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Whether you love him or hate him, most of us can agree that Bryce Harper is a pretty weird dude. Between telling little kids to be as sexy as they can and dressing up like a clown for Halloween, the 20-year-old has done some pretty bizarre things since he burst onto the MLB scene last year. But nothing is quite as strange as he pregame ritual. Harper went on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" on Tuesday night and discussed some of his superstitions. Kimmel asked him about sleeping with his baseball bat when he was younger, and Bryce said he has stopped doing that but adopted other habits — like showering more than a handful of times before games. "When I was growing up I was really supersticious," Harper told Kimmel. "I still am. I get to the field at around 12 o'clock for a 7:05 game and it starts from there. I swear I shower seven times when I'm at the field, and I don't even need to. It's bad. "As long as I'm on a streak or we're doing good or my team's winning, I'm gonna keep doing the same thing. Wearing the same undershirt, I eat Eggo waffles — it has to be Eggo — right before the game. It's really weird." Eating the same things and wearing the same things during winning streaks is fairly common, but seven showers between noon and 7 p.m.? I know MLB teams make plenty of money, but how about conserving a little water? Natural resources, bro. The post Bryce Harper says he showers seven times before games (Video) appeared first on Larry Brown Sports. Related posts: Bryce Harper sent to minors after striking out four times, will play center field Bryce Harper garden gnome looks nothing like Bryce Harper (Picture) Bryce Harper dresses as clown for Halloween (Picture)
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While AIS is a nice tool you are presuming that ALL vessels in your transit are is participating. This is probably not the case. AIS depends on the participation of others to provide information to you.
Radar is an active instrument giving you a real time image of objects around you. While there are situations wherein objects may be masked on radar it is fewer occasions than a vessel not having AIS. A properly tuned, quality radar system will display some pretty small objects. I routinely see fishing floats at greater than a mile out.
You don't really need a "pole" if you don't want it. There are mounts that fix to the backstay.
If it came to a choice of a chart plotter or radar I'd choose radar. Inshore you can navigate by radar a chart plotter won't tell you that you are about to be run down by that cigarette boat.
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Chargers 31, Chiefs 0
Key plays: The Chiefs started the quarter with good field position but a sack by Larry English and tipped passes by Antoine Cason (deep against Bowe) and Antwan Barnes forced another punt. The Chargers drove for a field goal, a possession that could have been more had a chop block penalty against Jacob Hester not nullified a 37-yard pass from Rivers to Jackson. Finally, a 42-yard punt return by Cason set up an impressive 15-yard TD run by Mathews, who maintained his balance at the 13 and then sprinted clear into the end zone.
Key stats: The Chiefs had 16 total yards in the second half and 67 in the game.
Not in the box score: Maybe Matt Cassel should get consideration for league MVP, because without him, the Chiefs looked like a team that started the day with two wins, not a two-game lead in the AFC West.


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PALAKKAD: When the foundation stones of a railway coach factory and a defence project of BEML Ltd., formerly Bharat Earth Movers Ltd., are laid at Kanjikode on January 18, the district will get set for faster industrialisation.
The mega projects will help Kanjikode emerge as Kerala's new investment destination. They will come up in the Kanjikode-Pudussery-Walayar industrial belt on the National Highway 47 stretch from Palakkad town to Walayar, which is on the Kerala-Tamil Nadu border.
Other major projects, such as a defence park announced by the Centre for manufacturing defence communication equipment and an information technology park of the State government, will also boost industrial activities.
Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan announced last week in New Delhi that Railway Minister Lalu Prasad would lay the foundation stone for the integrated railway coach factory. The initial investment is Rs.6,000 crore. The State government has taken steps to acquire 360 hectares of land for the project.
N.N. Krishnadas, MP, told The Hindu here on Tuesday that the Railways had submitted the Detailed Project Report for the approval of the Planning Commission and the Union Cabinet. The sanctions are expected in time for the laying of the foundation stone.
Defence Minister A.K. Antony announced in Delhi on Monday that Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan would lay the foundation stone for the BEML Ltd. project.
The proposed unit will manufacture defence products and railway parts. As much as 160 hectares of land will be provided for it on a long-term lease at a concessional rate.
"Initially, the Centre will grant Rs.255 crore for the project. The State government had agreed to hand over another 600 acres [240 hectares] on a long-term lease for the expansion process," the Defence Minister said.
Recently, he had announced the intention to set up the defence park, in collaboration with Indian Telephone Industries (ITI) at Kanjikode, which has 40 hectares of land for the project.
The work on the State government's integrated textile park on 120 hectares of land at Kanjikode is nearing completion. The State government has announced its decision to set up the IT park in Palakkad.
These major projects will definitely make Palakkad the new industrial investment destination of Kerala. The Kanjikode industrial belt is the second biggest industrial area in Kerala after Kochi.
The strategic location of the district, with a high literacy rate, adequate power supply, cheap land, highest road density, skilled labour and a peaceful industrial climate, is the main reason for its emerging as a major industrial centre. The cheap wind energy is available because of the Palakkad Gap in the Western Ghats. The KSEB had set up windmills at Kanjikode long ago. The forest cover nearby gives a good environment for townships and industrial units.


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PLEASANTON, Calif. (AP) — Bring on the deal hunters.
Grocery store operator Safeway said Thursday its customer loyalty program helped its fourth-quarter net income jump 13 percent in the fourth quarter, far surpassing expectations.
Shares jumped more than 13 percent in afternoon trading on the better-than-expected results.
Supermarkets have struggled to find the balance between customers' need for low price food and fluctuating food costs. Also, in addition to competition from retailers such as Target and Wal-Mart, traditional supermarkets are competing more with drugstore chains and dollar stores.
Safeway's solution has been investing heavily in its "Just for U" customer loyalty program, which offers personalized discounts based on past purchases. The Pleasanton, Calif.-based grocer said Thursday the program is driving market share gains and profits, evidence that the investment is beginning to pay off.
CEO Steven Burd said about 45 percent of its sales are from people registered for its loyalty program. The goal is 65 percent. So far the program is performing better than expectations, Burd said.
"Our best customers are becoming increasingly more loyal and buying more items per trip," Burd said.
The mobile component of the program, which includes apps for most smartphones and an iPad app launched last quarter, has had higher usage than expected. Digital coupons have also performed well, an area that Safeway wants to expand, Burd said.
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Mesquite Skirt Steak with Corn & Potato Salad
- Makes:
- 6 servings
- Yields:
- 4 cups salad
- Prep:
- 30 mins
- Cook:
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- Grill:
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Mesquite Skirt Steak with Corn & Potato Salad
Ingredients Steak SeasoningCorn & Potato Salad
tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
tablespoons fresh lime juice
tablespoons pure chile powder
teaspoons ground cumin
teaspoon minced garlic
teaspoon kosher salt
1 3/4
pounds skirt steak, 1/2 to 3/4 inch thick, trimmed of excess surface fat, cut in 12-inch lengths
pound very small red potatoes, scrubbed
ears fresh corn, husked
ripe Hass avocado, diced
medium radishes, thinly sliced
green onions (white and light green parts only), thinly sliced
cup finely chopped fresh cilantro leaves
tablespoons fresh lime juice
canned chipotle chile pepper in adobo sauce, minced
clove garlic, minced
cup extra-virgin olive oil
Kosher salt
Ground black pepper
large handful (1 cup) mesquite wood chips, soaked in water at least 30 minutes
Flour tortillas, warmed (6 inches) (optional)
- For Steak Seasoning, in small bowl whisk together all ingredients to form a paste. Spread seasoning on both sides of each steak. Set aside at room temperature for 15 to 30 minutes to absorb flavors.
- Meanwhile, for Corn & Potato Salad, in medium saucepan cover potatoes with lightly salted water. Bring to boiling over high heat. Reduce heat to medium. Cook potatoes about 20 minutes, until tender when pierced with tip of knife. Drain, rinse under cold running water, drain again. Cut potatoes in half. Transfer to medium bowl. Refrigerate to cool.
- Prepare grill for two-zone fire over high heat (450 degrees F to 500 degrees F).
- Brush cooking grate clean. Grill corn directly over coals or burners for 8 to 10 minutes, turning often until kernels are brown in spots all over, with grill covered as much as possible. Remove corn from grill; set aside to cool. When cool enough to handle, cut kernels from cobs. Add corn, avocado, radishes, green onions, and cilantro to chilled potatoes.
- For salad dressing, in small bowl whisk together lime juice, chile pepper, and garlic. Gradually whisk in oil. Pour over Corn & Red Potato Salad; toss to combine. Season with salt and pepper. Cover and refrigerate.
- Drain and add wood chips to grill. Cook steaks over direct high heat for 4 to 6 minutes for medium rare, turning once or twice, with grill covered as much as possible. If flare-ups occur, temporarily move steaks to cooler side of grill. When steaks are done, transfer to platter, cover, and let rest for 3 to 5 minutes.
- Cut steaks cross the grain in 1/2-inch slices. Serve immediately with salad and, if desired, warm tortillas.
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Flank Steak could be an alternative for skirt steak. Score before grilling and cook over direct medium heat for 8 to 10 minutes, turning once.
Nutrition Facts(Mesquite Skirt Steak with Corn & Potato Salad)
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- 34 g fat
- (9 g sat. fat,
- 3 g polyunsaturated fat,
- 19 g monounsatured fat),
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- 667 mg sodium,
- 24 g carb.,
- 5 g fiber,
- 4 g sugar,
- 30 g pro.
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An article in Sunday's Times magazine appears under the headline "How to Roll a Joint."
It's hard to understand exactly what redeeming news value the article has. Some aging hippy Times readers and contributors such as the author of Just Say Yes: A Marijuana Memoir presumably already know how. So is the idea that the Times is trying to induce people who are not already experienced pot smokers to try it? Maybe young children or teenagers? Reasonable people may disagree on decriminalization, legalization, or medical marijuana use, but the Times' enthusiasm for this drug is almost evangelical in its eagerness to spread the news; certainly outside the bounds of journalistic neutrality, skepticism, or objectivity.
If this is the product of the much-hyped New York Times Sunday magazine relaunch under a new editor, I don't think it's an encouraging sign for the magazine's future.
A front-page Times news article reports: "In the aftermath of the Great Depression, the nation's finance industry shrank severely — and remained in a humbled state for most of the next four decades. The economy boomed in this period, with no major financial crises and less income inequality than in recent decades."
A Times article about a fatal Amtrak derailment includes this sentence: "Like the rest of the country's crumbling public infrastructure, its aging rail beds and decades-old trains are sagging under increased use, especially in the Northeast, where nearly three-quarters of all travel takes place on the trains, not on planes."
The Times doesn't give the source of this "nearly three-quarters of all travel" statistic, but it's almost certainly bogus. What about cars? Buses? Feet? Does the statistic refer to the percentage of trips or the percentage of passenger-miles? Does it refer only to inter-city or interstate travel? It offers the illusion of authority and precision without actually providing any useful information to readers.
The Times obituary of William Zinsser, the author of On Writing Well, includes this sentence: "In his late '80s he wrote a blog on popular culture, the craft of writing and the arts for the website of The American Scholar that won a National Magazine Award for digital commentary."
It's a small thing, but there's no need for the apostrophe before "80s." One might use an apostrophe to refer to the decade the 1980s — the apostrophe in '80s would stand in for the missing digits 19. But referring to someone's age, there are no missing digits. So there should be no apostrophe.
An April 27 Times web feature on "how to eat healthy meals at restaurants" showed up in my print edition of the Times this morning, two weeks after it originally appeared on the Web. The feature includes the following sentence: "Outside of major metropolitan areas, where restaurant choices are more limited, egg-based lunches and dinners are a good way to eat well."
A Times dispatch from the West Bank begins, "Lina Halsa certainly made a splash at the student rally for the Islamist Hamas movement here at Birzeit University last month. Wearing a sleeveless top, tight jeans, and with her hair in a ponytail, Ms. Halsa's attire was revealing even by the standards of this liberal, secular campus."
The article runs with no photograph in either the print or the online edition of the Times. The online edition includes a hyperlink to a photo on another site.
A few items I had been meaning to get to sooner over the past two weeks:
Misstep? A Times article on President Obama's nomination of Gayle Smith to be the administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development says of Ms. Smith's predecessor, Rajiv Shah:
This wording seems to side with Senator Leahy in characterizing the Cuba effort as a "misstep"; a pretty clear case of left-wing opinion creeping into what is supposed to be a news article.
Correction of the Month: From the May 1 Times:
The Times has a compelling account of the use of chemical weapons in Syria. Strangely, the story doesn't start on page one. Also strangely, it doesn't mention the words "President Obama" or "red line" or note that the Obama administration has touted the disarmament of Syria as a foreign policy victory. If the Iranian nuclear disarmament deal is anything like the Syria disarmament deal, in which Syria is using chemical weapons following the conclusion of the deal, no wonder Congress and Prime Minister Netanyahu are concerned.
The Times story notes that "In contrast to stronger toxins like nerve agents and mustard gas, chlorine is lethal only in highly concentrated doses and where medical treatment is not immediately available, making it more an instrument of terror than of mass slaughter." That's not much consolation to those killed by the chlorine.
The lead, front-page news article in today's Times, about a claim by some economists that moving can improve outcomes for poor families, includes this sentence: "The places most conducive to upward mobility include large cities — San Francisco, San Diego, Salt Lake City, Las Vegas and Providence, R.I. — and major suburban counties, such as Fairfax, Va.; Bergen, N.J.; Bucks, Pa.; Macomb, Mich.; Worcester, Mass.; and Contra Costa, Calif."
An article in the sports section of the Times is a great illustration of the way reporters describe reality in whatever way they want to spin it. The issue is Greenwich, Connecticut. A 2009 Times article described it as "the ritzy suburb and haven for New York City's elite." A 1997 Times article reported "This affluent town, where backyards are as big as Rhode Island and more than a few people take pride in talking like George Plimpton, is committed to maintaining its image as a sanctuary for those with wealth and taste."
Today's sports article takes a different approach; an injured boxer is described as living "in a small bedroom in a working-class neighborhood in Greenwich, in a modest house his family rents cheap from a devoted friend."
A Times account of an Israel Independence Day celebration in Washington featuring Vice President Biden and the Israeli ambassador to the U.S., Ron Dermer includes this passage:
One way the New York Times demonstrates its left-wing bias is its insistence on labeling conservatives as such without applying similar labels to liberals. It's hard to find a more glaring example of this behavior than in this story from the Times business section about an executive who cut his own pay while setting a $70,000 minimum wage at his firm.
The Times article mentions "Michael Strain, an economist at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative research group in Washington." It mentions "Diana Furchtgott-Roth, an economist at the conservative Manhattan Institute for Policy Research." And it mentions "Tim Kane, an economist at the conservative Hoover Institution at Stanford University." The word "conservative" operates as a kind of warning by the left-wing New York Times to its left-wing readers: "Watch out, be careful, folks, these organizations aren't in ideological tune with what you'd usually expect here."
The New York Times writes a whole long article about a study of American drone strikes in Yemen issued by what the Times calls "a legal advocacy group," the Open Society Justice Initiative. No mention of the initiative's funding or its chairman, George Soros.
When the Koch brothers or Sheldon Adelson participate in public affairs through philanthropy, the Times calls it "dark money," calls them billionaires, and puts their name in the headlines. But when it is Mr. Soros advancing a left-wing agenda, that billionaire gets a free pass — the Times leaves him out of the story. It sure looks like a double standard.
Another Reclusive Republican DonorApril 13, 2015 at 9:32 am
A Times article about Robert Mercer, a donor who supports Senator Ted Cruz, describes Mr. Mercer as " a reclusive Long Islander who started at I.B.M. and made his fortune using computer patterns to outsmart the stock market."
"Reclusive" is newspaper jargon for anyone who doesn't drop whatever he is doing immediately and run to the telephone whenever a newspaper reporter calls. Its use in these instances, as in the New Republic's description of "reclusive" Harold Simmons, bears no resemblance to the dictionary definition of the word reclusive, which describes someone living in solitary confinement, secluded from the world like a monk or a hermit. It's a way the newspapers pressure people to cooperate with them by hurling insults at those, especially Republicans, who don't play their game.
The Times carries a column that reads like a paid advertisement — free of any skepticism — about a book called "Just Say Yes: A Marijuana Memoir."
The column and the book try to make the point that the author of the book, Catherine Hiller, smoked marijuana "more or less every day for the past 50 years," and "her life turned out nicely."
Plenty of other books from less obscure publishers get much less attention from the Times than this book does, so you have to wonder why it is that the Times fell so hard for this one. The Times column came on top of an article that the author wrote for the the Times about her drug-buying experiences. Maybe this is the sweet spot for the Times demographic — hippies in their 60s and 70s — but for anyone younger or less invested in the pro-marijuana advocacy campaign, it risks coming off as kind of weird.
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"Saturday Night Live" has just added more Black women, who are comedy pros, to its creative team!
On the heels of news that "SNL" has just added it's first Black woman to cast in five years by hiring Sasheer Zamata, The Hollywood Reporter has announced that the show also added some flavor to the writers' room.
As of Monday, LaKendra Tookes and Leslie Jones joined the writing team! Both ladies were discovered at the highly publicized audition last year. Although they didn't get the onscreen gig, they impressed the people to still snag a spot behind the scenes.
The new hires effectively address some of the concerned rumblings on the Internet that the team of writers for "SNL" wouldn't know how to create good material for Sasheer since there were no Black women on the staff.
Anyone who's watching "Comic View," "Russell Simmon's Def Comedy Jam" or "Chelsea Lately" will be familiar with Leslie since she's been doing standup comedy for years.
LaKendra is a comedic actress, who started out her professional life as news reporter in Florida. Flip ahead to see LaKendra, Leslie and Sasheer in action!
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SAN DIEGO, June 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Optimer Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: OPTR) announced today that on May 31, 2011 the Compensation Committee of its Board of Directors approved the grant of inducement stock options to purchase an aggregate of 411,750 shares of common stock to 27 new employees.
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Each stock option has an exercise price per share equal to $14.51, the fair market value on the grant date, and vests over four years, with 25% of the shares vesting on the one-year anniversary of the applicable vesting commencement date and 1/48 of the shares vesting monthly thereafter, subject to the new employee's continued service relationship with the Company. Each stock option also has a ten year term and is subject to the terms and conditions of the Company's 2006 Equity Incentive Plan and the stock option agreement pursuant to which the option was granted.
The stock options were granted as inducements material to the new employees entering into employment with Optimer in accordance with NASDAQ Listing Rule 5635(c)(4).
About Optimer
Optimer Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing and commercializing innovative hospital specialty products that have a positive impact on society. Optimer has developed and plans to commercialize DIFICID™ (fidaxomicin) tablets, an FDA approved antibacterial drug for the treatment of adult patients with Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea (CDAD). CDAD is associated with a bacterial infection that is estimated to affect 700,000 people each year in the U.S. alone, and has surpassed MRSA as the leading cause of healthcare-acquired infections in community hospitals. Optimer has filed a marketing authorization app
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