera, who made only nine errors all of last season, is on pace to surpass the career-worst 19 errors he had in 2012 with the Tribe. Indians manager Terry Francona said he is not worried about Cabrera's defense right now.
"When you say 'worried', no," Francona said. "I wish he didn't have 12. I think he's made some errors where, you can see, he's mad at himself. I think the less errors we make, the better team we're going to be. I think that's stating the obvious."
Worth noting
• Daniel Nava went 2-for-4 with an RBI and a run scored Friday after going 3-for-4 Thursday. Those were his second and third multihit games of the season. Since June 4, the switch-hitter is 11-for-26 (.423). Before Thursday, Nava had just one multihit game in 24 tries.
When he was optioned to Pawtucket in May, Nava had a .130/.221/.234 slash line. It has climbed a bit to 203/.287/.301 in eight games since being recalled.
• Cleveland outfielder Nyjer Morgan has begun throwing lightly and doing running drills in the pool as he continues to rehab at the Indians' facility in Goodyear, Ariz. Morgan has been on the 60-day disabled list since suffering a right knee injury May 14 against Toronto.
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Gio gets call as Nats open series in Houston
Left-hander no longer experiencing tightness in shoulder
WASHINGTON -- Nationals left-hander Gio Gonzalez feels good enough to pitch against the Astros on Tuesday night in Houston. He dealt with tightness in his shoulder during his last start on Wednesday against the Angels, but said it's not an issue.
"After the fifth inning, it started getting a little colder. [The shoulder] felt a little tight," Gonzalez said. "[Manager] Matt [Williams] started seeing it in the sixth inning. I feel fine now. I did all my exercises. I feel great. Next question."
Gonzalez picked up a no-decision in a 5-4 Nationals' victory over the Angels. He left the game in the sixth inning because of the shoulder problems.
Entering the sixth, Gonzalez had retired 10 consecutive batters and appeared to be on his way to a quality start. But before long, the Angels had a 2-1 lead and Gonzalez was temporarily on the hook for a loss.
The Astros will turn to right-hander Jarred Cosart in the opener at Minute Maid Park. He's 1-2 with 6.12 ERA, but those numbers are skewed by a rough outing on April 18 in Oakland in which he allowed seven earned runs in one-third of an inning. Cosart bounced back Wednesday against Oakland, allowing only two runs and four hits in 6 2/3 innings. Cosart was in line to get the win, but the bullpen allowed three runs in the ninth in a 5-3 loss.
"The whole purpose was to go out there and establish the strike zone," said Cosart, who threw only 15 of 39 pitches for strikes April 18, and 73 strikes in 104 pitches on Wednesday.
"I quickened up my tempo a little bit and was able to throw strikes early in the count. I threw a lot of strikes, and I'll be able to take that going forward."
Nationals: Rendon going home
Nationals third baseman Anthony Rendon will play in Houston for the first time since he became a big leaguer last season. Rendon made his name at Rice University, where he hit .371 with 52 home runs and 194 RBIs in his collegiate career.
As a professional, Rendon is having similar success. He is hitting .298 with three home runs and a team-leading 17 RBIs entering Tuesday's action against the Astros.
Astros: Porter facing the Nationals
Bo Porter will face the Nationals for the first time since becoming the Astros' manager before the 2013 season. Porter was the Nationals' third-base coach in 2011-12, which included when the club won the National League East title.
Last season, Porter guided the Astros to a 51-111 record in his first year as manager. He is hoping things will be different this year. However, they have a 9-17 record entering Tuesday.
Worth noting
• Astros center fielder Dexter Fowler enters the series on an eight-game hitting streak following a first-inning single Sunday against Oakland.
• The Astros entered Sunday ranked fourth in the American League with 28 homers. They were 8-7 in games in which they homered, and had yet to win a game in which they didn't.
• Nats shortstop Ian Desmond is 7-for-13 in his last three games to raise his overall batting average to .243.
• Despite allowing three runs against the Padres on Sunday, left-hander Ross Detwiler has an excellent 1.98 ERA.
Bill Ladson is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog, All Nats All the time. He also could be found on Twitter @WashingNats. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Reviews & Community
What do you think of the
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- Familiarity: I've used it once or twice and have initial impressions
- Fit: True to size
I just got these glasses but I am really impressed so far. The adjustable nose piece is great and the glasses are really light. I also bought the photochromic lenses and they are awesome. The glasses are super comfortable and there is no frame in your peripheral. These are replacing a pair of Oakley Jawbones (Racing Jackets.)
Cody Townsend
From snow to dirt, use them for just about any activity.
theyre grrrrreat!
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
- Fit: True to size
so far no problems with these. they fit well and i dont feel like they are getting covered in sweat. lightweight and decently stylish. the nose piece could look a little better but thats not the end of the world.
skinny cyclist
best sport shades around
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
These things are the best. With an adjustable nosepiece, the extra-wide coverage of the max lenses blocks out wind during descents and tends not to fog when stopped. In Seattle keeping rain out is important and these do a great job plus the water that does accumulate actually beads in such a way that it doesn't impede your vision as much as others do. They come in a sturdy storage case that's bounced around my car and race bag with no trouble. Highly recommend!
Gianni Versace
V2 Max accepts the Smith OSD2
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
I needed some quality sunnies to keep the wind & sun out of my eyes. Sunnies that could use an adaptor for my prescription lenses. I found the perfect answer! V2 Max does accept the Smith OSD2 prescription lens adaptor. These work great and is money well spent. Thank you C Cyclist.
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
I was super psyched to get these after reading the great reviews & I wanted to like them? if they would just stay on my face. The lenses & changeability were great, but I'm a bit of a heavy sweater and as soon as my face got sweaty the glasses would start falling off. I even tried putting an Oakley nosepiece on which helped a bit, but in the end the combination of the adjustable nosepiece & wideish side arms just didn't cut it. Can't go wrong with my Oakley Radar XL's.
Good product, strange color.
- Familiarity: I returned this product before using it
I have a pair of the pivlock V2 frames in white and they are great. I wear them when I ride and sometimes on a run. I bought the acid yellow frames and was disappointed when I opened them. The color was more of a chartreuse, rather than the bright yellow shown in the picture.
Top notch riding optics
I've used these for a season of riding, and they come out any time I'm not using my full face helmet. The lenses are easy to swap in and out, but the most impressive part is how lightweight the whole package is. You can barely feel them on your face, yet the lens covers about 98% of your peripheral vision. Come to think of it, maybe that's why you can forget you are wearing them.... Anyway, they never seem to fog up, even in slow climbing situations under a hot sun, but my helmet will drip sweat on them from time to time. For "ENDRURO!!" riding, these are a great bet, as even when you are following some chargers down a dusty trail, you'll be able to see about as well as you can with goggles.
Hunter Huffman
Smith PivLock V2 Max BEST SUNNIES!!!
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
I have been riding with Smith PivLock V2 Max's for two years now, and they are by far the best sunglasses I have ever used. The interchangable lenses are very simple to change in and out. I have never broken a pair which makes these sunnies that much better. The sizing for the V2 MAX is not over whelming for my face (normal size head), it has good coverage and protects the eye's perfect.
Perfect biking shades
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
- Fit: True to size
These are perfect biking shades for so many reasons. They have awesome coverage without any blind spots,(super important), adjustable nose piece for optimal fit, 3 lens shades for perfect coverage no matter the light conditions, and installation of lenses is a snap, it literally takes less than a minute to change out lenses. I own mostly Smith brand eyewear and helmets as their customer service/warranty is unmatched, product quality is top-notch, and price point beats Oakley and other competitive brands. Get these, you will not be disappointed!
This is a set of three lenses do?
This is a set of three lenses do?
Arthur Debowski
Yes they come with three lenses. The color before the "/" is the frame color, what is after the "/" are the 3 included lenses.
Does the V2 Max accept the Smith OSD2...
Does the V2 Max accept the Smith OSD2 prescription lens adaptor?
Arthur Debowski
Yes the ODS2-RX comes with 2 nose pads (for the V90 and the V2) so it is compatible with both.
Grab a pair for biking!
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
- Fit: True to size
PivLocks give you a great peripheral view. They are PERFECT for biking because they really don't blind spots like a lot of glasses.
One issue is changing the lens. If you wrench the lens too much in the wrong direction while swapping them out it will break the frame.
They come with three lenses so you have no excuse for getting junk in your eyes at night or during the day.
Great for cycling
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
- Fit: True to size
This is a shield for your eyes. Not having a rim at the top or bottom is really key in cycling eye wear. You can forget these things are on, they're that good. Great sun blockage, great wind blockage, unlimited field of view. Get'em!
Andrew Whiteford
Stellar performance
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
- Fit: True to size
I often wear more casual sunglasses that are decent for athletic endeavors because, well, I think I look cooler. However, now when it comes time to go for a real ride, you can't deny the performance of some top of the line V2 shades. I really enjoy the orange lenses for busting in and out of shade and sun, but the simple clear lense absolutely kills it later in the evening or a stormy day.
Swapping lenses is very straightforward and quick. They're light, good coverage (no eye watering) and I forget that I have them on...until my sweaty head starts dripping onto them. They can't help with that! The adjustable nose piece also helps dial the fit to your face.
Rob Wykoff
Smith PivLock V2 Max Great Coverage
I've been using the Smith PivLock V2 Max for about a year now and they are great for mountain and road biking. I like the extra coverage that the "Max" version provides compared to the regular V2 and the adjustable nosepiece is a great feature to allow the perfect fit for a number of faces.
Jo Torkel Lie
Fantastic glasses for Kilimanjaro!
Perfect sunglasses for a perfect trek! Very light glasses with crystal clear vision and wide field of view allowing for complete control and maneuvering up steep rocks and mixing sunlight and shadows.
Tommy Nankervis
PivLock V2 Max
- Gender: Male
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
These are my favourite sunnies. I often forget I am wearing them. That's usually the defining point for me. Full vision coverage, and sharp lens to look through. Great colour options available too. Stand up well to a flogging too!
Great field of view
- Gender: Male
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
I have used Oakley Flak Jacket XLJ and Asian Fit Jawbones extensively. I switched to the PivLock V2 Max for the frameless design. The field of view is significantly improved when in the drops while cycling. The lack of a top frame makes looking up the road much easier when your head is down. The light weight design is effectively unnoticeable when running. Fit is excellent and comparable/better than Asian Fit Oakley's. Optics are extremely crisp and changing lenses is easy. I'm a little concerned about the durability of the securing mechanism for the temples to the lenses in that I suppose they could wear out if you change lenses very frequently, but I have not experienced any problems so far. I am extremely satisfied with these sunglasses.
just what the doctor ordered
- Gender: Female
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
I use these glasses mostly for running due to their very sporty shape. For a girl, I have a large face and noggin, but these glasses stay on my face for all my runs even with the sweat factor. I love the interchangeable lenses, super easy to change. Adjustable nose piece makes the custom fit. They do fog up on super cold days when you stop, but defog relatively quickly. Overall, I am extremely happy with my purchase!


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The YMCA of Greater San Antonio is currently accepting applications for the Y's Military Outreach Initiative. This program provides eligible military families and active duty personnel with access to complimentary Y memberships.The Military Outreach Program is available to eligible military families at all of the Y's eleven health and wellness facilities located in San Antonio, Boerne and New Braunfels. Read More
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Volunteer Vacations: Spend a Week Helping Wilderness
It seemed fitting this week to showcase a national park photo as a way to spotlight the budget cuts that will soon be harming our n
The National Park Service recently released a report that showed that in 2011 visits to America's national parks generated
The National Journal recently asked nine opinion leaders what's at stake for the environment as Washington's budget cuts, aka sequestration, go into effect. Wilderness Society President Jamie Williams weighed in.
As of March 1, cuts – known as sequestration – will be affecting every federal agency, including the National Park Service, the US Fish and Wildlife Service, the Forest Service and other environmental agencies.
Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, is a technique used by the oil and gas industry to extract natural gas from rock thousands of feet underground. The fracking process includes pumping millions of gallons of water, sand and toxic chemicals (including carcinogens) underground.
Meanwhile oil and gas companies continue to receive unnecessary and outdated subsidies at the expense of taxpayers.
Congress is considering deep budget cuts to federal programs this March, including to National Park Service budgets.
After years of fighting to protect Alaska's western Arctic from unrestricted oil drilling, our campaign to protect America's largest tract of public land has paid off.
Now new studies suggest that time outdoors can also boost your immune system.
Tweets about "@wilderness"
President Obama has vowed to urge Congress to designate new wilderness in the Refuge. Encourage him to keep fighting for this threatened land.


text: AMD's A6-5400K represents a more significant departure from the other K-series SKUs. To begin, it bears a 65 W TDP, instead of 100 W. It's also a single-module APU armed with two integer cores and a single floating-point unit. And instead of a shared 2 MB L2 cache, the -5400K is trimmed down to 1 MB of shared space. Radeon HD 7540D graphics are composed of 192 shader cores operating at an undisclosed frequency.


text: The course aims to provide a general knowledge of mediaeval church history (600 - 1500) presented in a text and by exercising critical reasoning through analysing 3 primary texts chosen by the student. The reality of the church's life shown by the clergy, laity and in its worship is made tangible through manuscript, artistic and architectural material from videos and Power Point presentations. Teaching methods: seminars, audiovisuals, lectures.


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The early years are fun and entertaining to read, but it wasn't until just a couple years ago that I noticed an increase in readers—who knows where you all came from! But knowing people were actually reading my blog made me stop and evaluate what I was writing about. I still don't really have a niche, but I like that. I like writing about what I want, when I want.
What I do have are incredibly loyal readers and I know I've said it over and over and over and over again, but I truly appreciate you taking the time to read my posts. You guys always have a knack for being so supportive, helpful, and encouraging when I need it, and I want you to know that I read every single comment I receive.
So to show my appreciation, I have a couple days of giveaways lined up. My original plan was to give something away for six days, but it turns out that this blog doesn't make any money, so I'm only doing three days of giveaways (unless someone out there wants me to promote their site/blog in return for something to give away...get in touch!). The rules will be listed after the prizes, but each giveaway will have a deadline of this Saturday, February 12, 2010 at 10 pm EST. I'll draw and announce a winner on Sunday.
A huge thanks to Dill Pickle Picnic for donating this apron, the following adorable cupcake flags, and another set of flags I'll include!
But what good is having cupcake flags without a cupcake for them to stand in? Have no fear, I have you covered with a fool-proof, tasty mix.
I felt a little bad that you won't get this stuff by Valentine's Day, but I figured it'd be okay since now you can "spice" up your love life any time you'd like. See what I did there? The cupcake mix is spice cake, so I'm suggesting you make it to add a little "spice" to your life? Oh, I crack myself up. This is why you continue to read my blog, right? :)
And last, but not least for today...if you're going to make cupcakes you need some cute cupcake holders! Again, even though these hearts suggest Valentine's Day, I see no problem in sharing the love any day of the year.
So there you have it! Nothing says happy blogiversary better than cupcakes and baking!
1. Leave me a comment. This can be about anything: How long you've been reading, what you like about my blog, what you'd like to see/hear more of, a question you have for me, etc. I'd like to do a post based on these comments!
2. Tweet the following: This takes the {cup}cake! I just entered @jesstagirl's blogiversary extravaganza giveaway here: http://tinyurl.com/48qhqh6 Then, come back here and tell me you tweeted (with your twitter username!)
3. Go to my sister site, The Tale of Two Kitchens, and subscribe or follow it. Then, come back here and tell me you're a new reader over there!
This giveaway runs through this Saturday, February 12, at 10 pm EST. I will announce a winner on February 13th.


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Announcing the Drawing Ideas Contest Winners
In December, we announced a contest to win a copy of Drawing Ideas: A hand-drawn approach for better design, the new book by Mark Baskinger and William Bardel. Entries were requested in the form of design drawing challenges. Along with a copy of the book and a UI Stencil, two winners were also promised some sketches of their entries.
The first winning entry came from Paul Brooks, a UX designer in the United Kingdom, who posed this challenge on Twitter: "Continue the 'Evolution of Man' image, looking forward one million years."
The other winning challenge came from Rebecca R who requested, "A responsive, graphic centered design that's intuitive across mobile devices—Apple, Android, and Windows."
"This rough sketch captures my initial thinking on the fly as I try to figure out what a cross-platform, graphic-centered phone UI might be," Baskinger says. "Whenever I sketch digital interfaces, I try to connect them to both physical hardware and behaviors to think through the user experience more holistically. To keep the mobile experience simple, this concept focuses on four key platform-independent attributes: communications (telephone, text, email), product/system (controls, tools, setup, etc), environments (physical places, GPS, bookmarked web pages, browser, social media, etc), and digital media (photos, videos, music, radio, etc)."
Here's a video of Baskinger completing the sketch:
Last but not least, check out our video flip-though of Drawing Ideas:
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While I definitely appreciate the skill that goes into such detailed and realistic sketches as created by Baskinger, I think this video completely misses the point that sketching can be used to facilitate the ideation process, with each successive sketch refining the interactions/flow that works well. If i were to spend as much time as this person did with each of the sketches I do, I'd never get anything done. Further, I'm not getting how this person's sketch satisfies the original goal of "A responsive, graphic centered design that's intuitive across mobile devices—Apple, Android, and Windows."
Its an amazing post!!
Drawing gives numerous way to make your favorite sketches perfectly and shows your efforts within your drawing.


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I hope they'll port SC2 as well. It's the only game I play actually. It's a pain to play it via WINE since performance is sub optimal.
But as far as we know, WoW seems to be closer to a port than SC2
I still think this will end up as a big failed experiment.
The main reason is the open source video drivers just plain suck, and many of those people who only use those drivers instead of the binary blobs will just ruin it for everyone else.
It would be better if the distros installed the binary blobs by default, but in many cases, they just won't do that.
Speaking of open source drivers, I fail to see why many people choose to support nvidia instead of AMD when picking the gfx cards themselves. AMD releases lots of docs, nvidia hasn't released much of anything really, yet, those same anti-binary blob people continue to support a company like nvidia by buying their products.
Yeah I really disliked D3, but thankfully, Torchlight gave me much pleasure and I hope Torchlight 2 is ported over here eventually. As for WoW, when you unsub, they ask why; the reason I gave was that I use Linux now and wasn't interested in using Wine because it ran fairly slow for me. And no offense to anyone here, but Wine isn't really a solution for me, I'd rather have native. I've been doing my part in my one year on Xubuntu by buying as many games as I can from the Software Center.
I frequently hear users of other Linux flavors asking what's so special about it. Well, just click buy and it installs, that's why. When Shank 2 was corrupt on the HB site, It installed perfectly from the software center. That's a main reason I use *buntu, It's a consumer friendly alternative that I have found nowhere else in the Linux world. This is only my opinion of course, please don't be offended, I'm on your side. =)
This is also my first post and I'm very excited to be part of the Community here! =)
Haven't bought a Blizzard game since D2, but if they release a game for Linux, I would totally buy it.
WoW is already mostly ported, Diablo 3 isn't news... I assume it's the forthcoming StarCraft II addon.
Well, I'm pretty curious how much Mr. ML will milk this topic. Since steam is pretty much mainstream and drying up, this looks like a potential visit-attracting cow.
hope its true, a World of Warcraft client woud be nice. I hope that the client will contain now Ubuntisms.
I play WoW under Wine using both the NVIDIA binary blob and the Radeon Open Source drivers, and the OpenGL client works just fine with both of them. You obviously lose some of the fancier graphics effects under OpenGL because Windows strongly prefers DirectX. I would hope that a native Linux client would implement some of those, but I think we'd need distros to pick up OpenGL 3.x support for Radeon first.