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By Lauren F. Carlson '12
Editor's Note: This is part 1 of a 3 part series on the recipients of the 2010 Alumni Association Educator's Grant.
Aquinas alumna and Rockford Freshman Center teacher Amira (Lama) Ponne '01, has recently received the 2010 Aquinas Alumni Association Educator's Grant. As a Spanish teacher adapting to a streamlined trimester schedule, Ponne advocates maintaining cultural education in addition to the teaching of the Spanish language. "In order to better understand each other," she said, "we need to better understand our many cultures." With her mission in mind, Ponne applied for the grant, and has already begun to utilize the essential tools to further the cultural education of her freshman students.
Ponne began her education at Aquinas in the fall of 1996 after moving from her home in the suburbs of Chicago. "I fell in love with Grand Rapids and its somewhat big city feel with small town traffic," she said. Originally an English major with Spanish minor, she cultivated an interest in study abroad programs in Europe and, after participating in Marquette University's semester program in Madrid in the spring of 1999 (Aquinas had not yet developed programs in Spanish-speaking countries) added the language as a second major. As a teacher, Ponne applies her travel experience in the classroom. "I completed one semester abroad and had the time of my life; an awesome experience to share with my students," she said.
During her four years studying English and Spanish at the College, Ponne looked forward to a career in education. "I think I always knew I would be a teacher, following in the footsteps of my amazing mother," she said. However, Ponne considered teaching a second language only after an eye-opening student-teaching experience. "I never envisioned myself teaching [Spanish] until I was forced to for my student teaching placement. I realized how awesome it was to teach a foreign language and bring that cultural experience that I fell in love with to kids."
Now, after working as an educator for over ten years, Ponne maintains her passion for both teaching and the Spanish language. "I have been fortunate to have had many wonderful, brilliant, and amazing teachers in my life. I hope to have that influence on my students," she said.
After Rockford's conversion to a trimester schedule almost three years ago, Ponne began to notice vital components of the Spanish curriculum omitted in order to maintain schedule efficiency. "Most of what has taken a hit in our curriculum is the culture aspect of a language which is a shame on many levels," she said. In order to maintain this piece of Spanish education, Ponne researched effective cultural DVD's and games that would inform the students of the prominent aspects of Latino/a culture while remaining within a strict time frame. "Taking two days to explore the tradition of Día de los Muertos, our All Saints and All Souls Day, is fabulous when you have the time, but when you don't, an under 30 minute effective video is important," said Ponne.
After learning about the Aquinas grant from fellow Rockford educator and Aquinas Men's Soccer Coach Joe Veal, Ponne applied for the funds during the first week of school and was notified that she had received the award shortly before Christmas Break. "It was definitely exciting," she said, as she reflects that the tools have already begun to make a noticeable difference in her classroom. "I am so thankful to have won this grant money," said Ponne. "It has provided me with more powerful and engaging tools to help my students learn."


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I loooooooooooove windows 7. It's going to be really hard to convince me to leave. (I even still like windows XP) This video did not convince me. But for others in my family, they'll love it's n00b style interface. It looks kinda like windows media center with Windows 7 under it. The
file managing interface looks exactly like windows 7(with less screen space..sigh) and that would be the only one I would use. The "multitasking" of full screen applications is a joke at least to me. They got the OS right finally with windows 7 so it's really hard to improve on it without breaking what people love about it.
However for HTPCs I really want to run this OS. I only use xbmc for video, music, etc..but maybe this could have a really cool game launching interface. If it doesn't, not interested. I also hope we are allowed to customize the tiles to launch the "apps". ugh... Windows media center doesn't give you any control of this stuff without going behind its back, and I've got a feeling they'll close up this interface just as much if not more.
Windows 7 + Objectdock plus FTW. I pretty much use objectdock for all my "apps". (I can't help but put that in quotations because I have never called my applications that..non mobile user here)
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2042846540404918552.post4992903462428198770..comments2015-04-26T12:05:45.380-04:00Comments on Billy Loves Stu: The movie Chuck Norris hopes you never see: Dr. Leather's House of Torture on Haunted HillPax Romanohttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2042846540404918552.post-47689796690586089532010-07-01T15:35:18.420-04:002010-07-01T15:35:18.420-04:00In the 70s, before Norris became a vocal rightwing...In the 70s, before Norris became a vocal rightwing nutjob, I actually enjoyed his movies -- at least the scenes where his shirt was off. I could've used parts of "Lone Wolf McQuade" as soft porn. I felt the same way about Charlton Heston, even in the godawful "Omega Man" where you at least got to see him sweat like a pig...of course, I'll be relieved now when Chuck joins Charlton in whatever "paradise" guys like them go to. He's gotten scarier than any horror flick.Jack Veaseyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2042846540404918552.post-31972627349977420662010-05-30T23:08:04.958-04:002010-05-30T23:08:04.958-04:00Nice. Those lobby cards are instant hilarity in a ...Nice. Those lobby cards are instant hilarity in a can!Carl (ILHM)http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2042846540404918552.post-44218074791513421662010-05-28T10:25:20.672-04:002010-05-28T10:25:20.672-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Starhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2042846540404918552.post-80944432204039577692010-05-27T20:09:23.531-04:002010-05-27T20:09:23.531-04:00I kind of feel sorry for them--on the other hand, ...I kind of feel sorry for them--on the other hand, the situation is quite hilarious!Aurora Hyltonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2042846540404918552.post-51607010723565635522010-05-25T00:35:46.910-04:002010-05-25T00:35:46.910-04:00I always loved that cover art and only wish the fi...I always loved that cover art and only wish the film was more readily available, as in, available at all. I can see why Norris and Grier would be skeptical of the film being released to the public, but it would probably be a big boost in both of their careers.

I'm glad you brought this one up, not too many folks know about it. Have you ever heard of the one time proposed sequel, 'Dr. Denim's Shack of Corpses'? I think there were plans to do a trilogy at one point...too bad.Matt-suzakahttp://email@example.com


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This is my first instructable! Anyway, I recently moved into a new apartment and having a background in animal behavior, I wanted a bird feeder. But! No matter where I seemed to hang it from, the squirrels were able to jump to it and knock down most of the seeds or break the feeder. They would climb onto the window ledge pictured here and jump at the feeder to knock seeds onto the porch. So this is my solution:
Step 1: Monofilament line
First, this instructable is for deterring squirrels from jumping, not necessarily for preventing any kind of climbing. It also assumes your feeder is hung from some overhanging structure. That being said...
1.) Attain monofilament/fishing line:
Tend to the thinner side as it will be less likely to deter birds as well as limiting an obstructed view of your feeder.
2.) Cut the line to the height of your structure (porch, etc.) and attach a weight of any kind on one end of each length (I used 5/16 nuts)
Step 2: Attaching lines
I am not allowed to drill into the roof of this rental property, so i attached each line to the overhanging roof with duct tape...making sure to leave an excess of about 4 inches out the other side of the attached tape. Make sure to align the weights with eachother, as this will limit tangles. My weights were about 2 feet off the floor.
REMEMBER: It is worth stating you should not put these anywhere a bird could become entangled. Therefore, these should only be used on one, maybe two sides of your feeder. Use your own discretion.
Step 3: Reinforcing lines
I'm just going to have to move my feeder further off the tree line like I planned on doing. I don't want it too close to my house though. Some types of birds are easily spooked by humans.
This is my feeder and a lot of birds do like to eat off the platform on it so I'm not willing to give that up:
It is a ton of fun in the winter here. I go through about 4 50 pound sacks of seed a season so I guess that only makes it a tenth of a ton of fun?


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Jimmy Page by Jimmy Page
Jimmy Page has authored a photographic autobiography called Jimmy Page. It can be ordered from Genesis publications for a mere £495 (plus shipping). I would like to see the book and peruse it for a few weeks, but the price is a bit too steep for me to add it to my own library.
Has any one here seen it?
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I'd love to have a gander. I'm a shameless Page fanboy. Unfortunately at 500 quid, looks like I'm not going to.
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For a book? What a stupid price tag!!
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Shredded, tender shards of spiced meat make a perfect breakfast on tortillas. Substitute any large game for the venison, like aoudad, feral hogs, elk, or even duck, turkey, or goose legs. Slow cookers are perfect for preparations like this; put it on at night and a hearty breakfast is ready the next morning.–Jesse Griffiths
LC Got Game? Note
We're not certain what aoudad is. (And we're a little leery of asking.) But we can vouch for the fact that this recipe turns out terrific barbacoa of all sorts—even if you rely not on some exotic-sounding game but on more everyday duck, turkey, goose, beef, or goat.
Special Equipment: Slow Cooker
Barbacoa Tacos Recipe
- Quick Glance
- Serves 4
- 2 1/2 pounds bone-in venison trim, shanks, and necks (or duck, turkey, or goose legs or bone-in beef or goat)
- 2 tablespoons cider vinegar
- 2 tablespoons lime juice, plus wedges for serving
- 2 dried chipotle chiles
- 1 medium onion, chopped, plus more for serving
- 2 teaspoons ground cumin
- 2 teaspoons Mexican oregano
- 2 teaspoons kosher salt
- 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 2 whole cloves, ground
- 2 dried bay leaves, ground
- 1/8 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- Cold water as needed
- Fresh tortillas (flour or corn), warmed
- Cilantro
- Salsa
- Store-bought or homemade vinegary hot sauce
- 1. Combine the meat, vinegar, lime juice, chipotle chiles, onion, cumin, oregano, salt, pepper, cloves, bay leaves, and cinnamon in a slow cooker and add enough cold water to cover by about 2 inches. Cook on low for 6 to 8 hours, until very tender.
- 2. Remove the meat from the pot and let it cool slightly, reserving the liquid. Shred the meat, discarding the bones. Moisten the meat with a few ladlefuls of the reserved braising liquid. Taste and adjust the seasoning.
- 3. Set the barbacoa on the table in a serving bowl or platter and set out the tortillas, onion, cilantro, limes, salsa, and hot sauce so guests can make their own tacos.
Hungry for more? Chow down on these:
- Barbacoa Beef Tacos with Two Sauces from Food and Wine
- Mollejas Tacos from Homesick Texan
- Pulled Pork Tacos with Habañero Salsa from Leite's Culinaria
- Fish Tacos from Leite's Culinaria
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Ken Grossman, founder of Sierra Nevada Brewing, has joined the board of directors of RiverLink.
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When Sierra Nevada Brewing opens its big new brewery in Mills River this year, it will use well water to make beer.
But clean water and brewing go hand in hand, and so Sierra founder Ken Grossman has joined the board of Asheville's RiverLink, which works to preserve the French Broad River.
It's the first local nonprofit that Grossman has joined. But Sierra Nevada has been building strong local ties since announcing plans to build its East Coast expansion in Henderson County. The brewery, next to Asheville Regional Airport, will begin test brewing next month and looks to begin production ...


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Season's End
Categories: Cardinals
Oh, come now. You should all know me better than that by now. I'm always sad and wistful, whether I have a reason to be or not.It has been said baseball is meant to break your heart, but I disagree. It lives along with us, and cannot help but be heart-breaking at times. Anything good or worthwhile in life will always break you in the end, you know.
Every night as you drive to dinner, the game is there, just off in the background. The voices we all know so well they seem almost family; Jack Buck will forever be etched into the memory of anyone who ever heard him. When you don't pay attention, baseball goes on. And when you come back to it, you see it was only waiting for you to listen again.
Football is all violence and vulgarity, the rush of the moment, the joy of pure spectacle. Football is all about the event, and gathering together to celebrate it. Baseball, though, is a solitary, patient pursuit, a series of long pauses punctuated by sharp intakes of breath. It can be shared, but remains, in the end, yours alone, a secret poorly kept but only understood one night at a time for life.
Baseball is heart-breaking, but only as much as life. Its ups and downs are only your own life told back to you by men in matching uniforms, a tapestry of joy and failure which so often come all at the same time.
And now it's almost over. There is still the rush of the playoffs to come, but the game played night after night after night from April to September is nearly done. Savor it down to the dregs, friends; it has to last all winter, you know.
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BANGOR - On May 15, 2009, Wisconsin Department of Justice Division of Criminal Investigation Director Craig Klyve was joined at Bangor Elementary School in Bangor, Wisconsin, by school officials, law enforcement officials and Wisconsin school children who had participated in this year's national missing children poster competition.
In an effort to educate children across the country about child safety, the United States Department of Justice, through its Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Child Protection Division, sponsors a National Missing Children's Day poster contest in coordination with Amber Alert for fifth grade students to create artwork that will represent America's efforts to search for missing children and bring them home safely, and also promote child safety. The Department of Justice's Wisconsin Clearinghouse for Missing and Exploited Children and Adults is a proud supporter of this effort.
Kassidy Wuensch, a fifth-grade student at Bangor Elementary School, was chosen as this year's winner of the statewide poster contest in Wisconsin. The contest theme is "Bringing Our Missing Children Home". The children participating in the contest provide a brief biography, and must also include a brief paragraph that explains what the artwork in their posters exemplifies. Kassidy is the daughter of Michael and Kathy Wuensch. Kassidy's teacher is Amy Kratochvill. Lois Meinking is the Principal at Bangor Elementary School.
Receiving Honorable Mention in the contest were:
Second Place: Amanda Nosavanh, Manitoba Elementary
Third Place: Alicia Schwahn, Northwoods Elementary
Honorable Mention: Breanna Wendorf, Tess Atkinson, Emily Gimm, Abby Mitchell,
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Honorable Mention: Katie VanGroll, Freedom Elementary
Honorable Mention: Kristy Lee, Schofield Elementary
Honorable Mention: Mary Birkey, Park Falls Elementary
The annual poster contest promotes awareness about missing children and provides an opportunity for children and their families to discuss important safety issues.
Today Director Craig Klyve presented Kassidy with an award recognizing her achievement, along with a U. S. Savings Bond. Kassidy's poster will be displayed in the Attorney General's office in the State Capitol, and she will be presented with an award by Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen at the State Capitol on May 21, 2009, as part of the annual ceremony recognizing Wisconsin's missing children and adults. That ceremony is open to the public.
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So, was this creepy story a flight promotion gone awry or just a bunch of maggots headed home to North Carolina? Whichever it was, passengers were treated to a free return flight back to an Atlanta gate on Monday when people started noticing maggots falling from the overhead storage bins on a US Airways flight. […] [Read More]
Targeting the West Side
Managers and employees of area Target stores recently joined forces to lend a helping hand in the renovation of the Madonna Neighborhood Center at 1906 Castroville Road. On Monday the group painted the center's gazebo and arbor while Tuesday and Wednesday were spent painting classrooms and reorganizing the center's thrift store. A United Way agency, […] [Read More]
Be the NASCAR
Time Warner Cable and Bjorn's are bringing you closer to NASCAR than you've ever been before, unless you're an actual driver or pit crew member. NASCAR in 3D! Your life will never be the same again. The upcoming Coke Zero 400 at the Daytona International Speedway this Saturday is NASCAR'S first race ever to be […] [Read More]
Nashville firm acquires S.A. investment adviser
Austin Calvert & Flavin Inc., which bills itself as San Antonio's oldest investment advisory firm, has been sold. Mastrapasqua Asset Management Inc. of Nashville, Tenn., disclosed Tuesday it has acquired Austin Calvert & Flavin (ACF) from TTC Holdings Inc. for an undisclosed price. The combined companies will have more than $1 billion in assets under […] [Read More]
Valero's second-quarter earnings: July 27
Here's your chance to get the scoop on San Antonio-based refiner Valero Energy, the city's biggest publicly traded company. Valero's managers will hold a conference call to discuss the company's second-quarter results at 10 a.m. CDT on July 27. The company's earnings will be released the same day before the market opens. Anybody can listen […] [Read More]
Grande and Ford awards scholarship
Grande Truck Center and Ford Motor Co. awarded recent East Central High School graduate Kelly Fanick with a $1,000 scholarship as part of the Built Ford Tough Trucks/FFA Scholarship program. The Saint Hedwig native plans on studying business management at Texas Lutheran University. The scholarship is one of 457 given away this year by Ford […] [Read More]
Gunn names president
Hunter Hale San Antonio native Hunter Hale has officially been named president of Gunn Automotive Group. Hale formerly served as vice president of variable operations and assumed the role of president last year. He will lead all operations for dealership sales, finance, service, parts and customer service. In his career with the Gunn, Hale has […] [Read More]
Two SA companies make Russell 2000
Two San Antonio-based companies, GlobalScape and Abraxas Petroleum Corp., are now included in the Russell 2000 Index. The Russell 2000 is made up of the largest 2,000 companies based on total market capitalization and is used as a benchmark by investors and fund managers. Membership in the Russell 2000 remains in place for one year. […] [Read More]
DPT Laboratories Ltd. promotes two
DPT Laboratories Ltd., a pharmaceutical contract development and manufacturing company, announced two promotions at its San Antonio operation. JJ Feik was named senior director of business development. He will lead DPT's business development team. He previously served as director of marketing and corporate development. Tom Mitchell, who joined DPT in 2005 as marketing manager, was […] [Read More]
USAA and Wounded Warrior Project offer credit card
USAA Savings Bank and the Wounded Warrior Project have teamed up to offer a credit card that helps fund WWP programs to support service members with traumatic war injuries. The WWP will receive a percentage of the charges on each USAA Wounded Warrior Project World MasterCard used by the bank's customers. A bank spokesman declined […] [Read More]
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In this issue:
- Smarter Balanced Practice Tests
Smarter Balanced Practice Tests
On May 29, 2013, Smarter Balanced will release a set of computer-based Practice Tests for grades 3 through 8 and grade 11. For each grade, a Practice Test will be available in both English language arts (ELA) and mathematics. The Practice Tests will include an array of item types, including selected response, constructed response, and performance tasks, and will be built using test blueprints similar to those for the operational tests. In addition, the Practice Tests will support several accommodations including: text-to-speech for mathematics and ELA tests (not including ELA passages); Braille for mathematics and ELA tests; and, for mathematics tests only, Spanish pop-up glossaries for construct-irrelevant terms and American Sign Language. The Practice Tests will be publicly available on the Smarter Balanced Web site and will be accessible until the implementation of the operational Smarter Balanced assessments in the 2014–15 school year.
More Information
Additional information about Smarter Balanced is available on the CDE Smarter Balanced Web page and on the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium's Web site .
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Mariners, pitcher Garland decide to part ways
Team couldn't commit a roster spot to veteran pitcher.
PEORIA, Ariz. - The facts
The Mariners banged out nine hits and got solid pitching, holding the Padres to just four hits. Seattle improved to 18-8 in the Cactus League season. Kyle Seager, Michael Morse and Dustin Ackley had two hits each. Kelly Shoppach homered to push the Mariners spring total to 47 — the most in the major leagues.
Play of the game
Minor league shortstop Chris Taylor found himself in a big position in just his second Cactus League at-bat this spring. He found himself stepping into the box with the bases loaded and two outs in a 1-1 game. He worked a 3-2 count and ripped a hard single to center to score two runners for his first hit of the spring. Taylor, a shortstop, was drafted out of Virginia in the fifth round of the 2012 draft.
Who was hot
Felix Hernandez was simply outstanding. The Mariners ace threw six innings allowing two hits, and striking out nine batters. He threw just 70 pitches with 50 strikes. Hernandez gave up a two-out single and a double in the second inning. But that rally ended immediately. Hernandez got Alexi Amarista to ground out to end the inning. He retired 13 straight batters after the two hits, including six strikeouts in a row.
"You know me," he said of the two hits. "I'm a competitor. When I see something like that, the competitor comes out inside of me and I lock in."
Who was not
Jason Bay made his second straight start in center field. He made a few nice plays in center and did not look completely lost, despite not having played there much in the past six years. But at the plate he struggled, going 0-for-3 with walk and three strikeouts.
"Good for him. This is a good young player — a guy we feel strong about. We wanted to get him up here and give him an opportunity. That was great at-bat in a tough situation. I loved the way he hung in there, took some pitches, fouled off some pitches and ultimately came through. He should feel good about that." — Mariners manager Eric Wedge on Taylor's winning hit.
Extra innings
Hisashi Iwakuma will throw in a minor league game today to keep him on normal rest. ... First baseman Mike Jacobs is no longer in big league spring training. His locker was cleaned out on Friday. The Mariners have yet to announce a roster move with him. ... Former Mariners pitcher Arthur Rhodes made an appearance in the clubhouse and watched the game in the stands. ... Attendance for the game was 7,584.
On tap
The Mariners go back to day baseball as they host the Cleveland Indians at Peoria Stadium. Right-hander Blake Beavan will make the start for Seattle. Also scheduled to pitch are Charlie Furbush, Oliver Perez, Tom Wilhelmsen and Lucas Luetge. Cleveland will start lefty Scott Kazmir. First pitch is set for 1:05 p.m. The game will be televised on ROOT Sports and also broadcast on 710 AM.
Jon Garland loaded a big bag of gear in a rental car. He quietly left the complex a short time later. Back in the clubhouse, his locker was empty. His name card had been removed. His time with the Seattle Mariners is now over.
On Friday afternoon, general manager Jack Zduriencik and manager Eric Wedge met with the veteran right-hander and told him it wouldn't be in the organization's best interest to guarantee him a spot on the 25-man roster, and more importantly, a spot in the starting rotation with 10 days remaining until opening day.
"We weren't prepared to — at this moment in time — commit a roster spot and one of the starting spots in the rotation to Jon," Zduriencik said. "There's still some games left to be played and we couldn't put ourselves in that position. At this time, we still have a battle going on for a couple spots in the rotation."
Upon that news, Garland then exercised the opt-out clause in his contract, terminating his commitment to the Mariners. There's a 24-hour grace period until it becomes official in the eyes of Major League Baseball, but for all intents and purposes he is no longer with the team.
Seattle signed Garland to a minor league contract in the offseason, taking a low-risk flyer on a pitcher with a lot of experience but who hadn't thrown in game since 2011.
Garland missed all of the 2012 season as he covered from surgery to repair a torn labrum suffered in 2011. He was brought in to compete for a starting spot, if healthy, and perhaps bring some major league experience (330 career starts) if he made the team. It worked last season for Seattle with veteran Kevin Millwood. But it didn't work in this situation.
"Jon threw the ball well, it was more than just about Jon," Wedge said. "It was about everybody else involved in it. When you have an out this early in camp, you are put in a position where you have to make a decision."
The Mariners basically have two open spots behind Felix Hernandez, Hisashi Iwakuma and Joe Saunders. Garland was vying for one of them along with holdovers Erasmo Ramirez and Blake Beavan, veteran Jeremy Bonderman, who was also signed to a minor league contract and prospect Brandon Maurer.
"We are going to watch these guys pitch," Wedge said. "We still have multiple people vying for those last two spots. We haven't made any decisions in regards to who it's going to be. We still have a little bit of time to do that."
Those four pitched as well if not better than Garland this spring.
Garland, 34, made four official appearances in Cactus League, posting a 1-0 record with a 2.25 earned run average in 12 innings pitched. Those numbers don't include a forgettable outing against the Netherlands in the World Baseball Classic. Garland pitched three innings, giving up five runs on six hits — including three-run homer to former Mariner Wladimir Balentien.
But his best outing was his most recent. On Thursday night, threw six innings, giving up two runs on five hits with three strikeouts and a walk against the Chicago Cubs.
Afterward, he seemed at peace with his fate.
"I think I've shown them everything I can," Garland said. "Now the decision is on them. There are a lot of young arms that have proven themselves worthy. It's going to be a tough decision on them."
The decision was tough for many reasons. The Mariners would have had to put Garland on the active roster immediately, which meant they would have had to designate a player for assignment. It seems likely the Mariners may have to do more roster shifting if they decide to keep Jason Bay or Kameron Loe or Bonderman. Sure you can find names to DFA — Yoervis Medina, Chance Ruffin, even Casper Wells (if they decided to keep Bay). But they are going to want to wait until the very end of the spring training in hopes of sneaking them through waivers.
"You have to take everything into consideration," Wedge said. "With the talent we have in this organization now, any time you take someone off the roster, you risk losing them. We have multiple non-roster guys in camp that have a chance to make this club. So we've got to take the big picture into account."
Garland will now try and hook with up another team and try to make its rotation in the short time before the season starts. It's precisely why he had the opt-out clause in his contract.
"There's been scouts in the stands every time I've thrown," he said on Thursday. "If they don't want to keep me, I think there might be a phone call for me and like I said before, if not, I will be poolside at the house hanging out."
Desperate teams like the Colorado Rockies and Houston Astros might give Garland a chance, even teams in the American League West like the Texas Rangers and Los Angeles Angels aren't overwhelmed with pitching depth.
Wedge called the early opt-out unusual situation.
"I understand why he had it," he said. "I'm sure he'll get other opportunities."
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Warp & Weft was conceived while Portland, Oregon-based singer-songwriter Laura Veirs was pregnant with her second child. The ninth studio album in a productive career sees Veirs juggling the contentment of motherhood with preoccupations of fear and tragedy. "I'm haunted by the idea that something terrible could happen to my kids but that fear pushes me to embrace the moment," Veirs explained in an accompanying press release, revealing the dichotomy of fear and love heard throughout.
The album opens brightly with "Sun Song", immediately giving the sense that Veirs has edged closer to the mainstream. Her vocals are less rootsy and stylized, yet still unmistakably her own, the song evoking the change of seasons. The welcoming sun is heralded by balmy acoustic guitar and pedal steel, while glacial electric guitar reflects the end of winter. Further into the record, the string-embellished "Shape Shifter" contemplates the coming of winter with steely resolve: "Winter's on the way/ I think we're gonna make it out if we stick together now." Tears and joy then alternate in "Ten Bridges", a song that rivals "Shape Shifter" for its beautiful simplicity.
The album title, which references the craft of weaving, promises a collaborative effort. Produced by Veirs' husband and musical mainstay Tucker Martine, it includes guest spots from Jim James, k.d. lang, Neko Case, Brian Blade, and a few of The Decemberists, alongside her customary ensemble of guitarist Carl Broemel, bassist Karl Blau, Rob Burger on keys, and Martine himself wielding sticks. As might be expected, the lineup contribute rich vocal and instrumental tapestries, deftly stitched together by Martine. Variety comes from songs like "That Alice", an ode to jazz harpist Alice Coltrane, curiously realized with rock guitar, and a brace of short, atmospheric instrumentals. The lyrical themes span suicide ("Dorothy Of The Island") and Hiroshima ("Sadako Folding Cranes"). It all reaches a glorious crescendo with the final track "White Cherry", an infectious jazz infusion that builds organically, Veirs floating over layers of harp, tenor sax, piano, organ and soft, cymbal-rich percussion.
Warp & Weft is arguably the richest and most expansive album yet from Laura Veirs, and a real antidote to anyone who might label her as simply a folk singer. It is a mature and impressive collection that connects love and fear holistically.
Essential Tracks: "Sun Song", "Shape Shifter" and "White Cherry".


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Since original PC game use Ani.Mate Boo v2.0 and iPhone don't support Boo, I try to replace Ani.boo with Ani.Mate C# v1.0.1 from GUIManager. Unfortunately I got these error:
So is there a updated Ani.Mate C# then v1.0.1, or I need to fix these bugs manually? How to fix these two bugs?
This is my first Unity project. Any suggestion is appreciated.
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Use the tween library iTween instead. It's easy to use, updated regularly and it's free. http://itween.pixelplacement.com/index.php
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If anyone is interested, I have taken the time to convert the Boo version of Ani.Mate (which iOS does not allow the compilation of Boo scripts yet) to C#.
I have put it up on Github at: https://github.com/bfowle/Ani.Mate
Cheers and hope this helps anyone in the future.
answered Oct 12, 2012 at 08:58 PM
Boo has worked on iOS for some time now.
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What do you get when you mix a couch with an engine from a Suzuki GSX 1400 motorcycle? A new speed record, apparently.
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During testing at the Camden Airport, outside Sydney, the couch hit a top speed of 163 km/h (101 mph) which beat the previous record of 148 km/h (92 mph).
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RIO GRANDE, Puerto Rico --- The No. 7 Georgia men's golf team came in third in the Puerto Rico Classic on Tuesday.
The Bulldogs posted a final-round tally of 12-under 276 to wind up at 29-under 835 for the three-day event. Alabama took team honors at 45-under 819.
The Bulldogs' 29-under finish matches the eighth-lowest tournament figure in school history.
Senior Keith Mitchell paced the Bulldogs on Tuesday as he fired a 5-under 67. Freshman Greyson Sigg added a 4-under 68, while senior Joey Garber signed for a 2-under 70 and sophomore Lee McCoy had a 1-under 71. Senior Michael Cromie had Georgia's non-counting score of even-par 72.
Garber wound up third at 11-under 205, just one stroke behind co-medalists Miller Capps of Clemson and Robby Shelton of Alabama. There have been just five lower tournament totals in school history. Sigg took sixth at 9-under 207, while Mitchell was 12th at 6-under 210. McCoy finished at 3-under 213 and Cromie at 3-over 219.
"I thought by and large we were pretty solid all week," Georgia coach Chris Haack said. "Every tournament is part of the process, so we'll take the good and the bad back to Athens and keep plugging away. I like this team a lot, and I think we have the potential to do some good things."
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I think I have caught the steamboat bug. I have been craving for steamboat for the past two months and after trying to recall how many times of steamboat I had so far...it was a shocking total of 8 times which included two homemade version. In fact I just came back from one very yummy and satisfying steamboat dinner which I will going to post soon. Please bear with me as the next few posts will be featuring on steamboat. I think just let me release the bug in my blog and who knows? I might be cured through spreading the bugs to you guys. Hehehe.
Apart from the combo / noodle set, you can order extra serving of your favourite steamboat ingredients at very reasonable price.
Chilli paste and fried shallots are served unlimited here. If you want something spicy, go for the blended green chilis.
Another thing special about this place is that everyone gets their individual pot of soup. So, if you are fussy person who doesn't like people wash their chopstick in the soup, this would be an ideal place. For the soup based, you can either have clear soup or Tom Yum Soup. While WMW and I opt for clear soup, Teckiee tried the Tom Yum which I find it too spicy for me. I notice Teckiee having a hard time finishing her order due to the spiciness of the soup. I also saw that there is a curry chicken noodle set in the menu, so i guess with that, you will get curry-based soup.
WMW had the Sliced Lamb Noodle set priced at only RM9.80. It came with vermicelli and yellow noodles and of course the thinly sliced lamb, some fried beancurd sheets, chicken balls and veggies. Like WMW said, it's like ordering a bowl of noodle soup, but only differece is that you have to cook it yourself.
Since I was craving for steamboat so badly, I ordered the Sliced Lamb Combo Set (RM21.90) which came with a plate of the usual steamboat ingredients such as fish paste, fish ball, quail egg, stuffed beancurd, fried foochuk, fish, prawns, variety of greens and noodles. Pretty good as all their ingredients were very fresh. I enjoyed it thoroughly.
My set also came with generous portion of thinly sliced lamb. Very fresh and it didn't have any strong smell at all.
This is my pot of soup...with the ingredients floating on top, that means, ready to be eaten! Yumz..
So the next time if you are clueless of what to eat while you are at Ikano, do give this place a try.
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The Doshi Family Bridgebuilder Award, named for its benefactors, Navin and Pratima Doshi, is given annually to honor an individual or organization dedicated to fostering understanding between cultures, peoples and disciplines. The award recipient is selected by a committee in the Center for Religion and Spirituality.
The award ceremony is a celebration of culture and diversity, often times featuring numerous speakers and artistic performances. Navin Doshi, while presenting the Bridgebuilder Award to Thich Nhat Hanh in 2008, remarked: "Here we are at a Christian university giving an award to a Buddhist monk from a Hindu family. Isn't it wonderful that LMU honors all human traditions?" The award ceremony is jointly sponsored by Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts, the Department of Theological Studies, and the Navin and Pratima Doshi Professorship of Indic and Comparative Theology, which is currently held by Professor Christopher Key Chapple, PhD.
The 2014 recipient of the Doshi Family Bridgebuilder Award at Loyola Marymount University was biologist Rupert Sheldrake, Ph.D., author of more than 80 scientific papers and 10 books, including "Science Set Free."
The award was presented Sept. 16, 2014, in Ahmanson Auditorium on the LMU campus. Responding to Sheldrake's keynote address was John Hagelin, Ph.D., a renowned quantum physicist, science and public policy expert, and a leading proponent of peace, and Eric Strauss, President's Professor of Biology at LMU and director of the Ballona Discovery Center.
Sheldrake's career has been devoted to building a bridge between scientific investigation and spiritual inquiry. Sheldrake pioneered the study of morphic resonance – that all life is connected – and making ethical decisions that factor in far-reaching consequences.
Sheldrake wrote his first book, "A New Science of Life," in the ashram of Father Bede Griffiths, in Tamil Nadu, South India. From 2005-10 Sheldrake was director of the Perrott-Warrick Project for research on unexplained human and animal abilities, funded from Trinity College, Cambridge.
The Doshi Family Bridgebuilder Award, named for its benefactors, Navin and Pratima Doshi, is given annually to honor an individual or organization dedicated to fostering understanding between cultures, peoples and disciplines.
Past Doshi Bridgebuilder Award recipients are: Dr. Karan Singh, Dr. Vandana Shiva, Huston Smith, Greg Mortenson, Thich Nhat Hanh, Zubin Mehta and Deepak Chopra.


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The Legendary Singer/Songwriter returns in 2008 to Verve Forecast the label home of his seminal Mixed Bag originally released in 1967! One of the most distinctive voices in all of popular music, Havens delivers his first new studio recording in over 4 years - with his unique rhythmic approach to the acoustic guitar, Richie takes material by Pete Townshend (the anthemic and timely 'Won't Get Fooled Again'), Peter, Paul & Mary and Jackson Browne and makes them his own. His uncanny gifts as a song stylist have long overshadowed his considerable talents as a songwriter. Seven of the 13 tunes here are written or co-written by him including the poignant opening track 'The Key'. A captivating live performer who tours constantly, Havens profile will be extremely high in 2009 leading up to the 40th anniversary of Woodstock in August `09.
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Dirty Linen (p.51) - "Havens' own songs retain the jazzy edge of his early material with memorable melodies and passionate poetry....A passionate work that shows Richie Havens to be a performer and composer at the height of his powers..."
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Personnel: Richie Havens (vocals, acoustic guitar); Walter Parks (guitar); Stephanie Winters (cello); Keith Christopher (bass guitar); Shawn Pelton (drums).
Recording information: Sear Sound, NY (05/24/2007-12/10/2007); The Carriage House, Stamford, CT (05/24/2007-12/10/2007).
Over 40 years after the release of his debut album, 1967's MIXED BAG, folk-rock master Richie Havens returns to his original label, Verve Records, for 2008's NOBODY LEFT TO CROWN. Although Havens's public image will forever be frozen as the impassioned singer and percussive guitarist whose improvised set at Woodstock made him a national star, he has not stopped performing or recording during the intervening decades. Along with several strong original songs, including the pointedly political "Hurricane Waters" and the title track, Havens transforms three well-known songs into his unique style: Jackson Browne's "Lives in the Balance," Peter, Paul and Mary's "The Great Mandala," and most surprisingly yet most effectively, the Who's powerhouse protest anthem "Won't Get Fooled Again."


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In a recent interview with Siliconera (http://www NULL.siliconera NULL.com/2013/07/31/xseed-looking-to-bring-more-games-especially-jrpgs-to-pc/), XSEED announced that they're looking to bring more games, especially JRGPs, to the PC. Considering our goal is to see localized versions of the PC ports of the first four Sakura Wars games, now is the perfect time for a letter-writing campaign. XSEED is the perfect publisher for Sakura Wars, and if we show them our support, they just might consider localization!
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We have been going to Tachibana for years. The service isn't great, but the amazing food and prices have always made up for it. When we went tonight, we were surprised to see that some of our normal items had almost doubled in price (e.g., from $5.50 to $10.00 for the eel avocado roll). I think it's time to find a new sushi restaurant.
Posted by JM on 10/04/2012
In a region littered with Korean-owned sushi restaurants that never quite get it perfect, Tachibana stands out as a truly authentic Japanese restaurant. It is owned, staffed, and frequented by Japanese. The food is wonderful and fresh; I've never had anything I didn't like. The donburi (rice bowls) in particular are hot, steaming and always delicious.
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I am a huge fan of sushi and try to eat it at least once a week. I have been a weekly patron of Tachibana because they are truly authentic and care about thier sushi. The service is good and can be spotty somties, atmosphere is good, do not recommend if you are searching a trendy date place. This is one of the few japanese owned and operated sushi restaurants. I been to and tried every single sushi restaurant in the VA area and nothing else compares when it comes to the quality of the sushi. You will not leave hungry from here.
Posted by Bob on 03/05/2007
If you are new to sushi and the various shapes, tastes and forms, then you wold probbaly be better off going to a few other places before coming here. By doing so you will truly appreciate the quality of the food as well as the authentic service. I have never been to Japan but was assured by my friends that this was as close to "the real thing" as they have had in the USA. The quality of the fish is top notch- very fresh, firm and cool. The quality of the sushi chef (inside joke) work is exceptional as is the method by which he goes about putting together the food. This was truly a man who enjoyed all there is about sushi and was happy to share it with others. The rice was excellent as was the quality and amount of vinegar used. The wasabi was hotter than I expected but blame that more on my ignorance than the product itself. We passed on the sake due to travel plans but were told it was a good- not great- value for the price. Overall, a VERY well done experience and not just a meal.


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An Unfinished Woman, by Lillian Hellman
Experience as Drama
An Unfinished Woman.
by Lillian Hellman.
Little-Brown. 280 pp. $7.50.
Not the least important thing about a memoir is who has written it. Some lives are just more naturally transformed into material for drama than are others; some are dramatic in the merest recording of facts. While nothing of the drama of Miss Hellman's memoir has to do with mere recording—her narrative style is absolutely compelling—one is directed to note the intrinsic interest of the facts: she has written twelve plays (a matter she passes over lightly in the memoir, a throw-away in favor of the personal); her friends are interesting, if not notorious (Dorothy Parker, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Eisenstein, Dashiell Hammett). She reports from two wars: she is in Spain, wandering around in the bombardments of Valencia and Madrid; toward the end of World War II, on a cultural mission to Moscow, she ends up (the only journalist permitted) at the Russian front, in the bunkers with General Chernov's White Russian Divisions as they prepare to move on to the liberation of Poland. She has seen Maidanek newly liberated, and she is present at the interrogation of the first SS officer to desert from the German army. These are scenes built on the emotional facts of our recent history. Maidanek is short, retching, dreamlike. The interrogation of the SS by the Russians is built, unutterably tense in the exchange of plain information which is not style, but words and movements torn flat from the diary of a war whose plainest day could not be ordinary.
One is tempted to note the intrinsic drama of Miss Hellman's experience as a means of explaining the distinguished nature of this memoir. There is history here, an intimate recording of facts significant beyond the personal. This is not to say that the personal, which accounts for so much of Miss Hellman's material, is not in itself deeply interesting; it is that the combination of both is rarely ever found in the record of an ordinary life, as we know ordinary. I want to make this distinction to offer some standard for judging a work of this kind. Teaching in a university some years ago, I remember giving my students an assignment to write about an experience that mattered, one they wanted to tell about. One, an Israeli exchange student, wrote, in laconic key, the details of his parachute drop during the Sinai invasion—his first day of combat. Another wrote about learning to drive a car and the day he passed his driver's test. One is asked to believe in these times of psychological inflation that the profounder experience of the two is now defined by the quality of the sensibility writing; one experience is as good as another. Perhaps, but I have not found it so. I knew even then, as Miss Hellman might say, that life was unfair to people who needed grades. Experience mattered, and it was not altogether an accident of history and geography that determined who was where.
Life has not been unfair to Miss Hellman that way. The quality of her experience has been extraordinary and that is no accident. It is an inevitability of spirit, that which creates experience. It is that which creates her language, too. Her speech is not poetic; it is stark and abrupt, but the force of its observation makes this conscientiously plain-speaking sensibility move as it does. Her lines on Dashiell Hammett:
I know as little about the nature of romantic love as I knew when I was eighteen, but I do know about the deep pleasure of continuing interest, the excitement of wanting to know what somebody else thinks, will do, will not do, the tricks played and unplayed, the short cord that the years make into rope and, in my case, is there, hanging loose, . . .
All of her lines on Hammett, virtually, have the vital, funny cutting edge of recall. But it is more than style: it is the deepest of feeling, coming plain and meant to be that, enlarged nonetheless by its clarity and infectious in its precision.
An Unfinished Woman is a record of personal discovery, most of which does not approach the fine emotional nerve of Miss Hellman's conclusions on Hammett. The record takes up her childhood, girlhood, and womanhood. Some of the details are ordinary, some are not: the feel of all of it is intensity bordering on the exorbitant. That is because Miss Hellman's dramaturgical instincts permit no conversation, no word, no twitch of a face, no walk across a room which does not create a scene. No silence is permitted which does not make a speech, no gesture which does not add to the creation; the scenes come with a striking power that for me, at least, never was there in Miss Hellman's plays. Thus: in Valencia, food is scarce. Miss Hellman shares a hotel dining table with a German couple and an English doctor who has come to supervise medical supplies sent by British organizations. The diary records that Miss Hellman, about to leave for Barcelona, brings her own provisions to the table:
Tonight I took the peaches, two cans of anchovies, a box of crackers to the dinner table. I asked the handshaking German to open them, but he put his hands in his lap and smiled. I passed them to the young man from the Press Office, but he shook his head.
No one will take anything. The doctor instructs her that they are shy about taking other people's food. They are persuaded, finally, when they are told that this is a farewell party they must share.
I liked him very much as he rose and served each person one anchovy and a cracker. Everybody ate very slowly, and there was no talk. I served the peaches and they stared at their plates. . . . There were still a few anchovies. . . . There wasn't any for the doctor or for me. . . . The German immediately put his anchovy on my plate and the German lady leaned over to give hers to the doctor.
Both the doctor and Miss Hellman refuse their share, asserting that they dislike anchovies.
. . . when the oil of the can was passed around, I heard the German lady make a sound of pleasure. I didn't want a peach, but there was such disbelief when I said so that I ate part of one. . . . At the door, I turned to speak to somebody and saw that the German lady was wrapping my half peach in a piece of paper. She handed it to her husband. He shook his head and gave it back and she gave it back to him and this time he took it and kissed the hand that gave it to him. The doctor had waited at the door for me and had seen what I had seen. In the hall, he said, "My God. Hunger is awful."
When events are not of themselves dramatic, Miss Hellman's disposition intercedes to make them so. A disposition like hers is best described in her own terms. Throughout An Unfinished Woman, she is concerned with her early intimations of—quaint but good word yet—her nature. Those intimations are the creatures that flit through the memoir, remembering her to herself. She had always known that she was something, fit or not fit for this or that, so that no experience, as recorded, comes quite unapprehended. No experience, no fact of the self, comes raw with adult discovery—it has all been prepared for long ago, whatever the self does. She writes, for instance, of trying to decide whether or not to accept the dangerous, if enviable, invitation proffered by General Chernov, to move with his division to the liberation of War saw:
. . . I will not sleep tonight, whatever I decide . . . and after that will come, as it always has, a hatred for the side of me that either falls into action or avoids it . . . giving in and over to people or places. . . . But it was not like that.
In the end, she thanks the General and refuses,, "not in fear for my life, but in fear of my nature. . . ." One could have wished for a less historic moment for that knowledge. But the pattern of recognition is the triumph of the memoir over life, a triumph not easy to avoid if one wants to (and one should want to). There is just too much here of, "I-had-found-very-early" and I-had-always-known-that" and "knowing-even-then, I-think" and that sort of imposed monotony of self-knowledge which is the memoir's landscaping. For life, it would seem unbearable.
There is another difficulty, too—of a tone so composed around the self and its two units of feeling (irritability and love) that it makes no distinctions among experiences or among objects. Thus, during the march on Washington, she can grow irritated with Martin Luther King, impatient with his dream, as she says, because he reminds her of too many Southern preachers of her childhood. If she cannot love him, she must be irritated with him: he has that place assigned by childhood memory and there is nothing to be said beyond that—that, and the fact that he is a kind man, as she says—and she wanders off to look for something to eat. It is that kind of sensibility: one is either here or there, right or not, irritating or loved.
There are people who confuse irritability with intellect, and I suspect Miss Hellman may be one of them. She admired in Hammett his refined hauteur, his willingness to snub people who were wrong or who bored him. The charm of it is clear: "He took a strong and lasting dislike to a man who insisted mackerel were related to herring. . . ." It is a quality which charmed Miss Hellman, one which is indeed charming in Hammett as he is rendered throughout, a fact-loving irritable intellect who knew how to be rude to people as Miss Hellman did not. But there is often a confusion between irritability and mind, and the confusion of irritability with anything but what it is, has its dangers. And Miss Hellman can assume an irascibility of her own, which too often takes the place of all the other emotions one may have about things one does not happen to love. There are many things Miss Hellman does not love, and she is merely, and monotonously, irritable about all of them.
But there is nothing finally monotonous about An Unfiinshed Woman, if only because Miss Hellman is so faithfully enigmatic in her observation when she might merely have been interesting. Apparently, a nature like Miss Hellman's is bent on the enigmatic on all occasions, even while it is explaining things. The more she explains, irascibly insistent on clearing things up, opening psychic doors, the more enigma sidles through, going comfortably home to its own true voice and bringing all its friends too. That is the true voice of the book. Time and again, we are left with reportage on awkward encounters, moments of genuine, high drama, interred with: "but we were never to speak of that again." During one of their arguments, Hammett slowly grinds a burning cigarette into his cheek. They never speak of that again. Miss Hellman explains, in her fashion, but it is the silence which lasts.
Miss Hellman nails her dramatic scenes so often with that silence that it becomes a leitmotif, a reassuring thud that persuades the reader that no more ever happened, which means everything. No one misses anything, the event is totally given. That is Miss Hellman, the dramatist,, who works superbly well at this. The other result of that frequent interment, "we were never to speak of that again" and all its variations, is the suggestion of enormous psychic controls developed around all the relationships described. And it is the constant suggestion of putting things away between people, the small, shared secrets, that render the slightest relationships successfully intimate. A little girl in a squirrel coat and a woman in an English nanny costume appear briefly and disappear down the rubble of a Russian street. A young Captain K. arrives for the purpose of visiting Miss Hellman. While she waits, he reads a magazine in her sitting room before uttering a word. No one of these relationships is uninteresting, but it is not a matter of dramatistic skill alone which makes them move. It is Miss Hellman's idiosyncratic sympathies. She likes these people, and it is her sympathies which compel attention to the last detail of her subject. "I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak," she directs us to Captain K.
Compelling also is the insistence of her graphic style: she is nine; there is a heavy fig tree in which she whiles away truant afternoons. She says she was convinced the tree missed her in her absence. One obediently wishes to understand exactly where the tree was in relation to the corner of the house. That is the kind of description of which Miss Hellman is capable at her best: to make one insist on seeing what she has seen, physically, geographically, anatomically—the twitch on which side of the face?—and the insistence is at her direction. It comes from her deep sympathy for the thing observed; that, or her utter distaste all in that tone of enigma-honesty, which is a triumph of persistence.


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Full detailed profile on Jack Manning (Past) Played by Carmen LoPorto on One Life To Live Daytime Soap Opera.
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Birthday: January 4 1997
Over at the mansion, Sam finds Jack in the living room trying to drill open Eli's safe deposit box. Jack has no luck and converses with Sam about their next step. Sam reminds Jack that Dorian has some fireworks in the attic. As they head upstairs, Blair and Cris arrive. Blair runs after the boys while Cris calls Layla and asks, "Who the hell is this?" He wonders who the man answering Layla's phone is. When Blair returns with champagne, she stubs her toe on Eli's box and listens as Cris screams at Layla. He throws his phone and says, "Layla's cheating on me." Blair thinks Layla's a fool. "If Layla can't be faithful," Cris states, "why should I?" Blair notices how much Cris has had to drink and says, "I'll show you to my room… I mean your room." Knowing she hurt her toe, Cris carries Blair upstairs!
Everyone gathers in Angels Square as Dorian presents the lighting of the Christmas tree. Blair scolds Jack, who's about to tell Sam there's no Santa. Clint runs into Vimal and warns him to be quite when Vimal brings up Brody being his daughter's baby's father and Rex being Clint's son. As Rex and Gigi head to Viki's, Rex stops and calls Clint the Grinch! Aubrey sees Clint and makes a comment about him hating her. Joey suggests Kelly soften Clint up for Aubrey. All three approach Clint, who makes a quick getaway. Kelly agrees. Clint hates 'her'. Joey tries to reassure Aubrey then gives Kelly a gift: goggles to prevent getting lemon in her eye again. Kelly gives Joey her clown ornament. She heard his broke. Aubrey laughs about Kelly's gift from Joey then shows her the bracelet Joey bought her.
Over at the mansion, Starr tells Langston about her visit to see Cole and says, "Without Cole it just isn't Christmas." Starr and Langston exchange gifts then decide to get out of the house. Later, Blair warns Jack to quit ruining Christmas when he tells Sam that Santa is a myth. After Blair leaves the room, Jack starts guessing what's in all the presents. Sam spots Eli's box. Jack suggests they open it. It's their mom's from her psycho dead husband. They take the box and head outside.
When Echo arrives, Dorian takes her up to the rooftop. She wants Echo to take a photo of her in a Santa suit for next year's mayoral calendar. Dorian claims to have forgotten something and promises to be right back. Dorian leaves and locks Echo on the rooftop without a coat! Echo screams and shivers for Dorian to open the door. Echo puts on the Santa suit to stay warm and screams over the edge, "Hello!" Outside the mansion, just as Jack tries to pry open Eli's box, Sam points to the rooftop. It's Santa! They race up to the rooftop. "Santa?" Jack asks, just as Echo falls down the chimney! "See, I told you," Sam tells Jack. There is a Santa! They think Santa's stuck and race back downstairs.
Back in the living room, Dorian joins Blair and Kelly, who rants about Joey and Aubrey. Blair kisses Kelly's cheek and suggests she move on. Kelly admits Blair was right. Aubrey's hiding something. She calls Rex and asks him to dig up dirt on Aubrey. Dorian lights the fireplace. Blair thinks she hears someone yelling. "It sounds like an Echo," Kelly agrees. Dorian laughs and turns up the Christmas music. Jack and Sam race in. Blair screams at Jack when he throws water on the fire. He's trying to save Santa! Blair thought he didn't believe in Santa. Suddenly, Echo crashes down the chimney and glares at Dorian, covered in soot!
Jack goes to the Manning Estate, takes Dani in a hug and says, "I'm sorry about your mom." Jack assures Dani and Todd that he really cared about Tea unlike his mother's new choice, Eli. Todd informs them of Eli's death in Tahiti. "That's where my dad lives," Dani says. "I'm your dad," Todd reminds. Todd is forced to reveal all of Eli's crimes. Dani can't believe that she trusted a murderer and wonders, "What's the point… Why trust anyone who's going to leave you?" Dani rushes off and Jack urges Todd to go after her. Todd can't help her. Dani needs her mom. Blair arrives and hugs Jack who says, "I told you Eli was a psycho killer." Jack gets Dani and Blair immediately wraps her in her arms. Blair prepares to take Dani and Jack off to arrange Tea's memorial and tells Todd, "I'm really sorry." Dani wants Todd to come with them but he has to wait for Greg who's bringing him Tea's ashes. Later Greg arrives and tells Todd, "I need to tell you something about Tea."
Todd, Starr, Dani and Jack are in Todd's living room when Tea appears and says, "I can't marry that man. He's not Todd Manning." Tea shows Dani a photo of Todd with his old face and says, "This man is your father." Todd tries to calm Tea down as she points to the photo. Tea pleads with Starr to tell everyone 'that man' isn't her father. "He is the man that loves you, Tea," Starr replies. "More than anything," Todd adds. Jack and Cole stand by confused as Todd reminds Tea that her tumor would cause changes in her memory. Todd gets Tea to believe him by recounting some past memories. "It's me," Todd whispers. Tea apologizes profusely to everyone. Todd wants to take Tea to the hospital. Judge Mayweather arrives. Tea begs Todd to stick to their plan. Todd happily announces it's time to get married! After Tea gets ready everyone joins together and the ceremony begins. Todd promises Tea they're going to live for today and try to figure out how to make it last forever. "I feel like the luckiest woman in the world right now," Tea cries. "This moment will live in our memories forever." Todd and Tea are pronounced husband and wife! Later Starr wonders what has Cole so distracted. He admits he has a bad feeling about Hannah. He needs to go check on her. Starr agrees to allow it if this is what it'll take to get them back to normal. After Cole leaves Tea hugs Starr and Jack. Dani goes to Todd and hugs him close.
Jack rushes into the mansion living room screaming that Blair can't marry Eli because he's a killer! He starts ranting about the movie he watched and asks where Dorian keeps her gun. Blair blames Todd for allowing Jack to watch such films. She promises Jack Eli is a good guy. Blair continues to pack until John calls looking for Eli. "Don't tell me you think he's a psycho killer too?" Blair asks into the phone. "Is that McPain?" Jack asks. "Let me talk to him!" Blair ignores Jack and assures John she'll tell Eli to call him. Jack starts unpacking Blair's suitcase. Blair begs him to be happy for her and throws the clothes back in. She's sick of Jack acting out and grounds him. Jack refuses to go to his room because he has to get back to his dad's. Todd's marrying Tea! Blair didn't know but thinks Jack's outburst is due to him wanting her and Todd back together. Blair urges him to accept that Todd's going to marry Tea and she's going to marry Eli. "Fine! It's going to be your funeral, not mine," Jack says before storming off. Kelly arrives, hears Blair's eloping and orders, "You can't marry Eli!"
Dani joins Todd downstairs and offers to help him get ready. Starr arrives. Todd's so happy to have his girls with him. Starr leans her head on Todd's shoulder while Dani takes his hand. Dani looks through photos of Todd and Tea's past marriages and asks Todd, "Do you ever miss your old face?" Tea appears and shocks everyone by saying to Todd, "There's no way in hell I'm marrying you. You are not Todd Manning!"
At the mansion Blair says she wants to enjoy their engagement. Eli brings up Tea's situation, says life's too short and begs, "Marry me before it's too late." Jack listens from the doorway as Eli suggests they go to Vegas. He thinks about a horror flick involving a stepfather from hell and hears Blair agree to marry Eli tonight. Jack rushes out the door. Eli leaves shortly after claiming he has a few loose ends to handle.
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Francisco Peguero is one of many outfielders competing for a job with the Orioles this spring. Is there anything that sets him aside?
Peguero is on the 40-man roster while several of his competitors aren't, but that can change quickly. He's also a right-hander, so it's likely he'll be competing with Nolan Reimold and Steve Pearce for a spot.
If Reimold isn't healthy, Peguero, who is out of options, may have a chance. If he is healthy, Peguero may be out of luck.
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Peguero played in 35 games for the San Francisco Giants the last two years. He's played mostly left field, which is a position of need for the Orioles.
In two years, he's batted .200 with a home run, but in the minors, Peguero hit over .300 in four of the last five years. In 2013, Peguero hit .315. He's an aggressive hitter, and at 25, he hasn't gotten much of a shot in the majors.
If Delmon Young doesn't pan out, it's possible that Peguero could make the team as a right-handed designated hitter with a strong March.


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Master Chef Jyot Singh Rana shares the recipe of his signature dish Balti Meat with Ayushi Arora and recommends trying it for yourself at the next family gathering.
Lamb (boti and nalli) 4 kgs
Oil 1 l
Bay leaf 5
Cinnamon stick 4
Big cardamom(black elaichi) 6
Small cardamom (green elaichi) 10
Cloves 8
Fried onion paste 500 gms
Kashmiri chilipowder 5 tbsp
Ginger garlic paste 9 tbsp
Tomato pure 500 gms
Curd 200 gms
Cumin powder 4 tbsp
Coriander powder 4 tbsp
Garam masala 1.5 tbsp
Lamb stock in place of water
Salt to taste
- For the lamb stock: Bring the lamb bones to a boil with whole spices in five to six litres of water for three hours (approximately). When the water reduces to one to two and thickens, it is ready.
- Heat oil and add bay leaves, all the cardamom and cloves.
- Next add lamb, salt, Kashmiri chilli powder and ginger garlic paste, cook for five to ten minutes.
- Add curd, powdered spices and fried onion paste and cook for 15 minutes.
- Add the prepared lamb stock and cover with a lid until the meat is cooked through and tender.
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I've never heard of this movie (not to be confused with this); I love this poster. What is that genteel lady doing to that strapping naked buck, whose head is slightly askance, either in contemplation, embarrassment, or indifference? She looks intent, ravenous; he looks away. I don't believe this 1998 film, which from this titillating image looks like Mandingo by way of Strindberg, has been properly released in the U.S., where I'm sure its title wouldn't have been a strict translation from L'homme est une femme comme les autres to, I believe, Man Is a Woman Like Any Other but rather something like Odile and Billy, or Not-Fat Girl. A quick scan over at imdb reveals not only that, according to user TedEBear, it's "not exactly a mess," but that it's about a gay Jewish man forced to marry for money. Apparently it's not the belle epoque ball-cupper I thought it was but just another kooky kulture klash in the Wedding Banquet mold. Ah well, the poster almost had me on www.amazon.fr.


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