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Pete G., Manhattan pedicab driver, accepts the following as sacraments: Nichiren Daishonin Buddhism, marijuana, West African music, cheap Chinese food, long bike rides, not having any money, and inviting total strangers over for dinner.
A few weeks ago, Pete gave me a free ride to Whole Foods in a pedicab that said "Ask me about free rides to Whole Foods." I had just left the Chase bank on 2nd Ave and 10th Street and Pete was leaning against his pedicab, slurping up a take-out container of borscht from Veselka. It was about 100 degrees outside, too hot to walk to Whole Foods, not to mention bike there, not to mention eat borscht before biking there. I collapsed, hot and discombobulated, into the back of the pedicab, and Pete wheeled us down 2nd Ave, keeping up an enthusiastic chatter of conversation the whole time. If his grin were any less mellow I might've suspected amphetamines. He credited calories for his energy. "That borscht is great."
When he called me a few weeks later to set up a date for dinner, he was on the Williamsburg Bridge, fixing someone's busted bike. "So, I was thinking….[crunching noises]….sorry, I'm trying to fix this guy's chain—what's your name? Abdul—sorry Abdul, I'm not a very good mechanic."
And when I met him below his Hell's Kitchen apartment a few days later, he spirited me up the few flights to his place and had me sit by the bathtub in the kitchen, apologizing. "I just have to finish my afternoon meditation," he said. "You don't mind, do you? It'll only be a minute."
I squatted on the low stool near the cat's litter box, and Pete popped his ass back onto a piano stool facing a little altar propped up on an ancient piano.
Pete looked at me, still chanting. "Are you hot?" he mimed as his mouth ground and quipped and shimmied, like someone speaking in tongues. He leapt off the stool and turned the fan on, aiming it at me, then resumed his seat, sounding syncopated dings and dongs on the prayer bells and making sure the cat was fed, all without missing a beat. His feet tapped, his fingers danced on his knees, his voice droned sonorously. It went up at the end of each phrase, like a little boy asking a question, then immediately returned to its monotonous, grating cadence. His cat, one of the neighborhood's genteeler denizens, wound her way around the bamboo plant colonizing the corner and slunk delicately onto the fire escape.
I could see pretty much the whole apartment from my vantage point on the stool by the bathtub; rich people, probably even in Manhattan, have closets that would dwarf it. On the east-facing side of the room was an ancient upright piano, the bamboo plant, that cat and the altar. The southern end of the apartment boasted a tiny water closet and a little room with Pete's lofted bed, the wall scrawled with decades' worth of notes and graffiti. One thousand CDs, books and notebooks lay scattered below, as well as some stereo equipment, out of which hemorrhaged a tangle of wires, electronic roots flowing into the floor. On the western wall hung a picture of the Dalai Lama and a calendar, framing a hot plate and the bathtub. And facing north were the windows and the fire escape, a microwave and the litter box, plus, between the windows, a few shelves racked with Quaker Oats, vinegar, soy sauce, paprika, Aunt Jemima syrup and baking soda.
In the middle of the room was Pete's piano bench, upon which he perched and presided, a friendly praying mantis around which orbited the world. Out of this piano bench, which Pete dipped into liberally over the course of the evening, came strength and sustenance, i.e. Buddhist literature and marijuana. (On the calendar he marked a little "W" every time he bought weed, to make sure he wasn't overdoing it.) He continued the meditation, his thin body veritably quaking from the spiritual reverberations.
I could hear the neighbor moving quietly behind the apartment's paper-thin wall; I'm sure she knew every word of the meditation by heart. With a satisfied last few percussionistic dongs of the bell, Pete closed the altar, blew out the candles, placed the prayer beads on the piano and swiveled around to face me, his lined face content. "Thanks for your patience," he said. "Gotta get that done."
For almost a decade, Pete has been a fervent adherent of the Soka Gakkai International USA branch of Buddhism, which is headed by the bespectacled Japanese businessman and corsaged, pearl-necklace-wearing wife that sit placidly in a picture frame on Pete's piano. "I really love the way he explains things," said Pete, the veins on his head pronounced as scars, beating in time with his speech, punctuating his passion. "He speaks about devotion, the mystic law of the universe, the lotus flower that blooms as it seeds. It represents the simultaneity of cause and effect, the mysterious nature of life from moment to moment. Do you know what I mean?? It's a magnetism that…defies logic."
What appeals to Pete about this brand of Buddhism is that it believes in the power of prayer to change destiny. "For example," explained Pete. "I always wanted to live in a house where I could have a piano. Well, a couple of years ago, someone donated this piano to the Buddhist culture center, and I took it home! So I guess I don't live in a bigger house or anything…but at least I have a piano!"
We tramped downstairs to the Chinese place around the corner to pick up dinner, a place Pete likes because he can take home five things for $5. There were about 60 different hotel pans of food lined up side by side, sweating in bain-maries. Some of them looked like they've been there since the dawn of time. I filled a take-out container with penne pasta in a primavera-type sauce and piled it with syrupy tofu, fried bean sprouts, fried rice, and seaweed salad. It doesn't look that bad in print, but it was abominable.
We took the food back to his place and reclaimed our stools. Pete rinsed the dust off a couple of forks and glasses and opened a bottle of wine. He perched atop the piano bench and ate with gusto. There was a lot of empty toe space at the end of his socks, which were already covering very long feet. He was wearing jorts cut off at the knee, a tennis shirt, and a flat-billed cycling cap that shaded a pair of extraordinarily large, bovine eyes. He chewed in a way that was at once aggressive and thoughtful. "You hate the food!" he said, noticing. "I'm so sorry!!"
When Pete first moved to New York, he crashed on couches for a couple of years. Then he lived on 2nd street near the marble cemetery, moved to Hoboken, followed that with a stint in East Flatbush and Jersey City, and finally set up twenty-two years ago in the Hell's Kitchen tenement where we sat together and compared notes on the world. Pete remembers the neighborhood back when New York was much more of an anarchist, in-your-face place. "There was this old bum on the corner, Winston. He had a black-and-white TV that he rigged up to plug into the lamppost. He lived in front of it, on this Persian rug, and had this incredible sense of entitlement. It was like, 'Man, quit interrupting the Flintstones!' The police were far too beleaguered to care." The rent when Pete first moved to Hell's Kitchen in 1987 was $213 a month; now, it's $471.90.
The apartment's landlords, the family behind the century-old butcher shop on the corner, have taken Pete to eviction court three different times, but he's managed to remain ensconced. "It bothered me that I wasn't paying rent, I guess," he said. "But I could live with it." (At the moment, Pete estimates that he's got $150 in his bank account.) In 2001, when Con Ed cut him off, he lived in the apartment for six months with no phone or electricity; he finally got a cell phone in 2007. "Kind of zen, but I got tired of it," he pronounced on that time. Pete is always praying for fiscal deliverance, and eventually—proof of the value of his faith—it comes, though unfortunately sometimes shrouded in undesirable clothing. "Death has brought a lot of studio equipment into my life."
Pete is a musician to the core: "They stamped 'artist' on my ass when I was born," he chuckled. He started out in a covers band, then followed a woman out to California and played to hecklers in a Mexican restaurant near the Navy base in Monterey, then spent a few years busking in the Port Authority subway station, teaching himself the violin underground. It sounded like a particularly demeaning kind of penance. Pete is philosophical about it. "The humiliation process is kind of purifying," he said. "You have to sink to the bottom before you rise to the top." He preferred the hallways because people didn't feel as obligated to donate as they do on the platform, so he knew their appreciation was real. "I could've played 'Danny Boy' like some kinda Johnny One-Note and made tons of money, but I was never that guy." Once or twice a year he still takes his violin down to the subway.
Sometimes he met women there. He has a thing for dark-skinned women, and believes he got at least one of them off the street. "I know I was the catalyst for Nikki, anyway."
Pete, too, has done a lot of things for money. When he first came to New York, he borrowed a bike from a guy in Brooklyn and worked as a messenger for a film processing company. At 19 years old, he was in Jersey City playing Grateful Dead covers. Then he worked on Wall Street for a while. He clarified: "As a runner." He's worked as a dispatcher for taxis, too, and as a research assistant at St. Roosevelt's Hospital. He's busked aboveground, in Times Square. "If you stand there long enough, you'll see everyone you've ever met." When this involves people from high school, it can be uncomfortable, but Pete shrugs this off as an occupational hazard. "Hey—at least I'm the king of my fate." These days, he mixes pedicabbing with focus groups.
He hates, hates, hates getting older. "If you're not a fiscal success, people reject you. At my age, if you're pedicabbing, you're a bum. But pedicabbing is a great way to control my financial reality. I'm finally learning, with age: responsibility and freedom must be coupled. You can't just have one."
It's rare to run across people who are genuinely, not-just-saying-it, uninterested in money, mainly because this requires the strength to be indigent. Pete always recognizes what good fortune he has ("Buddhism helps"), and lives utterly in the present. "My attitude has always been, I'll cross that bridge when I get to it. I'm just trying to divorce myself from…the hype indoctrination. Yes! The hype indoctrination!" I wonder aloud where he got the phrase. "What do you mean? I just made it up." He's remarkably lucid, peppering his speech with James Joyce and observations that are brittle and cutting without being cynical, which he's anything but. "Whatever. There are ways of treating this island as a physical island and not as a roiling commerce board. My happiness derives from finding these."
Pete's way often involves his bicycle. On days off, he meanders up Riverside Drive, napping on the grassy knolls, drowsily listening to the laughter of Mexican kids playing in the water. It was on another bike ride, right before we'd fixed the date for our dinner, that he met Abdul, whose chain he was adjusting when we'd spoken on the phone. Once Pete had restored the bike, they rode for a while together. "I think Abdul was really feeling a lack of dialogue, a lack of discussion." They talked about Buddhism. "He came from another faith, but we were really on the same page. Hey—you know what you should do instead of Eating With Strangers? Biking with Weirdos!" He guffawed irrepressibly, folding his long, lean, body in half, heartily slapping his sinewy thigh.
By this time, the lights were low, the night's coolness had set in, and we were listening to music on Pete's stereo system. We'd groove happily to roots music or Pete's own synthesizer compositions for a while, and then he'd spring up abruptly, like an exaggeratedly tall and fervent Jack-in-the-Box, having changed his mind about the soundtrack, and switched it to something a pole apart. The volume was set loud enough for Pete's aggrieved neighbor, were she so inclined, to shout along to any lyrics, but every time he switched CDs, he'd turn the sound down gradually, "as a respect to the music." He kicked a Haruki Murakami novel out of the way, picked up a Marisa Monte CD, reconsidered, and slipped in Mali Music, a collaboration between West African musicians and Damon Albarn, from Blur. "This, my friend, is music on a sacred level."
Sometimes you really wish you had a goddamn tape recorder because everything coming out of someone's mouth is interesting and worthwhile and you can't take notes fast enough and notes are crap at capturing ambience anyway, especially once you get stoned with your subject. My four hours with Pete were like that. If reading this piece makes him out to be a caricature, let me be unequivocal: what emanated from him was excessively human, so much so that sometimes, it broke my heart. The absolute honesty of his voice and absence of posturing rendered his character utterly transparent. It made everything he said valuable, because it was the truth.
Pete thinks of himself as an artist, but I see him as a poet. He views the world in his own skewed way, and refuses to soften his angular, ragged edges to fit into its round holes. He's a prism, a craggy, gaunt, rangy one at that, and so he will steadfastly remain till the world makes holes his size. Or doesn't.
So what? It takes all kinds of people to make a world, and the world is a better place for having Pete in it; I hope he finds the redemption he seeks. "In Nichiren Daishonen Buddhism, praying hard enough gets you what you want," Pete said shortly after his recitation. Perhaps one of the things Buddhism is best at is lulling people into believing that stasis is a means to an end, or an end in itself. I'm constitutionally allergic to this kind of thought, but I'm not sure it makes me a better person, or a happier one.
At the end of a very long night, Pete showed me out like a gentleman and handed me my Styrofoam container of unctuous, gelling Chinese food. I begged off. "You hated the food! I knew it. You're going home to make a soufflé now, aren't you? You are! You are!!"


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Webster's has released a USB dictionary that is reasonably priced and features plenty of extra space to save assignments. I am an enormous fan of computer-based dictionaries. They are much more versatile than paper dictionaries. For one thing, you can cram a lot more information into a CD or a memory stick than you can in a book that is to be carried with you wherever you go. You can search through them faster and they are a lot lighter. The drawback of course is that you need a PC to access them. I do not think that dictionary applications will ever completely do away with the need for paper dictionaries, but they will probably do away with the enormous multi-volume dictionaries that most people never lay eyes upon.
Rarely do I find an English word that I do not know or cannot figure out from context. Still, English is an extremely expansive language and every once in a while I do get caught out. I did not know, for example, that people from Minneapolis would be referred to as Minneapolitans. It seems obvious in hindsight, but I was caught off guard. The trouble is, there is almost never a dictionary at hand when I really need one. Dictionary apps tend to be a lot easier on the eyes than say, Dictionary.com. As a teacher, I get dictionary software free, but I have a number of qualms about the more popular software that is available. Namely, you need to drag out the CD about one time in five and I do not like juggling discs. A USB version seems to be a less annoying alternative.
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We've been obsessed with Chlöe Sevigny ever since we saw her in the September 1992 issue of Sassy wearing a patchwork hat of her own design. And while she's not necessarily everyone's cup of tea, she certainly knows how to make a statement on the red carpet.
But as we looked through the archives to pull our favorites of Sevigny's looks, we noticed something very interesting. For as "hip" as her look may be, it's also incredibly timeless. Take a look back at the last ten years of Sevigny's style and tell us if she couldn't wear any and all of it today.
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I'm sorry I know that there are a ton of problems similar to mine and I have read all of them and I just don't know where to start.
Here goes, ok my 2004 ford f250 6.0 is driving me crazy, it has been in the shop for approx. 3 month this all started about a year and a half ago with 120k on the truck either the head gasket went or the egr was clogged, so I went in and bought the total solution package: head gaskets, studs, EGR delete, new oil cooler, screen, coolant filter system, the only thing I didn't do was resurface the heads, my mistake I listened to a mechanic because I was not to familiar with diesel motors he told me to put a straight edge on the two heads and checked to see if they was warped so I did and they seem really straight and flat so I put it back together. Well needless to say in about 4 months I was doing it again because the head gasket blew again. this time taking no chances I took the heads to a shop and they had hair line cracks coming from the valves so I bought new heads and since they were brand new I figured that it wouldn't hurt to have them ported and polished and I had the injectors tested and 3 were founded to be bad so I replaced them. and since I did that, I figured a new banks intercooler set up would be nice, new 5 inch exhaust, a five star torque converter, I upgraded the turbo, Airaide air filter system, and a tuner with gauges to monitor everything, I put it all back together and it runs really good this time. Then it started to miss so I didn't have time to do the work myself so I took it into ford the scanned the truck and said a couple injector were bad so they replaced them, again running great, then it started to miss and smoke so back to ford again a couple injectors are bad so they replace them, then I was on a little trip and it just died it would crank but not start so I had it towed home and found my ficm was bad so I sent it to someone and while it was there I had them do the 58 volt upgrade and when I got this back it was running great again, then it started to blow black smoke all the time so back to ford they said all the injector are over fueling and they said I had a short in the wiring harness for the motor causing everything to be messed up. so they replaced that and then when that didn't fix the problem they said it was only part of the problem and all 8 injectors need to be replaced. so now scared I decided to take it so someone else ford had about 5k of my money and I have put 8k in it myself with out my labor so money is getting to be a issue well the shop I took it to said that the injectors had to be replaced so another 4k oh and while ford had the truck and this shop they both put in a new ficm to see if that was the problem and it ran the same as with mine so we crossed that off the list?? so the truck runs good for a little it and then winter and I was having a cold start problem the truck would start but would blow greyish black smoke and a could not go without it stalling until it warmed up, after it was warm no problem no smoke tons of power but as soon as I let it sit for 30 minutes or more I would have to start all over with the smoke and stalling until warm. so back to the place that replaced the injectors because it had less than a thousand miles on it and the codes were saying the injectors were bad again, oh and I thought that the cold start was do to the ficm because that's what I gathered from reading here so I replaced the ficm with a new stock one course that didn't help so it has been at the shop since March and they are completely stumped they put in a new set of injector and the show bad immediately please help
wow...why would it blow injectors that often. I see you had one of the wiring harnesses replaced..but has anyone checked the fuel injector harness? How does the fuel pressure look? Then I would think the next question would be in what condition is your high pressure system in? To just keep blowing injectors in mind boggling. They are picky on pressure though. Because its harder to start after it sits for a bit, sort of has me thinking you have an oil pressure issue. My truck was doing the same thing so I sent out the FICM to be repaired..then found out my HPOP bearing blew out, so I had to take it out to plug it up.
Without tearing into it trying to throw parts in every direction, should be able to hook up a scan tool and get your ICP and IPR readings. That should at least tell you if you do have a high pressure oil leak somewhere..which could definitely cause injector issues. But the injectors showing bad immediately...has me thinking it might be something with the electrical system. What code was it giving? Was it High Circuit? Or did you have contribution codes?
the fuel injector wiring harness was replaced when it was at ford. The scan tool shows my oil pressure is good, and the fuel pump or lift pump was replaced also so the fuel pressure is good. and maybe I wasn't clear it starts right up but it smokes and if I try to step on the accelerator I hear loud injector knock and it then stalls, it smells like it is running real rich, like the choke was on in a gas motor? As soon as it warms up which is 20 to 30 minutes it runs great, I am so confused as is the shop that its at they have called ford engineers and they want to keep throwing parts at it and I cant afford it anymore. I love this truck but I wish I hadn't put all this money into it.
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Flickr and You, Part 4: Case Study - John Dohrn
Not even old enough to vote yet, John Dohrn has already built an impressive collection of striking insect photos. Clearly he has both a good working knowledge of bugs and a talent for shooting them.
For the sake of this piece, we are going to go on the hypothetical assumption that John might be interested in developing a specialty in insect photography.
What are some of the things he could be doing now, as a teenager, to better position himself for that future? If you are an aspiring bug photographer, you'll probably be interested in this case study. But on the off chance that you are not, I hope you will find some of the lateral thinking useful in developing your own strengths as a photographer.
After all, we are in an era increasingly geared toward specialist photographers. Specialist anything, actually. In a world where you can easily find someone who is an expert in any niche of a niche, why would you hire a generalist?
So I am going to use John and bugs as an example.
One Possible Strategy
The first thing I would do would be to lose the arty signatures embedded within the photos. Very "Buck's County Arts and Crafts Show," IMO. You want to be aiming higher than that. If you feel you must stick your name into the image area, make it very small, in a bottom corner, with a "©" symbol (created with an option "g").
As we have discussed earlier, John obviously should be making use of Flickr's metadata (tags) to help people find his photos. This would probably be more helpful to him than even to Sara Lando, given the taxonomic nature of John's tiny subjects.
A series of tags that start with John's name and drill down with increasing specificity would be simple to construct for each of his bug shots:
"John Dohrn"
category, (i.e. fly, butterfly, ant, etc.)
genus and species
any ancillary info specific to the photo
John, by the way, is totally into bugs and is well-equipped to provide this information.
As with Lando, his profile should explain his capabilities and provide contact info, without being so overt as to upset the Flickr Gods.
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But what are some of the things he could be doing as a photographer to build a library that could have significantly more commercial value in the future?
In the same way that I learned from the experiences of photographer Ken Jarecke on an AOL message board 15 years ago I want to take a look at John's work from another direction.
First, the biggest negative for John: He is young and very inexperienced as a photographer.
Now, the biggest positive: He is young and very inexperienced as a photographer.
A little flippant, maybe. But the important thing to realize is that young John, who is already making some killer photos, likely has more of the most precious commodity (time) than most any photographer reading this post. As a teenager, he already has a good knowledge of his subjects, some strong photographic skills and a passion for bugs.
Ten years from now, John could be parked at a computer screen in a nondescript office park evaluating insurance claim forms Or he could be sitting on a very valuable catalog of macro insect shots, and shooting new bug assignments all the time.
Thinking strategically at this point and planning for the long term could make a huge difference in John's future.
The very first thing I would do is to start to consider the commercial potential of various insects when deciding what I would shoot. Who uses bug photos? And for what purpose?
Putting aside for the moment that fact that insects are beautiful and amazing creatures and they will eventually dance on our graves, our primary focus (as a society) is to consider them as pests.
To that end, were I John I would begin to build a library of the usual suspects: Roaches, ants, mosquitos, etc.
Why? Because that's where the money is. And those insects would be popular search choices for people looking to buy (or assign) photos of bugs.
And given the current worrying trend of disappearing honeybees and the drastic effects this might have on our food supply, I would be making friends with a beekeeper, too. Maybe locusts, too, if they continue to ravage subsaharan Africa.
Sure, John would rather be shooting beautiful, more exotic insects. And there is no reason why he should not be doing that. But you have to think about the bread-and-butter of your genre, and consider picking the low-hanging fruit first.
I would consider a two-pronged strategy: Shoot the glamour bugs for show and the pests for dough. That is to say, wow people with your exotic shots so that will choose you for the bread-and-butter stuff.
In terms of logistics, John's area of expertise has a nice little benefit in that his subjects are very small and easy to ship. So he would want to have a good knowledge of any supply houses that can produce insects on demand for a given species. Obviously, he would have to be mindful of potential issues with invasive species when shipping the bugs, but it is possible to get around that sort of thing with the right permits and paperwork.
Better yet, John could use his photographic specialty to rationalize - and deduct the expenses for - travel to some wonderfully exotic destinations. Think of what two weeks in the cloud forests of Costa Rica could do for his portfolio.
Another advantage of John's age: No family commitments to preclude travel. And when he gets to college, he should buddy up to the bug-studying profs and grad students. This will start to integrate him into the insect-centric community.
And those guys travel all the time. John could be a valuable addition to an expedition. He should just make sure he keeps the resale rights to the photos.
Baaack, backbackback... Gone.
So, he builds a library with a nod to commercial and artistic value, develops relationships with suppliers and tries to position himself near bug-watchers. All of these things are hit-for-average approaches, and tend to increase his odds of success.
But what about the long ball? What would be John's equivalent of a walk-off home run?
I would submit that given John's early skill, subject familiarity and technical knowledge, he should always be working on discovering a totally new way to photograph bugs. Why? Because this is the kind of thing that can make a career and amp the value of his entire catalog at the same time.
If the technique is killer and visually distinctive enough, it could obsolete all of the gazillion pre-existing bug shots out there.
What would the technique be? Where would the idea come from?
Who knows.
But if I had to guess, I think it would most likely come from another "small-things" photography area that has nothing to do with bugs. So I would be studying macro photographers in other genres. Ditto video techniques, electron microscope photographic techniques, etc. And I would RSS the photo stream of every single hot-shot bug shooter on Flickr, too.
You are just looking for the one, little idea that sparks a big technical or creative discovery. Someone could stumble onto the partial idea that unlocks John's epiphany without even knowing it.
These kinds of paradigm-shifting events happen all of the time, and not just in photography, either. But they tend to happen to people who have a systematic approach to exploring all of the techniques that do not work until they hit on the one that does. People who work hard tend to get lucky.
I would love to discover a completely novel lighting look. Maybe I am weird, but I give that kind of thing some serious thought on a regular basis.
So John would want to be very creative in his approach to the technical side, all the while doing the hit-for-average stuff with respect to subject matter. So if he did stumble upon something groundbreaking, all of the other pieces of the puzzle woud already be in place.
Working toward a goal in a disciplined way like this can be the difference between having an interesting hobby to go with your boring, white-collar job or having an amazing, passion-based career that others only dream about.
And even if he never finds the techique that totally changes the world of insect photography, he will still create a far more interesting - and valuable - collection of photos than if he had just gone about his mission is a haphazard way. Which, honestly, is what the vast majority of people spend their lives doing.
Whatever you hope to accomplish with your photography or anything else, there will never be a better time to analyze your goals (and develop a comprehensive strategy to reach them) than right now. After all, what is going to be so different about you in five years?
Start now, and you could be five years closer to the things you most want to do by then. If you're not doing them already.
I hope you'll forgive the hard right-hand turn I took with this last article in the series. I had every intention of just continuing the pattern that was established earlier. But as I thought about John's potential, the ideas became less about Flickr and more about the lateral and upstream thinking process.
And I strongly believe that a systematic, integrated approach really ups your chances of success, no matter what you goal might be. To bring things full circle, leveraging these techniques with a conscious Flickr strategy could prove a powerful combination.
Obviously, I realize that very few of you have any interest in shooting bugs. But I hope that John's example might spark you to think about your own goals in a more expanded way. Be they photographic goals or something entirely different.
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In this photo taken Monday Nov. 25, Steve Rigione sets up a gambling table at Rockingham Park in Salem, N.H. As new Hampshire lawmakers consider legalizing a commercial casino the charities that rely on charity gambling, like Rockingham Park, fear a big-name gambling hall would take crucial revenue from there fundraising efforts. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)
SALEM, N.H. (AP) — As New Hampshire debates legalizing a commercial casino, the charities that rely on games of chance to raise millions of dollars every year worry that a big-name gambling hall would siphon off crucial revenue for the services they provide.
The 35 percent payout to charities after deducting prizes ranges from a few thousand dollars from a poker room operating three days a week to more than $60,000 from 10 days at Rockingham Park racetrack in Salem.
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I just bought my 1996 F350 Crew Cab long box 7.3 turbo diesel, 247K. This truck was originally a gasser that was converted to 97 7.3. Some issues that I need to resolve. Truck was a California truck so no rust at all. However that being said it also does not have the block heater plug, which in WV I will need. Cruise doesn't work, no horn (which makes me think the steering wheel was replaced or removed). When I bought it I flew from WV to CA and picked it up. Shortly thereafter found it bogged down on long slow incline. So, before I left CA my niece who works for Extreme4x4 in Santee Ca. set me up with a mechanic. Turns out there was a couple of air leaks. After a couple of days and $525 dollars I was ready to road trip it back to WV. 2505 mile shake down cruise. Total investment to this point $5100. First thing I noticed was a jet like wind up noise when accelerating. I was told there was a part in the turbo that made this sound and that it could be replaced. What is it? and is it a DIY fix? I read tons of posts on this Forum prior to buying the truck over a 8 month period, I appreciated all the good info and good people that I came across. I hope this is the begining of my life as a 7.3 man.
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That jet noise is when cold right?
Can you make a point form list of the issues that need to be resolved so it's easier to digest?
Block heater goes into the oil filter housing just about the oil filter, points out toward driver's side. You sure there is no block heater or maybe a plug you can pull out to install one?
Yes, the noise you are hearing and lack of power is likely the Exhaust Back Pressure Valve aka EBPV. Easiest thing to do is just unplug it. Two wire plug right down from and slightly in front of the turbo intake. Can trouble shoot it later if that's the issue.
As far as the cruise and horn...well obviously there has been some serious monkeying with the electronics/wiring during the conversion so lord knows what the problem may be. There are a few guys around here that know wayyyy more than they should about that stuff that may be able to help you sort it out.
First, you are a brave man flying that far to buy a converted truck like that.
Second, I hope it turns out to be a great truck and welcome to the addiction
second what JJ said. you can pull the horn pad and see what is there. cruise should be easy to resolve and he block heater is probably there you just need a cord which are readily available and easily installed
Yes, the noise you are hearing and lack of power is likely the Exhaust Back Pressure Valve aka EBPV. Easiest thing to do is just unplug it. Two wire plug right down from and slightly in front of the turbo intake. Can trouble shoot it later if that's the issue.
The power issue was resolved with the repairs prior to leaving CA. The noise is not related to power other than it sounds like a jet engine when accelerating. I don't know how else to describe it, the guy I bought it off said that it was in the turbo and that there was a part (he called it a ringer?) that could be replaced to get rid of the noise. I guess some people like that old diesel bus sound, I am not one.
It's a butterfly valve, and do you have an intake and exhaust already? That could also be the whistle sound you hear, another thing is that if its from California, and the motor came from a 97 that I'm assuming also came from California, I'm going with the assumption you have a Cali model motor and 120cc split shot injectors, a blue stick on the pass side valve cover would be an easy way to spot this
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Original Post: In his first year in North America, Mats Zuccarello scored 6 goals and 17 assists with the Rangers last season and 13 goals and 16 assists in 36 games with the Whale last season.
Zuccarello was sent to Hartford from training camp last season, called up on December 22nd, sent down on December 23rd, called up on December 26th, sent down on April 1, called up on April 8 and then sent down on April 18th.
John Tortorella talked to the media about Zucc after the conditioning tests yesterday :
I thought it was a tremendous year for him, and I liked the way he handled himself, coming over here, playing in the big rinks, really, I thought a little bit overwhelmed early on. As I said to you guys last year when we sent him down, he knew. He didn't put up a fight. He self-assessed the proper way, went down and played, came to us and really, he had an impact as far as us getting in (the playoffs), especially in the shootout. Again, the second year comes along, he understands us better, we understand him better, and you're always looking for consistency. He knows where he's at. He knows where he's fighting to try to get a job, and he knows he's in a fight."
I don't' think that the transition from Europe to North America, for a player of his size, can be overstated. He played a full season, split between the two leagues, playing on North American rinks in a North American style. Hopefully he has adjusted and can better utilize his skill set and play at a more consistent level this season. I see his best role being on the right side of Derek Stepan. The two of them worked well last season and should get the chance to play together again.


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New Hawk Gustavo Ayón scored 24 points and pulled down 12 rebounds to help Mexico's Cinderella story continue at the FIBA Americas Championship. Mexico beat Argentina 76-70 to advance to the championship game and will play Puerto Rico Wednesday at 8 p.m. ET. Ayón also added three assists for the Mexican team, which has already... »
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Mexico didn't even qualify for the FIBA Americas Championship this year but was added as a replacement team when Panama got suspended. Now they're headed to the biggest international basketball tournament in the world. Gustavo Ayón had a quiet game, playing just 11 minutes and scoring just five points, but it was enough to help... »
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New Atlanta Hawk Gustavo Ayón scored 19 points to help Mexico to a 100-89 win over Jamaica in the FIBA Americas Championship Saturday, putting Mexico in position to improbably qualify for next year's World Cup in Spain. Currently tied for second in the eight-team group, Ayón's team needs only a win over Puerto Rico or a... »
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Congress passed the Consumer Products Safety Improvement Act in 2008, lowering the allowable limits of Pb in paint and substrate materials in children's products to 90 mg/kg. While these limits start to go into effect later this year, proper enforcement of the regulations will be difficult due to the problem of measuring the sheer volume of products produced and imported into the United States. One feasible method is to quickly screen many samples and send possible noncompliant samples for further, time-intensive analysis. A technique of quickly and effectively screening sample involves the use of handheld X-ray fluorescence (XRF) instruments. Unfortunately, partially due to the lack of available reference materials, the performance of such devices is unknown across the wide variety of paints and substrates. In collaboration with the Consumer Product Safety Commission, NIST has undertaken a study of the ability of current XRF technology to analyze Pb-containing coatings and an investigation of appropriate reference materials containing Pb near the regulatory limits.
NIST has produced paint reference materials in the past, such as SRM 2579a, which was targeted at mitigation of Pb paint in houses. However, these reference materials covered levels of Pb two to three orders of magnitude higher than limits for children's toys, pushing the limits of many handheld XRF instruments. The problem of measuring Pb in coatings such as paint is compounded by the wide variety of paint types used and drastically different substrates such as wood, plastic, and metals. The substrates, governed by a different set of regulatory levels, may also contain Pb, leading to the problem that fluorescence from the Pb present must be separated from that produced by the substrate versus that produced by the paint coating. In many cases, paint layers on such items are well below 100 µm in thickness, with high variability across a toy's surface. This work shows examples of analysis of Pb-containing paint layers by XRF, with discussion of some of the spectroscopic, material, and other complexities that must be overcome to ensure high quality reference materials are produced.
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Sequels are never meant to better than the original, but it seems the creators behind the Shit Girls Say twitter account have managed to defy that with the release of their second YouTube video. Completely genius.
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By Macarena Miranda in Video on Wednesday 14 December 2011
The genius team behind the popular Twitter account @ShitGirlsSay have finally brought out a video, and as expected, it is every bit as accurate and hilarious as their feed suggests. Toronto-based filmmaker Graydon Sheppard and his partner Kyle Humphrey created the humorous account for laughs, and now along with pal Juliette Lewis, the pair has […]
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By Bridget Barnett in Video on Wednesday 25 July 2012
Shit Fashion Girls Say has released yet another hilarious parody. In this new video, the creators have roped in hot commodities fashion designer, Stella McCartney, singer Rebecca Black ,and blogger Leandra Medine (from The Man Repeller fame) to help poke fun at fashion girls who are addicted to their Twitter, Intragram, Pinterest, and Tumblr accounts. […]
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Shit Girls Say is at it again, this time with Shit OscarPRgirl says, which pokes fun at the PRs who work at prestigious fashion house, Oscar de la Renta. Check out the Twitter feed (@oscarprgirl) to see some original content, which includes Tweets such as 'I just met with a man who had the chicest mohawk'.
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By Bridget Barnett in Video on Wednesday 22 February 2012
Bang in the middle of Fashion Week season, it seems only fitting Shit Girls Say would come out with some new one-liners which are typical of the fashion pack. I have overheard at least half a dozen of these lines repeated in the last 24 hours. Spot on.
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The Shit People Say meme has been pretty amusing, but this video by Franchesca Ramsey is not only the funniest, it also sparked a really good discussion about racism. Check out this article about it in Clutch magazine.
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Well, well, well. What is there to say about Groovin' The Moo? As you should know by now it's Australia's ONLY regional touring music festival, which means one thing: highly excitable punters. I arrived super early (which I never do to festivals) to catch one of my favourite Sydney bands FISHING. The duo opened up […]
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With the special Lost At E Minor party going down in Sydney tomorrow night, we've been looking through this year's 'Best Of' to pick out the most stunning images that we've all enjoyed so much to share on the walls of the venue. Each image below is linked to the original post. We hope you enjoy as much as we did, and if you think we've missed any, let us know.
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David Hollenbach makes collaged paintings for editorial illustrations, or as his dad (loosely paraphrased) says, 'He takes that crap magazines sell, rips it up and sells their shit right back to them'. If you like moody 'crap' that looks effortlessly dreamed into being, then Hollenbach's work is a must-see.
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Parker '99 percent' sure 2010 is his last year of football
CLEMSON - Last month, Dabo Swinney said he was treating 2010 like Kyle Parker's "senior year" of college football.
Thursday night, Parker made it all but official. Two days after signing a pro baseball contract with the Colorado Rockies that included a $1.4 million signing bonus, Clemson's sophomore quarterback said this is likely his final season of college football.
"I have a clear understanding with coach Swinney and me that this is 99 percent probably my last year of playing football here," Parker said after practice. "There's probably definitely a great chance I'd end up playing baseball only as a career. I signed this (contract) with the intent of playing baseball."
Logistics would make it nearly impossible for Parker to continue his Clemson career beyond this year, even if he wanted to. To maintain his college eligibility, he must pass at least 18 hours of classes, which would be difficult considering his football schedule this fall and spring training beginning in February.
"I got the best of both worlds," Parker said. "I get to come back here and hopefully play on an awesome team every Saturday and enjoy the experience, and be one semester closer to my education."
While this will likely be his final season collegiately, Parker still must choose between baseball and a possible NFL career. As a third-year sophomore who set Clemson freshman records in touchdowns, yardage and completions last fall, he'll be NFL draft eligible next spring and could choose to gauge his stock at the NFL scouting combine.
"Honestly, I don't know right now," Parker said of a two-sport choice. "I wouldn't be back playing (football) if I didn't think I wasn't any good or there wasn't any future for me, but is it going to outweigh my baseball future? I don't know yet.
"Hopefully I can sit back at the end of this season, look at it and make an evaluation. If not, I'll go play baseball and be the happiest person in the world doing that."
Swinney didn't seem bothered by Parker's declaration Thursday; he said he was simply relieved on July 20 when Parker turned down a baseball-only deal and returned for 2010 (Parker said the Rockies didn't offer another baseball-only deal and said their offer "wasn't significantly more" than the contract he signed).
"I don't think July 20 was the biggest decision that's going to be coming Kyle Parker's way," Swinney said. " I think the biggest decision is in front of him. That's a really good thing for Clemson because I'd say he's very motivated to have a good year, and continue to improve his stock, his leverage and his options."
Football remains a major motivator for Parker, but he spoke highly of the faith the Rockies had placed in him, too.
"Obviously right now I wouldn't be here if I didn't want to play football," he said. "That's what I told them, and I wouldn't be signing with them unless I wanted to play baseball. I still have tons of options open. I'm excited that I have that path created for me in that organization, that values me as a first-round pick and wants to do everything I can to get me to the highest level."
Parker said he didn't sign until 11:55 p.m. with "a lot of heavy language, indecision. It was pretty intense."
In a draft where 16 of 32 first-round picks didn't sign until Monday, that was par for the course.
"All the first-rounders, they were going through the same thing I went through," Parker said. "But there's so much time (after the draft), you're like, 'Why do you have to cram it down to the last two hours?' That's the way it is."
Right now, Parker is "the same broke college student I was." He'll receive part of his bonus very soon and part in the future, to protect the Rockies from his simply taking the whole sum and going to the NFL.
"I'm happy these doors opened," he said, "and someone invested in me to be a professional."
Noted: Thursday also marked defensive end Da'Quan Bowers' first day back at practice after a week and a half absence following the sudden death of his father. "It was a tough process, because me and my father were so close," Bowers said. "But the fans and my teammates and coaches have been so supportive. They came down, visited with me (for the visitation) in Bamberg, and nothing has ever touched my heart like that."….Swinney said that tailback Rod McDowell (concussion) would likely return next week… He said that cornerback Marcus Gilchrist has the edge over a number of players to be the No.1 punt and kick returner.


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Seth, who's styled Jasmine V, Angela Lindvall, Brit Morgan and Shay Mitchell, tells TooFab to expect a definite change this year. "The fashions over the past few years at the Golden Globes have been very subdued. We saw a lot of neutrals, blacks, and earth tones. This year, however, the flowers are in bloom! We can expect brights to shower the carpet."
Adds Seth, who's blogged for Gap, "As well as strong tones, we can expect to see asymmetrical necklines, a little bit of flash with sequins and metalics, strapless dresses. Long sleeves were also all over the runways of Europe this season, so we can expect to see that on the carpet as well. We can also expect the dresses to be much more ethereal and almost dreamlike--lots of silk and chiffon in a much more feminine and fairy tale-like silhouette."
So which style-savvy celebs should we keep on our radar at this year's Golden Globes? "The big ones to watch for on the carpet this year," says Seth, "will be Natalie Portman (above, middle)--look for an empire waist dress, as she may have a little baby bump!--Halle Berry, Sophia Vergara (above, right) and Anne Hathaway"
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Hi all. I just registered for these forums today. I just started snowboarding about 2 months ago, and I am loving it. I can already do some rails 180s carve quite well do ground 180s and whatnot. There are two things I have wanted advice on if anyone could shed some light that would be great
. The first is I am 15, 5'8 and 120 pounds. Around average height although not near fully grown, although I have size 11 feet so I am in extra large bindings. I have a burton operator (just got it and I love it!) it is 158 which I know is too big for my weight but I dont really feel a difference so I dont mind it. Im just wondering because I do not have the wide version of the board will my feet be a big problem? The other is just some advice on spinning 360s. I like to turn to my right again I am goofy? Im not sure if its backside or frontside because I was told that is frontside but when I skateboard that would be called a backside. I am just looking for general advice especially on getting the height and rotation.
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Grab a pair of old jeans and let's make a garden toolbelt. I used a pair of women's jeans, but any size will work.
Then take a scrap piece of material and fold it in half. Make sure it is big enough to cover the blue jean piece.
Place the folded edge right below the belt of the jeans. Pin in place. This will create the apron side.
Top stitch starting right below the belt where you pinned the apron piece. You don't want to sew the opening for the belt closed. Sew all the way around using the blue jean piece as a guide. I just lined up my foot on the edge of the blue jeans.
You can see in the photo above where I started and stopped sewing. Trim the apron piece so that both pieces are even all the way around.
Sew a line down the middle of the two pieces to create two pockets on the apron side. I sewed with the blue jean side up so that I wouldn't run into anything that might break my needle. I also used a denim needle for sewing the toolbelt.
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We are not slumlords
Let me begin by saying that I am married to a "slum landlord" and I do take issue with what was stated in a recent Sound Off.
I would like to ask this person if he or she can imagine how hard some "slum landlords" have worked in order to purchase rental properties in the hopes that the income from them will help in their retirement years only to find that, with the downturn in our economy, it is barely worthwhile.
Why? Because it is a rarity when someone moves out without owing two to three months rent. Why? Because the courts give these deadbeats way too much time to vacate a rental and then it takes two weeks to clean out the filth left by the former tenants, who leave without paying their utilities or even picking up the garbage that they leave behind. Walls kicked in, plumbing disabled, stoves so filthy they have to be replaced, animal smells everywhere, commodes un-flushed, and I could go on and on.
Believe me, one reason they are "slum landlords" is that the people living in their rentals live like slummy people.
Once upon a time, we could rent to people who had pride in the way they lived but, alas, that seems to be a thing of the past, and resentment toward the person to whom they should pay their rents is what results in comments such as those in the Sound Off.
It is hard, hard work being a landlord, and the only things we ask is that they take care of the properties and that they pay their rents when due. Why is that so difficult to understand?
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Aintree trust to assess nursing staff levelsAintree University Hospitals Foundation Trust has launched a month-long study to assess nursing staff levels.
B12's effects on gestational diabetes investigatedOne of the UK's leading medical research facilities is to launch the second phase of its research into the effects of vitamin B12 on pregnant women.
Call for nurses to teach Buteyko asthma techniqueNurses should be encouraged to teach asthma sufferers the Buteyko breathing technique (BBT), according to a leading medical expert.
Double number under North East teenagers receiving treatment for alcohol abuseTwice as many young people living in the North East of England receive treatment for alcohol problems compared with the rest of the country, a study has found.
Drawing test can predict risk of death following first strokeA simple drawing test can predict the long-term risk of dying after a first stroke among older men, research has found.
Fertility treatment could raise birth defect riskFertility treatment raises the risk of birth defects in babies, the largest study of its kind has found.
How can I best support grieving relatives and carers?What can you do to ensure that privacy and dignity is maintained? Learn from this practice article
'I vote that nurses celebrate all that is good about student training'Ever thought (or worse told) a student that training was better/tougher/more useful in your days as a trainee nurse?
Induced birth 'reduces risk of infant death'Researchers have suggested that babies who are induced have less risk of dying.
Is it time to set minimum nurse staffing levels in English hospitals?In this Policy+, we look at the impact mandated minimum nurse staffing levels have had in other countries and consider current guidelines and recommendations.
More midwives could work in communityNew changes to the way maternity care is funded could see increased numbers of NHS midwives working in the community.
Most people prefer to die where they live but 50% die in hospitalA range of studies that look into the patterns of death in England have been pulled together into one report.
Nearly three quarters people with osteoarthritis in constant painBritain is facing a "tsunami" of pain as the number of osteoarthritis cases soars in the future, a leading expert has warned.
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Personal care at the end of life and after deathNew guidance gives nurses clear advice on care surrounding death
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About Possibility of Development Synergetic Processes in Semiconductors of Type AIIIBV
Possibility of development of processes of selforganization in the semiconductors of type AIIIBV grown up by Chohralsky method in which there are no single vacancies because all of them are combined in complexes of type shallow donor + vacancy has been shown. At small homogeneous heating of such samples these complexes break up and periodic distribution of vacancies along the sample appearances. Thus, internal isotype potential barriers are formed. Because of division of created by action of temperature the non-equilibrium carriers by these barriers synergetic current and (or) voltage generate. These theoretical ideas are confirmed by experiments on gallium arsenide doped by tellurium and gallium arsenide doped by tin.
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I think the question was, if we're supposed to be "full of light", then how can we have faith? Faith requires darkness, otherwise it's certainty. Faith and certainty are nt the same, because certainty implies solid reason without doubt, and faith implies tests and trials.
Therefore, if there is no darkness within to test us, how can it be faith? I think that's the point of this thread.
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Light, man, the devil.
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More than anything, William wants a doll. "Don't be a creep," says his brother. "Sissy, sissy," chants the boy next door. Then one day someone really understands William's wish, and makes it easy for others to understand, too.
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Charlotte Zolotow is a revered name in children's literature. She is a prolific, much-honored author with over seventy titles published, including the classic Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present,illustrated by Maurice Sendak, and the groundbreaking William's Doll, illustrated by William PÉne du Bois.
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Ring tone Craze Ringtones of all Shapes and Sizes
Ringtone Rage
Ringtones, ringtones, ringtones…you can just hear all types of ringtones anywhere.
All types of mobile phones, all colors, all themes, and wallpapers—that is how diverse mobile phones have become, it just goes to show how the mobile phone industry has now become.
Look left, look right, look behind you, in front of you, you will see almost everyone holding a mobile phone in their hand, or on a sling by their neck. You would even rarely see a mobile phone in one's pocket, as everyone just keeps clicking away or talking to someone on the phone.
For the older generation, they would say this new technology would have a negative and positive impact on one's life.
That may be true, and yet, most people would also say that there are more advantages to having this modern equipment in our lives these days.
One thing that makes a mobile phone unique to a person is its capability to its personality. Most times, should you see a mobile phone, and scrutinize it, you would be able to say that this particular mobile phone is really "Tanya's". By looking at a phone, you are able to determine by its feel and appearance, that it is customized to a person's liking and preference.
All the more should you hear that phone ring.
Personally, allowing one's self to choose a ring tone for a specific person in your contact list is a very big difference.
During busy times in the office, one the phone rings a specific tone, I know when to ignore it, and make sure to contact that person on a later time, when I am not too busy, or pick up and answer the phone, should a specific ring tone buzz me for a call.
The power of technology, allows me not to limit my ring tones to those that are pre installed in my handset, but, when attaching the phone to the computer, it permits me to choose specific songs for person A, movie tunes for person B, and so on. The list is positively endless.
There is really no more limitation these days.
Should you want an opera song for Daddy, you can go ahead and download Beethoven's song.
Should you wish for a love song for Mommy, the net is full of songs to choose from.
If you want a pop dance tune for your sister, you can surely get this from a lot of sites online.
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PAWTUCKET – Terry Doyle's 2013 minor-league season featured as much shuffling as a blackjack dealer.
The 27-year-old Warwick resident spent the first three months with the Pawtucket Red Sox, where he started 11 times and made seven appearances in relief, before getting transferred to Portland on July 5.
Doyle went on to spend the rest of the summer in the Double-A ranks, starting 10 games. He rejoined the PawSox on the eve of the Governors' Cup playoffs and was a bystander during the first-round series against Rochester. But for the finals against Durham, Doyle was recalled to action for Pawtucket, coinciding with the summoning of Allen Webster to Boston.
It wasn't the first time Doyle's fate was intertwined with the organization's transactions of its high-ceiling pitching prospects. In July, his PawSox spot went to 24-year-old Drake Britton, who is similar to Webster, 23, in that both are viewed as building blocks of future Boston pitching staffs.
In essence, Doyle's caravan through the upper tiers of the Red Sox' farm system did more than put additional strain on his car. He had a front row seat to an organizational wave that was awash with so much pitching upside that one conclusion became fairly obvious – the opportunity cupboard for a career minor leaguer looking for work with Boston was bare.
"Coming into the organization last year, I knew they had a couple of prospects who were going to be in Portland between Britton, (Matt) Barnes, (Anthony) Ranaudo and (Brandon) Workman, but I didn't realize how good those guys were and how good the guys in Triple A were in Webster and (Rubby) De La Rosa," said Doyle when reached recently. "It's a bright future, for sure. The depth the Red Sox have with their pitching is amazing. You've got eight potential big-league pitchers between Triple and Double A that it's only a matter of time before they reach the top."
The typical Triple-A rotation is a mix of experienced veterans and youngsters on a fast track to the majors, but this season's Pawtucket Red Sox could end up heavily stocking up on one critical ingredient as opposed to barely batting an eyelash in the other's direction. The PawSox's past strategy of stocking up on minor-league free agents, such as those walking a career path similar to Doyle's, appears to be on hold this season, as well as possibly next.
"With free agency, guys take a look at that," said Doyle, who ended up signing a minor-league deal with the White Sox, the same franchise that selected him out of Boston College in 2008. "The Red Sox have those homegrown guys with so much ability that it's going to defer guys with less talent to signing with them such as myself."
With spring training right around the corner, the possibility of the PawSox featuring an exclusively prospect-driven rotation seems to be gaining traction. The best evidence for that observation is to look at the paucity of journeyman starting pitchers the Red Sox have signed this winter.
One player Boston came to terms with is John Ely, a 27-year-old former Pacific League Coast Pitcher of the Year who did not toss a single inning last season after undergoing Tommy John surgery. Ely has made 133 appearances spanning seven minor-league seasons, 131 coming in a starting role. Given the right-hander's situation, the Red Sox could end up stashing him in extended spring training with an eye toward giving him additional time to re-build his strength.
Other than Ely and 27-year-old Cuban signee Dalier Hinojosa, the pitchers inked by the Red Sox this winter appear better suited to work out of the bullpen. Two fresh recruits, Tommy Layne and Shunsuke Watanabe, could end up joining forces with familiar faces and holdovers such as Alex Wilson, Chris Hernandez, Brayan Villarreal, Chris Hernandez and Rich Hill.
The Red Sox seem to feel that their sheer abundance of pitching prospects in the high minors will alleviate their need for veteran arms, whether for duty as AAA rotation starters or in call-ups to the major-league club.
"When you bring in older guys, it's to provide major-league depth and less about filling out the Triple-A rotation. You want guys who can help the major-league team and are ready to do that early in the season," said Red Sox farm director Ben Crockett. "We hope we're in a position this season where we can use young players to fill that depth."
On paper, Pawtucket's rotation figures to include Webster, Barnes, Ranaudo, De La Rosa and knuckleballer Steven Wright. Of the group, only Barnes is not Boston's 40-man roster. And Crockett confirmed at last month's PawSox Hot Stove gathering that De La Rosa is still viewed as a starting pitcher.
"That Triple-A group is one that we hope can support the major-league team this year," Crockett said.
Of course if the Red Sox wish to return Workman and Britton to the rotation after both spent time contributing out of the bullpen at the big-league level, it's not unthinkable that both could get stretched out post-spring training in Pawtucket. It's also possible that at some point this summer, the PawSox could be rolling out the welcome mat for 21-year-old Henry Owens, yet another top-flight pitching prospect and someone who Doyle got to see up close during his Portland stint last summer.
"Henry might not be in Pawtucket until the second half of the year, but he's got unbelievable pitching ability," raved the former Red Sox minor leaguer. "He'll be there sooner rather than later."
What comes as exciting news for fans of both the Pawtucket and Boston Red Sox – that the system is stocked with a plethora of young starting pitching – can ironically be a harsh reality check for the athletes themselves, since it necessarily limits each of their own individual opportunities to make an impact.
"To get to the big leagues, it takes a lot of luck and timing. With the Red Sox, the Pawtucket rotation is absolutely going to be stacked," Doyle said. "That's a talented rotation that I'm not going to want to face if I'm an International League hitter."
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I'm looking to get into dressage (and I'm also not happy with my current saddle) and have found many places around my area that carry this saddle for quite an affordable price (college student here!). Unfortunately, many of my friends lean more toward western disciplines so I don't know anyone who has this saddle. Is it good quality?