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ORDER that Google respond to 694 SEALED PATENT MOTION TO PRECLUDE TESTIMONY FROM LUCAS PEREIRA AT TRIAL filed by Bedrock Computer Technologies, LLC, and 693 SEALED PATENT MOTION TO PRECLUDE RELIANCE ON DOCUMENTS AND FACTS RELATED TO PERFORMANCE TESTING PRODUCED BY GOOGLE AFTER CLOSE OF DISCOVERY filed by Bedrock Computer Technologies, LLC. Google shall respond to both motions no later than 12:00 p.m. CST on 4-04-2011. In addition, both motions are set to be heard at the pretrial hearing on 4-04-2011. Signed by Magistrate Judge John D. Love on 04/01/11. cc:attys 4-01-11(mll, )

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Letter to myself: enough moping
Dear Mr. Sexsmith:
Enough moping already.
In case you haven't noticed, it is day three and Barack fucking Obama is still the presidential elect. Hello, even his name is radical! None of that Franklin George James John William. We didn't just imagine that beautiful acceptance speech in our progressive liberal little heads. He's already started a fantastic website for his Transition Project at www.change.gov and I have never felt so connected before to my government.
Yeah, maybe the expectations are pretty goddamn low after the most unpopular president in modern history. But still, Obama is positioned to be a fantastic leader and creator of change – and, more than that, an inspiration: not only the first black man elected president but also a progressive, liberal, forward-thinking, grassroots-organizing problem-solver who is positioned to help heal the (supposed) divisiveness of the red-state-vs-blue-state divide in this country.
I, like this country and like the rest of the world, am currently crushed out on Obama – and that doesn't necessarily last, I know. I'm sure eventually we'll start discovering that he never eats the heel of the loaf of bread or he always leaves his socks in the middle of the floor or he forgets to put the bathmat down, but meanwhile, the honeymoon phase sure is fun, isn't it?
And maybe, what if, just possibly, the relationship develops into a solid, steady improvement? What if we have common values, common interests, good communication, mutual adoration?
Ah, courtship. I love that feeling of such raw potential.
Speaking of adoration, I am consistently touched whenever I see President-Elect Obama with First Lady-Elect Michelle. (I bet you can't really use "First Lady-Elect" like that, but I like it.) They adore each other, and it's beautiful.
What? What's that? Oh, that little gay marriage thing? Those millions of people who voted that straight marriage is different than gay marriage? That marriage is a "sacred institution" that gays would defile and corrupt?
Or how about the little bee in all of our queer activist bonnets when we realized that voters care about chickens, but not about gay marriage? Or when voters passed 9 out of 10 marijuana initiatives on Tuesday, but gay marriage is still seen as the destruction "the family"?
Yeah, it sucks.
But HELLO, did you think this was going to be easy? Remember what you're doing here: dismantling the heteronormative nuclear family through both the institutional religion and bias and tradition of the church AND the monolithic ultimate power of the government.
Did you think that was just going to happen overnight?
Did you think the conservative bigots were just going to hand it to us?
Did you think it would be easy?
This is not an easy fight. If it was as easy as ONE ELECTION, uh, wouldn't we have already done it?
And while you're moaning and groaning about "my rights" this and "civil equality" that, what the fuck are YOU doing for gay rights and the queer movement? Did you actually talk to someone who said they were going to vote YES on Proposition 8 before the election, and engage with them about the specifics of why and how? Did you send emails to all your California cousins and say, "hey, I'm gay, you know I'm gay, don't vote to take my rights away"? Did you donate to campaigns, did you get out on the streets, did you volunteer for a phone bank?
And what have you done since? Are you active in your GBLT community center? Are you organizing groups and supporting queer youth and elderly and everybody in between? Are you educating yourself about the state of politics in this country and discovering your unique activist skills and putting them into action? Are you coming out to everyone, building yourself into a pillar of strength that will carry this community?
Because that's what we have to do, you know.
Nobody is going to do this work for us.
I'm kind of glad we've had this awakening. My liberal activist progressive queer communities have been all aflutter this week, sputtering, "But but but …" and shaking our heads, depressed, angry.
Hey, I hear you. I feel it too. We were wronged. And this is a reality check as blunt as a two-by-four to the back of the head.
Shake it off. Cry if you need to, let out the grief, go get your freak on with your lovely grrrl or boi of your choice and remember what it's like to be glittering, brilliant, sexual with another person, no matter what their junk looks like. Gain strength by keeping a girl poised on the tip of your tongue for an hour. Remember your attraction by taking a butch out to dinner and running your toe under her pant cuffs. Go have sex with your husband or wife or girlfriend or partner or boyfriend or lover or mistress or with the first random guy on Craigslist who answers your ad. Remember your beautiful self. Remember the jewel of strength at your core. Remember your friends and lovers and community that will gladly offer their shoulders upon which you can stand.
And stand the fuck up.
And then motivate. DO SOMETHING.
Funnel this depressed, angry, outraged energy into activism.
You know why $15 million dollars came from individual donors within the Mormon Church to pass proposition H8 in California?
Because they're scared.
Because if gay marriage is legal, they have to rethink their bigotry.
Because we're getting closer.
Becuase we're winning.
Because we're a threat to "tradition" – by which I mean a heteronormative mutually exclusive binary gender system that controls families and perpetuates itself as a system of control, wealth, and power.
It is a classic technique of an ethnic religious system: "Ethnic religion seeks to regulate many civic aspects of a particular tribe or people, and especially to regulate the biological and cultural reproduction of the tribe. It thus stipulates all sorts of rules to do with marriage, family, sex roles, bringing up children, etc."
This system has been refined and honed and fine-tuned and reworked for hundreds of years. And look – LOOK – at what we've (un)done in the last fifty. Look at what we've overturned, how we've changed – improved! – our way of life without damaging theirs. Look at how many choices we have, how many options, how much access we have to our government.
And this is where I start to get all My-Country-Tis-Of-Thee, because I am a patriot. I believe in the heart that created this country with the idea that ALL ARE CREATED EQUAL, even though the exact wording is "all men* are created equal" and that asterisk meant "who are white and own property."
But the principles are in place. They really are. We have a government whose original intention was to serve marginalized, underrepresented, unprotected groups. Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. I really do believe we have a government of the people.
And hi, last I checked? I am the people. You are the people. Queers are the people. We can be as involved or not involved as we want to be, and maybe blows like this to our community will encourage us to get even more involved.
We're bigger than this. We have been honing our activist skills for decades. We have a queer legacy of social change, uprising, activism, protest, and movement that has been one of the most successful social civil rights movements in history. (Yeah, I said it. I really do believe that, it's part of what makes it so goddamn fun to study. That, and I don't feel quite as completely alone or isolated or hopeless, which is always a plus.)
We know how to do this. And look at us – we're taking to the streets. We've filed follow-up lawsuits. We're using whatever power we have to say YOU CAN'T TREAT US LIKE THIS.
This is how change happens. One step forward, two steps back, three steps forward, four steps forward – then – BAM – movement. Progress.
First they ignore you.
Then they laugh at you.
Then they fight you.
Then you win.– Mahatma Gandhi
Buck the fuck up. Stop whining, get off your ass, and go change the world.
PS: Be nice. Open up. Engage. There is no us-verses-them. Listen. Unity leads to change.
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beautiful…just beautiful.
"Stand the fuck up" YEAH, BABY!
Thank you for the cold water splash after the sauna.
absolutely awesome letter to yourself.
heart you, Sin! I'm on board with your revolution. let's go get activist-y.
This is an incredible post–it really captures my frustration over the last few days, while also previewing a more optimistic tomorrow. Thanks for sharing it.
One thing though:
You know why $15 million dollars came from individual donors within the Mormon Church to pass proposition H8 in California?
It's my opinion that the Mormon Church expended time and resources in California because the Church leadership wants Mitt Romney to win the California primary in 2012. His loss there on Super Tuesday put the final nail in his campaign and the leadership of the LDS wants to make sure that doesn't happen again.
[Good point, sounds like a smart theory/opinion. Honestly I'm not as well versed at the political behind-the-scenes (especially not in California). Yet one more thing I love about writing publicly like this – the meaning and content of what I put forth can be commented upon, altered, and added to so easily. Thanks for that. – ss]
bravo, sinclair, bravo. and thank you.
have i told you i love you enough this week (gush, gush)….it's interesting – I was just saying to Mary that having been reading queer blogs all week, today I'm noticing a change – not just what I posted on my own blog and what is here, but everywhere. It's like the first few days were for our grief and anger and WTF just happened – and now we're awake. It's interesting to me how sometimes it takes a great loss to mobilize a group of people in a way they never would have mobilized had things continued on at status quo, or even if there had been advancements. This was a wake up call to everyone who had been talking the talk without walking the walk, and even to those who'd never considered talking. It's exciting, and it feels like the beginning of something thing….heck – at joemygod they are talking about a huge march on Washington DC in the spring…and I think it just might happen.
Honestly, I think overall, gay marriage and other rights are overall in a better position today than they were last week. Yes, it was dealt a huge blow in California, but even so, I think there is hope for the future. Here's why:
1. Obama. He's not an all out supporter of gay marriage, but he is much friendlier to the idea than the current President. A few years of support from the top should help.
2. Time is on our side (the slow version). Demographics: the young are friendlier to gay rights than older citizens.
3. Time is on our side (the fast version). Opinion has been moving in the direction of gay marriage. The longer that some states have gay marriage or civil unions, and society seems to go on just fine, the more people will accept the idea.
4. Stupid reasons. The initiative was written in a way that encouraged voters to vote for it—as stupid as it sounds, the wording can have a significant effect. Moreover, all it takes is a majority vote (as we just saw). All a reversal will take is a few percentage swing.
I'm with natthedem, I think we all needed this. It's certainly made me feel more optimistic. Well written.
Well done, Sir.
I am one of those who has been wallowing in her tea (it would have been something much stronger but I'm sick).
Prop 8 sucked the joy out of Mr. Obama's election. Heck, it sucked the joy out of the even greater certainty of the validity of our own forthcoming Connecticut nuptials.
I am a bit of a brat who needs to buck the fuck up, indeed.
We are happy for you about Obama – we were cheerleading him from the sidelines and are looking forward to the positive changes he may bring. At the same time we are sad with you about the wrong propositions against marriage and adoption.
We just had news of a conservative government landslide in New Zealand and are kind of waiting to hear what it means for all kinds of peoples. It could be really bad, financially, socially, sexually…
Maybe it needs to be really bad for people to realise "oh, this isn't what I wanted afer all!" I hope I am tough enough to rise to the challenge of living through that tough time.
Good luck with your tough time. I hope it reaps fairness in the end.
Thank you very much. I needed to read this… what's exciting now is that we have a federal government who doesn't hate us.. we have the opportunity for our own kind of change. we have no excuses for our complacency anymore.
let's do this thing.
Sinclair, again! Wonderful, and it encapsulates so much of what I've been feeling since the election- elation for so much of the election, and frustration at prop 8. It's awesome to hear a coherent voicing of the question "what now?", and a response.
Thank you for this letter, love.
I needed to read this today. And you're so incredibly right. We can do this!
Thank you!!
Thanks for speaking your voice out loud, Sinclair. I think it's important to remember that we do have a lot of work to do and that's it's going to be dirty work.
It's strange that the US will embrace marriage on TV, in Vegas, and for game shows -and call it a sacred institution. But letting gays get married-NO!
I have an amazing magnet on my fridge that says "But Mommy wouldn't Gay Marriages be Happy Marriages?"
Keep on Keepin' on
Thank you. I needed that.
Hell every queer in my entire state needs to read this, and so many other blogs I have read in the past week.
And in a way, we needed prop 8.
Here in Texas our amendment passed with 75% of the vote back in 05. In one of the largest and most diverse cities in this country… I don't recall seeing even a tiny fraction of the battle I saw over prop 8.
I can't imagine what it is like to finally gain those rights, only to lose them again so quickly. But Thank You to all those who have been so committed to these recent props. You have energized communities far removed from your own. I have heard more talk and outrage over prop 8 than when our own amendment passed.
We needed to know that even the golden state is fighting against the same hate. We needed to be kicked out of our complacent little shells.
Maybe our vote was a landslide and we won't be voting anytime soon. Maybe our supreme court is sooo not helping. But we can at least try and change what we can.
Maybe next time our 75% can be 65%.
Thank you!
Thank you, Sinclair. Very well reasoned and written.
I'm going to forward this to my friends; gay, straight and in between; but especially to one whose anger is turning not to activism but to destruction. She is ranting about bringing on a holy war.
Please, people, read the ps at the end of this letter. Real change will come from a positive, inclusive, high place not through destructive, angry bitterness.
And, real change will come. It is coming.
I loved reading this and I completely agree!
It is amazing to see how our community is coming together and standing strong. Our numbers are growing each day as our protests become national.
Community. United…yes this is how we will win.
As a straight, white, Roman Catholic male I shouldn't really support gay marriage but I think the denial of basic rights to anyone is wrong so I am all for it, however it doesn't really impact me so my opinion is irrelevant. On a personal note I don't see how gay marriage could do a better job of devaluing the sanctity of marriage than heterosexual marriages are doing already, I live in the UK where slightly over 50% of marriages end in divorce and where we have publicity seekers like Peaches Geldof and Jodie Marsh, (now a lesbian apparantly), getting married and fully expecting to get divorced within a month or two.
God I love this post.
Great post — VERY well said!
What is your take on (what I believe is the racist discourse of) white lgbtq people (white Femmes and white butches included) that blamed the recent passage of Proposition 8 on African Americans?
Dan Savage, a gay white man, wrote the article that appears to have *formally* launched this viscious racist attack on African Americans — an attack that did not acknowledge that their are important and numerous allies to lgbtq people in African American communities.
(I'm sure your readers know that Prop 8 is the amendment to Califorinia state's constitution that REMOVES the (also recently recognized) right to marry from gays and lesbians).
In your post, when exploring the reasons driving the anti-gay marriage movement, you state: "Because we're a threat to "'tradition' – by which I mean a heteronormative mutually exclusive binary gender system that controls families and perpetuates itself as a system of control, wealth, and power."
I agree with ALL of that — but you leave out /instutional racism and white supremacy…
I'm sure you agree that gay marriage poses a threat to white U.S. American social, political and economic domination as well as white privilege.
Could you discuss/explore the reasons why the anti-gay movement is dominated by white heterosexuals?
Why do you think that most white gay men who voted — *did not* vote for Obama? Most white gay men voted for McCain — a man leading a political party (Republicans) that supports heterosexist, sexist and racist policies.
I'm asking you these questions, Sinclair, in part because I have only *personally* engaged one white queer person (who is also a super hot Femme:) who recognizes/analyzes racist discourse produced by lgbtq people (and racism & white privilege in lgbtq communities in general).
I know that there are white lgbtq people that share her views — a comment to a previous post indicates that you are one of them. I would like to "take in" your perspective/those perspectives.
I am also asking you these questions because you have a wide readership — the majority of whom are white folks who identify somewhere along the lgbtq spectrum. I am sure they would benefit from "hearing" your views on gay marriage rights in a context of institutional racism as well.
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lame you cant choose charecter or turn even super saiyan embareesment to dbz
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Kia Motors Partners With Scripps Networks Digital to Support Launch of All-New 2010 Kia Forte
IRVINE, Calif., Aug. 19 /PRNewswire/ — Kia Motors America (KMA) has partnered with Scripps Networks Digital to extend the launch of the all-new 2010 Kia Forte compact sedan, which is dubbed "The First of Its Kind" for its unique combination of standard technology, convenience, comfort and safety features. The partnership includes: "What's Your Forte" sweepstakes on FoodNetwork.com and DIYnetwork.com, rich media units with a custom recipe generator on FoodNetwork.com, sponsorship of FoodNetwork.com's Recipe of the Day widget, print ads and on-air spots.
"Exposing the Kia brand to the wide variety of passionate and practical people who turn to Scripps Networks websites including FoodNetwork.com and DIYnetwork.com is a natural fit for the Forte, which defies expectations and stands out from the crowd," said Michael Sprague, vice president of marketing, KMA. "A first of its kind, Forte's trailblazing comfort, technology and comprehensive safety features make it an attractive and cost-effective solution, which meets the needs of value-conscious consumers."
The "What's Your Forte" sweepstakes on FoodNework.com and DIYnetwork.com helps do-it-yourselfers pursue their passions with helpful tips and advice in a variety of categories, including cooking, home improvement and gardening. The sweepstakes offers a variety of prizes, including more than $10,000 in prizes. The first place winner receives a $5,000 gift card, the second place winner is awarded iRobot((R)) products, and weekly winners get $500 gift cards from Williams-Sonoma((R)), Crate & Barrel((R)), Lowe's((R)) or Home Depot((R)). Print and on-air spots will drive awareness of the sweepstakes.
The Pantry Genie is an interactive rich media ad unit custom created for the Kia campaign that will generate recipes for the user based on one of 12 typical pantry ingredients selected. "Kia Motors' tagline is the 'power to surprise,'" continued Sprague. "The creative Pantry Genie the wizards at Scripps Networks have whipped up for Kia Motors works by generating surprising dinner combinations made with ingredients most people have on hand in their pantry. It is perfect for the FoodNetwork.com audience and right on target with the Kia Motors message."
Kia Motors also will be sponsoring the popular FoodNetwork.com "Recipe of the Day" widget. The downloadable widget offers a new favorite chef and recipe from FoodNetwork.com every day.
About the Kia Forte
The all-new Forte is dubbed "the first of its kind," offering an impressive combination of standard technology, convenience, comfort and safety features never before seen in the compact sedan category. Available in three trims, LX, EX and SX, pricing for the all-new compact sedan starts at $13,695(1) for the LX trim, $15,795 for the EX trim and $17,195 for SX models. LX and EX models come equipped with a 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine while SX models house a more powerful 2.4-liter four-cylinder, both engines able to achieve at least 31 mpg (highway).
About Kia Motors America
Kia Motors America (KMA) is the marketing and distribution arm of Kia Motors Corporation based in Seoul, South Korea. KMA offers a complete line of vehicles through more than 630 dealers throughout the United States. For 2008, KMA recorded its 14th consecutive year of increased U.S. market share. Kia Motors subscribes to a philosophy of building high value, high quality, safe and dynamic vehicles. Kia Motors prides itself on producing vehicles that are exciting and enabling and evoke the Kia tagline "The Power to Surprise."
Kia Motors America is the "Official Automotive Partner of the NBA." Information about Kia Motors America and its full vehicle line-up is available at its Web site – www.kia.com. For media information, including photography, visit www.kiamedia.com.
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The AP-70 BL canister makes up 5 liter of bleach solution, tank solution (no regenerator).
Bleach time is 6:30 at normal processing temp (38°C) and routines, but can be shortened up to 2:45 in a rapid process at 40/41 °C environment.
I would stay at 6:30, just to be safe…
The capacity shall be 60 films 135/24 exposures for each canister. ( = 12x135/24 or about 8x135/36 or 120 Films / per liter *for normal processing times, 6:30 min !!)
In AP-70 than follows "FX-Universal" for 6:30 minutes, the Kodak Flexicolor fix will be more than a good substitute.
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In 1971, as a Peace Corps volunteer in baseball-crazed Nicaragua, the manager of the Masaya taxi-cab team "discovered" Jerry Perkins during a pickup game on a dusty vacant lot
In 1971, as a Peace Corps volunteer in baseball-crazed Nicaragua, the manager of the Masaya taxi-cab team "discovered" Jerry Perkins during a pickup game on a dusty vacant lot
Still in the game
What baseball means to me and why, at 56, I continue to play
The Des Moines Register
Jerry Perkins
April 2, 2005
"See! The winter is past; the rains are over and gone. Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come, the cooing of doves is heard in our land." -Song of Solomon 2:11-12
For me, the coming of spring means it's time to lace up the baseball spikes.
And yet, it was just last fall when I had to re-examine why, at age 56, I'm still playing a boy's game.
Let me set the scene:
It was a cool October night in Phoenix. My son, Geoff, a 24-year-old southpaw, looked at me across a table of empty beer bottles and pizza boxes at the motel where our team was staying.
"How much longer are you going to play, Dad?"
"I don't know, Geoffrey," I said, shifting uncomfortably in my chair.
I'd just caught 12 innings in two days, and it felt like a steak knife was stuck in the small of my back.
My wet jersey, moist with sweat from the exertion of the two games our father-son baseball team from Des Moines had played that day, conducted the chill of the night air straight to my bones.
I needed a long soak in a hot tub. It was time to confront the truth. I'd cheated old age long enough. Maybe it was time to hang them up.
I've been playing baseball for 50 years, a career that's spanned Little League, my sophomore year in high school, the old Connie Mack summer baseball league in Des Moines and a brief career as a bullpen catcher for the George Washington University Colonials.
In 1971, as a Peace Corps volunteer in baseball-crazed Nicaragua, the manager of the Masaya taxi-cab team "discovered" me during a pickup game on a dusty vacant lot.
Before I played in a game for the "taxistas," however, I had to quit. A delegation from another town who had heard about the Masaya team's "Yanqui" ballplayer showed up at the Peace Corps office and asked the country director to send them a ballplayer, too.
When this story was posted in April 2005, this was on the front page of PCOL:Read the stories and leave your comments.
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The Peace Corps Library
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RPCVs and Friends remember Pope John Paul II
Tony Hall found the pope to be courageous and capable of forgiving the man who shot him in 1981, Mark Gearan said the pope was as dynamic in person as he appears on television, Maria Shriver said he was a beacon of virtue, strength and goodness, and an RPCV who met the pope while serving in the Solomon Islands said he possessed the holiness of a man filled with a deep love and concern for humanity. Leave your thoughts here.
Friends of the Peace Corps 170,000 strong
170,000 is a very special number for the RPCV community - it's the number of Volunteers who have served in the Peace Corps since 1961. It's also a number that is very special to us because March is the first month since our founding in January, 2001 that our readership has exceeded 170,000. And while we know that not everyone who comes to this site is an RPCV, they are all "Friends of the Peace Corps." Thanks everybody for making PCOL your source of news for the Returned Volunteer community.
April 3, 2005: RPCV Groups in the News
Houston RPCVs sponsor "Around the World in a Day"on April 6 25 Mar
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Connecticut RPCVs held fundraiser on March 5 3 Mar
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Crisis Corps arrives in Thailand
After the Tsunami in Southeast Asia last December, Peace Corps issued an appeal for Crisis Corps Volunteers and over 200 RPCVs responded. The first team of 8 Crisis Corps volunteers departed for Thailand on March 18 to join RPCVs who are already supporting relief efforts in Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, and India with other agencies and NGO's.
RPCVs in Congress ask colleagues to support PC
RPCVs Sam Farr, Chris Shays, Thomas Petri, James Walsh, and Mike Honda have asked their colleagues in Congress to add their names to a letter they have written to the House Foreign Operations Subcommittee, asking for full funding of $345 M for the Peace Corps in 2006. As a follow-on to Peace Corps week, please read the letter and call your Representative in Congress and ask him or her to add their name to the letter.
Add your info now to the RPCV Directory
Call Harris Publishing at 800-414-4608 right away to add your name or make changes to your listing in the newest edition of the NPCA's Directory of Peace Corps Volunteers and Former Staff. Then read our story on how you can get access to the book after it is published. The deadline for inclusion is May 16 so call now.
March 1: National Day of Action
Tuesday, March 1, is the NPCA's National Day of Action. Please call your Senators and ask them to support the President's proposed $27 Million budget increase for the Peace Corps for FY2006 and ask them to oppose the elimination of Perkins loans that benefit Peace Corps volunteers from low-income backgrounds. Follow this link for step-by-step information on how to make your calls. Then take our poll and leave feedback on how the calls went.


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First Patients Treated in Hypertension Clinical Study Using Renal Denervation System
February 29, 2012 — Vessix Vascular Inc. announced initial patient treatments in the international multicenter Reduce-HTN renal denervation clinical study for uncontrolled hypertension.
Reduce-HTN is a nonrandomized, prospective, single cohort, 64-patient clinical study designed to validate the clinical performance of the Vessix V2 Renal Denervation System for medication-resistant hypertensive patients. Renal denervation is a new percutaneous catheter-based procedure that disrupts renal sympathetic nerves whose hyperactivity leads to abnormally high blood pressure. The renal denervation procedures employing the Vessix balloon catheter were performed at Paracelsus Medical University in Salzburg, Austria, by interventional cardiologist Uta Hoppe.
The first patient treated was 39 years old with pre-treatment blood pressure readings of 174/114, despite taking four anti-hypertensive medications. The second patient was 44 years old with a blood pressure of 168/106, despite taking six anti-hypertensive medications.
"We found the catheter easy to use and quite efficient in terms of therapy time. Moreover, the patient required modest amounts of intravenous anxiolytics and narcotics since the therapy was delivered in a matter of seconds," said Hoppe following the procedure.
By design, all patients enrolled in the study have a baseline systolic blood pressure greater than 160 mm Hg despite being treated by at least three anti-hypertensive drugs. The 10-center Reduce-HTN study will enroll patients at medical centers in Austria, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, France, Netherlands and Australia. The study, which calls for patients to be followed for 24 months, will capture post-treatment office-based and ambulatory blood pressure measurements at various time points in accordance with internationally recognized guidelines. In addition to assessing the patient's clinical condition, the renal arteries of treated patients will be imaged at various time points post-treatment to confirm safety of the procedure.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House plans to ask Congress for an increase in the debt limit before the end of the week, according to a senior Treasury Department official.
The debt limit is projected to fall within $100 billion of the current cap by December 30. President Barack Obama is expected to ask for additional borrowing authority to increase the limit by $1.2 trillion.
Under the new budget, Congress can only vote to block the debt-ceiling extension with a disapproval resolution. Lawmakers have 15 days within receiving the request to vote down the debt limit increase.
The debt limit currently stands at $15.194 trillion and would increase to $16.394 trillion with the request.
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Your statement was my first exact thought. Didn't they have a war over this?
Time to bend over, Boehner!
Where does this end? when does this stop? I guess when there is no more money to take from us and then the riots start.
GINGRICH SHOULD CALL FOR HIS RESIGNATION AS SPEAKER (he is the onyl candidate with the balls to do something like this)
Brother, we're ALL bending over .....
One can only kick a can so far with a foot infected with gangrene.
And here we meet the can again.
A billion this week, a few billion last week, a few more for next week. Rinse and repeat. It never ends with this admin.
Don't worry. Congress will form a Super Committee to deal with this issue.
Oh wait......
Greece. Italy. Spain. America. Pathetic.
WTF does THAT mean?
The new debt limit ill be within $100b of the current one in 4 days?
Trying to figure out the end game is really important. It would seem that inflation/hyper inflation is the intermediate result. Wait a few years.
The junkies need another shot in the arm... and congress will say, "who do we make out the check to?"...
You know this one is a slam dunk.
This no longer surprises anyone... the desensitizing is working...
Time for someone, anyone, in DC to draw the line and say "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!"
He won't even be back from his vacation, and he's going to ask to raise the debt limit? Must be his and Manchelle's Hawaii sojourn has cost us more than we originally thought.
Harry Reid beat the crap out McConnell and Boehner at every turn.
There is no practical way to stop the debt limit increase.
Eight Hundred Days Without A Budget-A new milestone in Democrat Party governance is reached. (from July 2011)
Democrats have controlled the Senate and the White House since the election of 2008, and the House of Representatives up until this year. Certainly they could have passed any budget they desired, including one with tax increases and spending increases. But they chose to ignore the 800-day gorilla in the room because they don't want to be on record supporting a budget that actually does what they want. Then the public could hold them accountable for their cowardly and irresponsible behavior in the face of national fiscal calamity.
While the House has passed a serious, credible budget that tackles this debt crisis head-on, 800 days and $7.3 trillion dollars have come and gone since the Democrat-led Senate has adopted a budget. Not only is a budget a concrete fiscal plan, but it expresses a philosophy of governing. Democrats refusal to pass a budget and refusal to put their big-government economic theories on paper is of extraordinary significance. Making matters worse, the only budget submitted by the president is a fundamentally unserious plan that doubles our debt and speeds us to economic decline.
The Democrats have not even proposed a budget. President Obama gave a speech on the topic a few months ago, but it was a demagogic campaign speech intended primarily to attack Paul Ryan author of the Republican Path to Prosperity package of very concrete proposals who was sitting in the front row. Back in May, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) stated, Theres no need to have a Democratic budget in my opinion. It would be foolish for us to do a budget at this stage. Does he still consider it foolish fifty days later?
What Budget? We have a Budget? Where is it?
SOB is on vacation and asking for more money.
Of course he will get it. There isn't a backbone in the Congress strong enough to say no.
Thy screwed over the military when the Super-Committee couldn't make up its mind, who will they fugg over this time? Cut the Air Force One Budget. Ground Obama.
He has Millions in a campaign fund let him take that and his bus's on the road.
I hope they all get fired before taxes hit 90%.
Teaparty patriots, are you listening?
1. Black Women and Children will burst into flames
2. You are Racist against Blacks
3. Black churches will burn
4. All the above
I can hardly wait for the MSM and Beckel to spin this into RAT gold.
The White House and first lady are worried there won't be funds for cover their Christmas vacation.
Why doesn't the House put the White House on a budget? Do they have unlimited funds?
Keynes stated that the best way to implement socialism was to inflate the currency to steal the wealth of the individual in such a way that not one man in a million would know what was happening.
Back in August, Congress passed a deal to raise the nations debt ceiling after a highly contentious debate between the two parties. Back then, the fight was over about a $2 trillion increase in spending. So imagine what might happen when Congress returns from vacation to find the president has asked for another $1.2 trillion increase in the limit.
According to Reuters, thats exactly what Obama is getting ready to do:
The debt limit is projected to fall within $100 billion of the current cap by December 30. President Barack Obama is expected to ask for additional borrowing authority to increase the limit by $1.2 trillion.
Under the new budget, Congress can only vote to block the debt-ceiling extension with a disapproval resolution. Lawmakers have 15 days within receiving the request to vote down the debt limit increase.
The debt limit currently stands at $15.194 trillion and would increase to $16.394 trillion with the request.
I'll predict Friday afternoon, December 30; the ultimate Friday afternoon news dump, leading into the holiday weekend, with all the Congresscritters home in their districts, and most of the TV talking heads in the Hamptons. The worse the news, the less attention the Administration wants paid to it.
"The White House plans to ask Congress for an increase in the debt limit before the end of the week"
From ASIA???
How can they even propose this without ANY spending cuts??????????????????????????????
At this point, the only phrase that can be used to describe hiking the debt limit is, literally "High Treason".
I thought Congress can't do anything as Reid sent the Senate home for a month?
Nearly 1000 days of political cowardice, reckless irresponsibility, and dereliction of duty. Enjoy your milestone, Democrats. May the American people remember it well in 2012.
Tea Party needs to be hitting the streets! Enough of this garbage.
Those 4 million dollar vacations are just a taxpayers credit card burning a hole in hussein's pants.
6 Now Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died, 7 but the Israelites were exceedingly fruitful; they multiplied greatly, increased in numbers and became so numerous that the land was filled with them.
8 Then a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt. 9 Look, he said to his people, the Israelites have become far too numerous for us. 10 Come, we must deal shrewdly with them or they will become even more numerous and, if war breaks out, will join our enemies, fight against us and leave the country.
11 So they put slave masters over them to oppress them with forced labor, and they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh. 12 But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites 13 and worked them ruthlessly. 14 They made their lives bitter with harsh labor in brick and mortar and with all kinds of work in the fields; in all their harsh labor the Egyptians worked them ruthlessly.
Kind of makes you wonder WHO is in charge?
Hey House of Reps: let's re-elect the guy and let him raise the debt limit 1.5 Trill every 6 months. No problem.
Oui Oui!!
Boehner.. FRench for 'retreat'.
The only difference between these @$$h@t$ and group of drunken sailors, is that the sailors are forced to quit when they run out of money
The request should be preceded by the words -
It is with profound shame and embarrassment that I come to you today asking you add to the already crippling mortgage burden you and I have laid on other people's children.
Well said FRiend. I can't wait to see what Standard and Poors does with our credit rating now.
"The request should be preceded by the words -
It is with profound shame and embarrassment that I come to you today "
LOL. You are right but the truth is Barry is sitting on the beach in Hawaii right now laughing his Kenyan behind off about how much the dims own McConnell and Boehner.
"Tea Party needs to be hitting the streets! Enough of this garbage."
We need to burn up the phone lines to DC in January and let the Milquetoast Senate RINO's know we expect the 1,000 day anniversary of no dim budget to be a big event. And throw in the joke 97-0 senate Barry budget for good measure. It would really resonate with voters (who must have a personal budget!) but they are apparently surrender monkeys afraid of fire from the MSM and the White Hut.
I guess those dried beans and rice I stored are gonna come in real handy.........................soon................
That's a great graphic, except the budget "cut" is actually just a promise to boost the credit card at a slightly slower pace - - but the balance owed still goes UP.
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So I've been trying to up my cals lately to recover from Ed. But now I've hit a road block - for the past 2 weeks, I've been eating 400 cal breakfast....then I eat about 300 cal meal, then 400 snack. So 1100 in a day. I let Ed in...and now I feel that I can't increase anymore. I'm terrified of gaining the weight back quickly - I want to be able to eat more but my metabolism is probably too slow so any more food will cause crazy gains. And I also do 600 jumping jacks each day. I can't stop those because I'm scared that if I do, I'll gain. I'm stuck. I need help, support...I'm so lost. And being in university, I have to study and walk to classes. So I don't know now...I just feel terrible, stupid, I'm scared and feel alone. Please help...I really need u guys.
Reason: WG is not for recovery or ED thread; moved to Health and Support
Might be useful to give a few stats in your profile - like age, gender, current and target weight, etc. However, I'm guessing ... male? ... under 20? ... BMI about 16?
You've got two problems going on: A fear of calorie numbers and an addiction to exercise, all mixed together.
Think of your body now as a game of Jenga - a stack of wooden blocks teetering, ready to fall. The calories are a magic substance that will, once in place, become more wooden blocks and stop the tower wobbling - IF you give them time. So you are currently trying to put tiny blobs of calories into the vast holes in your Jenga tower, then hastily shaking the table to make sure they don't actually get a chance to stick, and making the whole tower more and more likely to fall over totally.
You need to cut back on the exercises because you NEED to gain, not use every darn calorie up hopping about like a demented frog. You have three phases to recovery (sticking with the metaphor): (1) eat enough to plug the holes up (getting back to your pre-ED weight), (2) eat some more to build a repair scaffold around the whole tower to hold it together while the repair happens, and then (3) eventually remove the scaffold.
Time to put that energy you are burning up to good use. While eating, imagine kicking Ed's scrawny butt all round the campus. Every time you get an Ed thought, drown it out by imaging using Ed as a football. No more jumping jacks until you are eating enough to survive, and repair, AND have enough extra calories for exercise - and that is probably in the 3500 region as a MINIMUM. No calories, no jumping jacks. Simple.
That is not to say you can't do SOME exercise once you start eating OVER 2000 or so calories a day, EVERY day - but stick to stretching and toning stuff, no more than one 20 minute session a day, and that does NOT involve anything that needs a solid floor under you because your feet are leaving it. If you decide to go for Step Aerobics, make that 2500 calories at least.
This was a post Hedgren wrote to another member -- you may find it helpful.
http://caloriecount.about.com/motivation-over come-eating-disorder-ft183852
Deep in your heart, you know you are in crisis. You HAVE to eat more and you HAVE to stop exercising. You may not be able to avoid the walking to/from classes, but you must stop the additional exercise.
You need to get support on campus -- you should not be trying to do this alone -- the added stress, plus the stress of college life itself could have a devastating effect. But the fact is you MUST get help, you are nowhere near recovery.
You have a BMI of 15 and continue to undereat and exercise. No matter how many calories over your current, you will gain water weight; it is inevitable. Wrap your head around a lifetime of ED or a 6 months to a year of living with some water weight an re-distributed body weight. A lifetime of being cold, having dull, lifeless skin, hair falling out, brittle bones, or months of recovery.
The inbetween time is rough -- but, from what I understand, worth it in the end.
Epic fail on the guess then!
The advice is still valid, though.
For this of you who started out low as me and increased....how was it? Did u gain like crazy? Did u feel better or weaker? did your metabolism ramp up?
The hungry bit means that your metabolism is still urging you to eat - so at least you know it's still alive and kicking Ed in the ****s. Try a milk shake or something if you can't handle the food - sometimes it can seem less threatening
You have three phases to go through
(1) Gain weight to a healthy level - BMI of 21.
(2) Keep eating a "repair" level past that so that your body can finish mending itself. This will take you above BMI 21 but below the top of the "healthy" range.
(3) Once your body is repaired, then you drop back to a BMI of 20, which despite what Ed tells you is slim and healthy.
You NEED to gain weight - or you will NOT recover. You NEED Stage 2 to reset your leptin levels to normal and put your body back into "normal 18yo girl" mods. If you don't do it, you will keep having the same problems until it's too late.
The only place the idea of "too much gain" comes from is Ed. You need to gain weight. And the only thing that shuts Ed up is dropping calories on him! If you are stable on 1800, then taking it to a higher level wil slowly increase your weight. You can't get a massive increase in weight from a small increase in food - at worst your body will hang on to more water as well to make the gain a little higher.
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Controlling deformation in a high quality factor silica microsphere toward single directional emission |
Applied Optics, Vol. 52, Issue 2, pp. 298-301 (2013)
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(140.3410) Lasers and laser optics : Laser resonators
(230.5750) Optical devices : Resonators
(350.3950) Other areas of optics : Micro-optics
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Lasers and Laser Optics
Original Manuscript: October 12, 2012
Revised Manuscript: November 25, 2012
Manuscript Accepted: December 2, 2012
Published: January 10, 2013
Jin-Ming Cui, Chun-Hua Dong, Chang-Ling Zou, Fang-Wen Sun, Yun-Feng Xiao, Zheng-Fu Han, and Guang-Can Guo, "Controlling deformation in a high quality factor silica microsphere toward single directional emission," Appl. Opt. 52, 298-301 (2013)
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Me trying to look rocker chic and sultry:
Some picks available in size 0 that I'm seriously contemplating. That lace-trimmed skirt...want.
I've been looking for a light grey cropped leather jacket for ages. Grey is such a transitional color. It can take a leather jacket from season to season, whereas I think black is too harsh for the Spring / Summer. Here's a pic from one of my first posts back in October 2009:
I fell in love with this Burberry kids leather jacket, but at $695 it was out of the question for a little cropped piece of clothing. I stalked it online until it was sold out, without ever going on sale! Darn those trust fund kids.


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2 strokes will always make the most horsepower with ONE individual expansion chamber per cylinder.
As soon as you add 1 or 2 more cylinders to the mix, the soundwaves (for lack of a better explaination) begin to collide in a way that disrupts the whole purpose of an expansion chamber.... Cramming unburnt mixture back into the cylinder before the port closes.
BINGO!! If you want the best out of a 2T engine, you need separate chambers. Next best would be a single-chambered 'twingle', where the pistons are in sync with each other..... there may be a pressure loss, but at least the sonics won't fight each other.
The shape of a 2T expansion chamber works kiss-'n-cousins to a supercharger, with no mechanical moving parts. The placement and shape of the forward cone generates vaccuum to help drag out the old, spent charge - and help pull the fresh charge up from the cases while the transfer and exhaust ports are all open (scavenging). Then the rear cone reverses that wave, to force-feed a portion of fresh fuel charge - that had been pulled into the headpipe - back on top of the piston, before the exhaust port closes. The powerband of a 2T engine is greatly influenced by the placement and shape of both cones.
If you need light weight and cornering clearance more than power, then the 3-1 chamber may be fine for you. I faced several Kawi 750's and GT-750's with those pipes on local racetracks, and my under-carbureted GT-550 outran 'em all easily. 200CC's lighter displacement, and still no contest.
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Bittner-Eddy, P and Can, C and Gunn, N and Pinel, M and Tör, M and Crute, I and Holub, E.B. and Beynon, J (1999) Genetic and Physical Mapping of the RPP13 Locus, in Arabidopsis, Responsible for Specific Recognition of Several Peronospora parasitica (Downy mildew) Isolates. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 12 (9). pp. 792-802. ISSN 0894-0282
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Fifteen isolates of the biotrophic oomycete Peronospora parasitica (downy mildew) were obtained from a population of Arabidopsis thaliana plants that established naturally in a garden the previous year. They exhibited phenotypic variation in a set of 12 Arabidopsis accessions that suggested that the parasite population consisted of at least six pathotypes. One isolate, Maks9, elicited an interaction phenotype of flecking necrosis and no sporulation (FN) in the Arabidopsis accession Nd-1, and more extensive pitting necrosis with no sporulation (PN) in the accession Ws-2. RPP13 was designated as the locus for a single dominant resistance gene associated with the resistance in Nd-1 and mapped to an interval of approximately 60 kb on a bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) contig on the lower arm of chromosome 3. This locus is approximately 6 cM telomeric to RPP1, which was previously described as the locus for the PN interaction with five Peronospora isolates, including resistance to Maks9 in Ws-2. New Peronospora isolates were obtained from four other geographically distinct populations of P. parasitica. Four isolates were characterized that elicited an FN phenotype in Nd-1 and mapped resistance to the RPP13 locus. This suggests that the RPP13 locus contains either a single gene capable of multiple isolate recognition or a group of tightly linked genes. Further analysis suggests that the RPP11 gene in the accession Rld-0 may be allelic to RPP13 but results in a different recognition capability.
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Hybrid Governance: The case of household solid waste management in Sweden
Publiceringsår: 2012
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Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie: IRSPM Annual Conference - XVI - University of Rome Tor Vergata - 2012
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Förlag: International Research Society for Public Management (IRSPM)
Governance is hybrid to the extent that it involves several types of stakeholders, jurisdictional domains, and organisational forms. This paper analyses governance of household solid waste management in Sweden from a hybridity perspective, with the City of Helsingborg as example. The empirical material on which the paper is based consists of interviews with politicians, civil servants and management of the municipal waste management company; and of documents of various kinds, from board meeting minutes to formal municipal plans to website pages. Waste governance in Sweden, it is shown, includes conflicting legislation, entanglement of urban infrastructure and planning, and long planning and investment horizons. The latter has resulted in significant innovations over the last twenty years. But the study also shows how organisational forms and the composition of tasks, as well as networks and jurisdiction, change over time, in turn causing tensions in governance processes and relationships.
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Released: Jun 01st, 2006
Running Time: 121
Director: Steve Austin
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Amazing Father's Day backpacking with the ladies. Everyone had fun. Wildlife was amazing. If you have not been, you should.
Very Nice! I have two comments: Maybe apply more sunscreen to your forehead and it won't get so pink! However, I see now that your sunburn is how you have managed to get the color pink into each of your photos. Rather than say "Well done," I'll just call it a rare accomplishment. I see no fly fishing gear along, or evidence of any fly fishing for surf perch. Wouldn't they even let you sneak a 6 wt beach rod along? I mean, it was Father's Day weekend!
Spent a 4th of July weekend there once with friends who couldn't backpack any distance. Good starter trip for kids. Lots'a interesting junk washes up on the beach. Don't forget your sunscreen.
Looks like a good day to me. Family, beach, sun. Yeah, pretty good. Can't wait to get my kayak back in the water this week. I've had to take a little time off from fishing for some open heart surgery; but I'm almost back in fighting shape. See you on the water!
When you are ready to paddle or walk the beaches, let me know. I will keep you company so you can keep an eye on me!
In the words of a personal favorite Brooks&Dunn song, "'Cause that's what it's all about!" Really nice family outing. Thx for sharing.


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Hickson grabbed eight rebounds and Tyson distributed 11 assists for the Nuggets, who closed out a home-and-home sweep against the Mavericks.
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Their equivalent of fast passes (called Express passes there, I believe) do exclude certain rides - mostly the Harry Potter ones. There's no FP equivalent for those rides, so everyone has to queue up. However, their equivalent of the DAS/GAC does not exclude those rides. At least, it's not meant to and there is anecdotal evidence on the Universal board that people have used them on Gringotts.


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History Will Not Repeat Itself Tonight
It has not even been a year since the Chicago White Sox and pitcher Mark Buehrle stuck the first Perfect Game against them in Tampa Bay Rays history upon the team back on July 23,2009. And it was not the first venture into the No-No business for Buehrle, he also got a No-hit wonder back on April 18,2007 against the Texas Rangers. But if you listened real close to the hotel lobby chatter already starting to escalate about tonight's first meeting since "The Perfecto", and about "The Catch" by former White Sox Dewayne Wise, you have to instantly wonder why the Rays even show up with all this hype and pomp going on even before the beads of sweat have been wiped from White Sox Manager Ozzie Guillen's forehead last night.
I can only imagine what kind of quick and witty dialogue will unfold the second after the White Sox's open the turnstiles to U S Cellular Field today for a classic rematch of finesse over accuracy pitching versus the Rays crafty base running abilities and omnipresent power hitting potential of this line-up. The real question might actually be that this game can not, in realistic terms, even come close to the last meeting by Buehrle and the Rays offense because of their changed outfield alignment, a weaker defensive core behind Buehrle, plus the additional personal knowledge of the Rays squad as to Buehrle's pitch selection, and the possibility of their last meeting's game video drilled into their cranium over the last several days.
Jim Pershing/AP
This game might be more about redemption, the Rays redemption over an extremely evil moment in their team's history that only a great (lucky) catch by Wise secured for their immortality. Seriously, the White Sox have designated and painted a small "The Catch" lettering upon the CF outfield fence to symbolize this one moment into their team history. If you remember the after the game comments of Wise that day, this whole episode could have gone either way if he had moved his glove in another position as he was coming down off that wall with the ball perched towards the end of his glove like the top of an icy white snow cone.
Jerry Lai/ US Press wire Wise exploded up and into the Centerfield wall and his momentum seemed to bounce his catching shoulder violently into the wall, but somehow he retains his grip on his glove and makes his way down towards the outfield warning track clay and the hands of the unseen Baseball Gods mysteriously kept that ball from leaving his glove looking more like a fresh chicken egg. And the chicken and the egg metaphor truly fits here because if Wise had missed that ball, it would have fallen between his legs like a white orb leaving his chicken mothers…Let's just say he would have laid a big egg.
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But it was a 5-0 game at that point, and the Rays might not have secured the win no matter what had happened, but the "Perfecto" and the "No-No" would have been el gone-o at that point. It would have been a moral victory, but you got believe Rays outfielder Gabe Kapler who also made an amazing diving catch for an out in Rightfield in the same game felt a bit in the dark shadows today.
But it is great to get this kind of National attention focused towards an April night game that doesn't involve inner divisional foes, but two teams that kind of do not like each others style of play, but respect the winning traditions. But this White Sox team in 2009 had a Rays huge chip upon their shoulders because this same Tampa Bay team thrust them out quickly of the 2008 Playoffs like a redheaded stepchild, then went all the way to the World Series. You know deep down within them each member of that 2008 White Sox Playoff team thought they had the mustard to confront the Phillies, rain or no rain and bring back another shiny heirloom for the trophy case.
And Buehrle is an amazing pitcher, I will truly give that to him. And he does possess that one demonic element that has haunted the Rays for most of 2009 and even early on in 2010. He is one of those crafty lefties like last night's White Sox victor John Danks who can pick and choose his pitching moments to entice you with outside pitches or throw one high and tight and make you ultimately sweat like a pig at the plate. But like I said before in this post, the Rays have had a period of time to let that game fester within them, to go back over again and again changes and adjustments they would have personally done to make the outcome different.
So I am forecasting a huge barrage of action tonight. Not only will one of the aces of the White Sox be countering the Rays rookie Wade Davis on the hill tonight, but the team confidence and the team unity this season is miles ahead of the mid-July Rays team of 2009. This year's team has an air about them that there is unfinished business in front of them, but another of their early tests will come tonight against Buehrle. Just like M C Hammer said so eloquently a few years ago, "When you take the "Devil" out, the wins come in."
Well, the Rays have a demon on the mound tonight who has enticed and sliced and diced them into chopped Italian Beef sandwiches. And with the Rays currently showing a .151 Batting Average against Buehrle in 2009 it might seem like an uphill climb the size of Mount Everest. But the cosmic potential of this 2010 Rays squad is massively greater than the 2009 squad that did not find success against this crafty leftie. Maybe tonight the Rays write a new chapter into this classic match-up against finesse and power.
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Maybe this time the outcome will be based on people crossing the plate and not about hard breaking backdoor cutters or an extremely well-placed change-up. Maybe the Baseball Gods this time will shiner upon the Rays and give them their first "W" against Buehrle since 2008 when they scatter 25 hits against him and posted a yearly .316 Batting Average. Maybe it is time for the Rays to play a perfect example of their style of offensive game tonight. New season means the slates are clean , and we are eager to get into the Batter's Box.
Love Me Non-Tender Candidates 2008…Part Two
As they leave the bright lights and glitter of Las Vegas tonight, the decisions and the problems of the 30 MLB General Managers and their respective departments are not over. Even if they are flying in luxury accomodations, the GM's and their staff know that the next 24 hours can also make or break a season by selecting the right players to help the squad in 2009. For tomorrow bring more sticky situations to try and either keep or jettison players who might make a difference in 2009.
So in the morning on this Friday, December 12th, every team in the major leagues must decide to either tender contracts to their arbitration-eligible players, or set them free as more glut in the 2009 free agent market. And while in past years the non-tendered players weren't considered to be difference-makers, the list could be more interesting this year. There are several players on this list who either had bad situation on their teams or might have been fighting back from injuries in 2008.
Players who are "tendered" on Friday are considered signed for 2009 at a salary to be determined, not less than 80 percent of his salary the previous season, and both sides continue negotiating. If a deal cannot be struck, the team and the player will each file a proposed 2009 salary in early January. Those figures are exchanged on Jan. 19, and a date for a salary arbitration hearing is then set for Feb. 1-21.
If the sides still cannot come to terms before the date of the hearing, a representative for the team and one for the player present a case before a panel of arbiters, which chooses one salary or the other. On the other hand, if a player is not tendered a contract before Friday's deadline, he becomes a free agent.
A nationwide economic downturn has affected how Major League Baseball teams are conducting business, and in an effort to cut corners, the number of non-tendered players could increase, based solely on the market's projected rise in their salaries based on arbitration data and past results.. The same can be said for the quality of those players. Some of the guys being considered for non-tender have been great contributors to their teams in the past, but not during the 2008 season.
Past players non-tendered include David Ortiz, Rick Ankiel, Ryan Franklin, David Eckstein, and Chad Durbin. Usually at least a few useful guys are unearthed. I am going to submit a few names that are being considered to be non-tendered starting at midnight tonight. Some of these names might sign free agent contracts with their old teams, but usually if a player is released from that team, they tend to float to another organization instead of resign with their old clubs.
The Toronto Blue Jays will have to make decision on four of their players on Friday as to if they are being considered as future pieces to the Blue Jays picture in 2009. General manager J.P. Ricciardi said this week that Jason Frasor, Brian Tallet, Brandon League and Jose Bautista are all likely to receive an offer. Ricciardi noted that Frasor, Tallet and League are all in the plans to rejoin Toronto's bullpen, which led baseball with a 2.94 ERA this past season.
Of the three relievers, Frasor is the most likely to not receive an offer, considering he's due for a raise after making $1.125 million in 2008 and the Jays are strapped for cash this winter. Last season, the 31-year-old Frasor posted a 4.18 ERA in 49 games for the Blue Jays, serving as a middle reliever. Across 47 1/3 innings, the right hander struck out 42 batters and issued 32 walks. Frasor limited hitters to a .208 batting average, including a .174 mark against right-handed batters.
The 31-year-old Tallet, who earned $640,000 in his first year of arbitration in 2008, established a career best with a 2.88 ERA last season. The left hander appeared in 51 games and registered 47 strikeouts against 22 walks over 56 1/3 innings. Tallet was especially tough on right-handed hitters, holding them to a .230 average.
League, 25, is eligible for arbitration for the first time this off season after making $400,000 in 2008. Last season, the hard-throwing right hander posted a career-best 2.18 ERA out of the bullpen, with 23 strikeouts and 15 walks in 31 appearances. In his 33 innings, League had a 3.71 groundball to flyball ratio and limited right-handed hitters to a .200 average. The Blue Jays acquired the 28-year-old Bautista in a trade with the Pittsburgh Pirates in late August and the utility man appeared in 21 games for Toronto down the stretch. Overall, Bautista hit .238 with 15 home runs and 54 RBIs in 128 games with the Pirates and Jays in '08, when he earned $1.8 million.
Another ex-Rays has popped up on the non-tender candidates list coming into Friday night's deadline to offer contracts to arbitration eligible players. The Braves aren't sure exactly how Matt Diaz fits into their plans for the 2009 season, but the veteran outfielder can at least feel good about the fact that he seemingly fits into these plans.
Among the group of Braves who are eligible for arbitration, Diaz, who missed most of this past season because of a torn ligament in his right knee, was seemingly the only candidate to be non-tendered by Friday's midnight ET deadline. But all indications are that the Braves are looking forward to having a healthy Diaz on their roster. He could platoon in left field or simply provided a reliable right-handed bat off the bench. Diaz, Mike Gonzalez, Casey Kotchman, Jeff Francoeur, Kelly Johnson and Omar Infante are the arbitration-eligible players expected to be tendered contracts by the Braves on Friday.
The Dodgers face a handful of non-tender decisions by Friday night's deadline, with the focus . Takashi Saito. He is arbitration eligible, but only if the Dodgers tender him a contract. And even though he's the highest-rated reliever in the National League over the past two years, the club might effectively release Saito, who missed two months with an elbow injury.
Money isn't the burning issue for the Marlins as they approach the non-tender deadline. If they want, they have the allocation to sign all 10 of their remaining arbitration-eligible players. The team must decide if it wants to retain everyone, or pursue other options.
In all, Florida has 10 arbitration-eligible players who must be either tendered a contract or not. The list includes much of the team's nucleus: Dan Uggla, Jorge Cantu, Cody Ross, Jeremy Hermida, Josh Johnson, Ricky Nolasco, Alfredo Amezaga, Logan Kensing, Joe Nelson and Dallas McPherson. Of the group, the possible non-tenders appear to be Nelson and McPherson.
Uggla, Cantu, Ross, Hermida and Amezaga are position players who will be tendered. Now, the Marlins are continuing to explore possible trades for Hermida. Johnson and Nolasco are the leading candidates to be the Opening Day starter. Kensing and Nelson are right hander relievers.
Baseball's non-tender deadline should come and go on Friday night without consequence for the Mets, whose arbitration-eligible players will play significant roles on the team in 2009. But the Mets have little reason not to retain their eligible players: Ryan Church, John Maine, Pedro Feliciano, Duaner Sanchez and Jeremy Reed.
Church, 30, hit .276 with 12 home runs in 90 games last season, his first with the Mets. He was the team's most productive hitter until a concussion sidelined him in May and created a series of lingering effects that plagued him for the rest of the season. Church, who agreed to a $2 million contract to avoid arbitration last off season, will enter Spring Training as the starting right fielder.
Maine, 27, is expected to be the third pitcher in a starting rotation that also includes Johan Santana and Mike Pelfrey. Coming off right shoulder surgery that prematurely ended his season, Maine will be arbitration-eligible for the first time. Feliciano, 32, produced a 4.05 ERA and two saves last season as one of the Mets' two primary left-handed relievers. He also avoided arbitration last season by agreeing to a one-year contract worth $1.025 million.
Reed, 27, is the outfielder the Mets received as part of the 12-player trade Wednesday that also landed them Putz. He is expected to assume Endy Chavez's role as a fourth outfielder.
Sanchez, 29, will begin his second full season since missing a year and a half after two surgeries on his pitching shoulder. General manager Omar Minaya has said publicly that he expects Sanchez to be more successful this season, especially now that the presence of Francisco Rodriguez and J.J. Putz will allow him to pitch earlier in games.
Pitchers Shawn Hill, Scott Olsen and Tim Redding, outfielders Willie Harris and Josh Willingham and third baseman Ryan Zimmerman must be offered contracts by Washington or they will become free agents. Entering the Winter Meetings, the Nationals had to make decisions on seven players, but the club released reliever Jesus Colome on Wednesday.
He appeared in 61 games and had a 4.31 ERA while being used as a setup man last season. As for the rest of the players, Olsen, Redding, Harris, Willingham and Zimmerman most likely will be offered contracts. However, Hill will be a tough decision. He has had elbow problems the past four years in Washington and has pitched in a combined 34 games.
The White Sox are expected to tender contracts to Bobby Jenks and DeWayne Wise prior to Friday night's 11 p.m. CT deadline for all arbitration-eligible players. This duo stands as the only two arbitration-eligible players on the team's 40-man roster.
Jenks, 27, could earn 10 times more than his $550,000 salary for 2008 if he goes through the arbitration process, having emerged as one of the game's steadiest closers. Despite being attached to a great deal of Hot Stove trade talk deemed by general manager Ken Williams as "just rumor and innuendo," the burly right hander enters the 2009 season as the second-fastest pitcher to reach 100 saves in Major League history. Jenks accomplished this feat in just 187 games, trailing only Kazuhiro Sasaki's total of 160.
Wise had a rags-to-riches story in 2008. Independent baseball in New Jersey looked to be his season-long vocation, until Minor League director Buddy Bell, who knew Wise from their days together with the Reds, encouraged the White Sox to bring the 30-year-old veteran into Minor League Spring Training.
Wise ended up becoming an outfield starter against primarily right-handed pitchers during the final two weeks of the season, replacing the injured Carlos Quentin, and hit .248 with six home runs, 18 RBIs and nine stolen bases over 57 games. Wise also hit the White Sox first postseason home run in the American League Division Series against the Rays.


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Gameplay of INCURSION with a very early Linux-only build.
Posted by gazornonplat on May 22nd, 2011
This is our first ever piece of news, since the game is actually awaiting authorization at the time of writing. If you like the look of INCURSION, feel free to download a more recent build for your platform from the game's page.
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Will await more awesomeness.
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Goodell: NFL watching Skins protests
Commissioner Roger Goodell says the NFL has to pay attention to those who are offended by the Washington Redskins nickname.
Goodell told 106.7 The Fan on Wednesday he is ''always sensitive to what impacts on the league'' and that includes ''making sure that we're doing what's right here.''
He says, ''If we are offending one person, we need to be listening and making sure that we're doing the right things to try to address that.''
Goodell didn't take a position on the nickname. He says it's up to Redskins owner Dan Snyder to decide whether it should be changed.
Snyder has vowed never to change it.
Momentum for a change seems to be growing. A group of Native Americans is planning a protest Sunday during Washington's game at Green Bay.
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Oakfield FD treasurer accused of stealing more than $6k from the department
Submitted by Howard B. Owens on June 24, 2014 - 7:36pm
Following a state audit, the treasurer of the Oakfield Fire Department was arrested today by State Police for allegedly misappropriating department funds.
Samantha Hilchey, 31, of Batavia, is charged with grand larceny, 3rd, a Class D felony.
Hilchey is accused of stealing more than $6,000 through unauthorized transactions, including paying her personal utility bills and making cash withdrawals.
"Instead of safeguarding department funds, this individual took advantage of her position to pay her personal bills and make unauthorized cash withdrawals," said State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli. "I want to thank department officials for helping bring this situation to light and to the State Police for working closely with my staff as we continue our audit and investigation into the department's finances."
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Type: | Boulder, 20' |
Consensus: | Hueco: V2-3 Font: 5+ [details] |
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Submitted By: | Davis13au on Mar 8, 2009 |
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By Davis13au Mar 8, 2009 |
A guy named Hank Rankin climbed a route he named Super B in Hitchiti and I believe it's this one that we repeated. Hank if you check this site.....let me know if this is the right route and I'll keep the name. |
By Hank Rankin Dec 12, 2010 |
Yes thats it, 5+ seems a little strong to me, im thinking more like 4. there is a variation that starts the same, goes left on rail to crimps to a slopey top out like six feet left of the Super B top. never named this problem, V4 maybe? i havent been there in a long time |
By damdug Mar 3, 2013 rating: V2-3 5+ |
I'd give this a V3ish. |
By Phil Whitlock Mar 4, 2013 rating: V3 6A PG13 |
Really enjoyed this problem. Felt v3-ish to our group, definitely a problem everyone coming to Hitchiti should pull on. |
By Eric T. From: St. Augustine, Florida Jan 27, 2014 rating: V2 5+ |
Great move and nice line up this boulder. I'd say it goes at a solid V2. |
By C Brown Jan 27, 2014 rating: V2 5+ PG13 |
Agreed with Eric above. Fun climb with a fun topout. |


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Next week, Nicaraguan Sisi Cifuentes (43) will fly to the United States - where she has residency - to avoid being deported and possibly prohibited from re-entering New Zealand.
Her visitor's visa expires on Thursday, and after battling for months to retain her immigration status and stay with her children, aged 13, 12 and 6, she is now faced with leaving them behind, with their New Zealand father, with whom she has shared custody.
Ms Cifuentes separated from her husband - former international model Peter Nolet - about 18 months ago. The couple met overseas, married, and travelled together for several years before settling near Lake Hawea, in 2006, she said.
They had two children together while living in the United States, and their third was born after they moved to New Zealand. The paperwork necessary for Ms Cifuentes to become a New Zealand resident was not completed during the couple's marriage.
She was on a partnership work visa, which was renewed every two years. Since the separation, she was not permitted to work because she no longer had partnership status and for the past eight months, had been here on a visitor's visa only, she said.
After having an application for another work visa turned down, she enlisted the help of Waitaki MP Jacqui Dean.
Mrs Dean said she had been working directly with the Associate Minister of Immigration's office to seek an exemption for Ms Cifuentes. Associate Immigration Minister Nikki Kaye has the responsibility of reviewing individual cases and overruling earlier decisions. She was still considering Ms Cifuentes' case, and had requested further information, a spokeswoman from her office said.
But Ms Cifuentes said she was tired of fighting with only limited resources to stay in New Zealand.
''I've been doing this for two years ... I'm done.
''There comes a time when you have to stop the battle.''
She was now resigned to leaving and focused on finding a way to take her children with her, as she said she did not have Mr Nolet's consent to do so.
She planned to make a court application for the removal of the children from New Zealand.
Blenheim lawyer Graham Hill, who has been working pro bono on Ms Cifuentes case, described it as a ''tragic situation''.
''I'm appalled that a family could be busted up like this because of immigration,'' he said.
''In terms of the immigration policy, there is a gap, a hole in the policy. It doesn't recognise the interests of New Zealand children to have their mother with them, which is a fundamental human right ... therefore, the minister should exercise her discretion to give Sisi status.''
Despite Ms Cifuentes' prolonged efforts to stay in New Zealand, her lack of income made leaving inevitable, Mr Hill said.
''As soon as she left the matrimonial home, her status changed. She wasn't eligible to work and she's on a visitor's permit, so she wasn't entitled to a benefit.''
Ms Cifuentes had depleted her resources to the point where leaving was the preferable option, Mr Hill said.
An Immigration New Zealand spokesman said it was not possible for foreign nationals to apply for residence in cases where a partnership had broken down and the couple were no longer living together.
The Otago Daily Times has been unable to contact Mr Nolet, despite repeated attempts over several days.
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I hope the Associate Immigration Minister Nikki Kaye reviews this case compassionately, I know Sisi is a well respected and regarded member of the Wanaka community and is considered to be a great Mum to her three children. It will be heart breaking and madness if she has to leave New Zealand.... this is her home and the home of her children. An exemption must be applied to this case!
I am appalled at the New Zealand's government actions regarding this family. As if there weren't enough children who because of circumstances beyond their control are forced to grow up without their mother, now this government is playing GOD by forcing these children to suffer the unbearable separation from the most important person in their lives, their mother. Where are their rights?? How is it possible that the government cannot find a loophole in the law that can help these children and their mother. If there is anybody out there with the means/power to do something for this family please act now! Just think this could be you or one of your kids.
There is no replacement for a mother. It is unbelievable that loop holes in new zealand law; there is no way to keep her with her children. There needs to be involvement of the Nicaraguan government or United States government. Two of her children are US citizens. Not even third world countries would allow a mother to be separated from her children this is absolutely outrageous this is occurring in New Zealand. My thoughts and prayers to the mum and her children.
Please help spread the word so a mother can get back to her children! children need their mother and their father! the destruction of a family is the destruction of all of its members! sad to see that paperwork stands in the middle.
This case should not be decided at a bureaucratic level. The deciding factors in this case should be compassion, common sense, and above all, the best interests of the children. The idea of taking the children's best interests in mind is not only the right way to deal with custody cases, but also a guiding doctrine in determining issues relating to the well-being of children. Would Sisi's deportation be detrimental to her children? Yes. Would they be able to see their mother? No. Do not let these kids lose contact with their mum. It's not right.
How is posible that in New Zeland - a progressive nation with high standards of living and education - human rights for a family is a non-existing subject?
What is happening in our country. When did these bureaucrats become so cruel? How have we as decent people lost our regard for humanity?
Outrageous behaviour from the national government who are bent on destroying the family nucleus.
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