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I got big into beer a few years back about the time that craft beer started transitioning from 12oz six-packs to the highend 22oz and 750ml packaging sizes. The price per ounce increased significantly. I wonder how much of this we might see in the bourbon world - I know that BT puts at least one of their experimental collections in this size, and I remember the Garrison Bros thread where they're putting their juice in that format as well. I guess in some ways this is happening already, like Makers cutting handles out of their supply line.
Well, why haven't most bourbons been offered in this format to start with? For lightweights like me, its a good size I'd pay a bit of a premium for. Off the top of my head, I can only think of a few higher-end bourbons in this size. Pros? Cons?
I was craving Knob Creek today but wasn't in for a bunch of it, so I was happy to see it offered this way.


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Taking a brief digression from our regularly scheduled reminiscences, I'm going to tackle a question that comes up regularly on the Creators Club forums, but which (to my surprise) I have been unable to find a comprehensive answer for on the web.
This is a simple question with a complex answer:
"How come my transparent objects are drawn in the wrong order, or parts of them are missing?"
"How come my transparent objects are drawn in the wrong order, or parts of them are missing?"
When drawing a 3D scene, it is important to depth sort the graphics, so things that are close to the camera will be drawn over the top of things from further away. We do not want those distant mountains to be drawn over the top of the building that is right in front of us!
There are three depth sorting techniques in widespread use today:
Unfortunately, all have limitations. To get good results, most games rely on a combination of all three.
Depth buffering is simple, efficient, and it gives perfect results, as long as you only draw opaque objects. But it doesn't work at all for alpha blended objects!
This is because the depth buffer only keeps track of the closest pixel that has been drawn so far. For opaque objects, that is all you need. Consider this example of drawing two triangles, A and B:
If we draw B first, then A, the depth buffer will see that the new pixels from A are closer than the ones previously drawn by B, so it will draw them over the top. If we draw in the opposite order (A followed by B) the depth buffer will see that the pixels coming in from B are further away than the ones already drawn by A, so it will discard them. In either case we get the correct result: A is on top, with B hidden behind it.
But what if this geometry is alpha blended, so B is partially visible through the translucent A triangle? This still works if we draw B first, then A over the top, but not if we draw A followed by B. In that case, the depth buffer will get a pixel from B, and notice that it has already drawn a closer pixel from A, but it has no way to deal with this situation. It's only choices are to draw the B pixel (which will give the wrong result, because it would be blending the more distant B over the top of the closer A, and alpha blending is not commutative) or it could discard B entirely. Not good!
Summary: depth buffering is perfect for opaque objects, but useless for alpha blended ones.
If the depth buffer cannot deal with drawing alpha blended objects in the wrong order, there is an easy fix, right? Just make sure we always draw them in the right order! If we sort all the objects in our scene, we can draw the more distant ones first, then the closer ones over the top, which makes sure the above example will always draw B before A.
Unfortunately, this is easier said than done. There are many situations where sorting objects is not sufficient. For instance, what if objects A and B intersect each other?
This could happen if A was a wineglass and B was a glass marble placed inside it. Now there is no correct way to sort these objects, because part of A is closer than B, but another part of it is further away.
We don't even need two separate objects to run into this problem. What about the individual triangles that make up our wineglass? For this to appear correctly, we need to draw the back side of the glass before the front side. So it is not enough just to sort by object: we really need to sort each individual triangle.
Trouble is, sorting individual triangles is very expensive! And even if we could afford that, it would still not be enough to get correct results in all situations. What if two alpha blended triangles intersect each other?
There is no possible way to sort these triangles, because we need to draw the top part of B over A, but the bottom part of A over B. The only solution is to detect when this happens and split the triangles where they intersect, but that would be prohibitively expensive.
Summary: painter's algorithm requires you to make a tradeoff when deciding what granularity to sort at. If you sort just a few large objects it will be fast but not very accurate. If you sort many smaller objects (up to the extreme case of sorting individual triangles) it will be slower but more accurate.
People tend not to think of backface culling as a sorting technique, but it is actually an important one. The limitation is that it only works for convex objects.
Consider a simple convex shape such as a sphere or cube. No matter what angle you look at it from, each screen pixel will be covered exactly twice: once by the front side of the object, then again by the back. If you use backface culling to reject triangles from the back side of the object, you are left with only the front. Tada! If each screen pixel is covered only once, you automatically have perfect alpha blending with no need to sort anything.
But of course, most games want to draw something more interesting than just a single sphere or cube :-) So backface culling alone is not an adequate solution.
Summary: backface culling is perfect for convex objects, but useless for anything else.
The most common approach:
This relies on a combination of all three sorting techniques:
The results are not perfect, but this is efficient, reasonably easy to implement, and good enough for most games.
There are various things you can do to improve the sorting accuracy:
Avoid alpha blending! The more things you can make opaque, the easier and more accurate your sorting will be. Do you really need alpha blending everywhere you are using it? If your level design calls for layer upon layer of glass windows, consider changing the design make it easier to implement. If you are using alpha blending for cut-out shapes such as trees, consider using alpha test instead, which is a binary accept/reject decision where the accepted pixels remain opaque and can be sorted by the depth buffer.
Relax, don't worry. Maybe the sorting errors aren't actually so bad? Perhaps you can tweak your graphics (making the alpha channel softer and more translucent) to make the mistakes less obvious. This is the approach used by our Particle 3D sample, which makes no attempt to sort individual particles within each cloud of smoke, but chose a particle texture that makes this look ok. If you change the smoke texture to something more solid, the sorting errors will be noticeable.
If you have alpha blended models that are not convex, maybe you could change them to make them more convex? Even if they cannot be perfectly convex, the closer they become, the fewer sorting errors will result. Consider splitting complex models into multiple pieces that can be sorted independently. A human body is nowhere near convex, but if you separate the torso, head, arms, etc, each individual piece is approximately convex.
If you have texture masks that are basically on/off cut-outs, but which include a few alpha blended pixels for antialiasing around their edges, you can use a two pass rendering technique:
At the cost of rendering everything twice, this provides 100% correct depth buffer sorting for the solid interior of each texture, plus less accurate sorting for the alpha blended fringes. It can be a good way to get some antialiasing around the edges of texture cut-outs, while still taking advantage of the depth buffer to avoid having to manually sort individual trees or blades of grass. We used this technique in our Billboard sample: see the comment and effect passes in Billboard.fx.
Use a z prepass. This is a good technique if you want to fade out an object that would normally be opaque, without seeing through the near side of the object to other parts of itself. Consider a human body, viewed from the right. If this was made of glass you would expect to see through the right arm to the torso and left arm. But if it is a solid person in the process of fading out (maybe they are a ghost, or being teleported, or respawning after being killed) you would expect to see only the translucent right arm, plus the background scenery behind it, without the torso or left arm being visible at all. To achieve this:
Really great article. Thank you!
Have to agree with Tryz.
Informative, clear and useful! Thanks Shawn. :¬)
Thanks for treating this topic, I can never find any clear information on it. Now my intuition has been confirmed - there's no "perfect" method for doing arbitrary translucency blending.
Thank you very much. Youd did fix my bug!
It was very helpful in understanding the concept of depth buffer in XNA.
I'm quite late to the party, but I have a question about the sorting itself (for the Painter's Algorithm). Do we use List.Sort(IComparer<T>) for that? Is it the best function to apply this principle?
DragonSix: you could use any of the many .NET sort functions, or implement your own sort. It really depends how you store these objects. If they are in a list, List.Sort would be a good way to sort them. If they are in an array, use Array.Sort. If they come from a LINQ query, use the LINQ sorting feature, etc.
I made .FBX model in Autodesk Maya. This model contain of bones which are drawn in wrong order. Can I sort bones in Model.Bones collection? Or I could organize every bone to separate object?
This assumes that you can actually control the order in which things are drawn. Yes, mesh1 and mesh2 as completely separate objects can be drawn in whatever order you want. But Mesh1 with multiple parts can't be. If you have a mesh with alpha blended textures (say DDS or PNG) with a gradient alpha channels (something between 0 and 1) that need to render on top of the other mesh parts, then you're hosed. The removal of Renderstates has completely borked the ability to do that.
Of course, if you want to sort geometry you need to split into pieces as fine grained as whatever level you want to sort it at. If you plan to sort at the individual triangle level (which will be crazy expensive, but is sometimes necessary for rendering complex translucent) then you need to be drawing individual triangles rather than meshes which each contain large numbers of triangles.
This has nothing to do with any particular graphics API or XNA version - it's just how computer graphics rendering works.
XNA 4.0 didn't remove renderstates, it just changed the API to use state objects. It did remove one specific renderstate, which is the alphatest feature that used to be supported in D3D versions prior to 10. But that functionality is not gone, just implemented in a different place. If you want to entirely kill pixels based on their alpha value, use the clip() intrinsic in your pixel shader, which does the exact same thing as the old DX9 alphatest renderstate.
Note that alpha test only works for binary on/off alpha. If you have fractional alpha values or gradients, you need full blending, which means you need to worry about sorting. This is true regardless of what D3D, XNA, or OpenGL version you happen to be using to implement this rendering.
If the alphatest renderstate has been moved I'd love to see a link that provides a working example of how to replace it. "Use the AlphaTestEffect" doesn't count as it only has one light, no normal map, and no specular map. There's the Stock Effects' sample, but that is so convoluted it's impossible to understand what's going on. It's also still on XNA3.1, which means it won't compile (Microsoft has already flagged a bug for that, but that doesn't help much). To add to the confusion, there are no comments in the shader code to explain anything. How does clip() know to kill a pixel but still leave the one that was behind it (because they'd be on the same mesh part)? I really can't see how clip() provides a replacement.
That said, if adding clip() to a shader is the ONLY way to achieve what was previously achievable, then there needs to be a simple yet detailed XNA alpha test specific example. I'll be happy to provide the mesh for this becuase the ones used in the current examples don't prove extreme cases.
Better yet, the frame work itself needs a replacement for the Alphatest renderstate function. Telling people to go add it to their shader is an impractical solution as I'd have to believe that the majority of people are using the stock effects (even as limiting as those are... why don't they have normal and specular map support?) so that means they don't have access to changing the shader anyway.
Thank you
> I really can't see how clip() provides a replacement.
The clip() intrinsic conditionally kills the current pixel, which prevents it from being rendered. This is exactly the same as killing a pixel through old style fixed function alpha testing, except more generic. The results are 100% identical.
> Telling people to go add it to their shader is an impractical solution as I'd have to believe that the majority of people are using the stock effects
Modern graphics programming is all about shaders, regardless of what API you choose to program with. The stock effects are intended as a simple starting point for beginners, and as a solution for more limited platforms like Windows Phone which do not support fully programmable shaders. I absolutely would expect anyone writing high end, visually detailed 3D games to learn and write their own shaders - that's really the only way to access the full power of a modern graphics API.
hi shawn
My question is:
Why is the graphics cards constructed in a way, that a programmer dont need to worry about alphablending at all. every pixel with an alpha-value <1 is a transparent one. So the graphics card can now decide according to the z-value of the pixel, how to blend this pixel with the pixel already in the backbuffer.
So as a programmer u dont have to bother about sorting your objects or even switching on/ogg the depth buffer.
> Why is the graphics cards constructed in a way, that a programmer dont need to worry about alphablending at all
How would that work?
GPU hardware isn't magic. Regardless of whether you implement something in hardware or software, you still need an algorithm to implement it, and no algorithm can do the impossible.
It would certainly be possible to create a hardware implementation of any of the techniques described in this article (and various hardware designs have done exactly that over the years) but the same strengths, weaknesses, and tradeoffs apply regardless of whether you implement them in hardware or software.
People have generally found that zbuffer is a good algorithm to implement in hardware, but geometry sorting is better done in software, so that's where most modern designs have landed.
I've applied some of your solution to my Silverlight 3D project... works perfectly... 1M kudos ^_^y.


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Snow Day Tugboat and Barges Push Through the River Ice
View of the Monongahela River and skyline from Grandview Avenue. (Stef, do you think it is smiing?)
See the path where the tug pusning the barges has cut through the ice?
Duquesne Incline in the snow. A path left where the tug and barge cut through the rivers.
Three Rivers Stadium and the Ohio River
School got called off so I went to take some photographs on the way home.
1degree and -16 windchill. I didn't stay long with my cameras.
My friends Deb and Sy live downstream along the Ohio River. They emailed me the cell phone photos they took at eye level as the tug cut through frozen Ohio River ice
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Shot through a chain-link fence.
I was in the passenger seat and I had my camera out. The 70-200 lens.
We were headed to the wedding reception from McKeesport to Greentree. (Lots of double ee)
Crossing the McKeesport-Duquesne Bridge. A truss bridge.
And there was a tugboat pushing filled barges on the Monongahela. (Monongahela means "Falling Banks")
Pushed the shutter and shot shot shot as fast as I could, no chance to change settings. Lucked out with the cables on the edge and the gull in flight. The chain link fence gives the photo a soft haze and fuzz to the sharpness.
I'd asked my friend to drive a little more slowly but everything whizzes by when you are moving and it was unrealistic to go slow on the bridge. Couldn't have done it if I were driving as there was no place to pull over. It was a squeeze.
and might as well show you the failed shots, the ones with the bridge cables, the blocking the view, the actual fence.
Photography can be exasperating. You would like to get it right.
There was no time for a turnaround, rerun, do-over.
It was the one shot that worked. Lucky day. Oh yes, at least three below that didn't.
Ohio River Barges in the Rain
Someone asked me a couple of weeks ago if I could photograph and barge and a tug. And I've been trying. When I can….Problem is, that the times I have captured it, the light is wrong, it's raining, I couldn't get access to the riverfront. Today I was at a friend's house on Neville Island and I'd asked her about the tugs and barges going by her house. ALL THE TIME she said. And they did go by, Empty, filled, just a tugboat not pulling or pushing any barges. Problem is it started to rain. And it would not stop. Trying to capture a specific scene has taught me a lot about how I photograph things.
Most of the time I see something and just photograph it. Or I think about something, have an idea and go and find it. The light might be great, the garbage has a treasure in it, the kids are ignoring me, I drive by something I just can't believe it is right there in front of me. Now- try to capture something specific. I am not as good at that assignment I've just learned. It would be as a true assignment like a National Geographic photographer. Stake it out. Camp out. Know the ins and outs. Shoot thousands of frames. Monkey around with your results. Do it again. Different time of day. Return to the scene. Try a different angle, different lens and or camera. Shoot. Shoot some more.
It isn't that I am not that serious about shooting a specific photograph, I just couldn't make it come together for this one. Exasperating and frustrating.


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Police said 29-year-old Heather Jean Fitzsimmons was crossing the street in a crosswalk. One car stopped, but 24-year-old Samantha Mansholt, who was driving a 1985 Chevy full-size Blazer didn't stop and hit the woman, killing her instantly.
Mansholt remained at the scene and cooperated, police said. She didn't show signs of impairment and police have made no arrests or issued any citations at this time, they said.
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Bruce is basically an image server. The images served are generated on the Mac side of the world and pushed through to a vanilla, unjailbroken Apple TV. Bruce currently offers two modes: a date/time/weather display that updates in real time and a screenshot mode that pushes updates to the Apple TV every few seconds.
The engine under Bruce's covers is essentially the same one that powers my AirFlick application, which allows you to push videos and photographs to Apple TV. Bruce plays a different role in that the focus isn't just on relaying pre-existing content but generating new content live.
It's not just about creating smarter screen savers (which is, basically, what the weather report option is all about) -- it's also about thinking how to publish compelling information snippets to what is, otherwise, a passive public display. It's all about pushing information to the Apple TV from the computer, rather than pulling requests by the Apple TV user. This is not an unexplored arena by any means, but for just US$99 for the Apple TV, it's a newly affordable and hackable one.
If you want to give Bruce a try, I threw a build up on my website for you to play with. I'm particularly interested in hearing from readers as to how you think the Macintosh/Apple TV relationship can grow and what kinds of rich information the Apple TV would benefit from receiving passively.
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|Pathophysiology of superficial femoral artery in-stent restenosis.
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|PMID: 24755699 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review
|Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is an emerging problem especially with aging population and increase in the incidence of diabetes and metabolic syndrome. The disease is histologically characterized by the presence of moderate to severe calcification and fibrous plaques as compared to coronary and carotid atherosclerotic disease, which are richer in necrotic core. Endovascular therapy for the superficial femoral artery (SFA), at least in the United States, has been largely limited to balloon angioplasty and stenting and these are considered safe and relatively effective therapies. However, the patency rates remain low even at one year and restenosis is a growing and challenging problem. Recently the development of newer devices, i.e., drug-eluting stent, and drug coated balloon are showing greater efficacy and are being adopted into daily practice. In this review, we will present the morphologic characteristics of the underlying SFA atherosclerotic disease and discuss in-stent restenosis and the mechanisms that may be involved in the induction of excessive smooth muscle cell proliferation and deposition of proteoglycans and collagen, that lead to restenosis.
|K Yahagi; F Otsuka; K Sakakura; O D Sanchez; R Kutys; E Ladich; F D Kolodgie; R Virmani; M Joner
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The Best of the Worst: Family Childcare Edition (Triggers -especially pg 14 onward)
My mom is a retired pediatric nurse - I trust her completely with the safety of my kids. Yes, she will give them treats, but pre-approved ones. My inlaws try to give her weird food and some things are not safe (choking hazards).
My inlaws are much older and I have always been against them babysitting since my mil told me not to have kids because she didn't want to babysit ( there was more drama about this but it is for another time ). So mil sees how often my mom sees my dd and asks why she can't babysit. My DH convinces me dd will be fine with her for an hour and a half while he had soccer and I had tae kwon do. It just isn't faaaiiiir that my mom watches dd and his doesn't, besides mil raised three boys, she will be fine. Fail on my part.
It seemed obvious to me but I did explicitly say that dd (2 at the time) was not allowed crayons on the furniture and not allowed to play with pens or markers at all.
I came home and two chairs have significant amounts of blue ink on them. She never said a word about it. I was pissed. Then after she left I found blue ink on the wall. Some dd had done from the floor, and some was four to five feet up. She had either climbed up on an antique or reach the wall or my crazy mil held her while she did it. I hope she was holding her.
DH rationalized it as mil just doesn't like to say no to dd. my response was so if she wanted to play with a knife or in traffic, what would she do?
DH agreed she would never babysit again. Any time he suggests it, I point to the blue ink on the wall. We don't care about the ink, we were lucky it was so minor, but it is just the idea that if she allowed that to happen, what else could happen?
Turns out it was ALL a spectacular act to get alone time with my DD, to be unquestioningly trusted by us. She always nodded her head and agreed with our parenting decisions to our faces, we felt like she would NEVER go against our wishes. We trusted her so much SHE was the one we had come watch our DD while DS was being born. She was the fourth person to meet and hold DS.
This past summer, as I was picking up my DD from Grandma's. DD was just turning 4 and we let her do a sleep over at MIL's while I went to a friend's bachelorette party. I asked DD to wait on the front steps while I re-installed her carseat in the back. I had left the carseat with MIL just in case they wanted to go anywhere. DD tells me "Don't worry mommy, grandma lets me ride like a big kid!" Upon further questioning I come to discover MIL had driven my DD several miles to, then from, my SFIL's place of work and had NOT used a carseat. To top it off, MIL told DD it was ok for her to ride in the passenger seat with a grown-up belt.
I confronted MIL and youngest SIL (15 turning 16) told me more of what had REALLY been going on EVERY time I turned my back over the last 4 years. MIL laughed and said "I guess it's time to start teaching DD to lie to cover up for grandma!"
Bitch WAS CO/indefinitely TO, but when she discovered she had lost our trust forever she lost it. The BSC came out in an epically kind of awful way including attempting to ruin my DH's military career.
DH and I only allow one of my closest oldest friends to babysit now when we absolutely have no choice but to get a sitter. We are perfectly fine doing date nights at home after the kids go to bed, working our schedules so at least one of us is always home, etc. it's just not worth the risk to us. I hate to think what could have happened if MIL had been in an accident. I could have lost my baby girl and never would have known all the danger she had been out in over the years until it was too late.
At least now I can be sure everything is being done to my and DH's satisfaction.
Happened another time FIL watched her. She was hiding under the bed that time, though.
Tomboy princess and monster monkey making life a little more interesting every day
As the story goes, my MIL was great and I completely trusted her with my ODD. I had some serious medical issues and due to the nature of my issues hiring a sitter was not an option unless I wanted a live-in nanny.
I first noticed that MIL had her own diaper bag. Annoying but eh, she watched her occasionally so I can see the need. Next came the competition to see who could get stuff out of thier diaper bag the fastest. Even after repeatedly telling her it wasn't necessary she continued to bring it with her (and yes, I'm married to a DuH). She added to it as well bibs, toys, silverware, etc.
Then the clothing war began. I'd dress my kids and within minutes of her watching them they'd be wearing an outfit she bought. The one I picked out would be put in a plastic bag for me to wash or she'd feed ODD something that would stain and ruin the outfit I sent her in so she'd have to change her.
As she got more possesive she then started to refuse to watch ODD at our house. We would have to bring ODD to her then visit and oh, she made dinner, we had to stay and eat. I was too weak to fight and DuH thought it was a brilliant idea.
The final straw was when she taught my ODD to call her "Momma", not even attempting to say she was saying "MawMaw" or the like. Nope, "ODD liked to call her Momma" so that was the name she was going to go by. She told this to MY OWN MOTHER and introduced herself to my neighbors as ODD's Momma. It took me 2 years to finally have the neighborhood realize I was in fact the mom, not the babysitter.
She is now on LC from and the kids. She is not allowed alone time and will never be allowed to hold DS without someone standing next to her (she believes DS is my dead FIL reincarnated).
Single momma to my loves
Years ago when my first nephew was born I was given the job of babysitter while his parents worked. I was a teenager at home with my Mom still. Looking back at that time I feel so horrible for my sister in law and the way things played out. Here is what happened to her thanks to my Mom.
Mom made a nursery - not too bad I guess since we watched him all the time. But she painted it in purple and castles and princesses and bought pink/purple toys. Little girl dresses and hung them up and then would talk about how she was going to adopt a baby girl but her grandson could use the room. (she never adopted thank goodness)
I started watching him when he was 6 weeks old. We did a trial day when he was about 4 weeks old and my Mom fed him solids. He was EBF. She fed him two jars of baby food in the span of 3 hrs we had him. Even I knew that wasn't quite right but she insisted. She continued to buy baby food and cereal and hid them. She'd feed him or have me feed him while I had him.
Baby had special clothes only for our house. I'd get him in the morning. Mom would bathe him and change his clothes with the orders that his clothes be changed back before they took him home.
I remember many times we would go to town with the baby even though they asked us not to. I know for a fact that car seat was not installed correctly at all. Back then I had no idea but now that I am an adult and a Mom I remember his little seat sliding all over the place. My Mom never seemed to grasp car seat installation because she did my little step brother's seat totally wrong too years later and I had to fix it. "But it's crueeeel to strap him in so tight!"
Mom would also swing by SIL's work when we had the baby in the car just to show her we had him but then go right through drive through without stopping so she could actually visit her child.
It was pretty messed up and probably why my SIL and Brother C/O mom when the baby was around 2. He's 10 now and has not seen him since.
Be very cautious about family for childcare.
Circumcision is a Human Rights violation. If we don't own our bodies.. what do we own? Say NO!
I knew for years I would never let my mother watch my kids. I'm the oldest of 11 kids and there were NUMEROUS occasions where I'd Coe home from work and the baby would be crawling around with a pair of scissors or a balloon in his mouth. Literally. One day I found my 10-month-old brother chewing on a balloon. I freaked out, threw it away, and then an hour later, it was back in his mouth. My shithead hoarder stepdad saw I had thrown it away and fished it back out. It ended up back on the floor, etc...
So FF a few years and my younger sister has a baby. While visiting (sis lives 3 hours away), my mom tells her "you guys go shopping, I'll stay here and watch the baby." My sister walks out with my other sister, but remembers something and goes back inside. What does she find? Her 1-year-old standing in the entry way, holding a deflated balloon. My sister tells my mom she's going to take her DD with her, and my mom throws a bitch fit. Never let mom watch her kids again.
Faith (30) + Travis (35) = Jack (12/12/11) and Edwin (7/23/14)
We do not use family for regular childcare, but my MIL did watch my kids when my husband and I went out one afternoon for a few hours. She watched them at her house, and we have told her many times to keep the kids away from her old rescued min-pin as he was obviously not happy around my active curious 2 and 3 yr olds. We constantly talk ot our kids about treating animals with respect, but they are small and haven't learned warning signs yet.
Anyway, we come back to pick up the kids and my son (3) has a mark on his face that looks like a scratch. I ask what happened and my MIL pipes in that she is so sorry, she didn't realize the dog had come in the room and my DS tried ot pick him up and got scratched. I wasn't happy, but accidents happen so we reiterated that the dog needed to stay away from the kids.
On the way home, I was talking to DS reminding him to respect puppies, and I say, "so you don't get scratched again." To which my son replied, "Mommy, "MIL's dog" didn't scratch me, she BIT me!" I was FURIOUS! My DH called her up and she tried to say she didn't see it actually happen, but then admitted she knew we'd be angry so she lied. I was pissed. Still am. MIL WILL NEVER watch our kids again. She now comes to our house to visit, but we are always here. Thankfully, MIL is quite passive and I am not, and I'm pretty sure she's scared of me, so we haven't had problems since.
So when DD was about 4 months old, DH finally convinced me to let MIL babysit so that we could have dinner out for his birthday. Since I didn't have a real reason to refuse, other than the fact I wasn't comfortable, I agreed. After all, we'd only be gone a couple of hours, so how bad could it be?
We brought frozen breast milk and explained very clearly how to prepare the bottle and told her what time LO needed to eat. We also explained that my DD would get sleepy after her bottle and that she needed to be out down to nap. DH set up the pack n' play and got everything ready for MIL. We gave instructions to PLEASE call us with any questions or if LO was upset.
DH and I had a leisurely dinner and came back about 2.5 hours later. We walk into the house to a screaming infant. I'll spare you the majority of her bullshit explanations, but basically she denied my child food because she "didn't know she took a bottle" and refused to let her sleep so that she "could visit with Grandma". I immediately nursed my hungry, exhausted baby girl while my DH packed her things and tried in vain to explain just how completely wrong she was as MIL followed him around "explaining".
She has never watched my child again. She never will. Occasionally she or another family member will suggest she should babysit, and I shut that shit down immediately. My DD is much older now, but thinking about that still upsets me.


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A Salina man is calling on the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks to ban kill traps on public hunting land to protect pets -- and people. Carson Mansfield -- a deputy Salina police chief -- watched his 20-month-old beagle die in the steel jaws of a conibear trap while
rabbit hunting near Kanopolis Lake on Feb. 14. Mansfield said his
dog, ``Bella,'' was dead within six minutes, despite his frantic
attempts to free her.
The traps are designed to kill small animals that are harvested for their fur. When he complained about the traps to state officials, he was
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Penney Logic
"Improvement merely lets you hit your numbers ... creativity is what transforms," says JC Penney CEO Ron Johnson. That was the main lesson Ron says he learned while he was at Target after gambling on introducing Michael Graves designer products.
"The math was simple," says Ron. "If I didn't sell one piece but people looked differently at the other 96 percent of products we'd win. It's always about mind share, not market share." Ron is now bringing a similar sensibility — which of course he also brought to Apple stores — to JC Penney.
The essential vision, once again, is to create "a place where the experience (is) as important as the products themselves." This apparently was as much Ron's vision at Apple stores as it was Steve Jobs's.
Among other things, Ron "persuaded Jobs to nix commissions for salespeople, arguing that they should give customers the best advice, not the advice that earns them the most." That certainly worked at Apple, where sales per square foot average $6,000. But will it work at Penney's, where sales per square foot are currently $146?
Ron Johnson, eternally an optimist, says he plans to stick with it. "What you can't do is chicken out," he says. "If you had looked at the data on the Genius Bar after a year and a half, we should have taken it out of the store ... There's no reason to sell an idea short. The only risk would be to not fulfill the dream."
[Source: Jennifer Reingold, Fortune, 3/19/12]
Solitary Shoppers
As shoppers acclimate to the solitude of online shopping, many find in-store clerks annoying. The trend seems to be particularly pronounced among younger shoppers, but the sentiment appears to be spreading to just about everyone.
"Sales associates have always been aggressive, but it is our exposure to new types of self-shop retail models that have made us more attuned to their pushiness," says Mark G. Pingol of Envirosell.
"They're more subtle at Nordstrom, but the message is still the same: Buy this!" complains Roxanna Booth Miller, a shopper who says she prefers "a more solitary shopping experience." However, other shoppers praise Sephora, the cosmetics chain, "which asks its sales staff to hover in the background until a shopper signals for help." As a result, Mark Pingol says shoppers refer to Sephora and the Apple store as "playgrounds."
Ravi Dhar, a Yale marketing professor, suggests that self-checkout at grocery stores has also fundamentally changed the way shoppers view the in-store experience. "The element of control, by contrast to the salesperson service experience, is attractive," he says.
[Source: Taffy Brodesser-Akner, The New York Times, 1/12/12]
Lululemon's Game
Lululemon Athletica is rejecting "big data" and embracing scarcity to generate $1,800 in sales per square foot. That's "more than three times" what Neiman Marcus generates, and it has catapulted Lululemon, a Vancouver-based yoga-apparel retailer, to sales of $712 million last year.
Lululemon chief executive Christine Day "doesn't use focus groups, website visits" or "customer-relationship management software" to create such success. Instead, she simply spends more time in the stores, "observing how customers shop, listening to their complaints, and then using the feedback to tweak product and stores ... Lulu also trains its workers to eavesdrop, placing the clothes-folding tables on the sales floor near the fitting rooms rather than in a back room so that workers can overhear complaints."
Another major feature of Lulu's merchandising strategy is to make sure that customers can't always get what they want: "The goal is to sell gear at full price and to condition customers to buy when they see an item rather than wait."
The result, says Christine, is a limited supply that creates "these fanatical shoppers." Lulu never puts items on sale, and won't accept any item after 14 days, nor anything that's been washed or without tags. "We aren't Nordstrom," says Christine. "We aren't your personal shopper." Lululemon opened its first store in 2000 and went public in 2007. It currently has a stock valuation of $10.4 billion.
[Source: Dana Mattioli, The Wall Street Journal, 3/22/12]


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Pittsburgh poker player keeps focus at the table
University of Pittsburgh alum Ben Hamnett calls himself something of a nerd who is passionate about economics.
He can add a few other descriptions after a good summer at the poker table. He's also a player featured in a couple of big hands in ESPN coverage of the World Series of Poker Main Event in Las Vegas. He's the winner of $818,847 and a World Poker Tour trophy after taking the Borgata Open in Atlantic City on Sept. 21. And, he's a qualifier for this year's WPT World Championship.
"I feel like I'm a businessman who happens to play poker," says the 2004 Pitt grad, who received an economics degree after 3 1⁄2 years of study.
Hamnett topped the second largest playing field in WPT history in taking first place at the Borgata. The official count was 1,181, but that included many people who busted out and posted a second $3,500 buy-in. He estimates about 900 players took part.
The WPT plans a three-day nationwide television broadcast of the tournament in the spring.
The Borgata prize money includes entry in the $25,000 per seat WPT World Championship Tournament in May at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. Last year's event had 152 entrants and a prize pool worth more than $3.6 million. Marvin Rettenmaier won, taking home almost $1.2 million.
Hamnett, 29, grew up in East Liberty, but attended middle school and high school outside Waynesburg after his family moved. He still considers Pittsburgh his home, although he travels extensively for poker and for fun.
He started playing poker while attending Pitt and has considered himself a pro since getting out of school. The education in economics proved to be a big help at the table, he says.
"Economics — people don't usually know what that means. Even people who study economics forget what it means. It's the study of how resources are distributed.
"If you think of people's actions and recreational money as a resource you're trying to get, it helps to start seeing that whole thing (at the poker table) as an economic system," he says. "If you see where the money is flowing in and how it's moving around, then you can put yourself in a position to be there."
Without that perspective, he says, he might have ended up like so many other young players: "just going head first and see what happens.
"A lot of young players play (poker) like it's a game of chicken," he says. "They've got their foot on the gas pedal, and they've thrown the steering wheel and brakes out the window." Any opponent who gets into a pot with such an aggressive player knows the hand is likely to break one of them.
This "terrorist" style makes opponents shy away, and the aggressors pick up a lot of pots.
Hamnett has a different approach, although it's still based on aggression.
"I just constantly am focused on people, constantly counting their chip stacks, trying to figure out their motivations, what are their goals, what are they trying to do, what are they thinking about and trying to adapt to that. It's what you think you would do at a poker table, but then, you end up goofing around, playing on your iPad, talking."
He figures that when he concentrates on playing his best, his opponents will do the same. Then, he can take advantage.
"You want to make the bet that, when they see it, they're going to be worried. They're afraid they're going to fold the best hand, and they're also afraid you're going to have them beat, and they're going to have to pay off with the worst hand.
"You want to maximize that fear with every bet you make."
The physical part of playing is important, too. Hamnett says he tries to exercise enough during a tournament to stay relaxed. He eats balanced meals to maintain a level blood sugar, he gets enough sleep, and he does stretches to keep his focus.
The hubbub surrounding a final table can be a distraction. In a major tournament such as the Borgata, players might have to be on the set three or four hours before play begins. The fanfare can lull some into thinking that they've done well enough just by getting that far.
"As soon as everybody has these attitudes, you have a big advantage," says Hamnett, who recently started tweeting under @riverspecialist. "You're there saying, 'No, I want to win every chip at the table. I want to put you in tough spots.'
"I'm here to play poker."
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Mt. Airy adds mobile apps
Mt. Airy Casino in the Poconos has added mobile gaming applications for users of Apple and Android devices.
Bally Technologies, which provides the platform, said the Mt. Airy Casino Resort apps are free through the Apple iTunes store or Google Play. Users can view and book rooms, check Players Club points and see restaurant menus. The apps include a mobile play-for-fun version of Bally's Cash Spin video slot, plus casino gaming information and feedback surveys.
Money trail
Slot players lost $43.2 million at Pennsylvania's 11 casinos during the week ending Sept. 23, the Gaming Control Board reported. That's down from $45 million in the comparable week last year, which was before Valley Forge resort casino opened.
The state gets 55 percent of that gross slot revenue, or what's left of players' wagers after jackpots have been paid.
Statewide, the slot-payout rate is 89.94 percent since the fiscal year started July 1. For every $100 bet, the machines return an average of $89.94. Highest payout rate: 90.64 percent at Parx in Philadelphia; lowest payout rate: 89.3 percent at Harrah's Philadelphia.
Figures for Western Pennsylvania casinos:
Rivers; weekly slot revenue of $4.67 million, down from $5.24 million last year.
Meadows; weekly slot revenue of $4.71 million, up from $4.57 million last year.
Presque Isle in Erie; weekly slot revenue of $2.71 million, down from $3.22 million last year.
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Leechburg rethinks historic district regulations
Leechburg Council will vote next month to eliminate the enforcement of additional zoning regulations in the borough's historical district.
The borough will hold a second public hearing on the issue immediately prior to next month's council meeting, where officials are expected to take final action.
The issue has been a topic of discussion for the past several weeks after Lee Schumaker, Leechburg's zoning enforcement officer, questioned the borough's ability to enforce the district's additional regulations.
The district, formally known as the historic preservation overlay district, was first implemented into Leechburg's zoning ordinance in 2012 by the borough planning commission.
According to commission chairwoman Mary Beth Girardi, it's designed to establish an attractive commercial district that preserves some of the borough's historic architectural elements.
Some of the regulations that were added to meet that aim are impractical, Schumaker said, for many of the district's businesses.
For instance, the Sunoco gas station along Main Street, he said, could not reasonably preserve Leechburg's historic architectural elements.
Schumaker added last month, with Solicitor James Favero's agreement, that selective enforcement of the ordinance could bring about a potential lawsuit for the borough.
To avoid any such issues, council is proposing to remove the historic preservation overlay district from the zoning ordinance. Since a subsequent section of the ordinance calls for the equal enforcement of all its provisions, the borough is legally required to enforce the district's regulations while it remains a part of the ordinance.
If that motion passes, council will likely re-ordain the district as a separate document.
That would rid the borough of any requirement to enforce its provisions, while still showing a commitment to beautification, Councilman Christian Vaccaro said.
"That would take the teeth out, with no enforcement mechanism," Vaccaro said. "It would be voluntarily, and businesses would have an incentive to comply because it makes them eligible for grants from investing agencies like (the Freeport Leechburg Apollo Group).
"Maybe if council has a little more money down the road, it can attach incentives of its own. It's a win-win."
As it's currently drawn, the district runs along Main Street from First to Third streets and from Market Street to the side of Main Street closest to the Kiski River. It extends to cover the plaza where Sprankle's Neighborhood Market is located and parts of Hicks Street.
The map of the district will likely be redrawn if it is enacted through its own ordinance, according to Vaccaro. It was unknown on Tuesday what specific changes would be made.
District businesses would still need to comply with the borough's uniform construction code if the historical district is vacated from the zoning ordinance.
Addresses changed
Council on Tuesday changed the addresses of six houses.
Officials voted unanimously to change addresses for five houses in the 200 block of Second Street and one house along Penn Avenue.
Council President Tony Defillippi said the changes were made to bring the addresses into numerical order and make them consistent with the rest of the street.
The addresses were previously out of order and would create confusion in several areas, including emergency response, he said.
"It's just to eliminate that confusion," he said. "There could've been a problem."
The borough will notify Armstrong County 911, the Postal Service and the affected residents this week, Favero said.
The residents of one house with a changed address are aggravated with council's decision. Deborah Hilty, whose Second Street address was changed by the vote, is upset that she'll have to buy new checks and update her current residency "everywhere," she said.
"I think it stinks," she said upon learning of council's decision.
Her husband, Mark Hilty, took a more optimistic approach.
"I just recently almost bought a big plaque with this address on it," he said. "That would have been unfortunate."
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Black Theology, Black Bodies, and Pedagogy
Pinn, Anthony B., Cross Currents
The black body has both economic and religious importance in North America.
I have an interest in theologically thinking through what it means -- epistemologically, institutionally and ritually -- to be African American and religious. Much of my work speaks to my wrestling with this issue through historical and theological descriptions of the diversity that marks African American religious experience, the underlying assumption being that resolutions to the question of what it means to be African American and religious require comparative analysis. I am working from the belief that there are common elements within the various forms of African American religious experience that, when explored, can shed light on my above stated concern. My approach to this, in earlier work, particularly Why, Lord? (1995) and Varieties of African American Religious Experience (1998), revolved around the problem of evil as a way of moving theologians into a discussion of African American religiosity (in all its various forms) through attention to cosmology, doctrines of God, and theological anthropology. I am satisfied with the way in which the problem of evil functions as a way into the thought or belief of various traditions. However, I think there is more to ritual or enactment within African American religions that is not fully mined through attention to the problem of evil. What can those in African American religious studies use to address ritual or enactment?
Within the essay I make an effort to begin addressing this question in two ways -- theoretically and pedagogically: (1) I suggest that my understanding of cultural memory and archaeologically informed theology promote a rethinking of the body as a cultural artifact and as a ritualized space or item that enlivens our understanding of religious ritual; and, (2) I address the pedagogical challenges connected with this conception of the body. My goal is to think through the agenda of my earlier work and extend it.
I begin this discussion with a few contextual comments concerning the nature of Black liberation theology and the correctives I offer through a challenge of traditional assumptions concerning African American cultural memory and ways in which this memory is deciphered and represented. Liberation theology, generally speaking, is committed to the experiential nature of religious experience, and the connections between religious orientations and social transformation. As a natural outgrowth of this perspective, liberation theologies are committed to the cultural production of particular groups as vital material for the construction of theological reflection. That is to say, theological reflection, if it is liberating, must speak from and to the existential and cultural reality of the oppressed community addressed. The difficulties associated with doing this are many. For example, might not direct contact with the context of cultural artifacts, because time continues to move forward and representations replace r ealities, be lost?
Collective and individual cultural memory decays. Whether one argues that the present shapes our perception of the past (social construction) or the past shapes the present (construction through commemoration), the fact remains that a clear and uncontaminated link between the past and present -- the workings of collective memory -- is hard to establish. Cultural memory is again problematic because it is not only composed of cultural artifacts, we also use it to decode and interpret (place in meaningful context) those artifacts.
We have often failed to remember the warning the above should sound. Instead, we fill gaps that allow for the construction of a Black theological program that seems consistent, refined, undeniable. And although undeniably important, it appears to be in part based upon a misuse of cultural resources because it fails to hold in tension cultural memory that is best ruptured. The tendency is to essentialize cultural memory through the few cultural artifacts close to the surface that we grab in our haste to construct a useful theological stance. …


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1) I clearly asked about usability since iOS is much more efficient of an OS as well as being deigned for the HW just as their apps are more efficient and designed for the HW, which is not the case with Windows or its apps. Using SQL Server not only makes no sense in that discussion but hurts any argument you may have. It's like saying I can run Xcode on an 11" MBA with a Core-i5 processor. It's technically accurate but it's a horrible experience.
2) You're a developer that uses Visual Studio so neither iOS nor Mac OS X would work for you so, again, even considering an iPad makes zero sense for this false comparison. No one is saying that weird use case isn't valid, but don't try to make a case that this is some norm and that Apple doesn't "get it" for not supporting Visual Studio on the iPad.
3) Not only a bigger screen but a better aspect ratio for this type of device, but for this to be a market success we'll need to see giving up their tablets and notebooks in order to go all in with this device that is neither a good tablet or good notebook. There is no evidence to support that and it will likely never happen no matter how the HW evolves to allow MS to make a great device in terms of HW if it still has the bloated, inefficient Windows OS and apps for it. It's still not a good experience for a tablet and the HW isn't a good experience as a notebook replacement.
1) You have no idea what your talking about... VS and SQL Server perform quite well on my Surface with an i5 processor. Would I deploy such a thing to production? No. But, it is perfectly usable and adequate for development - which is what I use it for. If XCode can't run on an i5 than that must be one sucky tool.
You didn't say anything about usability - you simply asked if the hardware was really more powerful. Not only is it more powerful, you can do a lot more with it. The iPad is a great tablet. I have nothing against it or Apple - but, it has lots of limitations that don't exist with something like a surface pro. If your fine with that, I'm happy for you - it's all about what fits your needs.
2) I never said anything about apple supporting VS or SQL Server - I never would expect such a thing. Why are you twisting things here? You asked if the surface was really more powerful... My use case was simply to illustrate that is the case. Or do you think it would be possible to write applications that are resource and as processor intensive as these and have them run well on an iPad?
3) You talk about it not being good at being a tablet or a notebook - yet, you likely have never even touched a surface of any variety. I love my pro. I use it as a tablet and a notebook all the time. In fact, I find it way more convenient than my laptop - which I almost never touch anymore since I got it. It's way more portable than the laptop and just as powerful - there's nothing I can do on my laptop that I can't do on my surface. The trade off with the pro (first gen) is that it is heavier than an ios or android tablet - but, if find the kick stand really makes up for that. When I'm on the couch or lazing around, I can just fold back the cover and use it as a base for the kickstand and then set it in my lap, put it on my chest if I'm laying down, or whatever. There are always tradeoffs with technology products, and so yes there are some downsides to the pro - but, the upsides for me more than make up for those downsides. An ipad for me at this point would just be redundant - and a waste of money as it would just sit unused in a drawer somewhere, since it doesn't even have a really good web browser.


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The Carmelo Anthony saga moved to the next phase Tuesday, with the Nets trying to provide more cap relief to the Nuggets by finding a new home for Kenyon Martin and J.R. Smith, CBSSports.com has learned.
It was a futile effort to revive this excruciatingly slow-moving blockbuster, which died Tuesday in its current form involving the Bobcats and Jazz. Sources say discussions will continue, however, on other fronts amid mixed priorities within the Denver front office and some lingering doubts about whether Melo will ultimately give his thumbs-up on a trade to New Jersey.
"I think he's thumbs-sideways on it," said one source familiar with Anthony's stance. "He's not 100 percent sold on it."
Martin, whose $16.5 million expiring contract would be a valuable asset at the trade deadline, and Smith, who has a $6.8 million expiring deal and controversy wherever he goes, could be the final pieces that eventually compel the Nuggets to sign off on a divorce with Anthony. But that divorce isn't happening with the structure of the exhaustively reported four-way deal involving Utah and Charlotte. That framework, a person involved in the discussions said, is "dead." The Melo talks as a whole, however, will trudge forward.
If more cap savings is what the Nuggets want, they'd only have to take back $17.5 million under NBA trade rules for Martin and Smith, a savings of $5.8 million – twice that when you factor in luxury tax. Numerous scenarios have been explored to allow the Nuggets to send out both Martin and Smith, sources say. But despite a growing belief that the Nuggets finally are ready to acknowledge that a truce with Anthony is unattainable, conflicting priorities among Denver decision-makers have put a chill in the discussions for now.
"Denver keeps moving the goal posts," said one person connected to the talks. "They say, 'We want this,' and New Jersey says, 'We got it.' And then Denver says, 'Wait a minute, we want this and this.'"
Around and around they went, several weeks after the basic framework of the deal was hatched by old friends Kevin O'Connor, Larry Brown and Billy King. Sources say those three did the legwork on the four-team possibility involving New Jersey, Denver, Charlotte and Utah and brought it to the Nuggets as a potentially attractive way for them to part ways with their disgruntled superstar. O'Connor, the Jazz GM, is a former assistant coach under Brown at UCLA. Brown, the Bobcats' coach, has known King, the Nets' news president, since his college days at Duke – and the two worked together in Philadelphia.
Ironically, one person familiar with the negotiations said the deal probably would've been done by now if Charlotte hadn't waived center Erick Dampier and his non-guaranteed $13 million contract – which would've been a home-run for Denver in an exchange for Martin. Including Dampier in the deal would've provided what a source described as "ridiculous savings" for the Nuggets – about $33 million when factoring in the tax, making the deal "a no-brainer."
UPDATE: In the absence of that asset, the Nuggets – led by newly hired GM Masai Ujiri, 30-year-old executive Josh Kroenke and adviser Bret Bearup – insisted on trying to squeeze more out of the deal while also exploring offers from other teams. In addition to Martin and Smith, Denver officials eventually were trying to dump Renaldo Balkman in the trade. Ultimately, one executive involved in the talks said, Denver's never-ending efforts to make the deal better for them was what wound up killing it.
The other part of their protracted strategy – sitting down face-to-face with Anthony before media day Monday – may have backfired on them, too.
Ujiri, trying to take the high road in the Anthony matter, insisted on meeting with him in person before signing off on the deal – as any new GM would. Unfortunately for Ujiri, Anthony's discontent with the direction of the organization pre-dates the new GM's arrival – and also runs deeper than Ujiri was aware. One reason Ujiri declined to give any details of his face-to-face encounter with Anthony Monday, according to two people familiar with the exchange, was simply that there were no details. Anthony, not wanting to rehash old wounds with his new boss, politely declined to engage Ujiri in any substantive conversation about his future.
"He said, 'I'm cool,' and, 'You're going to have to talk to my reps about that,'" said one of the people familiar with the meeting. In addition, multiple reports indicated that Anthony did not participate in the promotional activities players typically perform on media day, and the Denver Post noted that his image was removed from a prominent ad on the Nuggets' website – replaced by Ty Lawson.
As a result, one source maintained Tuesday that the Nuggets were "going to move him, like now, ASAP." But after all the delays and frustration on all sides, that may be an optimistic take.
"The Nuggets are going to look at every single trade and they're going to have to work with [Anthony]," another person familiar with the talks said. "And that's really going to slow the whole process down."
Further complicating matters, sources say Karl is not going to be as influential in trying to keep Anthony in Denver as first believed. With the departure of Karl's biggest supporter, former GM Mark Warkentien, and his top assistant, Tim Grgurich, Karl is unsure where he stands in the organization as he returns from his heroic cancer fight with one year left on his contract. The result has been tension – or at least uneasiness – among Karl, his staff and the newly formed front office. Plus, while Karl knows that he has a 50-win playoff team with Anthony and a rebuilding team without him, sources say the 59-year-old coach is growing tired of the MeloDrama and isn't relishing the strain that it could place on him and the team.


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Curtis Granderson helped the Yankees win a game on Saturday night. Derek Jeter did not.
In only his second game back from a broken hand, Granderson hit a two-run homerthat lifted the Yankees to a 3-0 win against the Padres at Petco Park. Ivan Nova continued his recent resurgence with seven scoreless innings, and the Yankees picked up a game in the wild-card race.
Jeter, however, was left on the bench with a sore right calf, yet another setback in this season of frustration for the Yankees' shortstop. ...


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United States Department of Agriculture
Agricultural Research Service
Sunflower Research
1a.Objectives (from AD-416)
Evaluate selected hybrids, accessions, interspecific crosses, and lines in screening nurseries for resistance to the banded sunflower moth in North Dakota, red sunflower seed weevil in South Dakota, and stem weevil and sunflower head moth in Kansas.
1b.Approach (from AD-416)
Plots for banded sunflower moth will be located in Prosper, ND, plots for red sunflower seed weevil with be located in Highmore, SD, plots for stem weevil and sunflower moth will be located in Colby KS. Each location will contain lines, hybrids, and accessions of interest for the particular insect. Each entry will be replicated 2-4 times in a randomized complete block design. At key points in the growing season, plant tissues may be sampled for the purpose of quantifying physiological compounds that may be involved with resistance. DNA may also be sampled, as needed, for analysis. At the end of the season, seed will be sampled from the plots to assess damage from the seed infesting insects. For stem weevil, damage to stalks will be assessed, and larval counts recorded.
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We have a new venue to ride and race at on the 4th of July! The guys at Cahuilla Creek Motocross park have been great to work with and look forward to having us out to race! That is right a motocross park is opening its doors to mountain bikes! Don't worry though because we will be building our own trails that the motorcycles will not be able to ride
Reasons to race with us at Cahuilla Creek Motocross Park:
• $15 camping, dry camping
• On site BBQ food with a restaurant and casino ½ mile away
• Brand new trails
• No parking fees
• 3,800' of elevation means cooler summer temperatures
The 4th of July race will also have an 8 AM start time. Its only 15 minutes further than vail. Click here for directions to the park.
We are also looking for help to build the new super fun trails at Cahuilla and are offering a discount on your entry fees if you help out. Contact me if you are interested in helping out next weekend with the trails, it's a great way to preview the race before anyone else!
Racers and Chasers Elite membership club is now running at full speed! We are very excited about this chance to help you out between races. Your membership benefits include:
• $5 off all Racers and Chasers events
• 10% off select bike shops throughout southern California
• Monthly guided rides free to the members
• Discounts on Racers and Chasers merchandise
It's easy to see how you will save more than your $50 membership fee in a year with all that's offered.
Well I am out to get the trails ready for the 4th of July race! Registration is now open for all summer events.
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DHS news release
June 1, 2006
Contact: Jim Sellers (503) 945-5738
Technical contact: Jana Fussell (971) 673-1108
DHS approves development of free-standing hospice in Beaverton
A Wilsonville-based company has been granted approval to proceed with plans for a free-standing inpatient hospice facility in Beaverton under a proposed certificate-of-need order issued today by the Oregon Department of Human Services.
The facility at 7100 S.W. Scholls Ferry Road would have 13 inpatient and respite rooms for the care of terminally ill patients. It would be Oregon's third free-standing inpatient hospice for patients; the other two are in Bend and Portland.
DHS is the state agency charged with reviewing proposals for hospital and nursing facilities to ensure health-care consumers don't pay for the cost of unnecessary facilities.
Signature Hospice is part of Avamere Health Services, which has facilities and services in 30 Oregon and Washington communities. Under state law, the company was required to seek DHS approval because the project creates a new hospital.
The order issued today is a proposed order. Any affected party who takes exception to it may ask DHS to hold an informal hearing. If no request is received by June 12, 2006, the proposed order will automatically become final. For further information about this project, contact Jana Fussell, DHS certificate of need coordinator, at (971) 673-1108.
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Community Forums › Forums › Design Tips and Tricks › Help with lining up new homepage sidebar
Tagged: sidebar; widgets
This topic contains 4 replies, has 2 voices, and was last updated by SoZo 3 years ago.
November 27, 2012 at 9:26 am #1842
I have registered a few sidebars and have added them to home.php. Two of the sidebars are on top of each other. Could you let me know what I have done? The home.php looks like this;
<?php get_header(); ?>
<?php genesis_home(); ?>

<?php if( function_exists('wp_cycle') ) : ?>
<?php wp_cycle(); ?>
<?php endif; ?>

<?php dynamic_sidebar( 'home-one-column' ); ?>

<?php dynamic_sidebar( 'home-page-about-us' ); ?>

<?php dynamic_sidebar( 'three-column-sidebar' ); ?>

<?php dynamic_sidebar( 'two-column-sidebar' ); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>
I have the 'under construction' plugin activated so you will need to login with these details
Username: Forum
Password: Forum123*
Many Thanks
>November 27, 2012 at 9:43 am #1848
I'm not seeing anything apparently on top of each other.
John "Nicolas Flamel" Wright | SoZo's design| John Wright PhotographyNovember 27, 2012 at 9:54 am #1854
HI. I have just changed the one image widget to a red block image which makes it clearer. This is a 850px image. Below that should be a two image widget of the two ladies (next to each other). I have added these sidebars on the homepage in style CSS (obviously I have done something wrong); The 2 that are on top of each other are 'home-page-about-us' and "one column sidebar" Any advice would be very welcome!
Ad Sidebar
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.two-column-sidebar {
clear: both;
float: left;
color: #FFFFFF;
font-size: 12px;
margin: 0 auto;
width: 850px;
.widget {
float: left;
color: #FFFFFF;
font-size: 12px;
padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
width: 420px;
/* Ad Sidebar
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.three-column-sidebar {
clear: both;
margin: 0 auto;
width: 850px;
/* Ad Sidebar
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.home-page-about-us {
clear: both;
margin: 0 auto;
width: 850px;
/* Ad Sidebar
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.home-one-column {
clear: both;
margin: 0 auto;
width: 850px;
}November 27, 2012 at 10:27 am #1868
Hi. Sorry, the problem only shows up in firefox. I have tried IE and it is fine. Wish I have worked that out 3 hours ago!
Thanks for your help.
BNovember 27, 2012 at 12:15 pm #1895
I can't determine why the widgets aren't floating. I imagine there's a clear interfering somewhere but I couldn't find it. But instead of floating widgets within the same sidebar I would add two separate sidebars there.
John "Nicolas Flamel" Wright | SoZo's design| John Wright Photography
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