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What's wrong with Adobe Photoshop Elements 9?
Not much. It's almost perfect.
I teach Photoshop Elements. I have used every version for Macintosh and Windows from 1 through 9. I am very familiar with this excellent application for editing and enhancing digital images.
Adobe tweaks each incremental upgrade to Photoshop Elements, or PSE, to improve the user experience and to stimulate sales of a software product that was just fine in the previous release. Most of the major features of PSE9 were in place in the landmark version 1, which indicates there is much to applaud about PSE during its entire life cycle.
For its modest price, PSE has exceptional value. Only a tiny percentage of amateurs require the robust professional and costly experience of "real" Photoshop CS, currently in version CS5.


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I'm in love with Kate's hair!
I loved the pic of someone taking a picture of them. And I thought she had already learned the lesson from her Canadia tour, she definetely should use her hair up in these windy places!
This is probably being incredibly picky but I don't like the fact that her dress is hanging below the hem of her coat. I also really hope the dress is not an animal print - can't really tell from the pictures - I think they are tacky.ReplyDelete
I can never remember what the rule is on hem lengths. I feel like people have faulted her on both points. It is an animal print, I have a close up of the fabric that I did not post. I was raised on the animal print is tacky belief, but I have to admit, I am totally loving it for the past year. A little goes a long way.ReplyDelete
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The film was made to seek to tell the life story Gandhi, and his incessant search for Truth. The film contains animation, live photography and old prints to provide an integrated image of his life. The story itself is narrated using mostly Gandhi's own words.
There are several versions of the film. There is the 5 hour version in English, a shorter version which runs for 2 hours and 16 minutes, and an even shorter version which runs for an hour. A Hindi version exists, running for 2 hours and 20 minutes, and a German version at 1 hour and 44 minutes.


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The related Pressure Controlled Palpometer (PCP) uses a pressure-sensitive piece of plastic film to determine how much pressure is being applied in palpation. This technique appears to be more reliable than unaided palpation.
A laser-based dolorimeter called a Dolorimeter Analgesia meter is marketed by IITC Life Sciences.
Other terms for similar instruments include algesiometer, algesichronometer (which also takes time into consideration), analgesia meter, algometer, algonometer, prick-algesimeter, pressure-algometer.
The Hot Plate analgesia meter measures response to mice and rats placed on a hot plate.
The Tail Flick analgesia meter measures the movement of the animal's tail in response to a painful sensation. An intense light beam is focused on the animal's tail, and then a timer begins. When the animal flicks its tail, the timer stops and the recorded time is a measure of the pain threshold.
A pressure analgesia meter uses a stepper motor to gradually increase pressure on the animal's paw.
In 1945, Time Magazine reported that Cleveland's Dr. Lorand Julius Bela Gluzek had developed a dolorimeter that measured pain in grams. Dr. Gluzek claimed that his dolorimeter was 97% accurate.


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|Biological and Health Sciences Division
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|4 hours lecture, 11 hours laboratory, 4 hours clinic.
|9 Units
|Total Quarter Learning Hours: 228 (Total of All Lecture, Lecture/Lab, and Lab hours X 12)
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|Lab Hours: 15
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|Grading: Letter Grade Only
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|Degree or Certificate Requirement: Certificate of Achievement, AS Degree
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|Validation: 4/26/10; 11/6/11
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|Introduction to chairside assisting; use and care of dental equipment, patient management, instrument identification; overview of common dental procedures such as composite, amalgam, partials, dentures, root canals, crown and bridge appointments; manipulation of dental materials commonly prepared or used by the dental assistant including temporary dressings, impression materials, cement bases and liners, topical agents, composites, resins and amalgams. Intended for students in the dental assisting program.
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|Bird, DL, Robinson, DS. Modern Dental Assisting. 10th edition. St, Louis, MO: WB Saunders, 2012. ISBN: 978-1-4377-1729-7
Bird, DL, Robinson, DS. Student Workbook to Accompany Modern Dental Assisting. 10th edition. St, Louis, MO: WB Saunders, 2012. ISBN: 978-1-4377-2728-9
Miyasaki, Cara, DA 51A Lecture Manual, Los Altos Hills, CA: Foothill College, 2012.
Kirby, Colleen & Herold, Renee, DA 51A Lab Manual, Los Altos Hills, CA: Foothill College 2012.
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Rain And Wind….Luckily?February 8th, 2013 at 7:28 am by Jeremy Wheeler under Weather
You may read that title and think that I'm crazy. We have already had heavy rain and wind. We've already seen a lot of accidents and slowdowns as we called for. But….it could be a lot worse. If this precipitation were snow, then we'd really be in trouble. With a 10-1 ratio it would have probably produced upwards of a foot or more. Or… if the low were stronger then we could have seen some really destructive winds. Or… if we had some instability, then we might have had to deal with tornadoes. So it could have been a lot worse. Still,don't get me wrong… it is very messy out there. Rain started last night and was going steadily all night long. Here was the view on Super Doppler 10 this morning:
You can see how the precipitation curls a bit down towards the southern Outer Banks. That is where the area of low pressure was located. Rain and moisture was being pushed north well ahead of the low. The rain is forecast to stick around through about 11am or noon. Then it should push northeast as the low pushes farther offshore.
The low will be well northeast of us by 3pm. A lot of the rain will go with it, but a few showers will hang back as an upper level pocket of energy (trough) swings through. So between 5 and 8 pm a few more spotty showers are possible.
As the low moves towards the northeast coast this evening the snow will really start to stack up towards New York and Boston. We may see a few flurries or a light snow shower on the Eastern Shore tonight. That will just be some of the moisture hanging back behind the low. No accumulations are expected. However, up towards Boston they are expecting 1-2 feet of snow. Yes, that's feet as in 12-24 inches.
Rain totals will be between 1-2 inches with a few cities seeing a little more than 2 inches before this is all said and done.
Winds today will start out of the north/northeast gusting up to 40-45mph near the shore. Gusts will be closer to 25-30mph inland. By this evening the winds will only taper off a bit. Then tomorrow the winds will pick back up and gust up to 35mph out of the northwest. Locally tomorrow we will have some drying as high pressure builds in. By Sunday we'll have quieter weather in the region with a lot less wind.
Another area of low pressure will bring more rain to the area early next week. It's possible that we could even get some flooding in here by the middle of next week if the models trend wetter. At least it will be warmer with highs near 60 Monday and Tuesday.
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Fountains Getting New Valves, Will Not Run Continuously
Yes, the drinking fountains in La Crosse will soon be running again for the season.
No, they won't be running all the time. The city this week will put valves on 45 historical fountains that have traditionally run continuously. That's a bunch of water every year; 4 to 5 million gallons, says
city water utility manager Mark Johnson. Each new fountain valve will cost about 75 dollars. Until now, the city has paid the utility over a hundred dollars a year each to let the fountains run continuously.


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Fan Has 'Hangover' at Nebraska Game
Depicting oneself as Alan from "The Hangover" made for a great Halloween costume in 2010. A year later, after "The Hangover 2" failed to stir up as much hype as the original, the satchel-wearing member of "The Wolf Pack" is so last year.
But we'll make an exception for the below man who dressed up as Alan at the Nebraska-Michigan State game on Saturday. He looks exactly like Zach Galifianakis' character in the movie.
It's pretty brilliant and the similarity is actually kind of scary.


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The Bremerton-Silverdale metropolitan area represents a group of island communities across Puget Sound's main channel. Bremerton is the largest city with seaport and shipbuilding activities, but the character of the area outside of the city and on other islands is mainly suburban and rural, with small towns and commuter communities on Bainbridge Island and Vashon Island, among others. Bainbridge itself has suffered some economic decline in its major industries, and the downtown area experienced some decay but has also undergone some revitalization; the result is a mixed bag. Silverdale is a residential and shopping area just north.
Ferry service takes about an hour with relatively infrequent sailings 1 ½ hours apart, so Seattle commutes must be well planned. Naturally, Seattle offers some of the finest big-city amenities available in the country, and the last ferry departure at 12:50 AM enables locals to take advantage of them in off hours. Most communities have attractive housing in wooded settings. Residents make the trip to Seattle or Olympia to the south for amenities lacking in the immediate area. Most of the region has a livable small-town atmosphere with excellent outdoor recreation and a pleasant—if wet—climate.
The area is a series of level to slightly hilly islands and inlets with dense coniferous forest. The climate is marine, with a moderate sheltering effect from the Olympic Mountains to the west. Summers are cool and mainly dry. The rest of the year is a mix of clouds, light rain, and an occasional snow, although the water-level location makes snow uncommon. First freeze is early October, last is end of April.
As of 2014, Keyport's population is 378 people. Since 2000, it has had a population growth of -6.67 percent.
The median home cost in Keyport is $326,700. Home appreciation the last year has been -0.20 percent.
Compared to the rest of the country, Keyport's cost of living is 31.30% Higher than the U.S. average.
Keyport public schools spend $10,253 per student. The average school expenditure in the U.S. is $12,435. There are about 19.6 students per teacher in Keyport.
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President Mohamed Mursi called on Sunday all political forces to a national dialogue session scheduled for Monday to discuss the electoral process. The session will take place at the headquarters of the Presidency.
In a televised interview, Mursi stressed that the relationship with Copts is a bond of brotherhood and love, reported the Middle East News Agency.
He said that the minimum income tax is raised to an annual 12 thousand pounds. Two million and a half million families are meant to benefit from this raise at a cost of three billion pounds.
Mursi announced plans for the development of 68 slum areas.
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Apple media event news leaked by 16-year-old kid who can't spell?
Just two days out from the much talked-about Apple media event, almost every tech site has been speculating about what wondrous news Apple will announce. So it was interesting to see reports appear earlier today citing an "inside source" who revealed that Macbooks will get Santa Rosa chipsets, the Mac Mini will be get a bigger hard disk, iMacs will get brushed aluminum casing, and new iPods will arrive in September.
The email that started the rumor was apparently from Google Product Manager Tom Oliveri.
At this point you'd have to wonder why a top Google executive would be leaking news about another company's products, and at least one site smelt a rat.
engadget googled the email address of the sender of the email, and found it belonged a 16-year-old Australian kid who apparently has the same name as the Google product manager. engadget was even to locate a picture of the teenage prankster, who seems to have a penchant for being photographed with margarine (well I guess it keeps him off the streets).
As engadget pointed out, the "real" Tom Oliveri, has a somewhat better grasp of the English language than the kid at the center of this controversy. Here's a copy of the email that started the rumor:
Name: Tom
Email: [deleted]
Macbooks – no cosmetic changes will be getting santa rosa chips
mac mini will receive a stock 120gb HDD total form change, all brushed aluminum 15% smaller
and the iMacs will be, as rumored brushed aluminum
new ipods will be rolling around mid September
I will update you on our phone later this month ( one week prior to announcement )
Tom Oliveri, Google Product Marketing Manager
And here's something from the real Tom Oliveri:
Posted by Tom Oliveri, Product Marketing Manager
You may have seen stories today reporting on a new product that we're testing, and speculating about our plans. Here's what's really going on. We are testing a new way for content owners to submit their content to Google, which we hope will complement existing methods such as our web crawl and Google Sitemaps. We think it's an exciting product, and we'll let you know when there's more news.
I won't comment on the sites that were duped by this practical joke, after all, people in glass houses shouldn't throw rocks. But it is interesting how easy it is to start a rumor, and how willingly sites will jump onto anything that seems semi-plausible. It also emphasizes why it's important to treat rumors with a pinch of salt.


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Each year, a week in October is dedicated to educating children about the dangers of harmful decisions.
The South Panola Tigers bring an impressive resume into Starkville's Yellowjacket Stadium tonight.
Starkville Academy will hit the gridiron for the final time this season tonight in Greenwood against Pillow Academy.
All the time, coaches say the most important game is the next one.
Never does that phrase ring more true than it does for East Webster as the Wolverines host West Lowndes tonight at 7 p.m.
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Blender represents a very small, insular,and in some ways rigid community within 3d at large. I've gone to a few of the conferences locally. .
Sounds like you and Gedd need to have a heart-to-heart.
According to her, "to quantify any group of people with one set of characteristics is not only overly simplistic but a disservice to the community. It also builds walls between people, the same thinking that is often referred to as prejudice."
And by the way, Gedd, I think you're being a bit short-sighted and overly simplistic in your analysis….
If you owned a business, you'd understand that it's very important to UNDERSTAND who is buying your product. VERY, VERY important. If you want to make money so you can feed your children, and pay your employees so they can feed their children, it's important to know what your customers want so you can provide it. Otherwise they won't buy your product.
So how do you do that? You study your customers. You find out who they are, what they like, what they don't like, etc. And hopefully, when you study your customers, you can detect general trends in the types of people and their wants and likes and dislikes. Why? Because your products can't be everything to everybody. So you need to determine general trends. It's also called a 'target market'.
And you begin to understand how, for example, males tend to be different in many ways than females. That's not a bad thing, it's a fact. Men TEND to enjoy some things that women don't. Women TEND to enjoy some things that men don't. There's nothing wrong with that, it's the way we were made. Or hatched, or whatever you believe. And there's no reason to feel threatened by that. Different is not a bad thing, it's a good thing.
I find it funny how the same people who tout the importance of understanding and appreciating peoples' differences are often the same ones trying to prove how un-different women are from men.
Is it a disservice to the community to recognize that 60% of your customers are male and prefer 'shoot 'em up' video games to more social-oriented games that women might prefer? No, it's not. Now, you may be able to design a video game that is a social-oriented game, while at the same time being a 'shoot 'em up', and cater to both audiences, but probably not real effectively.
It's not prejudice, or anything close to it. And I think it's shameful to even imply that.


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Sidney Crosby is skating again and I suspect even in the Pittsburgh dressing room there are private pools on how many games before he's back watching hockey at home in high def.
Heck, I'm writing this before Sid the Kid's return against the Rangers and realizing I'd better not post it right away in case he doesn't make it through all three periods.
He turns 25 in August – does anybody expect he's still going to be playing at 28? Do I hear 27? 26? Does anybody, anybody at all, expect Crosby to be retiring in his thirties?
When Crosby scored the Golden Goal for Canada in Vancouver's 2010 Olympics all was right with the world. Canada and the NHL finally had a new hockey hero ready, willing and able to take the torch as the face of hockey from the Great Gretzky.
Super Mario never quite owned the title, because even when he was healthy and playing like he'd sold his soul for Messier's strength and Gretzky's moves, he never seemed willing to be the face of the game.
Back when he was a teenager Crosby was anointed by Gretzky as the player who might one day break all his records – the same way Gordie Howe once offered his blessing to the Great One. And Crosby was already on course to challenge some records, topple others and invent new ones. He was the second youngest Hart winner in NHL history and the youngest captain
Then, on Jan. 1 in the "2011 Winter Classic," Crosby had "his bell rung" by future hall-of-Trivial-Pursuits-answer, David Steckel, best known now and forever as, "the guy who smoked Crosby."
And instead of continuing his ascent to becoming the next Gretzky, Sid the Kid is on the road to being the next Eric Lindros – the guy who coulda been one of the all-time greats if only he didn't have a glass skull.
I remember pundits saying that one day a superstar would get a serious concussion and the NHL would start taking head shots seriously. Today I suspect those pundits are preparing to carve up Marc Crawford for lunch ('cause Crawford's nickname is "crow" – it'll be funny in a second, really).
Based on the changes in the game since the Crosby hit I'm convinced hockey brass are about as likely to accept the science on concussions as Rick Santorum is to start taking his cues on global warming from Al Gore.
Players are still skating back out on the ice immediately after, "getting their bell rung."
Headhunters are still only getting suspended for a handful of games.
Pat Lafontaine – another superstar whose career ended early due to head hits – hopes the NHL will use Crosby's case to introduce zero tolerance for head hits. But despite some progress, when it comes to dealing with penalizing dirty play, NHL general managers and execs still have notoriously thick skulls.
Last year I thought a Penguins team with Crosby would have made it by the Bruins (FYI I took all Bruins and Canucks last year in my playoff hockey pool). This year I think the Penguins will be the eastern conference Cup finalist – but if I'm right does anyone out there believe that as games get nastier each round and refs misplace their whistles and redact their rulebooks that the greatest player in the game will still be skating in the finals?
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Work begins on Burton Field improvements
October 3, 2012 at 7:00 am in Hudson Star-Observer
More than $50,000 of new play equipment is being installed at Burton Field.
The installation of the slides, swings and things to climb on is the first phase of a master plan that was approved by the City Council last month.
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It is the beginning of the end for USC head coach Lane Kiffin. While he has been able to maintain some of the best recruiting classes in the country while the Trojans were on probation, banned from bowl games, and dealing with scholarship reductions, he hasn't been able to win enough games. The latest misstep was Saturday night when the team lost 10-7 to a pretty sad Washington State team. This coming after a pretty uninspiring win against Hawaii in the season opener. Kiffin has just been unable to use the great talent he has attracted to LA. The fans don't like him, from what we have heard, the alumni doesn't like him, and he is probably gone at the end of the season unless a major turnaround happens.
But that may not be good enough for the Trojan faithful, who are literally taking to the streets in protest of Kiffin:
I have a feeling this won't be the only time a fire lane is used this way at the Coliseum this year pic.twitter.com/p5rZNC4Qnw
— John Ireland (@LAIreland) September 8, 2013
Very creative, and very funny.
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Sometimes, it feels as if we are eavesdropping on day-to-day conversations rather than just hearing the usual litany of platitudes and regrets.
Sometimes, it feels as if we are eavesdropping on day-to-day conversations rather than just hearing the usual litany of platitudes and regrets.
"Stray Dog" largely succeeds because Granik's technique complements her subject. Both he and the film are modest in their goals and cherish the value of…
"The Ballad of Narayama" is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. What a space it opens…
Patrice Leconte's "Monsieur Hire" is a tragedy about loneliness and erotomania, told about two solitary people who have nothing else in common. It involves a…
Nick Allen picks one of his favorite Roger reviews.
An excerpt of Tony Fitzpatrick's column, "Dime Stories," which has its first published compilation in stores this month.
Nick Allen picks one of his favorite Roger reviews.
An excerpt of Tony Fitzpatrick's column, "Dime Stories," which has its first published compilation in stores this month.
A review of Han Gong-ju from a Far Flung Correspondent.
An FFC responds to Kyle Smith's assertion that women can't enjoy GoodFellas.
America takes on Trump; "St. Elmo's Fire" turns 30; Music in Sofia Coppola's films; Chat with "Vampire Diaries" DP Darren Ganet; R.I.P. Brian Clark.
The table of contents for RogerEbert.com's complete coverage of AFI Docs 2015.
A documentary featuring Vikram Gandhi, Purva Bedi and Kristin Calgaro.
Growing up in New Jersey, Vikram Gandhi was a typical American kid who resented the way his family tried to enforce Hindu beliefs and practices. He found it ironic that Americans began to popularize gurus and yoga just at the time he was growing away from such things. On a trip to India, he says, he found that "real" gurus were no more real than the American frauds who copied them.
That led him into the deliberate deception that he filmed in "Kumare." He grew a long beard and a pony-tail, exchanged his shoes for sandals, switched his slacks and suits to flowing orange robes, and started carrying an ornate walking stick. Then he moved to Arizona, hired an expert to teach him yoga and a PR woman to promote him as a guru, and began to attract followers in meetings at shopping malls, community centers and around the swimming pools of his affluent clients. His accent was modeled on the way his grandmother spoke English. His teachings were deliberate gibberish: talk of inner blue lights, "finding the guru within," and chants of fabricated mantras.
At this point in the film, it takes an odd turn. Kumare's followers believe him without question. They share their deepest secrets with him and visibly appear to benefit from him. These people are not dummies. Mostly middle-aged, they take their health seriously, are somewhat skilled at yoga and follow schedules of meditation. "Kumare" seems to establish that a guru can be a complete fraud and nevertheless do a certain amount of good, because what matters is not the sincerity of the guru but that of his followers.
Gandhi seems typecast for the role of Kumare. Tall, thin, bending forward to listen better, he speaks warmly and encouragingly, and makes deep eye contact. He smiles easily. He never pushes too far. He seems as real as any guru and more real than some. His teaching of yoga seems within the ability of his followers to accomplish. He narrates the documentary (in an ordinary American voice), introduces us to followers he's grown close to, and begins to believe he may have started something that was out of his control.
He tells his followers the time has come for him to leave them. Now they are on their own. He returns to New Jersey, cuts his hair, shaves his beard, and begins to practice a speech in the mirror: "I am not who you think I am." Whether he ever says this, and how the movie ends, I will leave for you to discover.
It seems to me that "Kumare" reflects a truth that is often expressed in three words: "Act as if." If you can act as if something is true, in a sense that makes it true. It doesn't matter if a teacher's spiritual teachings have any basis. It doesn't matter if the supernatural even exists (Gandhi believes it does not). His followers benefit by acting "as if."
When I first heard this film described, I assumed it would be a satirical, snarky comedy like Sacha Baron Cohen's "Borat." Not so. Gandhi seems to be essentially a good man, and he learns things of value to himself in his experiment. In a sense, the deception he practices on his followers is contemptible, but in another sense, they're all in it together. The film's implication seems to be: It doesn't matter if a religion's teachings are true. What matters is if you think they are.
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Commercial Lease Variations
When entering into a commercial lease, one of the more important terms negotiated between the parties pertains to the manner in which the landlord will recoup its operating expenses. After all, commercial landlords are in business to make money. Without addressing its operating expenses, a landlord's return on investment would be whittled away to nothing. While the more sophisticated players in the industry are thoroughly familiar with the various techniques available, many tenants – and some landlords – are not so well informed. What follows is a brief primer on some of the various methods utilized to protect the landlord's return on its investment.
The most common form of commercial lease is the triple net lease. In a triple net lease, the tenant is responsible for its proportionate share (i.e. tenant's square footage divided by the total building square footage) of property taxes, insurance, common area maintenance and utilities. These charges, commonly knows as "CAM, tax, and insurance" expenses, are in addition to the tenant's base rent and any other expenses associated with the tenant's occupancy (i.e. utilities, garbage collection, cleaning services and the like). Many leases will estimate these charges for a particular year, and then reconcile the amounts with the actual charges incurred for the year. If the tenant paid too much in a particular year, the tenant will get a credit toward rent. If the tenant paid too little, it will receive an invoice from the landlord for the difference – usually payable as additional rent.
Another common form of commercial lease is what is known as a "base year lease." A base year lease is often employed in office leases where the landlord is cognizant of his return on investment in the building taking into account current income and expenses. The "base year" is typically the calendar year in which a tenancy commences. Unlike the triple net lease, the tenant in a base year lease reimburses the landlord for its share of the landlord's operating expenses only to the extent they exceed the amount of those expenses for the base year. While the concept of a base year is relatively simple to understand, it is critical for any tenant entering into a base year lease to gain an understanding of the history of the landlord's operating expenses so that it may plan its budget accordingly. Also, a tenant should consider negotiating that the base year be projected a period of time in advance in order to protect itself from having to experience a rent increase shortly after commencing its term in those instances where the term commences relatively shortly before the base year ends.
Another type of lease used most often in multi-tenant and single tenant office buildings, as well as industrial and retail properties is the "gross lease." In the gross lease, the landlord pays for taxes, insurance, and maintenance. The landlord collects a fixed base rent and pays the operating expenses out of them. Many of these types of leases will, however, contain an "escalation clause", which typically requires the tenant to pay increases in operating expenses and tax increases over a base year figure or expense stop.
It is important that a tenant shopping for space have a basic understanding of how operating expenses are to be handled in their lease so as to avoid any unpleasant surprises down the road with regard to rent increases.
Lender/Tenant Concerns When a Landlord Defaults on Its Mortgage
The Wall Street Journal recently reported that a total of $58.3 billion of the commercial-mortgage loans sliced and diced on Wall Street are currently delinquent. More than $1.4 trillion in commercial mortgages will come due by 2013, with as much as 65 percent of those deals finding it difficult to refinance. The delinquency rate of 8.58% is still nearly twice as high as the year-ago level of 4.8%. In New Jersey, the delinquency rate for borrowers of commercial mortgages increased to 7.65% in August 2010 from 0.52% in August 2008.1
The foregoing figures show that the fallout from the Great Recession continues to hit the commercial real estate industry hard, forcing some owners of office buildings, shopping centers, and industrial properties simply to walk away from their properties. What happens to a tenant who operates a business out of such a property? Put another way, what are the tenant's rights vis-à-vis the lender and vice-versa? In New Jersey, a lender whose mortgage pre-dates a lease, and where the parties did not enter into a Subordination, Non-Disturbance & Attornment (SNDA) agreement, may repudiate the lease and consider the tenant a trespasser subject to eviction. A lender cannot, however, evict a tenant whose lease pre-dates the mortgage.


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Here Are 20 Links To Get You Completely Ready For Apple Earnings
- By Stefan Cheplick+ (@scheplick) editor @stocktwits |
- October 28th, 2013
1.) On StockTwits, Apple ($AAPL) bearish sentiment is only 9% while bullish sentiment is an astounding 91%. So bearish articles like this tend to catch our attention. Especially before earnings. "In every quarter of 2013 though, the IT sector enjoyed a better growth rate when excluding Apple":
2.) Here's an excellent look back of Warren Buffett talking about Apple. "You can't run a business to try to run the stock up every day":
3.) This post is an in-depth look at some of the most important technical aspects surrounding Apple including open interest, short interest and past earnings day reactions:
4.) Calling it the most exciting earnings report of the year, this is an excellent link to a write-up from Business Insider:
5.) This blog post from @ycharts comments on how Carl Icahn views Apple and why it's important heading into their earnings:
6.) Here's a post that has five reasons why Apple will rally after their earnings report. The most notable finding is the study from Citi that you'll find in the several paragraphs:
7.) Last week, @1nvestor linked to an article from IBD that has several of the most important numbers watch as we head into Apple's earnings report:
8.) This share is a blog post that highlights some of Apple's key technical levels:
9.) The @zentrader examines how Apple could impact the various indexes, if at all:
10.) This is probably the most interesting aspect of Apple's earnings — what will they say about share repurchases and Carl Icahn:
11.) Here's a share that links to a Philip Elmer-Dewitt piece on Apple. In the piece are several comments from the largest investment houses that cover and follow Apple:
12.) Has all the bad news regarding growth and market share already been priced into Apple? This link examines just that:
13.) The magic number for Apple is 37:
14.) China Telecom reported a huge third quarter, mostly due to the success of the iPhone:
15.) Providing some of the most in-depth earnings analysis you'll see, here's a very good Apple earnings preview from @riskreversal:
16.) Here's an Apple earnings preview that explains the most important analyst estimates that everyone will be watching:
17.) The iPhone, including its sales and margins, will be under Wall Street's spotlight once again
18.) Cantor Fitzgerald made a huge revision to their Apple earnings estimates:
19.) Is China Mobile getting ready to ink a deal with Apple?
20.) One of the more eye-opening posts we've seen about Apple and its iPad strategy:
Bonus: Here's Apple sentiment on StockTwits
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Privacy screen for your laptop
Posted on January 8, 2008 by 200702
Laptop is a good thing for us, we could use it anywhere. But, you might always worry about the peeper in public area, especially you're operating private information. So, why not try this privacy screen from Lapstix.
It shapes like China's traditional folding fan, and could be attached on the side of your laptop. ON the one hand, you could protect your information from the peepers, on the other hand, this screen could just note others that you don't want to be disturbed.


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Is Revenge the New O.C.? Five Eerie Similarities Between the Two Shows (PHOTOS)
Long before Emily Thorne kicked off her Hamptons revengenda, another shoreside drama welcomed an outsider into their world.
Although there was far less bloodshed on this primetime soap opera, and it was set on the opposite coast, the core plot lines and characters match up almost perfectly. California, here we come, right back where Revenge started from — The O.C.!
Let's break down five reasons why the shows run parallel:
1. Life's a beach!
On both hit shows, during the warm months, all of the characters flock to the nearest beach. On The O.C. that meant having fun with friends or getting assaulted under the boardwalk, and on Revenge, it means awkwardly running into your estranged mother, the woman you bought your house from, or a crazy person holding a gun. Either way, it's a beautiful scenery with messy issues underneath.
2. Different names for the same thing.
There is a character match-up for everyone on the show. Brace yourself for some role-swapping!:
Ryan Atwood is Emily Thorne
Marissa Cooper is Daniel Grayson
Seth Cohen is Nolan Ross
Summer Roberts is Ashley Davenport
Anna Stern is Padma Lahari
Trey Atwood is Fauxmanda Clarke
Julie Cooper is Victoria Grayson
Jimmy Cooper is Conrad Grayson
Kaitlin Cooper is Charlotte Grayson
Dawn Atwood is Kara Wallace Clarke
Frank Atwood is David Clarke
Johnny Harper is Declan Porter
Theresa Diaz is Jack Porter
Kirsten Cohen is Lydia Davis
Sandy Cohen is Michael Davis
Oliver Trask is Tyler Barrol
It's overwhelming, but we put a lot of thought into this. The gender-swapping aspect comes in because like Ryan, Emily is an outsider to the Hamptons. She came in and assimilated into the culture, failing to get on Victoria's good side, much like Ryan tried to do with everyone in Newport Beach — especially Julie Cooper. Marissa Cooper had a troubled past (much like Daniel Grayson), but changed her ways when she met Ryan. The two formed a friendship before they got together, and that solid base kept them together until Marissa's — SPOILER ALERT! — untimely death.
A few of them (like Jack and Declan) don't perfectly align, but we had to shift a few things to make the main love triangles work. No, Ashley isn't interested in Nolan, but Padma fits as Anna, Seth's geeky, perfect match. (In this situation, we'd rather have Seth choose Anna, though …) The most important part is that the Victoria-Lydia-David-Kara-Conrad mess all works out. Julie, who grew up in a trailer park, married into money, but Jimmy was still in love with Kristen. Victoria clawed her way to the top through Conrad, but he was still hot for Lydia. And as for Kara and David's counterparts? Kara's a psychotic, addicted-to-something mess (like Dawn), and Frank and Julie end up together, making David and Victoria's affair match up slightly.
However, it is of note that Nolan Ross and Seth Cohen align perfectly. Both are tall, look great in suits, fumble with relationships, are awkward more than not, and rattle off snarky remarks and puns like nobody's business. And although Nolan isn't a comic book-style nerd, they both love a good pop culture reference!
As for the B-characters, Theresa Diaz was Ryan's childhood love who got away, yet pops back into his life later on. It's a stretch, but hello, Jack! Kaitlin, Marissa's rebellious younger sister, and her boyfriend Johnny fit Charlotte and Declan, and there's no doubt that Tyler Barrol and Oliver Trask would become besties in therapy. And lastly, Ryan's dysfunctional, impulsive, crazy criminal brother, Trey — who he later shoots after a heated fight — is obviously Fauxmanda. Revenge foreshadowing, anyone?
3. Lifestyles of the rich and famous.
Both shows revolve around rich people hosting soirees and fundraisers while drinking their weight in wine. For Kirsten Cohen, that meant running a committee of ridiculous, vain women (not-so-affectionately dubbed "Newpsies"), and for Victoria Grayson, it means barking orders at others until it is done perfectly. The McMansions of The O.C. could go toe-to-toe with Ems and Victoria's Hamptons homes — especially if we were comparing pool houses alone.
4. Mike Kelley!
This man deserves his own section for creating the best show currently on television (Revenge) and writing and producing episodes of the best show that used to be on TV (The O.C.). That's right — Mike spent a few years in good ol' Orange County, lending his own revengey twists to the West Coast drama.
5. Odds and ends.
While writing this story, we brainstormed a ton of comparisons. Check 'em out (Revenge first, then The O.C.).
Ridiculous deaths - Lydia (almost) by falling off a balcony; Johnny by falling off a cliff
Shootings - Tyler pulling a gun at the beach party; Donny pulling a gun at a house party — and generally, Oliver going crazy! (See: "I'm so stupid!" GIF.)
Insane in the membrane characters - Kara Wallace Clarke vs. Oliver Trask
Overdosing, pill-popping characters - Charlotte Grayson vs. Marissa Cooper
Pool houses - Daniel Grayson vs. Ryan Atwood
Divorcing couple who only cares about money - The Graysons vs. The Coopers
Big bash where things went awry: Fire & Ice Ball vs. Cotillion
Local hangout: The Stowaway vs. The Bait Shop (and The Yacht Club for the fancy folks)
Big houses: Grayson Manor vs. McMansions
Affair hot spots: The South Fork Inn vs. The Mermaid Inn
Boats named after childhood loves: The Amanda vs. The Summer Breeze
Will-they-won't-they couple: Daniel and Emily/Jack and Emily vs. Marissa and Ryan/Summer and Seth
Yes, the moods of the shows are different — one centered around teenagers' drama and the other around avenging and payback — but you have to admit that the similarities are there! Do you think the two shows are alike? Sound off below!
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New Hampshire (9-2, 3-1 EAGL) vs Maryland (9-7, 3-3 EAGL) vs Brown (3-8), vs Bridgeport (12-5)
March 3, 2012 • 7:00 p.m. • Lundholm Gymnasium • Durham, N.H.
|Erika Rudiger
LAST TIME OUT: Ali Carr (Chelmsford, Mass.) scored a 9.9 on uneven bars and balance beam, and Austyn Fobes (Howell, N.J.) hit for a meet-high 9.925 on bars to power the University of New Hampshire gymnastics team past No. 23 West Virginia, 195.75-194.225, in an EAGL meet at Lundholm Gymnasium on Saturday, Feb. 25. The Wildcats (9-2, 3-1 EAGL) compiled their season-high score to hand the Mountaineers (10-4, 5-1) their first league loss of the year.
"Ali and Austyn had outstanding performances that not only allowed us to crack our weekly goal of 195, but got us close to a 196," head coach Gail Goodspeed said. "Hopefully this will give us the confidence to keep rolling for the rest of the season."
Fobes and Carr registered their top bar scores of the year to finish first and second, respectively, which propelled the 'Cats to 49.1 points, the team's highest bar tally of the season. Danielle Reibold (Horsham, Pa.) scored a 9.8 to take fourth place, and Jen Aucoin (Mullica Hill, N.J.) matched her season high with a 9.775 to forge a deadlock with Sloanhoffer for fifth.
Carr's first-place beam performance headlined a team score of 48.925, matching UNH's top beam result of the season and bettering WVU's 47.45. Adrienne Hill (Midlothian, Va.) registered a personal-best 9.825 for third place and Reibold shared fourth place with a 9.775.
"Adrienne Hill was a key factor tonight. The freshman stepped up at the top of the lineup and nailed all three of her events," Goodspeed said.
Hannah Barile (Sinking Spring, Pa.) took the top score on floor exercise with a career-high-tying 9.85, which marked the third time in the last four meets the sophomore has at least tied for the squad's high floor score. Erin Machado (Swansea, Mass.) tied for third place at 9.8.
"I'm happy for the win but I'm even happier for the high score because it takes off a little bit of pressure in trying to qualify for the NCAA Regionals," Goodspeed said. "It feels good to be home and to have a performance like this."
SCOUTING MARYLAND: The Terrapins are averaging 193.995 per meet, which is tied for 32nd nationally. Maryland has scored over 194 in three of its past four meets. On vault, the Terps average 48.775, which is 24th nationally and third in the EAGL. Maryland's 48.68 on floor is tied for 32nd nationally and is fourth in the league. The Terps boast the top two gymnasts in the league on vault. Sophomore Katy Dodds and junior Ally Krikorian average 9.855 and 9.845, respectively, while on floor, Dodds is first in the EAGL with a 9.84 average and Krikorian is fourth with a 9.795 average. Freshman Stephanie Giameo ranks second in the league on beam (9.775) and sophomore Karen Tang leads the Terps on bars with a 9.78 average.
SCOUTING BROWN: This will be the Wildcats' second encounter with the Bears in 2012. UNH defeated Brown and Yale in a tri-meet at Lundholm Gymnasium on Feb. 4. The Wildcats totaled a then-season-high 195.475 points, while the Bears accumulated 189.675 points for third place. More recently, the Bears finished in third place at the Ivy Classic hosted by Cornell University on Feb. 26. Brown combined for a team score of 191.075, falling just short of first-place Penn (192.650) and second-place Cornell (191.875), but finishing ahead of the Yale Bulldogs (190.725). Sophomore Michelle Shnayder led the Bears by capturing the vault title with a 9.775. Capturing the meet's second-highest individual score of the day, junior Nicole Abdo tied the school record on the uneven bars after receiving a 9.85, giving her second place. Emily Lutfey and freshman Allison Rubenstein earned second-place finishes on the balance beam with a solid 9.725. On the floor exercise, Lutfey garnered second with a stellar 9.775. In the all-around competition, Shnayder compiled a 38.450 for fifth place.
SCOUTING BRIDGEPORT: The Purple Knights won a quad-meet at Rutgers last weekend with Air Force and Eastern Michigan. Bridgeport is the top-rated team in the ECAC and averages 193.225 per meet. The Purple Knights' top event is floor. The squad averages 48.519, which is the best in the conference. Monica Mesalles is the top gymnast in the ECAC on vault and floor. Mesalles averages 9.865 on vault and 9.800 on floor.
CARR NAMED EAGL GYMNAST OF THE WEEK: UNH senior gymnast Ali Carr (Chelmsford, Mass.) was named the EAGL Gymnast of the Week on Tuesday. The senior co-captain was instrumental in the Wildcats' season-high 195.75 points in an upset victory against No. 23 West Virginia last Saturday night at Lundholm Gymnasium. Carr began the meet by recording the Wildcats' top finish on vault, where she hit for a 9.825 to tie for fourth place. The Chelmsford, Mass., native then scored a 9.9 on uneven bars, where she placed second and helped guide UNH to 49.1 points, its highest bar score of the season. She capped her night by establishing a first-place 9.9 on balance beam to headline a team tally of 48.925, matching UNH's top beam score of the year. This marks Carr's first career EAGL weekly award and the third garnered by a Wildcat in 2012. Senior Kate McGeever (Saco, Maine) was named the EAGL Specialist of the Week on Jan. 24, and freshman Kayla Gray (Buffalo, N.Y.) was recognized as the EAGL Rookie of the Week on Feb. 14.


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My Rad Room, LLC filed as a Florida Limited Liability in the State of Florida filed on Monday, March 9, 2009. This corporation is approximately six years old according to documents filed with Florida Department of State. My Rad Room, LLC also lists Mary Ann Osborne as Managing Member.
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Be mindful when you speak but do not hold back the unspoken words. Free yourself from yourself.
It has been a while… I have had a busy summer, to say the least. All has been well and amazing but I love writing and I haven't been doing much release/blog writing, just school and new business stuff. Yes, that's right, the new business is a go in just a couple weeks!!! Big changes in my near future and all good ones!! It's all so surreal!!! I started this journey because it worked for me when improving my life and it truly has become something amazing but now it's my turn to help others and I'm scared shitless!! (Sorry for the profanity)
I'm ready but I'm not ready… I'm just having those off and on moments where I'm doubting myself but I'm working through them. Deep breathing and meditation daily!!!
I just thought I'd be able to start off slow and find my groove but I shared my (finally completed) new business website with friends on Facebook and I have a few of them, plus their friends and people I don't even know messaging me and now on my waiting list!!!! It's just crazy!!
People really are craving change and wanting to live a healthier lifestyle. I'm so glad I chose this path. Now I just hope I can actually make a difference in their lives and be the Health Coach that they need and deserve… I know I will be great but EEK I'm so nervous!!
I have everything ready, I feel confident in my school/training, you name it. I'm good to go. But I just need to be mentally good to go!! I need to practice what I preach.
Speaking of that, I just have to share a very powerful movement I've been enjoying lately and it's really helping me through this exciting but nerve racking time.
The Chopra Centered Lifestyle is a great site for connecting with people around the world to meditate, enjoy free guided meditation and much much more on improving your well being and getting over the superficial side of life. It's about connecting on a global scale to confront matters that should matter.
I'm in absolute love with it!! I play a guided meditation one every night and sleep like a baby but I'm too excited and nervous to sleep right now so I'm taking this time to write. Finally!! And it's my little ones 13 birthday tomorrow….!!! Well technically today at 6:36am to be exact!
I think that has me in the most shock! My beautiful little human is officially a teen tomorrow. (Insert sad face here)
I just can't believe it. I feel like I just gave birth to her a few years ago!?! Where has the time gone? I'm just so thankful we've enjoyed so many beautiful moments together. We are truly bonded and I hope it stays that way through the puberty stage that awaits… It's funny when you're young and you think you're in love with someone, then you have a child and realize you had no idea what love truly was… She has showed me and taught me what true love was. Unconditional, nonjudgmental love. Pure love. I feel so blessed to know this feeling. I hope that doesn't sound silly but I'm sure any parent would understand. It's the love you would truly die for. It's different.
You know something crazy, and I know this is crazy but also very common, I've never wanted to have another child because I didn't know how I could possibly love them as much as I love her. I don't want to share that, that's just for her. She will never lack my love and never should under any circumstances. How do parents do it? Isn't that crazy?
Anyway… What else can I get off my weird mind??
Oh yes, I got a couple hummingbird feeders to add to my zen place out back on my deck. I love hummingbirds, one of my absolute favorites!! So for the record, I had never seen any in my neighborhood but when I went to a friends house, a town away for ladies craft night, she had a feeder and 2-3 hummingbirds came. it was so mesmerizing to me, I went and got one the very next day. Two hours after I put it up I was witnessing the beauty for myself and now it's daily. It's amazing how those little moments in life, when you notice life, awakens you inside. I love everything about nature, even cicadas are beautiful. We found one a few weeks ago when potting a couple new plants. It's a creepy beauty. I'll attach a few pictures of random things.
Well, I'm actually sleepy now and my daughters birthday slumber party is finally snoring so it's safe for me to do as well! Ha! Goodnight world!
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DDOSers claim PSN kill as games services go offline
SN is down, apparently after being DDOSed.
PSN is offline at the time of writing, apparently thanks to a DDOS attack.
A group called @LizardSquad is claiming responsibility for the action.
Shacknews is reporting that Battle.net, League of Legends and Grinding Gears' Path of Exile have also been attacked, although Hearthstone appears to be fully playable at the moment.
Been down for hours in Australia, nearly half the the day now great Sunday to finish the weekend Thought it was my net when I was attempting to sign in but is widespread world wide it seems.
Not sure why Sony still hasn't figured out how to redirect these attacks in a timely fashion but anyway... Off to bed hopefully it's fixed by morning.


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The English composer Edward Elgar was a keen cryptographer. The melody of his Enigma Variations - for which the German enciphering machines were named - is supposedly complementary to the melody of a famous song by another composer. He didn't say which.
This melodic mystery is not the only surviving Elgar puzzler. In 1897, he wrote an 87-character code to his friend Dorabella Penny. Forty years later, she published the code in her memoirs but claimed never to have solved it.
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Every team has at least one player that they gave away or gave up on too soon. Detroit has John Smoltz, the Red Sox Jeff Bagwell and Minnesota David Ortiz just to name a few. The Jays have also had their fair share of players that left Toronto to find greater success somewhere else. To be totally clear were talking about players that either didn't have a chance to make their mark in Toronto or players that took off once they took off the Jays uniform. In other words guys like Roy Halladay and Shawn Green don't apply because they kicked ass both in Toronto and beyond.
10.Esteban Loaiza
Traded to Toronto from the Rangers for Michael Young and Darwin Cubillan, 2000
Loaiza barely makes the list, but I needed a tenth guy so here he is. Toronto traded for Loazia just past midseason in 2000. That trade will appear on the list again later as the Rangers easily got the best player involved. Anyway, after arriving in Toronto in 2000 Loaiza would start 14 games the rest of the season, posting a 5-7 record and a 3.62 ERA. He would spend the next two seasons in Toronto and as a Jay he went 25-28 with a lofty 4.96 ERA. In 2002 Loaiza was 9-10 with an ugly 5.71 ERA and following the season he left via free agency to sign with the White Sox.
Something suddenly clicked for Loaiza in Chicago as he had the best season of his career in 2003, going 21-9 with a 2.90 ERA and a career-high 207 strikeouts. In his previous two seasons in Toronto Loaiza had only 197 strikeouts combined. He would go on to finish second in CY Young voting behind former teammate Roy Halladay. I don't think many people were sad to see Loaiza leave Toronto, but his sudden transformation in 2003 made fans wonder where that Loaiza was when he was in Toronto. However, 2003 proved to be an anomaly as Loaiza never came close to repeating those numbers again in his career.
9. Kelvim Escobar
Signed by Toronto as an amateur free agent, 1992
Escobar had some good seasons in Toronto, but he could have been better if the Jays had assigned him one job and let him stick to it. Escobar was with Toronto from 1997 to 2003. He was moved in and out of the rotation during that time and also spent some time in the closers role. His best season as a starter in Toronto came in 1999 when he went 14-11 with a 5.69 ERA. Three seasons later as the closer he recorded 38 saves. Oddly enough he returned to the rotation again the next season.
When he became a free agent in 2004 the Angels snatched him up with a $18.75 million contract over three years. The Angels put Escobar in their rotation and left him there. He had a solid debut season with the Angels in 2004 with a 11-12 record and a 3.93 ERA, but he really took off in 2007, going 18-7 with a 3.40 ERA. In 2008 injuries started to take their toll on Escobar and he was never the same.
8.Woody Williams
Drafted by Toronto in the 28th round, 1988
Williams started his career with Toronto in the bullpen in 1993. After toiling away in the bullpen for a few more years he found his way into the rotation in 1996 and stuck there for the next three seasons. He started to show promise in 1998 with a 10-9 record and 4.46 ERA before getting traded to the Padres with Carlos Almanzar for Joey Hamilton. In retrospect not a great trade for the Jays. In just under three seasons with the Jays Hamilton was 14-17 with a 5.83 ERA.
In the same time with the Padres Williams was 30-28 with a 4.35 ERA. In 2001 Williams was traded to the Cardinals where he delivered his best seasons. Williams peaked in 2003 when he went 18-9 with a 3.87 ERA and a 1.25 WHIP to make his first All-Star game. During his four seasons with the Cardinals Williams was 45-22 with a 3.53 ERA. Maybe the Jays gave up on Williams just a little too early?
7. Jayson Werth
Traded to Toronto from Baltimore for John Bale, 2000
Werth spent part of two seasons in Toronto, but he didn't see the field much, playing in only 41 games. With the Jays Werth got only 94 at bats, hitting .234 with two home runs and 16 RBI. Before the 2004 season he was traded to the Dodgers for Jason Frasor. After scuffling in Los Angeles for a couple seasons Werth signed as a free agent by Philadelphia in 2006. He rounded into form in 2009 when he made his first All-Star Game and got a few MVP votes after hitting 36 home runs with 99 RBI and 98 runs scored. He continued to produce at the plate in 2010 with 27 HR and 85 RBI and it earned him a huge contract with the Nationals in 2011 His first season with Washington was a disappointment but he's got six more seasons to live up to his $126 millions contract.
6.Cecil Fielder
Traded to Toronto from Kansas City for Leon Roberts, 1983
Fielder made his debut with the Jays in 1985 and over four seasons appeared in only 220 games, hitting .243 with 31 home runs. His most productive season was in 1987 when he played in 82 games, had 175 atbats and hit .269 with 14 home runs and 32 RBI. Following the 1988 season Fielder went to Japan to play for the Hanshin Tigers. He hit 38 home runs while playing everyday in Japan which earned him a contract with the Detroit Tigers. Fielder took off with the Tigers in 1990 hitting 51 home runs and driving in 132 RBI. At the time he was only the 11th player in MLB history and the first in 25 year to reach the 50 home run mark. Fielder never hit 50 homers again, but he did top the 30-homer mark five more times, clubbing 319 home runs in his career. In 1996 he was traded to the Yankees where he was part of the first Yankees team to win the World Series since 1978.
5. David Wells
Drafted by Toronto in the 2nd round, 1982
Wells is an interesting case because he did find his way back to Toronto later in his career. I think if you had asked him though he didn't want to be there. Wells made his debut with the Jays in 1987. That season he appeared in 18 games, two as a starter, posting a 4-3 record with a tidy 3.99 ERA. He bounced around between the bullpen and the rotation never really getting the opportunity to stick as a starter. Wells was in many ways known more for his ornery personality (including a few runs ins with Cito Gaston on the mound) and during Spring Training in 1993 he was released.
He was quickly signed by the Tigers and over the next four season spent time in Detroit, Cincinnati and Baltimore. He started to find his groove with Tigers in '95, going 10-3 with a 3.04 ERA. After leaving the Orioles in 1996 he signed with the Yankees where he really blossomed. In two seasons in the Bronx he went 34-14 with 13 complete games, seven shutouts and his infamous perfect game against the Twins in 1998.
He returned to Toronto in 1999 as part of a package for Roger Clemens and in his second stint with the Jays he won 37 games over two season, including a career-high 20 wins in 2000. Wells made good on his potential with his second turn with the Jays before getting shipped to the White Sox, but what would have happened if the Jays had not given up on him prior to the 1993 season?
4. Al Leiter
Traded to Toronto from the Yankees for Jesse Barfield, 1989
Leiter was acquired from the Yankees for Barfield in 1989 and for a number of years it looked like the Yankees fleeced the Jays in the trade. Between 1989 and 1992 Leiter appeared in only nine games for the Jays while battling blisters, recovering from two different surgeries, injuries to his elbow and tendinitis. When he finally got healthy in 1993 he started to show why the Jays wanted him, going 9-6 with a 4.11 ERA as a spot-starter/reliever. Starting in 1994 Leiter was entrenched in the rotation and went 17-18 with a 4.19 ERA over the next two seasons.
Despite efforts to re-sign him Leiter left Toronto via free agency in 1996 to sign with the Marlins. In his first season with Florida he made the All-Star team and finished ninth in Cy Young voting after going 16-12 with a 2.93 ERA with a career-high 200 strikeouts. A year later he helped lead the Marlins to a World Series title. Leiter's best season was still to come in 1998 with the Mets. That season he went 17-6 with a career-best 2.47 ERA, a 1.15 WHIP, four complete games and two shutouts.
After leaving Toronto Leiter would win 15-plus games four times, make two All-Star teams, pitch in the World Series for the Marlins and the Mets and post an ERA under 3.50 six times. Too bad none of those numbers had come in a Jays uniform.
3. Michael Young
Drafted by Toronto in the 5th round, 1997
Young never played a single game for the Jays before getting traded to the Texas Rangers along with prospect Darwin Cubillan for Esteban Loaiza in 2000. Young debuted with Texas later that season and took over the starting duties at second base in 2002. When Alex Rodriguez left Texas in 2004 Young was moved to shortstop and flourished. He was an All-Star for the next six seasons and appear in the mid-summer classic seven times overall. Since 2004 he's hit over .300 six times, hitting 20-plus home runs four times and he's also driven in 100-plus runs four times.
Young has proven to be Mr. Versatile in Texas starting his career at second before moving to short and then moving to third to make room for Elvis Andrus. Two seasons later he was on the move again taking turns at first base and DH when the Rangers brought in Adrian Beltre. I wonder if Young could have filled in any of those position which such effectiveness had he not been shipped out of Toronto in 2000?
2.Jeff Kent
Drafted by Toronto in the 20th Round, 1989
Would the Jays have won the 1992 World Series if they hadn't traded Jeff Kent for David Cone? That's an impossible question to answer of course and so is what kind of career would Kent have had if he had remained a Jay. After getting traded out of Toronto Kent hit 20-plus home runs 12 times and he topped 30 home runs in a season three times. He also drove in 100 or more runs eight times.
Kent bounced around a bit throughout his career going from the Mets to the Indians to the Giants, to the Astros before finishing his career with the Dodgers. His best season came with the Giants in 2000 when he batted .334 with 33 home runs and 125 RBI to win the NL MVP. Kent was a five-time All-Star and a four-time Silver Slugger award winner who hit 377 home runs in his career. 355 of those homers came while playing second base, a record for the position.
1.Chris Carpenter
Drafted by Toronto in the 1st round, 1993
A lot was expected from Carpenter after he was taken with the fifteenth overall pick in 1993. His first season in Toronto was in 1997 when he appeared in 14 games, going 3-7 with a 5.09 ERA. He would spend six seasons in Toronto, compiling a 49-50 record and a 4.83 ERA. His best season as a Jay came in 2001 when he went 11-11 with a 4.09 ERA and an ugly 1.410 WHIP. Spotty command was a problem for Carpenter throughout his years in Toronto, as that was the second lowest WHIP he posted as a Jay.
In 2002 Carpenter had shoulder surgery and refused a minor league deal from Toronto, instead becoming a free agent. The Cardinals took a chance on Carpenter, who missed the entire 2003 season due to a torn labrum. In 2004 Carpenter started to live up to his vast potential with a 15-5 record, 3.46 ERA and what was at the time a career-best 1.14 WHIP. In 2005 Carpenter blew those numbers away winning 21 games while posting a 2.83 ERA and 1.06 WHIP to win the Cy Young Award. In eight seasons with the Cards Carpenter is 95-42 with a 3.06 ERA and a 1.13 WHIP. One has to wonder what the Jays could have done with the combo of Roy Halladay and Carpenter leading the rotation in the 2000s?
Somewhat honorable mentions:
Geronimo Berroa
Mark Whiten
Glenallen Hill
Derek Bell
Todd Stottlemyre
Doug Davis
Brandon Lyon
Did I forget anyone? Love the list or maybe hate it? Maybe someone should be higher or lower in the rankings? Let me know in the comments section.
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March 12, 2012 at 5:55 pm
Good list.
Others probably worth an honourable mention.
Casey Blake, Jose Mesa, Felipe Lopez. Cesar Izturis, Brandon League (who might be worth a top 10 sot)
Great list! The same could be said for any team, but I like to whine about the ònes who got away`. You should make a list looking at the flip side. players who turned red hot after moving north of the border. Or big moneyénig time players that are signed and tank in our cold weather. Good read!
BTW, I vote Kent into 1st place. Not to take away from Carpenter's career (post T.O.) but I'd go so far as to say that Kent's offensive numbers put him in the highest company among history's second basemen. 5 minutes of googling seems to back me up. Best offensive numbers in history for a second baseman, and he was selected as being in the top 10 in history on most lists I saw along with the likes of Sandberg, Hornsby, Morgan, Lajoie, etc. I'd like to think he's make a better commentator than Morgan too!


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Food donations are always welcome at the North County Community Food Bank. So are volunteers and dollars.
Frozen meats, rice, dried beans, lentils, oats, soups, pasta and hygiene products are currently "depleted," according to executive director Elizabeth Cerveny. "People are hungry, and we desperately ask for your donations," she said.
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BATTLE GROUND — When hunger is rising in cities and suburbs, you can be sure it's soaring in the countryside.
"We are in dire straits," said Elizabeth Cerveny, executive director of the North County Community Food Bank. "Our client enrollment is escalating fast, and our summer donations are dropping."
In fact, Ceverny said, Battle Ground's little food pantry — which is tucked away to the north of Main Street in Old Town — has never seen such a dramatic rise in need as it has this year. It served nearly 6,600 more people in the first half of this year than it did in the first half of 2012, according to monthly tallies Cerveny provided.
That's partially due to a predictable seasonal cycle of sagging summer donations, Cerveny said, but it's also due to lingering economic pains that hurt worse in rural areas than they do in cities.
"In the rural areas we are serving, the jobs just aren't available," said Candice Howell, an organizer of the Lewis River Mobile Food Bank, a pantry-on-wheels that distributes food at a different north county spot every Sunday. "Gas prices have stayed high, and we all know the price of food hasn't gone down. You have to pay rent and put gas in the car and pay the electric bill. What suffers the most is food."
Howell said the all-volunteer Lewis River Mobile Food Bank, launched in 2009, used to average about 6,000 pounds of food given away per month, but in March 2013 it exceeded 7,500. She doesn't have the tally for July, she said, but her personal experience on Sunday was a "crazy" number of clients in Yacolt.
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, per capita food insecurity is slightly higher outside of metropolitan areas than inside, and poverty in general is deeper and more severe in nonmetropolitan areas.
"We haven't seen any signs of recovery," Cerveny told The Columbian late last year, and she predicted that this summer would be particularly rough for clients of the North County Community Food Bank. On Monday she said that prediction has come true.
For one thing, the boom-and-bust cycle that's built into the seasons continues. People are reliably generous during the Thanksgiving-to-Christmas holiday season, she said, and Clark County's annual Walk & Knock food drive, always the first Saturday in December, makes the most of that; there's also an annual mail carriers' union food drive on the second Saturday in May.
Those drives always result in a huge influx of supplies, but it never takes very long to send it all packing again, Cerveny said. That leaves mostly empty shelves at the food bank by this time of year, she said, since private donations always drop off over the summer.
"Everybody gets busy, everybody's thinking about traveling. It's just human nature. Everybody thinks about giving around the holidays," she said.
In addition, she said, the supermarket industry is getting smarter about tracking inventory and reducing waste — which means its regular giveaways of food that's still OK but nearing its pull date are getting smaller all the time. Also, new numerous supermarkets have opened or are soon to open to the south — including a new Walmart Neighborhood Market in Vancouver Plaza, another Walmart grocer headed for the corner of Grand and Mill Plain boulevards and a Chuck's Produce almost open on Northeast Highway 99 — while Battle Ground's supermarkets have remained exactly the same for years now.
"We aren't picking up any additional donors," said Cerveny. All of which leaves the food bank shelling out more of its own cash for reliable shipments of staples from its partner suppliers, the Clark County Food Bank and the Oregon Food Bank Network. This year the North County Community Food Bank has been burning through $3,000 to $4,000 a month to keep its shelves filled, Cerverny said.
Those are the supply-side factors. On the demand side, Cerveny noted, across-the-board federal budget cuts known as "sequestration" resulted in unemployment benefits shrinking or disappearing for thousands of Clark County residents this spring, Cerveny noted; more senior citizens are living on modest social security checks while facing costly medical issues as well as basic hunger; and, prices of the basic basics -- food, rent, utilities, fuel -- all rose sharply in recent years.
Schoolchildren are home — and hungry — all day over the summer rather than eating free or reduced-priced lunches at school, she said. Plus, affordable rentals and warmer weather tend to beckon poorer renters and homeless people north in summertime.
According to Cerveny, the North County Community Food Bank served 9,217 households, including 37,033 people, in the first six months of 2012; in the first six months of 2013, the numbers were up to 10,747 including 43,602 people. That's an increase of 6,569 people for the same six-month period.
"There are a lot of dynamics that play into this increase," Cerveny said, "but the result is, I can't keep enough food on our shelves. I can't meet the needs that we have here."
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Prime Minister Hisham Qandil said Saturday 26/01/2013 he is sorry for the victims, whether civilians or policemen, who fell in protests marking the second anniversary of the January 25 Revolution.
Qandil promised to investigate all cases of violence and to punish those involved.
Setting buildings ablaze to force change cannot be justified, the premier stressed nonetheless. He urged all political powers and parties to maintain the peacefulness of the revolution and to denounce violence and attacks on legitimacy.


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The carriers received 1.3 million demands for subscriber information from law enforcement during the year that included text messages, caller locations, and other data during investigations.
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framirez @ 7/9/2012 9:28 PM
What this spin on this story... http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Cell-Phone-Companies-Turn-Over-Heaps-of-Data-to-Police-161827815.htmlThe guy interviewed from the Electronic Freedom Foundation makes it sound like we as law enforcement can get anyone's information at a whim.The one good thing, but probably nobody will bother to pause the news story to actually read the letter from AT&T. The letter points out that AT&T is "...required by state and federal laws to respond to appropriate law enforcement subpoenas, warrants, court orders, and other legal processes..." and it also included "...responding to 911 calls and other emergency circumstances when warranted..."
Brian Greene @ 7/20/2012 12:16 PM
@framirez What is considered "Appropriate" and "when warranted" by definition of that law? If that definition is vague, then it is completely up to the ISP to define it. If the law disagrees with their definition and, ultimately, the decision that the definition leads to , well, they can take it up with a judge in court like the rest of us.Telecommunications is not your playground to sit and monitor for illicit behavioral patterns that could denote criminal mentality and, therefor, criminal behavior.Unless a crime has been committed, and there is warrant for it, there should be no wiretapping. Suspicion needs to be backed. Watchdogs need to be held accountable.I wonder now, if we were to look in on the internet and phone records of all those in law enforcement, how many would we find doing the same illegal things as the people they put in jail?


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Politics has taken a backseat. It's time to be a sport.
Last week, everyone seemed to be having a ball. Those who had it, played with it; those who didn't watched others fool around with it, exercising their lungs (with screams, hoots, songs and "ooohs"). Some exercised their limbs (essaying shots, jumping up in celebration/ frustration), many did both and everyone, but everyone, got exercised by the events on the field, the pitch or the court.
It's been that kind of week. Politics took a backseat once the dust had well and truly settled after the Narendra Modi government's formation, despite the searingly hot conditions and in spite of all the outrage TV news anchors tried to generate over Akhilesh Yadav's latest views on rape. Instead, it was time to be a sport.
You could be a soccer fan, change your T-shirt three times every two hours each night, depending on which nation you supported, while watching the World Cup (Sony Six) — that's if you could stay awake for the likes of Brazil, Italy, Argentina, Spain. You could be a hockey supporter and stick to the finals between Australia and the Netherlands (Star Sports HD 2); you could also be a connoisseur of lawn tennis and follow the tournament at Queen's (Star Sports HD 1) as you waited for Wimbledon (beginning June 23), or you could have teed-off on the greens during the US Open golf tournament.
And if your life was not worth living without cricket, first you ought to have analysed what was wrong with you, then watched the England versus Sri Lanka Test series (Star Sports HD 2) or the Bangladesh-India ODI series (Star Sports 1). And prepared yourself for India in England this July. Amazing just how many games you could play without moving an inch.
The greatest activity has been on the soccer field and, of course, off it. With so many camera positions, including an overhead one, and goal-line technology at the World Cup, our eyes were getting a complete workout — that's if you could keep them open through the night. Luckily, the action is so fast-paced, it wasn't all that difficult to keep from falling off your chair unless you mistook yourself for a goalie or that Flying Dutchman, Robin van Persie.
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