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Imagine taking your family to a party where the sole reason for the get together is to spread the swine flu virus. It is something that health experts say is actually happening. Be warned.
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Shooting off hand at silhouette targets about a good 15 yards away, I managed a 5 inch group, which is fantastic (for me). The sights were dead on to point of aim at both 7 yards and 15 yards. I would suggest getting some orange paint or neon nail polish to touch up the sights though , THERE'RE TINY!
There was a small break in period of about 100 rds where I would get a few stovepipes but after that smooth sailing with everything I put in it.
Used Corbon JHP's Glaser POW'r Ball JHP's , WWB FMJ's and Fiocchi FMJ's all with no issues after 100rds or so.
This gun has noticably lower recoil than the Kel-Tec p3at with the ammo I tested (not sure if it's in my head), was 100% reliable with some of the trickiest .380 ammo out there, and super accurate above all else.
I cannot recommend it highly enough, the bar has just been raised out of sight.
My LCP is still pre recall and I agree that it is important to use the best ammo for a self defense pistol, not old left-over military ball ammo. I reloaded my own and went out and tested the new LCP last week, Not a single jam or misfire using 85 grain jacketed hollow points and 4.0 grains of Unique powder. The load is almost equal to a Cor-Bon load while still costing me under 10 cents a round to shoot.
I can buy UMC Remington for roughly that price when DSG (Dick's Sporting Goods) is running a sale. Gotta buy 500 thugh to mak ethe 10 box price. No shipping but I do have to pay tax.
As said, his ammo has been stored for about 17 years and is most likely military surplus. No indication as how it;s been stored. Good enough for practicing maybe but in my view not for use as self defense ammo. Remember, the loudest sound in the world is a click when you are expecting bang.
I use cheap ammo for general practice but the quality stuff for carry as my life may depend on it. .
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IMHO, these are prolly the best you can get for defense use:
Also, my local grocery/general store had Winchester 95 gr FMJ .380 ACP on clearance the other day for $9 per 50 rds., which comes out to $45 + tax for 250 rounds. I bought all they had b/c I know and trust Winchester ammo and knew it was a heck of a deal.
Echoing what was said above, .380 ACP is the same as 9 x 17 mm or 9 mm Kurz (which means "short" in German). What Americans refer to as "9 mm" is actually 9 x 19 mm, or 9 mm NATO, 9 mm Luger, 9 mm parabellum, etc.
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Cinebarre, a new movie theater that bars children under three, serves restaurant quality food and drinks, and requires kids under 18 to be accompanied by a parent, is opening this summer at the Arboretum shopping center.
The theater aims to provide a high quality, grown-up movie watching experience, said CEO Terrell Braly. It's kind of like a rock-and-roll movie theater, said Braly. It's really for grown-up people and nice families...We don't want to be the drop-off spot for teenagers to just hang out and be disruptive.
We take away the things that would annoy you, i.e. the crying babies and unattended tweens, said Braly. We feel like a few basic things like that are the reason there was a decline in movie attendance.
Cinebarre is a joint venture with Regal Entertainment Group, which formerly operated the movie theater at the Arboretum. This will be the company's first location in Charlotte, and sixth overall. There are also Cinebarres in Asheville, Charleston, Denver, Salem (Oregon), and Seattle.
Prices for tickets will be the same as at regular movie theaters, and the shows will be first-run films with a smattering of popular indie films. Food and drinks, said Braly, will be priced competitively with normal restaurants - no $7 sodas. And, Braly said, the popcorn comes with real butter.
Once in the theater, patrons have a table in front of them, and a server takes orders. The menu includes items such as burgers, pizza, salads, and beer and wine. Eighty-three percent of all movie-goers go to a meal an hour before, said Braly. We've combined the experience.
Although Cinebarre usually doesn't allow children under three ( It's not because we don't like them, said Braly, We just don't like them screaming in the movie theater. ), there are Cry Baby showtimes every first Tuesday of a film's release, allowing parents to bring their kids.
Braly, who started Cinebarre with Regal in 2007 after founding and then selling a similar chain of movie theaters in Texas, said the company will be quickening its pace of expansion. Cinebarre is hoping to grow into new markets that are two or three hours from its existing markets (as in Charlotte to Asheville), and is currently looking for its next location north of Charlotte.
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It doesn't take long for Cody Elliot to realize that his new high school is a little different. The other students are supernaturally strong, don't like the sunlight, and are always placing orders at the local blood bank. When his new friend shows him his fangs, Cody doesn't need any more clues—these kids are vampires! As Cody struggles to fit into this secretive community, he disrupts centuries of human-vampire segregation, with some serious—and some seriously funny—consequences.
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A definite must, you get off the plane and walk to the desk for the boat and then WOW a speed boat into Venice, you feel like 007 in a film, far better than the gondola ride.
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text: Episode - 9F03\\First Aired - 11/3/1992During Parent/Teacher conference night at Springfield Elementary, Mrs. Krabappel lets Homer and Marge in on the destructive and dangerous pranks Bart has been playing (synthesizing a laxative from peas and carrots, replacing the teacher's birth control pills with Tic-Tacs, bringing in a Krusty doll with a switchblade head, and [[GroinAttack sticking lit fireworks down a nameless boy's pants]]) and recommends that Homer and Marge be stricter in their parenting[[note]]because with enough discipline, even a hellion like Bart can be Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. If they fail, the best he can be in life is an overweight male stripper whose adoring female fans boo and throw things at him every night[[/note]], but it proves too much with Bart manipulating Homer...until Homer decides to take the one thing away from Bart that he loves most: seeing the upcoming movie version of ''The Itchy and Scratchy Show''.----!!Tropes:* AssShove: Implied when Mrs Krabapple asks a boy where Bart stuck fireworks on him.* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: When Homer sees Bart smashing mustard with a hammer on the carpet, he tries to assert punishment when the ice cream truck appeared. Later, as they're enjoying their ice cream, Homer asked Bart what he was talking about. Bart lied that Homer was talking about the time he avoided jury duty. Being dumb, he tells Bart how he beat jury duty ("The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races.")* BreadEggsBreadedEggs:-->'''Marge:''' "We'll bring back dinner."-->'''Lisa:''' "What are we gonna have?"-->'''Homer:''' "Well, that depends on what the teachers say, if you've been good, pizza. If you've been bad... uh, let's see... poison."-->'''Lisa:'''' "What if one of us has been good and one of us has been bad?"-->'''Bart:''' "Poison pizza."-->'''Homer:''' "Oh no, I'm not making two stops!* CoolAndUnusualPunishment:-->'''Homer:''' Bart, since you break Grampa's teeth, he gets to break yours!\\'''Grampa:''' Oh, this is gonna be sweet.\\'''Marge:''' No!\\'''Grampa:''' Aww!* DeniedFoodAsPunishment: Marge tries this on Bart when she finds out that he broke Grandpa's teeth. Bart tries to call her bluff, but she tells him she's being serious. Just as the lesson is about to sink in, Homer sneaks Bart some pizza and tells him not to tell Marge and to try to behave.* DisproportionateRetribution: When Homer and Marge are about to go to a parent-teacher meeting, Homer tells Bart and Lisa he'll bring them poison if they've been bad.* NoodleIncident: "Oh dad, you and your stories: ''Bart broke my teeth. The nurses are stealing my money. This thing on my neck is getting bigger.''" While we did see Bart breaking Grampa's teeth, we don't see the other two events, which just adds more to just how horrible the Springfield Retirement Castle is (unless Grampa suffers from senility and thinks nurses are stealing his money and he has a growth on his neck that is getting bigger).** Some of Bart's pranks (the "peas and carrots" laxative, the birth control pill/Tic-Tacs switch, bringing in a Krusty doll with a switchblade in it, and shoving fireworks down a child's pants).* PoliceAreUseless: Per usual, the police don't do anything about Maggie driving The Simpson family car, the dog driving a bus, or the criminals escaping after Maggie crashes the car into the prison wall.* PushoverParents: Homer and Marge start out as this when they explain to Mrs. Krabappel that they have a hard time disciplining Bart whenever he does something wrong. Following her advice on being firm with him, they gradually get better at disciplining him.* ShoutOut:** Disney and [[LooneyTunes Looney Tunes]]/[[MerrieMelodies Merrie Melodies]] cartoons: Much of the backstory of Itchy and Scratchy dates back to the late 1920s, with the introduction of "Steamboat Itchy" (a parody of "WesternAnimation/SteamboatWillie" the first WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse cartoon). As the backstory moves to the World War II-era, the anti-UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler cartoons are similar to those pitting the good guys of various Disney and Warner Bros. cartoons produced during that time.** ''Series/SixtyMinutes'': The TV newsmagazine and specifically, news stories from the early 1990s detailing abuse of elderly residents of nursing homes. (Homer had threatened to send Grampa to the "the crooked home" he had seen on TV after Grampa mumbled incoherently (due to his broken-and-poorly taped-together dentures stuffed in his mouth)).** ''Series/StarTrek'': The opening gag is a parody of the then-ongoing series of movies. This installment: ''Star Trek XII: So Very Tired'', featuring a very elderly Captain Kirk complaining of health problems.** "Mmmm, Film/SoylentGreen."** [[spoiler:At the end of the episode, 40 years into the future, Bart is now Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and he and Homer go see ''The Itchy and Scratchy Movie''. The movie advertised to play after it is ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast''.]]** [[spoiler:During the final scene, Homer and Bart's silhouettes as they enter the theater are a reference to ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''.]]* TimeMarchesOn: Snake – during his crime spree after breaking out of prison – is disappointed that the [=VCR=] he stole plays only Beta (rather than the then prevalent VHS)); Beta-formatted [=VCR=]s had been retired from the United States' market in 1988.** Also, with movies and TV shows being readily available online and the "films on demand" option on many modern cable packages, Bart would nowadays be perfectly able to watch "The Itchy & Scratchy Movie" without having to go to the movie theater (and Homer and Marge would have to use parental controls to keep Bart from seeing the movie online and on-demand).* UpToEleven: Bart is the series' designated "bad boy" but most of his misbehavior is at worst harmless mischief that doesn't result in serious injury...except in this episode, where it is (like when he made a laxative out of peas and carrots, stole Mrs. Krabappel's birth control pills and replaced them with Tic-Tacs, and stuck fireworks down a kid's pants).* WarTimeCartoon: Parodied with Kent Brockman showing an Itchy and Scratchy propaganda cartoon made during WorldWarTwo, where the cat and mouse fight off UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler. In the end Itchy kills off Scratchy too for the heck of it, while UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt appears to kick them both in the behind and Itchy holding up a sign with the text "Save Scrap Iron". * WhatTheHellHero: Marge was initially supportive of the punishment of forbidding Bart from seeing the movie. However when the punishment gets to the point where Homer got the ticket holders to ban Bart from the theaters, both Marge and Lisa call Homer out, claiming he's done enough. Unlike most examples, it doesn't unfetter Homer.----


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Column: The real cost of the NFL's business
The problems in New England at the moment may spring from a different source - hubris, or as the agent put it, "too much faith in the `Patriot Way.'" But in every case, teams know exactly what they're doing when they draft, trade or take a flyer on a knucklehead like Dennard. The only thing they can truly be "extremely disappointed" about is when one or another does something stupid or dangerous while they were his enablers.
There were at least 17 different teams touched by the more than two dozen arrests these past few months, and anytime a problem extends that wide, it usually runs top to bottom as well.
As noted above, this is first and foremost about personal responsibility. And to be fair, Goodell hasn't been shy about doling out harsh punishment to any employee, and even harsher punishments to the league's higher-ups. But what's clear is that his message, no matter how many times he warns rookies to "protect the shield," is still being greeted in too many corners of the league with little more than a wink and a nod.
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The NFL has received assurances that Sunday's game between the New York Giants and the Pittsburgh Steelers in MetLife Stadium would not disrupt recovery efforts in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell discussed concerns about transportation issues, police and emergency efforts with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, the NFL confirmed Friday. Christie told Goodell that the game would not be "diverting any resources from relief efforts" and that he was pleased it would be played as scheduled in East Rutherford, N.J. Because of the damaged left by the storm, the Steelers changed their travel plans and will arrive the morning of the game from Pittsburgh rather than stay in the New York area on Saturday night, the team previously announced.
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The Return of the Giant NYC Dance Club
By Steve Weinstein
July 4, 1976 Was a Ramones-less Weekend in NYC
By Bryan Bierman
LIVE REVIEW: Karen O at McKittrick Hotel
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Remembering Dee Dee Ramone's Rap Album
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Meet Lady Casa, America's Most Famous Raver
By Ben Westhoff and Sarah Purkrabek
Ridiculous Kanye West-isms, In Illustrated Form
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Casting Martin Scorsese's New Ramones Movie
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A Tour Around Ace Frehley's Bronx
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Still, even I never thought I'd date TV.
Two hundred channels. That's what they promised us at my building's tenants meeting. "If you vote for DirecTV satellite service instead of cable, you'll have 200 channels!" What the sales rep wasn't saying was that once we got the 200 channels, 30 of them would be a big blank screen with a Tex Ritter song coming out of it. In other words, about 15 per cent of our new digital dynamo of next-millennium beamed-from-space entertainment would essentially function not unlike quaint old-fashioned radio. It was almost like being in love.
Many of the channels go by cute names. Oh, there are the Beths and Kates and Debbies--channels named Rap or Blues or Metal or Jazz. But there's a nicknaming process at work as well that pits sister against sister, offering Lite Jazz, too; or Gospel against Contemporary Christian, Today's Country or Classic Country, '80s Power Hits and '70s Super Hits, Classical Masterpieces versus the supposedly sweeter, dumber Lite Classical. If it sounds arbitrary, it is. If it sounds like a lot of artists get bounced back and forth, they do. Someone, who shall remain Jackson Browne, really gets around, ingratiating himself into '70s Super Hits and Classic Rock and Soft Rock.
Here's how it works. At the top of the black screen, the genre is identified. At the bottom, a horizontal blue band flashes the artist/tune/album/label info pertaining to the song you hear, including an 888 telephone number through which you may purchase the CD it comes from. So if you're doing what I call "watchening" the Rap channel and you need, need, need Snoop Doggy Dogg's "We Just Wanna Party With You," you can just call up and order the soundtrack to Men in Black. Unlike radio, there's no between-song banter, no traffic, no weather, no ads--only segues. Which means that no announcer's going to offend--or delight. And, also unlike radio, singers can say what they want. This is subscriber television, and if Cake says, "Shut the fuck up," that's what you hear.
I find myself channel surfing from one blank black screen to another more often than I care to admit. Part of the problem is that I use the channels for all the wrong reasons. If they're meant to work as radio, or even as Muzak, then you're supposed to click into one of them and stay put, settle in with Easy Listening and start sweeping floors and paying the bills, right? And yet to me, these 30 maddening little options are too fascinating and too odd to just leave be. How can I get on with my life if Classic Country, normally the terrain of my faves like George Jones and Kitty Wells, is playing John Schneider, formerly of TV's The Dukes of Hazzard? What's he doing there? How can I do the dishes when I'm busy constructing Kennedy-Krushchev standoffs by flipping back and forth between Woody Herman's "Sidewalks of Cuba" on Big Band and the Steve Miller Band's "Living in the U.S.A." on Classic Rock?
Unlike the rest of television--where when something's dumb, you know that one or more dumb people are responsible--the music channels are organized to give the impression that no actual human beings are involved in their design, programming, or upkeep. I couldn't shake that sci-fi feeling, couldn't help but wonder if the entire concept sprang from the loins of artificial intelligence, if the droids were plotting against us, placating us flesh'n'bloods with Haydn and the Dave Clark Five.
Maybe I felt like computers were responsible because I continued to find the experience so surprising. People think that commercial radio is unimaginative because the computers generate the playlists. But have you listened to some all-computer-generated playlists? They're weird. They're fun. They segue Tone Loc into the Lemonheads in such a way that neither Tone Loc nor the Lemonheads ever sounded so strange or so good. It's the people in commercial radio who are the problem. The announcers are the real robots.
I was stuck on channel 516 the other day (Solid Gold Oldies) and all I could do was sit and stare and wonder what would happen next. Dion's "Abraham, Martin, and John" smashed into Fats Domino's "Whole Lotta Loving," which was followed by Bing Crosby doing "Silent Night" into "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini." It was great! And I don't particularly like any of those songs! But the whole thing's a murder mystery, a whodunit about the brutal slaying of common (human) sense. Plus, unlike the computer-programmed oldies radio station with the itsy bitsy playlist I sometimes listen to, I doubt I'll hear these songs again. The trons must have a bottomless warehouse of records to allow them to program an unending lineup of deliciously nutso choices.
At Music Choice, the Philadelpia company that supplies DirecTV with the music channels, vice president of marketing and communications Christina Tancredi confirmed my suspicions about the record warehouse, pointing out that she heard her local oldies radio station "has a playlist of around 350 songs, whereas ours has 3000." Tancredi's coworker Lou Simon, a senior vice president of programming, says that each genre has its own programmer and that these people go about planning a channel's broadcast day "as if they're making tapes for a friend's car. The idea is to keep it very varied. We take painstaking care to massage into place a list of songs to create long times spent with the service." Massage? "We work out the kinks."
Simon claims the programmers spend a lot of the workday just listening to music, and "not only on major labels, but also small, even homegrown labels. A record sent to us by an individual artist will get as much attention as one that's on a major label with a major distributor. And we don't really worry about what's selling. Your next-door neighbor could get 10 cuts on." As an example, he points to the Dutch New Age duo Secret Garden, who Music Choice were playing long before their European record label released their music in America.
Still, I spent an afternoon keeping track of Alternative Rock and all I heard was the fodder of the less-than-homegrown Virgin, DGC, Polydor, and Mercury. I've met a lot of my neighbors, and David Bowie isn't one of them. And Nirvana is about as punk as it gets. I've never even heard the Clash, much less Pansy Division.
When Simon said that the goal of Music Choice is to keep listeners listening for as long as possible, I was actually surprised. As a nondriving radio fanatic, one of the things I despise about the bulk of American radio is that it doesn't account for me. Its constant repetition assumes either mobility or amnesia, never making room for those of us in... rooms. Music Choice, on the other hand, wants me. To them, I'm a consumer. And in America, that means that I belong.
Music Choice isn't about epiphanies, or the backbreaking hours they require. It's about rooting around the bottomless pit of perfectly good music and tossing it all up to the surface all the time. It's Mott the Hoople and Oklahoma! and the later years of R.E.M. Which is not such a terrible thing, though I sometimes feel terrible liking it. I don't always want to run away from annoyance.
My Music Choice habit isn't a guilty pleasure. (I don't believe in guilt where pleasure's concerned.) It's more of a guilty solace, that solid, taciturn guy you date after the reckless, fast-talking heartthrob picks a fight one too many times. One can weary of disappointment, and what's more disappointing than radio, a medium that's all the more infuriating because it occasionally doles out little moments that can only be called ecstasy? Thanks to Music Choice, I listen to radio less. Because it's tasteful; because it's television; because it won't break my heart.
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KATHMANDU: An international discussion on 'South-South Exchange Workshop on Brick Technology and Policy' concluded yesterday calling brick kilns to adopt modern technolgoies to minimise adverse impacts they cause to the environment.
Participants from 11 countries took part in the discussion, identifying solutions such as modern brick-making technologies, which are less polluting than older technologies, use of alternative building materials such as fly ash, and increased political recognition of the problems, especially in the major brick-making countries of Asia, Latin America, and Africa, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), which organised the discussion together with National Institute of Ecology (Mexico), said in a press release yesterday. They also emphasised on the importance of coordination between ministries of housing, industry, health, agriculture and environment to achieve large-scale reduction of pollution at the national level.
Bricks are a primary construction material used in many regions and their production is known to be a highly polluting activity resulting in emissions of short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs), including black carbon.
Secretary at the Ministry of Industry Krishna Gyawali said the brick sector accounts for more than 50 per cent of coal consumption in Nepal. He noted the importance of continued research on the role of black carbon in the melting of the Himalayas and glaciers. "It's time sources such as brick kilns reduced the emission of black carbon and other pollutants," he said.
The primary fuels used at traditional brick kilns are coal, wood, local biomass and other low-cost fuel or scavenged fuel, such as bunker fuel, waste oil, used tyres, sawdust, plastics, battery cases and dung. Climate and Clean Air Coalition to Reduce SLCPs, which convened the programme, said it will continue discussions on the issue and consider priorities for reducing SLCPs from brick production in its next meeting, scheduled for July 2013.


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Glacial Ice Loss: Himalayas
February 9, 2012
In the first comprehensive satellite study of its kind, a University of Colorado Boulder-led team used NASA data to calculate how much Earth's melting land ice is adding to global sea level rise. This animation shows the average yearly change in mass, as measured by the NASA/German Aerospace. credit: NASA
Topics: Environment, Effects of global warming, Oceanography, Climate change, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Future sea level, Retreat of glaciers since, Current sea level rise, Sea level, Glaciology, Physical oceanography, Glacier, NASA, Technology Internet


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PHILADELPHIA Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have developed a new model of skin cancer based on the knowledge that a common cancer-related molecule called Src kinase is activated in human skin-cancer samples.
"Our previous work demonstrated that Src kinases are activated in human squamous cell carcinomas of the skin. We modeled these observations by increasing the expression of the gene Fyn, a member of Src family of proteins, in mouse skin," explains senior author John T. Seykora M.D., Ph.D, assistant professor of Dermatology. In addition, prior work by the Seykora lab on a related protein called Srcasm, discovered by him in 2002, suggested that Srcasm may function as an anti-oncogene, a molecule that keeps others in check in order to control cell growth.
In this proof-of-principle study, published this month in Cancer Research, the authors found that genetically engineered mice expressing a K14-Fyn transgene develop precancerous lesions and invasive squamous cell carcinomas (SCCs) spontaneously in 5 to 8 weeks. Skin SCCs are the second most common form of cancer, with greater than 250,000 cases annually in the US, leading to approximately 2,500 deaths.
This study demonstrates that Fyn is a potent oncogene in skin. When Srcasm levels are raised in the mouse skin cancer model, tumor formation is dramatically inhibited showing that Srcasm functions as an anti-oncogene.
The findings highlight an important relationship between Fyn and SrcasmFyn encourages growth, while Srcasm inhibits it. "When this system malfunctions, it's like stepping on the gas and taking off the brakes on cell growth," explains Seykora. "Adding Srcasm back to the system lowers Fyn levels and restores order."
Analysis of human skin tumor samples confirmed that Srcasm levels are decreased and Src kinase activity is increased. The authors conclude that one potential means of combating skin cancer
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Review: This is a great place for a special occasion dinner. The room is open and inviting, with an open kitchen so you can watch as they prepare the food. Knowledgeable and attentive service made for a great dining experience. Food was very refined and elegant. There are a limited number of choices on the menu (which is not a bad thing) but just know that before you go in. They serve items a la carte or as a four course dinner, which is by far the way to go. It is the best value, and offers the best overall dining experience. We were served an amuse bouche to start and a palate cleanser after dinner as well. This place is pricey, and the portions are modest, but that is typical of a fine dining restaurant. Go here if you want a unique, refined, and inventive meal, not if you want a heap of comfort food to stuff you to the gills.
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Much cooler this week.
Thursday, 05 Apr 12 Cloudy 11°C / 52°F
After a very mild couple of weeks, it's turned cooler and I've made sure my early spuds (Red Duke of York) are earthed up in case of a frost. Have planted out my main crop this week (Pink Fir Apple). I've thinned out my radishes and there are signs of my carrots starting to sprout. I've only got 3 Scotch Bonnet chilli plants doing well out of the 12 seeds originally planted. I've sown a couple more seeds but they have yet to sprout (and may not) – chilli seeds don't seem very hardy. My tomato plants continue to well on the windowsill – especially the Moneymaker variety. The Gardener's Delight seem a little more delicate with one having died and another looking a bit fragile. My Solent White garlic is doing really well and I should hopefully get some large bulbs judging by the size of the stems.
Previous Journals
Radishes - Jolly and Carrots - Autumn King 2
Veggies in Pots garden
Tomatoes - Moneymaker Transplanted and Veggies in Pots garden
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Chilli - Scotch Bonnet red Repotted
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Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business (Compact Disc)
In this "New York Times" and "Wall Street Journal" bestseller, Whole Foods Market cofounder John Mackey and professor and Conscious Capitalism, Inc. cofounder Raj Sisodia argue for the inherent good of both business and capitalism. Featuring some of today's best-known and most successful companies, they illustrate how these two forces can--and do--work most powerfully to create value for all stakeholders, including customers, employees, suppliers, investors, society, and the environment.
"Conscious Capitalism" helps us better understand how companies such as Southwest Airlines, Costco, UPS, Panera, Patagonia, Google, The Container Store, and many others, use four specific tenets--higher purpose, stakeholder integration, conscious leadership, and conscious culture and management--to build strong businesses, advance capitalism toward its highest potential, and foster a more positive environment for all of us.
About the Author
John Mackey is an American businessman. He is the current co-CEO of Whole Foods Market, which he co-founded in 1980. Named the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2003, Mackey is a strong supporter of free market economics. He is one of the most influential advocates in the movement for organic food.
DR. RAJENDRA (RAJ) SISODIA Sisodia is cofounder and trustee of Conscious Capitalism, Inc. and professor of marketing at Bentley University. He is the author of several books.
Grover Gardner is an award-winning narrator with over eight hundred titles to his credit. Named one of the Best Voices of the Century and a Golden Voice by "AudioFile "magazine, he has won three prestigious Audie Awards, was chosen Narrator of the Year for 2005 by "Publishers Weekly", and has earned more than thirty Earphones Awards.


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Did You Know?
Sam Elliott, whose voice is featured in Smokey Bear television spots, shares the bear's birth date. Elliott was born on Aug. 9, 1944. According to smokeybear.com: "Smokey Bear was born on August 9, 1944, when the U.S. Forest Service and the Ad Council agreed that a fictional bear named Smokey would be the symbol for their joint effort to promote forest fire prevention."
After speaking on behalf of pickup trucks, beer and Smokey Bear, actor and Clark alumnus Sam Elliott is lending his distinctive voice to Clark College.
The 1965 Clark College graduate has provided the baritone punch line for a series of television commercials supporting the college's fundraising campaign.
Elliott doesn't appear on screen in the commercials; his name isn't credited when Elliott is delivering his tag line.
"We do not identify him in the commercial," said foundation spokeswoman Rhonda Morin, who noted that Elliott's voice pretty much speaks for itself.
The first in the series of eight commercials is scheduled to start airing today on Portland's KATU, Channel 2, and KGW, Channel 8.
The 15- and 30-second commercials are being produced by the nonprofit Clark College Foundation, which raises funds to support the school's students and programs.
The commercials are intended "to heighten awareness of Clark College in the community," Morin said.
Clark College is staging a $20 million fundraising campaign called "Ensuring a Bright Future: Campaign for Clark College."
The campaign's title provides part of Elliott's script. His message: "Support the campaign for Clark College, ensuring a bright future."
Those words weren't his only contribution to the campaign, by the way. Elliott also made what the foundation described as "a generous donation to the fundraising effort."
A foundation news release said that Elliott "has fond memories of his alma mater and recalls receiving 'great support' from Clark's faculty."
Elliott enrolled in Clark College after graduating from David Douglas High School in Portland. While earning his associate's degree at Clark College, he was on the Penguins track team. Elliott also landed one of the lead roles in the campus production of "Guys and Dolls," according to Columbian accounts, which might have fueled his acting ambitions.
Within four years, Elliott had a role in the biggest-grossing film of 1969: "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid."
Not that it was a starring role. The film's credits list Elliott as "Card Player No. 2." (That was 16 slots in the credits behind Katharine Ross, whom Elliott married in 1984.)
In addition to a lengthy résumé of film and TV roles, Elliott has become a notable voice-over talent. The U.S. Forest Service launched a series of "Smokey Bear" public service announcements a few years ago, featuring Elliott's distinctive drawl.
More recently, Elliott's voice has been featured in Ram truck commercials filmed in Bingen and other Columbia Gorge locations. (Go to http://bit.ly/15GXgrX for our story.)
"We've always been interested in connecting with him," said Morin, the foundation spokeswoman. "Things happened to fall in place."
In a news release, Clark College Foundation President and CEO Lisa Gibert said that Elliott's "powerful and familiar voice will help us raise awareness of what Clark College offers."
Gibert continued: "With $2 million left to go in our fundraising effort, our hope is that Mr. Elliott's connection to Clark will encourage others to offer their generosity -- as he has -- in support of student learning."
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Future looks bright for Oxford High cross-country teams
The Oxford Chargers successfully defended their Class 5A state cross-country championship Saturday in Clinton and the Lady Chargers came within a point of making it a clean sweep for OHS. A year from now, Oxford High coach Chris Patton said, his teams could well have a shot at completing that sweep. (November 10, 2014, Page 8)
OHS boys win third 5A state title in four years
CLINTON — The Oxford High boys opened the cross-country season ranked No. 1 in Mississippi based on returning runners and their best times from last year's Class 5A state championship campaign. The Chargers finished the year where they began as they topped rivals Pearl and Saltillo to successfully defend their state title Saturday morning at Choctaw Trails. (November 9, 2014, Page 4B)
Oxford boys out to defend 5A XC title
The Oxford High boys and girls cross-country teams are in prime position to sweep the MHSAA Class 5A state titles this weekend in Clinton. It's where they thought they would be all season. The boys team will look to defend its state championship from a year ago while the girls are hoping to improve upon a third-place finish. (November 7, 2014, Page 6A)
Local runners, teams fare well in Saltillo Meet
SALTILLO— The Oxford High School boys and girls claimed top three finishes in individual and team competition in the Saltillo Cross Country Invitational held Saturday at the SHS course. (September 21, 2014, Page 4B)
Oxford High boys top field in Pontotoc cross-country meet
The Oxford High boys picked up right where they left off at the end of last year's cross-country season as they had the second- and third-place finishers and then three more runners in the top 16 en route to the Class 5A championship in the Pontotoc Cross Country Invitational held Saturday morning at the at the Cherry Creek Orchard. (September 14, 2014, Page 5B)
Chargers cap perfect season in OMS Invitational
The Oxford Middle School track team tallied 89 total points to win the OMS Invitational Saturday at Bobby Holcomb Field, finishing the season undefeated. (April 15, 2014, Page 8)
Top finishes lead to win for Chargers in OMS Relays
The OMS Relays at Bobby Holcomb Field Wednesday proved to be the perfect place for the Chargers to garner another win in track. (April 11, 2014, Page 7A)
Oxford teams win New Albany Invitational
Oxford's middle school track teams shined in the New Albany Track Invitational held Tuesday. The Lady Chargers finished first with 193 points while the Chargers also took first place. (March 27, 2014, Page 9)
OMS Chargers fare well in opening meet
Oxford's middle school track teams opened their respective seasons with running events on Thursday. (March 21, 2014, Page 7A)
Chargers set pace at Corinth meet
CORINTH — The Oxford High School boys, sparked by a 1-2-3 finish by Tristan Orman, Pruitt Griffin and Kendall Jenkins, topped region rival and defending Class 5A state champion Saltillo to win the Corinth High School Cross Country Invitational held Saturday at The Trails at Crossroads Regional Park. (October 21, 2013, Page 2B)


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Heroic theory of invention and scientific development
|This article includes a list of references, related reading or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. (June 2011)
The heroic theory of invention and scientific development is the hypothesis that the principal authors of inventions and scientific discoveries are unique heroic individuals – "great scientists" or "geniuses." A competing hypothesis ("multiple discovery") is that most inventions and scientific discoveries are made independently and simultaneously by multiple inventors and scientists.
The multiple discovery hypothesis might be especially relevant in the development of mathematics since mathematical knowledge is highly unified and any advances that happen need to be built from previously established results through a process of deduction, as a general rule. For instance, the development of infinitesimal calculus into a systematic discipline did not occur until the development of analytic geometry, the former being credited to both Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz and the latter to both René Descartes and Pierre de Fermat. It could still be maintained, nevertheless, that the advance of mathematical knowledge through a process of multiple discoveries does not detract from the "heroic" nature of the discoverers. In other words, heroic advances in knowledge need not be singular or unique to necessarily merit that label, and there in fact may be "multiple heroes."
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- Genius
- Great man theory
- Hive mind
- List of multiple discoveries
- Multiple discovery
- People known as the father or mother of something
- Scientific theory
- Hypothesis and experiment in the early development of Kekuleacute's Benzene theory Alan J. Rocke, Annals of Science, Volume 42, Issue 4 July 1985, pages 355 - 381
- Industrial Invention: Heroic, or Systematic? - Ralph C. Epstein, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 40, No. 2 (Feb., 1926), pp. 232–272
- Priorities in Scientific Discovery: A Chapter in the Sociology of Science Robert K. Merton, American Sociological Review, Vol. 22, No. 6, 635-659. Dec., 1957.
- Singletons and Multiples in Scientific Discovery: A Chapter in the Sociology of Science Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 105, No. 5, The Influence of Science upon Modern Culture, Conference Commemorating the 400th Anniversary of the Birth of Francis Bacon (Oct. 13, 1961), pp. 470–486
- Business strategies for sustainable profits: systems thinking in practice - William K. Shireman, Global Futures - The Future 500
- The Medici Effect: What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us About Innovation - Frans Johansson. ISBN 1-4221-0282-3
- Apperceptual: The Heroic Theory of Scientific Development, Peter Turney, January 15, 2007
External links[edit]
- http://www.philsci.com/book2-2.htm
- http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/05/12/080512fa_fact_gladwell?currentPage=all
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Area coal miners and supporters are encouraged to attend an affordable electricity and energy jobs rally Wed., July 30, at Highmark Stadium in Pittsburgh.
Hundreds of West Virginia coal miners and coal supporters, as well as Governor Earl Ray Tomblin and Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, are expected to join Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett, Ohio Lt. Governor Mary Taylor, labor leaders and many others to participate in the rally.
Busses are transporting interested participants from the Logan and Danville areas to and from the event. They will be departing Fountain Place Mall at 4:30 am and Lick Creek Park in Danville at 5:10 a.m. to head to Pittsburgh. Both shuttles are full, but others interested in attending are encouraged to carpool to Highmark Stadium for the event.
Busses from Morgantown and Beckley will also be transporting people to participate.
The purpose of the event is to make the public aware of the importance of coal and coal miners to America's energy mix and how damaging the EPA rules on new and existing source power plants are to this industry and the state's that produce and use coal.
The rally is set to make a point one day before the EPA begins hosting public hearings on its recently proposed existing source greenhouse gas rules in Pittsburgh on July 31 and August 1.
Consultant Bryon Brown says the rally is "an effort to discuss why the industry thinks the EPA's proposed rulings are misguided and a chance to show solidarity."
This event is organized by the West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio coal associations and is coordinated by the Pennsylvania Coal Alliance and the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers Local 154. This event will highlight the importance of coal powered electricity and jobs. The rally is a non-partisan event and will include key leaders from business and labor, as well as citizens concerned about the effects of these draconian regulations.
For those interested in being heard but cannot take time off of work to attend, submit your comments to the EPA today using the Friends of Coal sound off tool: friendsofcoal.org/soundoff
(Karissa Blackburn is a reporter for the Logan Banner. She can be reached at 304-784-7329 or on Twitter at @kblackb2)


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I did it! The first launch of the new website is happening and the original of this painting is available there. small steps one day at a time = big changes.
Happy Valentine's Day!
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6" x 6"
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If you're with me on instagram, then you know we've been growing our first zinnia garden, and I'm a little obsessed with how beautiful it is. I had no idea it was so easy to grow one. Highly, highly recommend it!
{original is available here}
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I painted this several months ago and promised to tell the story about it.
It's simple really, and this is it: Right now it feels like bigger is better. That if you aren't doing something BIG all the time you aren't doing something vaulable, that you aren't valuable? you can feel like you don't count. Maybe I'm projecting? So I'll just own it myself and say this is how I feel sometimes.
It seems that first, you have to have BIG dreams, and then you have to tell everyone about them. Then you also have to SHOUT to be heard, and then if you get a bunch of people listening to you - the more followers and friends you have the more we respect you, the more we listen to you? the more we think you know what you're doing? the MORE you have going on, the busier you are = the MORE important you are. Any of this sound right to you reading this? or is it just me?
It's similar to how I felt as a kid, that I couldn't wait to be a grown up because then I would be important, and then I would be heard.
Life on these terms, is exhausting. And it's not that going for something BIG isn't worth doing or something we should reach for {if we feel like it's what we want to do? and not everbody does} but it shouldn't be the only way people can get attention or receive the respect and value they deserve.
I feel as if doing something small and quiet is underrated and overlooked right now.
That if we're not always doing something BIG {and talking about it} we will be forgotten, lost in the shuffle, that our contribution as people will lose relevance.
It might seem strange to write this post after I just ran this Kickstarter campaign - because all of this was a BIG/HUGE leap for me and I had to be in people's space way more than I've ever been - and now I'm creating something entirely new, where all the same risks apply - but this experience has made it even clearer - as to why this sentiment is especially important right now.
These characters, "the tinies" are about acknowledging the small. Because actually - the BIG moments in life are made up entirely from a collection of small moments. It's those small individual moments, that move us; and I don't want to miss those, not in my life and not in other's lives.
I also want to remember that it's ok to be quiet. It's ok to just be. It's ok to not want to do something BIG all the time.
It's ok to be small.
{I've decided to keep this original, but as of today "the tinies" are available as a print in the shop}
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Remember, it is just a mouse with a flower.
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First - a heartfelt THANK YOU to all of our early adopters and Kickstarter Backers!! 6 days in and we're 14% funded.
I realized when I sent out my first email and posted about the campaign, Kickstarter may be new to many of you.
If you aren't familiar with Kickstarter. How it works is: we get NOTHING unless we fund it COMPLETELY. Also this means, your card will not be charged until October 5 and ONLY IF WE REACH OUR GOAL.
If you are considering becoming a backer, we greatly appreciate if you do it sooner rather than later. More support at the beginning of the campaign from backers who know me and my work, will instill confidence in additional backers who might be meeting me for the first time through Kickstarter.
Why did I choose Kickstarter? Because there are now several crowd funding sites, including ones where whatever funds you raise, you get. Launching a Kickstarter campaign is more challenging and I like a good challenge :-) No, really, Kickstarter was the first crowd funding site I supported. I believe wholeheartedly in their mission and have been backing Kickstarter projects since 2011. For me, there is nothing better than empowering an individual to build something themselves. And honestly I think this is just the beginning of what is becoming a new approach to our economy.
Crowd Funding = every single donation counts. This means a combined effort from a lot of people acting together, can make something happen that otherwise may never have been made. It's amazing. We get to decide what we want to see more of in the world.
THANK YOU again to our backers so far. You have no idea how much it means to have you believe in our project at this early stage.
I wil be updating the campaign regularly as we go along. This week I have added a video preview featuring a short segment of my interview with Los Angeles artist, Outi Harma, along with a new art print of the image above and original paintings reward choices for all our backers. Next update: another preview! along with a reveal of more creatives who have just signed on to be featured in future episodes.
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{original is sold}
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My creation for last week's #mycreativethursday. Hence the flowers :-) Oh and Sean's title is "crouching tiger; hidden flowers"
Happening again tomorrow on Instagram, if you want to join us?
{available as an original here and a print at the shop}
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A few new abstracts added to the large paintings gallery. Also if you are in LA and want to see them in person you can visit them at indeed...
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After all the flower painting, I missed my characters :-)
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A man was shot multiple times in Windsor Mill on Monday.
Baltimore County police were called around 6 p.m. to Rudisill Court off of Bexhill Road, where a man was shot.
The 39-year-old victim was found inside an apartment suffering from a gunshot wound to the upper body, police said.
The victim was taken to Shock Trauma. His condition wasn't released.
Police said they are looking for multiple people in the shooting.
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Metal carboxylate complexes relevant to the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis
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Metal carboxylate complexes relevant to the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis
Pienaar, Andrew
In a Fischer-Tropsch refinery environment carboxylate complexes are of interest since the carboxylic acids present in product streams lead to formation of carboxylate salts through leaching of process equipment and catalysts. It is widely accepted that decomposition of organic (carboxylic) acids catalysed by metals is controlled by the decomposition of metal salts or complexes previously formed with such an acid. The determination of physical and structural properties of caboxylate complexes could contribute to the explanation of the mechanism involved in the decarboxylation of carboxylic acids. We have successfully determined the molecular structures of copper(II) allyl acetate, zinc(II) formiate, zinc(II) isovaleroate, yttrium(III) acetate and lanthanum(III) propionate. It has been established that zinc has a preferred tetrahedral coordination in carboxylate complexes compared to the octahedral coordination of copper, lanthanum and yttrium complexes considered. The carboxylate O-C-O angle in these complexes range between 119° and 125° and the conformation of the carbon chains is anti in all cases except for copper(II) allyl acetate, where a gauche conformation is adopted. Using structural methods such as TGA, infrared spectroscopy and X-Ray powder diffraction and combining it with existing knowledge of yttrium carboxylates and the effective use of computational chemistry – to calculate favourable internal parameters, using DFT calculations and B-LYP level theory - a likely structure for yttrium(III) propionate is proposed. The use of infrared measurements were especially valuable towards predictions of possible structures and the postulations of Nakamoto, on the relation between carboxylate carbonyl stretching frequencies and the nature of the carboxylate bond, could be used to accurately identify – except for the formiate salts of zinc(II) and yttrium(III) – the bonding mode present in the relevant compounds. We systematically tuned the non-cyclic organic part of the mono carboxylate ligand by lengthening and branching of the alkyl chain and determined that thermal decomposition and heat capacity of zinc complexes are a strong function of the ligand, while the behaviour of analogous yttrium complexes is hardly affected. The thermal investigation of lanthanum(III) propionate yielded a result that is in contrast with a previous study - where only CO2 was reported as byproduct - and we report an alternative result which indicates formation of symmetric ketones when the compound is heated to a high enough temperature. Earlier general assumptions about the layer-like crystal structure of lanthanum complexes coordinated by alkyl chain carboxylate are contradicted by the crystallographic data we collected for this compound. The crystal packing of lanthanum(III) propionate clearly shows a layered structure which is unexpected for a carboxylate with such a short alkyl.
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Publisher: Quality Chess, 2009Edition: Paperback mediumISBN: 978-1-906552-37-4Pages: 480Language: English
Genius in the Background introduces brilliant chess that will be unfamiliar to even well-read chessplayers. Twelve chess stars are profiled with examples of their greatest achievements, but these stars are not famous – they are geniuses who stay in the background. For example, Pervakov and Afek are not household names but they compose chess studies and puzzles of such elegance and cleverness that they deserve to be famous. Top players such as Garry Kasparov and Veselin Topalov may be famous names to chess fans, but they did not become World Champions without great help – two of their coaches are profiled in this book and provide insights into the education of a chess champion.A broad range of chess is covered by the twelve profiles – from openings to endgames, puzzles to training. The common thread is beauty and brilliance that deserves to be better known.
Tibor Karolyi is an International Master of chess from Budapest, Hungary. He was Hungarian Chess Champion in 1984 and is also an award-winning author and renowned chess coach. One of his previous books: "Endgame Virtuoso Anatoly Karpov" published by New In Chess, won the Guardian's chess Book of the Year prize in 2007. Karolyi coached Peter Leko, a former World Championship challenger, during Leko's teenage years when in the space of four years Leko improved from promising junior to grandmaster.
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Even if he got a hit tonight..... his swing continues to be bad and he is not going to get better by just playing and not changing it.
I read RedsZone to see some good baseball analysis. Instead I see all the anger directed to one player and a batting order slot.
Tonight the problem was Latos, the umpire, Votto's defense, and IMO Frazier's at bat with two men on in the eighth. Not Zack Cozart.
Cozart, Frazier, lack of LF and C have been problems fairly consistently all year. While Zach didn't lose this game, I don't see a huge problem complaining where he hits in the lineup (though to see the holes it's hard to find an optimal place for all of them to hit).
BTW, first time I've heard Jim Day do play-by-play. Not sure who he's filling in for but please come back. Dude has a hard enough time doing CincinnatiUSA.com commercials. Seems like a nice guy though.
This place use to be fun
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Kc61 (07-11-2013)
How would you know until he stops doing it? If he was not doing it almost every AB....we could say it is not just his mechanics, besides obviously being in his head.
I fielded like Juan Castro playing all over the INF, except 1B. I hit like him too ...so I should know how hard it is and how bad you can look.. even when I had no mechanical issues.
And for the record... Latos has more than to do with this loss than Cozart...obviously. All I did was point out his flawed swing that no one seems to be doing a good job of changing.
Does anyone try to go the opposite field out of the Cozart, Frazier, Mesoraco and Heisey law firm? At least that one bit of adjustment would help....at least an attempt made to see if that can get you going. Yet they become even more pull happy the worse they get.
Redsfansince72 (07-11-2013)
Looking ahead at the schedule I think we can win probably half of our next 13 games (10-3)
In spite of all the hand-wringing, this team is going to make the playoffs. The pitching is too good. They have a four-game lead in the wildcard. They are going to get healthy (knock on wood) in the second half.
Starting August 1st on, they will play 10 more home games than road games.
Starting September 9th on, they play the Cubs, the Brewers, the Astros, the Mets three times each and the Pirates six times.
Heads of state that ride and wrangle. That look at your face from more than one angle. Can cut you from their bloated budgets. Like sharpened knives through Chicken McNuggets.
And if they play like they did against the Mariners and the Brew Cru, that September schedule looks pretty daunting.
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The biography of Laura Ulewicz. This page has biographical information on Laura Ulewicz, one of the best poets of all time. This PoetrySoup page also provides access to the poet's poems, best poetry, quotes, and video biographies...if available.
Laura Ulewicz (1930–2007) was an American Poet.. American Beat poet
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The Warner Eagles didn't have any problem with District A-8 last season — they went 6-0. But coach Mike Burge isn't the least bit interested in last season.
The Warner Eagles didn't have any problem with District A-8 last season — they went 6-0. But coach Mike Burge isn't the least bit interested in last season.
Starting quarterback for this year's squad will be sophomore Bobby Ward. In the team's first scrimmage, Burge was impressed.
"He's got some things down. He threw the ball well," Burge said.
The Eagles scrimmaged Canadian on Aug. 23, and the first team offense ran 24 plays.
Warner boasted the best defense in the district last season, allowing 12 points per game. Burger said there is some work needed on defense, though the effort is good.
Burger said the toughest games on the schedule are toward the end of the year. The team will have a chance to get the wrinkles ironed out with their nondistrict games.
Afton's season didn't start out the way it planned last year. Despite finishing second in the district, coach Zach Gardner knows the importance of opening the season on the right foot.
"We're going to find out how good we are in week one," Gardner said.
The Eagles return most of their skill position players, which Gardner calls a plus. But he quickly mentioned the guys who don't get mentioned enough.
"We got to replace the line of scrimmage, the guys that get you the wins."
Afton's key matchup comes with a week 4 meeting with Fairland. Last year, Afton beat Fairland to seal home-field advantage in the first round of the playoffs. Gardner expects this game to be meaningful again.
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"The NCAA is only one piece of it. The larger problem is that no one is control. The almighty dollar is in control. College sports is being controlled by the dollar. No one is in charge. The NCAA has very a small purview, setting some regulations. You have conferences, television networks, so many folks with control that no one is in control. You can have one meltdown like Penn State and it still won't change the system," McMillen said.
Penn State's football team draws some $70 million to the university each year, funding other athletic departments and some academic programs.
Following the Freeh report, some supporters pointed out that if the football team were to be demolished - even for a year - there could be a ripple-effect of economic and academic consequences.
"First, all other sports die. All. Other. Sports. Because PSU football subsidizes the rest. All women's sports, particularly, go away," Penn State alumnus Jason Fagone wrote on Twitter Thursday. "It's not just the $40 million football economy that goes. It's academics. There's a tangible risk of decreased state appropriations; legislators go to football games, get free tix. That's 14% of total budget."
If the NCAA does not impose suspensions on the football team, Penn State would also have the option to impose its own suspension, much like Florida A&M University did this year after the hazing death of one of its famed Marching 100 band members.
In the months after drum major Robert Champion died, the band leader and the university president resigned, and the university suspended all band activity for the 2012-2013 school year. Champion's death, like Sandusky's crimes, led to revelations that the program had too much power and too little oversight.
The administration at Penn State hasn't spoken publicly about an internal suspension as an option. In a statement Thursday following the Freeh report's release, the Board of Trustees said it remained "proud of the accomplishments of Penn State's student athletes over many years, and we reaffirm the fundamental premise that academic excellence and athletic achievement are wholly consistent and complementary goals."
The university also gave new head football coach Bill O'Brien a five-year contract worth more than $950,000 each year, a move that seemed to confirm the administration's commitment to playing football for each of those five years.
McMillen said that whether or not Penn State or the NCAA suspend the Nittany Lions football team in 2012, the influence exerted by powerful college athletic departments will not go away.
"As sad as this is, as tragic as this, it will not lead to systemic reform and reason. It's going to take a major cataclysm, something involving many schools, a gambling incident or programs going bankrupt," he said. "It all has to do with this reverence of football, or basketbtall, that it becomes larger than the university, and it can't be, it just can't be. Higher education is too important in this country for the tail to be allowed to wag the dog."


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Knoxville tries to chill during record setting early summer
With record breaking temperatures of over 100 degrees in Knoxville, Sylvan does what the majority of us would do to escape the heat — find a nice, shady spot to lie down and enjoy her favorite frozen treat.
Sylvan's Popsicle flavor of choice is blood, and she is a 17-year-old African lion at the Knoxville Zoo that spends about 18 to 20 hours per day sleeping or taking it easy in the shade.
"These guys, in the heat, like cool things just like we do. We eat Popsicles like cherry, orange or grape, but these guys eat meat so they like chicken, tuna or blood," said Allison England, a carnivore zookeeper at the Knoxville Zoo.
England and other zoo staff provided animals with special treats Friday afternoon to help them cool down.
The blood is drained from the meat used to feed the animals and frozen in emptied yogurt cups to shape the treats that are tossed into the animal enclosures, according to England.
Sylvan was not the only one receiving a treat Friday — her fellow lions, tigers and African painted dogs all received meaty ice pops while the chimpanzees enjoyed frozen fruit treats.
Lions do not much care for water, but other animals are provided with water pools and misters to help fight off the heat, said England.
Meanwhile, the humans of Knoxville were issued a heat advisory for Knox, Blount and Anderson counties on Friday.
The National Weather Service reported a record high of 101 degrees on Thursday, breaking the previous 100-degree record in 1952.
Friday's forecast high of 102 was not quite reached where official temperatures are recorded at McGhee Tyson Airport, but there could be more record breaking days ahead.
If today's projected high of 102 degrees is reached, it will surpass the previous 100 degree high in 1952.
Sunday's forecast of 101 degrees could also break the July 1, 1954, record of 100 degrees, according to data from the National Weather Service.
With about 30 percent humidity for today and Sunday, people will surely feel every bit of the heat.
The heat prompted Knox Area Rescue Ministries to reach out to the community for bottled water donations to help provide critical hydration to those in need.
"This is earlier than we usually request water because the temperatures are so extreme, and people have already started bringing water by," said Sue Renfro, the marketing manager for Knox Area Rescue Ministries.
By Friday afternoon, the agency's water cooler was stocked, for now at least.
"We have now received what we need for a few weeks at least," said Renfro, who thanked all those who donated.
Renfro said they have displayed the "white flag" outside their location warning people without access to news coverage of the extreme heat and to stay cool by drinking plenty of water and taking frequent breaks — finding shelter at their Cross Roads Welcome Center, if necessary.
The welcome center allows people to come in and cool off in the air conditioning and receive water and a meal, according to Renfro.
She said, "It's different from having cold temperatures overnight — it's not as dramatic — but we will definitely see a rise in people coming into the shelter to stay."
With extreme temperatures also comes extreme energy usage, according to Mike Bradley, a TVA spokesman.
He said the average peak for Thursday's power use was 30,463 megawatts, and TVA expects it will increase and remain over 30,000 through the weekend into the Fourth of July holiday.
Bradley does not expect to reach the record high 33,482 megawatts recorded in the summer of 2007.
The peak measurement is the average taken from five cities throughout Tennessee including Knoxville.
He said measurements are taken between 4 and 6 p.m. when people are arriving home from work to crank up the air conditioning and turn on the TV.
The heat has not prevented those who make a living outdoors from braving the harsh conditions.
Gene Mahan, owner of Action Affordable Roofing, said, "As long as we stay fully hydrated, wear protective clothing and hats, and make sure to take a break every hour we don't have any problems."
Mahan and his crew worked through the blazing temperatures on Thursday and Friday.
He said he has worked on roofs in temperatures over 110 degrees.
"It's terrible, just terrible. Everything you touch is red hot."
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