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Deborah A. Kinder, 46, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, Feb. 24, 2008, at her home.
She was born Sept. 24, 1961, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of William and Joyce M. Welker Young. She and Kevin L. Kinder were married May 1, 1999, in Cape Girardeau.
Kinder worked out of Laborer Hall 1107.
Survivors include her husband of Oran, Mo.; her mother; two daughters, Jennifer Brawley-Smith of Scott City, Brandee Young of Cape Giardeau; a sister, Connie Young of Cape Girardeau; and six grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her father.
Visitation will be from 11 a.m. to service time Wednesday at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home.
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The kiwi recently traded at US81.85c, up from US81.76c. It was at 73.40 on the Trade Weighted Index compared to 73.36 in the morning.
HiFX senior currency strategist Dan Bell said the kiwi managed to hold onto overnight gains.
"It rose on what was a positive night for risk assets overseas. The New Zealand dollar rallied to over US82.00c then came under a bit of selling pressure after Moody's downgraded France which was a bit of a surprise," Bell said.
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Dave Dombrowski details why Red Sox sent Rusney Castillo to minors, his future
|04.15.16 at 6:03 pm ET
The entire Rusney Castillo situation this season has been a confusing one.
At the end of spring training, the Red Sox opted to have Castillo on their Opening Day roster over veteran outfielder David Murphy, so Murphy opted out of his contract. There was some skepticism as to why the team went with Castillo as opposed to having him start in Triple-A and getting every day at-bats, which he desperately needs at this stage of his development.
Then, after getting just four at-bats through the first eight games of the season, the Red Sox sent him back down to Triple-A Pawtucket after Wednesday's game. Why did he even start with the Red Sox in the first place?
President of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski explained the situation Friday.
"I think really what is difficult — and I have tried to explain without going into, because I am not going to tell you we're thinking about optioning somebody out because then everyone is going to run to the player and say we're thinking of optioning him out — you're roster is a fluid situation and especially your bench guys at times," Dombrowski said. "For us, we were comfortable with him not starting off playing every single day, but then it was a situation, the more Brock [Holt] played left and has done such a good job, so the combination of Brock and Chris Young out there — and of course we haven't faced a left-handed starter yet so there's been no starts available in that role that we just thought that gives us the best chance to win right now and to stay with that. Rusney is sitting there, so let's get him out and start playing. That is really what it came down to.
"But in the beginning of the year when you think about it, how many games has Pawtucket played? A limited number of games — seven, eight. So we didn't think it would hurt him to come up here and be part of what we had going on and now we're in a situation of where we say, 'OK, let's have him go out and get some at-bats.'"
Dave Dombrowski: 'Great deal going on' in Pablo Sandoval's left shoulder
|04.15.16 at 5:23 pm ET
The Pablo Sandoval saga drags on.
Speaking before the Red Sox' series opening game against the Blue Jays, Red Sox president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski said an MRI taken Thursday revealed there was 'a great deal going on' in Sandoval's left shoulder.
Dombrowski wouldn't reveal any specifics in regards to the findings, but did reveal that Sandoval would be receiving a second opinion with Dr. James Andrews on Monday.
"I'm not going to speculate on anything, but I won't rule out anything, either," said Dombrowski when asked if surgery was a possibility.
As for the Yahoo! Sports report that Sandoval wanted to play every day or change organizations, Dombrowski said that it hadn't been presented to him in that sort of cut-and-dried manner.
"It's never been termed to me that way," Dombrowski said. "I know he wants to play every day, but he also understands the situation."
Sandoval was placed on the 15-day disabled list Tuesday after revealing that he was having trouble lifting his left arm.
(Here is the play that Sandoval possibly aggravated his left shoulder on)
Looks like Sandoval could have tweaked his left shoulder on this play on Saturday #RedSox #WBZ pic.twitter.com/ql83HxEkOp
— Joe Giza (@JoeGiza) April 15, 2016
Why Red Sox are adding outfield to Blake Swihart's skill set
|04.15.16 at 5:21 pm ET
The Red Sox have two very good young catchers in Blake Swihart and Christian Vazquez. But, thinking towards the future, it's impossible to have both players play every day behind the plate.
This is why on the day Swihart was sent down to Triple-A Pawtucket to make room for Vazquez's recall, the Red Sox revealed their long-term plan with their two prized catchers.
"As we look towards the future, and even as time goes on, we would like Christian Vazquez and Blake Swihart to both be part of our club," president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski said. "They are both not going to be every day catchers with our team. [Swihart] is more athletic. He's a converted catcher. We think he could make a conversion to another position — even on a part-time basis so we can keep his bat in the lineup."
Swihart will take fly balls in left field with Pawtucket as the Red Sox would like him to add outfield to his skill set. In addition to taking fly balls in the outfield, he will still play catcher as it was noted they are an injury away of having him come back to Boston as a catcher. It was also revealed between the outfield, catcher and DH, Swihart will play every day in Triple-A.
Vazquez is 25 years old, while Swihart is 24 so both are young and have plenty of room to grow.
This long-term plan didn't come out of no where as these discussions began towards the end of spring training, with Swihart starting shagging fly balls in the outfield. Some thought Swihart would be better suited for first base, but manager John Farrell said the organization viewed the outfield being the most "viable."
"His athleticism will take over," Farrell said of Swihart playing the outfield. "He and I had a couple of conversations in spring training about this. He would shag in left field during BP. Confident that through repetition, much like we have talked about with him behind the plate, which is a much more difficult task then playing a major league caliber left field. That will take time. We've come to know Blake as not only an upfront guy, but is a smart athletic player who is going to be committed to the work."
"Bottom line, we see both (Vazquez and Swihart) coexisting on this roster, really in the same lineup on a given day," Farrell added. "We know [Swihart is] still going to be catching games."
With the long-term plan in mind and the Red Sox showing commitment to both players, now is the perfect time to execute it with Vazquez 100 percent healthy, but any time a player changes positions it certainly bears watching.
Stay tuned.
Christian Vazquez feeling '100 percent' going into 2016 big league debut
|04.15.16 at 3:56 pm ET
It's been a longtime coming for catcher Christian Vazquez.
The catcher missed the entire 2015 season because of Tommy John surgery at the end of the spring last year. Vazquez noted he was 100 percent to end the spring and could have started with the Red Sox, but the team opted to have him start the year in Triple-A Pawtucket.
He played in five games and hit .468 at the plate before being recalled prior to Friday's game with the Blue Jays. Blake Swihart started the year with the big league team and had a few issues defensively and ultimately was sent back down to Triple-A as the corresponding move for Vazquez being recalled.
"I'm excited. I'm here for a reason to help the team," Vazquez said prior to Friday's game. "Like I said, the pitching staff. I'm happy to be back."
The hope is Vazquez's game-calling ability will help with a starting rotation that has an ERA of 6.86 entering Friday, the worst in the American League.
"I'm happy. I'm here to help the team win and my pitching staff here," he said.
During his week with Pawtucket he was able to work on every part of his game and is excited to join the big league team for the first time since 2014. He also added his family will be at Fenway Park Friday night.
"I was doing everything — my at-bats, my arm strength is back," he said. "Overall, I was working on everything."
The Red Sox are wasting no time as he will start Friday night and catch starter Rick Porcello.
Red Sox lineup: Christian Vazquez catches Rick Porcello
|04.15.16 at 3:22 pm ET
The Red Sox are wasting no time getting catcher Christian Vazquez into the lineup.
After being recalled earlier in the day, Vazquez will get the start behind the plate catching Red Sox starter Rick Porcello. He was hitting .462 in five games with the PawSox.
Other than that, it's a standard lineup with Travis Shaw at third base and Brock Holt in left field as the Red Sox go up against Blue Jays knuckleballer R.A. Dickey.
Here is the complete Red Sox lineup:
Mookie Betts, RF
Dustin Pedroia, 2B
Xander Bogaerts, SS
David Ortiz, DH
Hanley Ramirez, 1B
Travis Shaw, 3B
Brock Holt, LF
Christian Vazquez, C
Jackie Bradley Jr., CF
Rick Porcello, RHP
For an extensive look at the matchups, click here.
Red Sox option C Blake Swihart to Triple-A Pawtucket, INF Marco Hernandez recalled
|04.15.16 at 3:14 pm ET
The Red Sox made a few moves prior to Friday's game.
In addition to outfielder Rusney Castillo being optioned to Triple-A Pawticket after Wednesday's game, catcher Blake Swihart has also been sent down. To take their places on the roster, catcher Christian Vazquez and infielder Marco Hernandez have been recalled.
Vazquez spent the first week of the minor league season with the PawSox working his way back from Tommy John surgery last season. The Red Sox would have had three catchers on their roster if they didn't send Swihart down. Him being in Pawtucket will give him everyday playing time that he wouldn't get with the Red Sox, which is the best thing for him at this point as he continues to develop as a catcher.
Swihart was 5-for-18 at the plate in six games this season. Vazquez will start behind the plate Friday night catching Rick Porcello.
Hernandez gives the Red Sox an utility infielder they didn't have to start the season. He was the player to be named in the Felix Doubront trade with the Cubs in 2014.
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You might be surprised which former Red Sox Travis Shaw is trying to emulate
|04.15.16 at 1:03 pm ET
Travis Shaw is a pretty popular player these days.
The new Red Sox starting third baseman has played nearly flawless defense, while hitting .292 with an .810 OPS through the first eight games.
So when he reveals that his favorite player growing up was Yankee Alex Rodriguez, Red Sox followers will be happy to give the almost-26-year-old (his birthday is Saturday) a pass.
And baseball-following folks in New England will also be OK when Shaw identifies which major league player has had the biggest influence on the way he swings the bat — former Red Sox Adrian Gonzalez.
"Approach-wise, it probably started my junior year of college," said Shaw of his infatuation with Gonzalez's swing. "I kind of started thinking more along the lines of trying to hit with power, driving it into the left-center field gap. And then in Double-A, that's when my leg kick started. With that leg kick, and the way I placed my hands, I know I watched a ton of video on him before my leg kick … To me, how calm my leg kick is, and how early I start, that was something I really focused on when watching him. It seemed like he was so calm, calm, calm with his swing. It took a couple of years for it to develop into that."
While Gonzalez's exit out of Boston in August, 2012 tarnished the perception of the first baseman in these parts, Shaw points to the one full season Gonzalez had in Boston as what he zeroes in on.
In 159 games in 2011, Gonzalez had a monster year, hitting .337 with a .957 OPS. And while the 27 home runs seemed plenty for the corner infielder, it was the doubles that stood out.
"If you watched him hit at Fenway, he hit like [45] doubles. That's what I want to do," Shaw said. "Not so much home runs, but more along the lines of 30 or 40 doubles."
Considering Gonzalez's continued success, having totaled an .846 OPS in a major-league-best 3,388 plate appearances since the beginning of '11, it probably isn't a bad idea for Shaw to try and emulate the lefty hitter. (For what it's worth, Gonzalez is off to another solid start, hitting .375 with a .972 OPS after 10 games.)
"He's just a guy he's always looked at," said Shaw of Gonzalez. "That's what I'm trying for."
Pablo Sandoval's former trainer on OM&F: 'I'm sad for him that things have slid to this point'
|04.15.16 at 12:16 pm ET
Personal trainer Ethan Banning, who worked with Pablo Sandoval for two years, checked in with Ordway, Merloni & Fauria on Friday to discuss the third baseman's fall from grace in Boston. To hear the interview, go to the OM&F audio on demand page.
Banning, the owner of Triple Threat Performance in Phoenix, was quoted in a Boston Herald story as saying Sandoval "needs to have somebody like me holding his hand" to ensure that Sandoval limits his eating. The second-year Red Sox player showed up overweight to spring training and lost his starting third base job to Travis Shaw. After going 0-for-6 with four strikeouts in the first week of the season, the 29-year-old was placed on the disabled list Wednesday with a shoulder issue.
"I'm sad for him that things have slid to this point," Banning said. "The great thing about it is when bad things happen in life as athletes I think it's an opportunity for to grow and learn. And I think he'll do that. But [I] just wonder when it's going to happen."
Banning started working with Sandoval in November 2010, after the player was benched by the Giants in the World Series and warned he needed to stay in better shape. Their relationship ended in spring training 2012, shortly after Sandoval signed a three-year, $17 million contract with San Francisco — despite the fact that Sandoval was an All-Star in 2011 and '12. Banning said he has spoken with Sandoval's brother and now-former agency since they parted ways, but the player has not returned.
Red Sox owner John Henry claimed that Sandoval tested out at 17 percent body fat shortly before spring training, but that claim was widely questioned.
"It was certainly misleading at the very least," Banning said. "If he was 17 percent body fat, in the accurate sense of it, I'm not sure what they were measuring with.
Alex Cora on Bradfo Show: 'Defensively, [Blake Swihart's] not ready, and they know it. Game-calling, he's not ready'
|04.15.16 at 10:58 am ET
Former Red Sox infielder and current ESPN baseball analyst Alex Cora appeared on the Bradfo Show podcast on Thursday to discuss several early storylines this season. To hear the interview, check the WEEI audio on demand page.
With the Red Sox rotation struggling to find its way early in the season, many have looked to young catcher Christian Vazquez as a possible solution. He has been praised for his work defensively and is revered as a terrific game-caller behind the plate. He was called up after a rehab stint in Triple-A Pawtucket, and it appears he will get his chance to make an impact.
"I hope he gets a lot of games out there, and I'm not talking about catching one guy or two guys, I think he's the guy that, he needs to catch four out of five days to get that rhythm, to get that confidence, and get that pitching staff going," Cora said. "I feel that way. A lot of people probably don't feel the same, but I really do."
Added Cora: "He is that good. Blocking balls, taking charge, he's a game-changer behind the plate, he is. I read a few people that say, 'Yeah, [Blake] Swihart, he can hit, he can do this,' and God bless him. He's a great talent. He's great. But defensively he's not ready, and they know it. Game-calling, he's not ready."
Outfielder Rusney Castillo has yet to find his way as a major league hitter, despite his high price tag. Cora, who has trained Castillo in the offseason, said getting him reps at the plate is essential.
"The question mark is can he hit at the big league level," Cora said. "But to keep him on the bench and not get in any at-bats and having [Chris] Young as your right-handed hitter against lefties, there's not a platoon situation with him, and everybody wants to know if this guy can hit."
Friday's Red Sox-Blue Jays matchups: Rick Porcello vs. R.A. Dickey
|04.15.16 at 8:39 am ET
In a rematch of their duel last Saturday, Red Sox right-hander Rick Porcello will face off against Blue Jays knuckleballer R.A. Dickey as the teams begin a four-game series.
In his first start of the season, Porcello came up victorious in a game the Red Sox won 8-4. He went six innings, allowing four earned runs on seven hits, walking one and striking out seven. He struggled early but eventually settled down. The Red Sox bats kept him in the game and earned him a win, as they twice came back to gain the lead.
"With the lineup that we have, and the things that they're doing right now, our job is to keep us in the game and pitch as deep as possible," Porcello said after the win. "That's it. That being said, you face some tough lineups, it can be a challenge, but we've got a great lineup and really really good defense, and that's to our advantage."
Said manager John Farrell: "After the first three innings, I thought he settled in. He stayed out of the plate much more consistently. Got a number of ground balls. I thought his sinker, at the bottom of the strike zone today, was as good as we've seen in quite some time. He did bend, but he didn't break."
In 12 career starts against the Blue Jays, Porcello is 5-7 with a 5.35 ERA, 39 strikeouts and 19 walks.
Dickey was hit hard by the Red Sox on Saturday in Toronto. He lasted five innings, allowing seven runs (six earned) on eight hits. He walked two and struck out nine. Less than a week later, he faces the same lineup that roughed him up the first time around.
"If you wallow in it, it doesn't help anybody," Dickey said after the game. "So if there's one thing that experience has taught me, it's that you've got to turn the page quickly. Take what you can — bad and good — out of the outing and turn the page quickly. That's what we need to do."
In 17 career starts against the Red Sox, Dickey is 6-7 with a 4.50 ERA, 94 strikeouts and 30 walks.
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13Ds are filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission within 10 days of an entity's attaining a greater than 5% position in any class of a company's securities. Subsequent changes in holdings or intentions must be reported in amended filings. This material has been extracted from filings released by the SEC from May 19 through May 25. Source: InsiderScore.com
Activist Filings
Barnes & Noble bks -0.5676855895196506% Barnes & Noble Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD11.385 -0.065 -0.5676855895196506% /Date(1462387255361-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 240133 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap 855246288.54866 Dividend Yield 5.267778753292362% Rev. per Employee 139998 More quote details and news » (BKS)
Ron Burkle's Yucaipa upped its stake for the first time in a year, after waging a failed proxy fight in 2010, shortly after Liberty Media (ticker: LINTA) offered $17.00 per share for B&N. Yucaipa, owner of 11,894,213 shares (19.74% of the total) gives signs it's planning a competing bid.
Original Filings
99 Cents Only Stores (NDN)
FBR Capital Markets switched its ownership reporting from Schedule 13G to Schedule 13D. The fund group did not disclose any specific activist plans, but left open the possibility it could support a move to change ownership of the company. FBR owns 3,840,235 shares (5.48%).
Internap Network Services inap 4.177545691906006% InterNAP Corp. U.S.: Nasdaq USD1.995 0.08 4.177545691906006% /Date(1462387334841-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 547480 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap 107961950.745506 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 489682 More quote details and news » (INAP)
Gamco Investors (GBL) declared ownership of 3,119,618 shares (5.97%), noting it paid a total of $23 million, or $7.37 each.
TradeStation Group (TRAD)
Gamco disclosed it owns 2,230,567 shares (5.78%), which it bought for a total of $22.5 million, or approximately $9.70 per share.
Increases in Holdings
Beasley Broadcast Group bbgi 16.438356164383563% Beasley Broadcast Group Inc. Cl A U.S.: Nasdaq USD4.25 0.6 16.438356164383563% /Date(1462386067941-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 9912 P/E Ratio 15.178571428571429 Market Cap 85113414.6750999 Dividend Yield 4.235294117647059% Rev. per Employee 130960 More quote details and news » (BBGI)
Gamco raised its stake to 2,123,996 Class A shares (34.79%) by buying 90,646 shares from March 23 to May 20 at prices ranging from $4.32 to $8.47 per share.
Bronco Drilling (BRNC)
Gamco raised its holdings to 2,202,247 (7.65%) by buying 533,400 from May 12 to May 19 at $10.98 to $11.21 apiece.
FairPoint Communications frp -0.8088235294117647% FairPoint Communications Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD13.49 -0.11 -0.8088235294117647% /Date(1462387104969-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 32979 P/E Ratio 4.043232177263969 Market Cap 368097610.11734 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 318320 More quote details and news » (FRP)
Angelo, Gordon & Co. owns 5,128,325 (19.58%) after buying 500,000 shares on May 19 at prices from $10.43 to $10.96.
Decreases in Holdings
Biogen Idec biib -3.8179094662233752% Biogen Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD263.26 -10.45 -3.8179094662233752% /Date(1462387314001-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 915995 P/E Ratio 16.155405405405407 Market Cap 59956445934.928 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 1504180 More quote details and news » (BIIB)
Icahn Associates owns 13,429,016 shares (5.56%) after selling 2,646,240 from April 27 to May 20 at $97.88 to $99.60 apiece.
Holly (HOC)
Turtle Creek owns 7,463,359 (14.0%) after the sale of 197,400 shares from March 21 to May 10 at prices ranging from $55.73 to $65.17 each.
MCG Capital (MCGC)
Springbok Capital owns 15,159,017 shares (5.1%) with the sale of 4,498,180 on May 13 at $49.99 each.
The Activist Spotlight
California Pizza Kitchen (ticker: CPKI)
Business: Restaurant chain
Investor's Average Cost: $16.75
Stock-Market Value: $453 million ($18.42/share)
What's Happening: Hedge fund Clinton Group is opposing Golden Gate Capital's acquisition of the company for $18.50 per share. Clinton believes that there may be other ways to maximize shareholder value, including a leveraged recapitalization and a self-tender offer at or above $19.50 per share. Clinton has also had discussions with the company regarding operational improvements, international franchising opportunities, brand equity, returns on invested capital and capital structure.
Key Numbers:
5.1%: percentage of company's common shares owned by Clinton.
15%: premium that Golden Gate's offer represents to the 30-day average price prior to the announcement of the transaction.
Behind the Scenes: Clinton has had a checkered history as an activist investor, having gone through various investment teams over the past six years without ever showing a real commitment to a serious activist strategy. In this situation, Clinton was in the beginning stages of its activist strategy when the company accepted an acquisition offer that Clinton thinks is too low. Clinton is likely to aggressively oppose the acquisition and attempt to implement its strategy, but its history shows that it will consent to an acquisition at the right price and even participate in a restructuring of the company or alternative transaction. Approval of the acquisition will only require a majority vote of the shareholders, and management owns approximately 19% of the common stock. Moreover, the shareholder base is not made up of shareholders who have a history of fighting transactions approved by the board.
-- Kenneth Squire
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Dr. Yasser Emad, of Cairo University, Egypt, and colleagues used proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy to examine the function of the hippocampus in 15 patients with fibromyalgia syndrome and in10 healthy women who were the same age as the other patients.
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SINGAPORE -- (Marketwired) -- 02/10/14 -- Konica Minolta, Inc. launched its new Asia Pacific Business Innovation Centre (BIC) in Singapore today.
The centre in Singapore is one of the five BICs the Company plans to establish around the world to facilitate and accelerate the growth of its Information and Communications Technology (ICT) services business. The function of the BIC is to initiate, support and manage new business and technology development, as well as to incubate new ICT service businesses for Konica Minolta. The BIC will manage the entire lifecycle of service development and incubation activities, from ideation, proof-of-concepts and pilot programs to business development and actual business deployment activities.
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The BIC's activities will complement Konica Minolta's Research and Development (R&D) in the creation of new service businesses. Konica Minolta currently has R&D centres in Japan and USA, focusing on fields of imaging, optics, materials and nano-fabrication to create new values to the existing business fields of business technologies, healthcare, measuring instruments, and industrial materials.
"The decision to locate the Asia Pacific BIC in Singapore underscores Konica Minolta's confidence in Singapore as an attractive hub for Asia Pacific regional innovation activities. Singapore's central location in one of the world's most dynamic, high-growth regions, combined with its vibrant innovation community, strong infrastructure and support network, make it an ideal choice to locate our Asia Pacific innovation centre," said Mr Yuji Ichimura, General Manager, ICT Service Business Operations, Konica Minolta, Inc.
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Aerosmith ft. Hikakin Live?! Aerosmith, one of America's most renown rock band, did a live performance a few nights ago and guess who beatbox'd his way on to the stage? The famous beat boxer Hikakin from Japan! If you're not … READ MORE


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I know my lil princess needs to stay in there and grow a little bit longer, but holy crap i cant wait to see her pretty lil face! i have 2 boys right now and could really use a girl in the house. hurry up 42 days! Any one else due Dec 9th?
42 Days Left!! Due Dec 9th
Posted 10/28/2012
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Posted 10/28/2012
I'm due Dec 9!!!
The fact that I probably won't make it that far makes me so much more anxious.
The fact that I probably won't make it that far makes me so much more anxious.
5/7/08 ODS, 2/14/12 m/c at 12 weeks 12/8/12 YDS
#3 due 2/24/14 praying for PINK
shanigray88 · Original Poster
Posted 10/28/2012
this is my third baby so im guessing i wont make it either. i guessing the last week of nov. yikes!!!!
Posted 10/28/2012
Me too! But I'm so nervous he'll come sooner. Although it has been a fairly comfortable pregnancy, maybe my baby boy is comfortable in there.
Posted 10/28/2012
I'm due the 9th but scheduled section on the 3rd! So excited for my little girl!
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Kingston born - August 2, 2009
Kennedy - November 22, 2012 (due date Dec 9/12)
Posted 10/28/2012
I am also due on the 9th. I can't wait to meet my little man!!!
Tiffany(27) married (6/30/2010) to DC (28)
Parents to Alijaha Danielle (2/08) and Averie Andrade (12/12)
Posted 10/28/2012
Me too! It's exciting and scary all at once(FTM) lol!! I'm kind of worried my ob will want to take him earlier due to my bp.
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What does Olav mean?
Olav /olav/ as a boys' name is of Old Norse derivation, and the meaning of Olav is "ancestor's relic". Olav is an alternate spelling, with the suffix -v, of Olaf (Old Norse): a royal name in Norway.
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Olav is a rare first name for men. Olav is an equivalently rare last name too for both adults and children. (2000 U.S. Demographics)
Popular alternative forms of Olav (not in Top 2000) listed in the Top 2000 are Olin (#1761 the previous year), Olle, Olof, Ole, Olaf and Ola. Other forms, like Olaff, are uncommon. These forms of Olav reached the apex of their popularity in the 1880s (adoption of 0.06%) and are now much less widespread, with versions like Olin falling out of fashion. Shown below is a comparison of the popularity of the boy name Olav and related names. (2014 Birth Statistics)
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Deontay Wilder Blows Out Kertson Manswell In One Round
By Jake Donovan
While the best amateur boxers in the world showcase their skills in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, the last American to win a medal took center staged in his first televised headliner.
Unbeaten heavyweight prospect Deontay Wilder (24-0, 24KO) didn't stick around for very long, blowing out late sub Kertson Manswell (22-6, 17KO) in the first round of their main event at Mobile Convention Center Expo Hall in Mobile, AL.
Wilder scored three knockdowns on the night, flooring Manswell early into the bout and never looking back. Manswell struggled to get his legs under him, making him a siting duck until the home state favorite finished him for good courtesy of a left hook.
The official time was 2:10 of round one.
Jayson Velez overcame a slow start to knock out Leiva Brea in the sixth round of their televised co-feature.
The unbeaten super bantamweight prospect struggled to get his offensive going early on as Brea - loser in seven of his last ten bouts - came to fight. Once Velez was able to establish his timing and pacing, the bout permanently swung in his favor.
A subtle boxing lesson began to develop until Velez caught Brea - and the audience - off guard with a flurry along the ropes. A series of head shots was punctuated by a picture perfect left hook which floored Brea, who took an eight count before the bout was waved off at 1:47 of round six.
Velez advances to 19-0 (14KO) in just his second fight outside of his native Puerto Rico. Brea - fighting for first time in 16 months - falls to 19-10-3 (9KO).
Dmitry Salita (34-1-1, 18KO) saw action in a televised swing bout, scoring a fourth round knockout of veteran Roberto Valenzuela (65-63-2, 54KO).
The once-beaten contender ended a 16-month ring hiatus in returning to the ring, as his name surfaced as a potential future opponent for welterweight titlist Paul Malignaggi, who served as color commentator for the broadcast. A win was needed in order to better sell the all-Brooklyn showdown, hence his traveling down south to shake some ring rust.
Salita wasted no time in reacquanting himself with the ring, digging to the body early in building a foundation. The strategy worked as Salita went to town before forcing Valenzuela to wilt in round four.
Jake Donovan is the Managing Editor of Boxingscene.com. Follow Jake on Twitter: @JakeNDaBox
User Comments and Feedback (Register For Free To Comment) Comment by BostonGuy on 08-07-2012
After beating a can 'o the month for the last several years, I think Wilder's ready to step up to some decent competition. He beat Manswell impressively as he should have. Also, can't understand why some many fans are ripping…Comment by richman on 08-05-2012
I'd like to see him fight seth mitchell,chaz witherspoon, tyson fury or chris arreola, just to see where he's at. He isn't ready for the klits yet, their too polish and he's raw, the xfactor is his power but i…Comment by TaurusJ27 on 08-05-2012
Good k.o. by Wilder.Comment by Enzo Mc is SHIT on 08-05-2012
Yeah, but Vitali had the background. Wilder needs to step up a little more next time and look at a proper gatekeeper late next year.Comment by Daïa on 08-05-2012
Good. Fight a better opponent next time. At 24(24)-0 Vitali was a champ.Post a Comment/View More User Comments (16)
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The Abundance of NothingPoems
By Bruce Weigl
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY PRESSCopyright © 2012 Bruce Weigl
All right reserved.
Chapter OnePART I My Dimension
I love the guest house on Nguyen Du. I slept
inside the linen net, my windows open wide
to let the spirits in who come to visit
from the lake. I've seen them in a chorus,
their white shapes in the garden where the lotus blossom
has to be content to swirl in
just one place, the fishpond crowded, the quiet fountain
only barely there. I share my room
with geckos on the wall who chirp their discontent—
the lack of bugs, my modern pesticides—
and with a rat who visits when I shower;
he cleans himself beside me on the floor,
and soon, I wash like him, beyond the gaze
that knows there's room for both of us to live.
The End of My Career in Dance
What I have in my head is a wail of words that sometimes makes sense if I can
hold on to their wildness long enough
to tell you how the air around your face in the half-light Texas evening
shone. The only way around the truth is to lie. I am nothing
without you, should be more difficult to say,
or it must mean that there's some riff
in the flow of how things ought to be,
some disruption that needs mending with a kiss,
followed by a thousand more kisses,
and a light only eyes can share
across the distance named longing.
There were witnesses to this,
including angels,
so you don't have to take my word alone.
There's love, and then there's nothing, and it took my breath away
like a hand around my throat, or like a pistol
pressed to my head, is how I remember it.
Late winter storm makes it all white again; late March and so cold I
can't get warm in my skin, and although I wanted to sing outside,
I pissed instead a circle into the snow because I could. I don't know
if this is a conundrum or not, but my brain is free of hardware
so the words come in a new order, like laps of waves to the needy shore, oh boy.
I married the wife of the sky, and I don't know if that means trouble or not,
but secrets course through her skin.
On the road inside her, her love wildly grows. No exits. That love.
My Checkered Past
A painted dog keeps coming to my head;
he's red and black, no bigger than your hand,
as if he's painted on a piece of wood.
I don't know who the dog in question is;
there are so many in my checkered past
including those that I betrayed sometimes
to death. I left one in an angry field with an angry man
I knew would want to kill the dog for nothing more
than nothing else to do.
He said he couldn't hunt; he might as well be dead.
I took the easy way because I wasn't brave. I turned away,
I could not watch his face. A painted dog keeps coming to my head.
Thank You for Thinking of You
I stood in the dirty snow, the slag soot-stained snow
around the steel mill neighborhood
in a too-thin jacket
shivering for my shabby sins.
Thank you, nurse, who let my heart bleed out
one lonely post-neurological night.
I could swim or I could drown,
depending on your illegitimate care.
Thank you Sgt. X, for leaving me
behind on the abandoned LZ,
where all night small arms fire
crackled in the trees along the river,
night of my downfall that won't go away.
Thank you teacher, coach,
who fondled my dick and my balls,
telling me I had to be checked.
Now are the lost days
I calculate with the digits of your cold hands.
Thank you for thinking of you.
I Almost Didn't See
The toad was trapped; the drain was overflowed
from flooded downspouts in a summer storm.
He was a young and handsome toad, still lean from tadpole days,
so I wanted to reach down
to lift him from the whirlpool he struggled to survive, but I wavered there.
I'd come outside to watch the storm roll in its black and roiled clouds,
the rain we needed, rare as peace.
He had to learn how not to die himself.
He didn't drown; I didn't reach to pull him out.
In the Rest of the World, the Worry Is Very Big
As if this is the world
you would make: nakedness,
captionless photographs,
grim motels drenched in night
rain, love in foreign places,
like where the soldiers
cry, and hold your hand down
Bernauer Strasse, by the small
lake on which you watched
the eclipse, holding the little
girl's hand, and shading her
eyes, all those suffering
years ago, the memory
of murder (themselves and
the others) hanging
in the air like a mist. Some of us
think we're not dead,
only chagrined, all propaganda reduced,
like everything else,
to metaphor.
Some people make up
reasons to kill you
in your sleep, while you
face the door, wall at your
back (or like the day the
old man butchered
the coop full of pigeons
because they kept flying
back home). Anything murdered
makes a horrible cry.
Ice Storm
I got my own personal Jacob's ladder,
buddy, reader, listener to this
sad song. I built a temple for the ghosts
because they just kept coming. When I try
to sing, I have a lark in my throat.
I like it when the words are little
daggers, flying through the air like frozen rain.
My Dimension
Beautiful weather here now,
if you're blind. Summer,
with that fall bite in the night air,
and through my window,
the tree frogs hum like a flood.
We don't like redundancies.
We think only other people repeat their stories.
I thought I saw a world.
I thought I saw someone's
boot on someone else's neck.
Elegy for the Dead, Whom I Love
The cemetery walls in disrepair,
some markers even toppled by the roving boys
who come at night to damage what they can,
as if to leave some wreckage in their wake.
And it's not right to do this to the dead;
not even stupid idleness should lead them here.
Yet they have come and gone; the day will soon
forget their names; the dead will bear it all
and won't complain, their headstones knocked away.
Self-Portrait After "Hotel Insomnia"
I wanted my little planet,
its heart eating the brick patio,
yet sparing the guests.
Next door was a peacock.
A few cities ago,
a crippled infant came to dine—
my blue baby.
Mostly though, it was brilliant:
each bosom with its spider of heavy jewelry,
bathing its ax in a tub
of cigarette lies and insignificant loss.
So sweet,
I could not ease my pain, even with the moving van.
At 5 A.M., the twist of bare bodies
everywhere, and the murderous nanny,
whose tunnel is in the ghetto,
longs to vote after a campaign of lies.
Once too, the "eek" of a toy, breaking.
So near it was, I surrendered
my body. I waited for the vision.
I've walked all day through corn stubble fields of snow
hunting rabbits, and killed more than a few,
and later cooked and ate them too
with my friend who killed many rabbits beside me.
I loved him. We wrestled like brothers
in the summer grass and slept together
in a sleepover bed. Now he's alive
inside his dream of an airplane
crashing into mountains, his friends dead and bloody
in the wreckage, and he safe at home
in the West Virginia of his guilt. I grieve
for the frozen bodies in the snow.
I grieve for my friend who believes
he should have been with them no matter what you say.
I grieve for the rabbits I blasted
painfully into death; like me,
they were only souls,
being something in the world, ever after.
The Caves at Bai Non Nuoc
The children want to take me to the caves;
they grab my hand and lead me in the dark.
The story in the village says two soldiers,
who were lost and without guns, had wandered
down the village road, perhaps to see
what light it could have been that shined ahead—
the temple where the students wrote their prayers.
The people's soldiers owned the night; they knew
that they had visitors: the word passed all
along the beach and village road. A boy
who's only four or five warns me to watch
my head. Inside the cave it's cool. He shines
his light and says, that's where they died. They tried
to hide inside the cave, he says, and laughs.
Someone had left him in the cold,
the black and white cat I found at the pound,
and the kind people took him in
once they had reported to work.
They put him in a cage with a blanket, some food and water,
where I found him,
and how could I have said no to Bill,
named to honor my uncle
who'd won a Silver Star
for glider landings in the dark, and who asked the nurse,
the last time I took him to the VA hospital, in Lorain, Ohio,
which is another kind of story, just days before he died,
"You don't work for that Kevorkian, do you?"
Bill lies across the table where I try to work. He stretches his long body
precisely out across the paper
so it's impossible to write a single word.
The Room
I didn't want to ever lose your face,
the way you found me in the darkened room,
my brain an open wound and me not sure
of anything. The gurney wheels brought me
here to you; the morphine freely came,
yet it was more the sweetness of your voice,
the way your hand felt on my brow, the way
you leaned the weight of you against the pull
of other duties waiting down the hall
that eased me back, the anesthesia gone.
Then I awoke, and you no longer there,
and what I wanted has the name of everything:
the brain relieved, the pretty scar, the room
whose dark I lavished in, and you in me.
My Life with Cats
Cats are easily inhabited by the dead.
If you call a new cat by the name
of a recently dead,
the dead will come back inside of that cat.
I've seen this happen in my own family.
I've seen cats curl around cancer
not yet diagnosed, night after night.
Cats will prolong the kill
like no other animal
except humans.
Pastoral as Complaint
The robin is so quarrelsome. He barks
to no one in the trees; he fluffs his body
twice its size and rattles in the leaves.
He doesn't know or won't accept
the nest is empty now; the eggs are broken
on the ground. The storm was quick, we didn't
see it come; no sound above the hum
a summer morning makes when god is in
her place and we are free of tragedies
that pile up along the way. The robin
is so quarrelsome; he thinks his life
is gone just like the nest, but he is like
the rest of us, it's only now begun;
his life without her, only now begun.
My Mother, Fading
The skunks tear up the yard for grubs,
but I will not wait up;
they are too many, and what could you do?
Cold, but the sun out all day, and my mother
in her new forgetfulness
says over and over,
how lovely it is that it's cold,
but that the sun is out too.
In her eyes for the first time,
the terrified look the lost
almost imperceptibly assume,
mad beyond our maddening, irrelevant care.
I take her by her hand, to show her
where the skunks had fed for grubs
and tore my lawn to shreds; she laughs.
One Lie
The light suffuses me, dearest ones,
you who expect me to live forever; the light
shoots straight through my body, although I can
grit my teeth now to almost any pain, and even
miss the pain when it's gone, as when the light is gone
at the boundary between things. That's all I want to say
about that now, because the howls and the cries of
all the people abandoned in the storm Katrina
are like the radical flaw of reason, like
the insufficiency of reason, as seen
in the bodies of people floating in the floodwaters
of the Mississippi. You can tie things together
if you like. You can say that one thing is connected
to the other, and so on, and so forth, on past our wildest
imaginings, so that you may believe that the world is
held together somehow, and that the shapes of things,
and the million dialogues, and the billion monologues
all add up to something discernible, sometimes something even holy.
Anyhow, it's a beautiful lie. It's a lie you can strap on
and live with for a long time, and imagine is your life.
My Nymphomaniac
Too young to know any god
damn thing about women I stood in the
alley with one Karen Mendez who
told me she was a nympho and who said she
had a rubber, neither of which I could
identify but I could tell from the
way her eyes lit up in the dark alley
and the way she moved her thirteen-year-old
body in the fractured light that came
to us there that something important
was about to happen then she reached her
long fingers under the legs of my shorts and
found me so my legs straightened out on their
own as if I were at attention then
she kissed my mouth so I couldn't breathe my
god and she pulled her own shorts off and tried
to climb up on top of me there in the
alley and I began to think that I'd
made a mistake and set myself up for
some trouble as the alley closed in on us
like night and she rubbed against me
in a rhythm I remembered from some other
time and place and I could hear voices from the
corner where my pals hung out whom I longed
for, and I could hear music from someone's
record player leak out into the night
sky and seem to settle there for a moment
and then disappear
For My Neighbors
The faux stone naked torsos in my neighbor's garden must signify something,
as this coffin I carry around on my back means something—
my bed, or my field to lay myself down in—you know. I love my neighbors,
even the ones I don't know, and so must imagine lives for; even those
who hide behind their curtains in the heavy odor of their secrets
that spread and tangle like vines until there is nothing left to see or to love.
We are all in this together, this lawn mowing and leaf raking until death,
this trash hauling and gutter cleaning metaphysics; it's what we have
in common, and I am grateful for the dogs walked past my house,
and for their shrill barking in the early morning cold, like today for example,
and even though you don't know my name, I am happy to be among you,
safe in our unspoken village, the walls of our courtesy
like broken glass–embedded stone.
Self-Portrait in the Third Person at Fifty-Eight
I knocked on the door of his forehead, but there was nobody home,
so I looked into his eyes and saw straight through to another time.
I shouted into his ear, but only whimpers came back, only cries,
because that's his nature, as it's the scorpion's
nature to sting the frog who lets it ride its back across the river
so they both drown. When he drowned, he later remembered it
as only a slightly uncomfortable moment or two of confusion,
because that's the way he's come to love the body's frail way,
the winding down to dust along the road, bui doi.
As the popular girl walks among us with the microphone,
most of our stories are about loss,
or include exquisitely precise
medical and pharmaceutical details,
as if the words could suture the wounds, or save us even one last breath.
I came to dance with the Puerto Rican women
of my class of 1967, and to remember a few pals lost in the war,
who had been so beautiful, you were happy just to look upon them,
and one more boy
lost to his own drunken wildness
under a moon who doesn't remember us.
It's not a going back we long for, but a staying still
for one incomparable moment, all the lost loves' faces
spinning in the mirrored ball.
The Country That We Love
Before the stand that sold peaches and sweet corn in the summer,
someone had stood up a mannequin,
dressed in a gold lamé bikini and red wig
with tiny American flags in each hand that undulated in the breeze,
and I thought, isn't this the country that we love,
isn't this perspective of clouds and despair deeper than usual,
vultures circling lazily in the distance, as if at the end of a long tunnel.
At the end of the day, it rains through some sunlight. Birds gather.
They gather and swarm and make their biometric shapes against a white sky.
Elegy for Anna N.
That mad urge to pull words up my throat and out of my mouth
can be no more than a passing fancy,
especially when it's so cold outside; even for the spirits
it's cold, but a body is floating inside of our heads
and her lovers won't put her into the ground,
or even set her on fire. Look what we made of her
are not the words of a song
although they sound that way, I know.
If you sing your life in a certain way,
it can sound like a song of the blue and opiate water.
The Way Dante Moved Virgil Through Hell
Please, your words fly past
so quickly I am dizzy, sick,
like when clouds
zoom past so quick,
like at the carnival, remember
the dying shopping mall,
horrific in the archive of somehow,
but it was not a strange gratuity of clowns,
and had more to do with
some roughnecks who ran the rides,
but I can't remember,
so don't walk me down that
alleyway between tents,
muddy from the recent rain;
(why have they let us
out so late, and alone?).
There's scurrying,
but I don't know if it's
in my head or not;
I don't know if it's
inside of time or not;
the Tilt-a-Whirl was not my last escape,
so into the rubber night I crept,
nothing in my mind but thoughts,
then later, behind the sodden, artsy
warehouse of random longing,
behind the invasion of
certain thoughts (like having soup
later, with the girl from Binh Luc)
that have the will to lift you up
right off your feet into contrails
above the stadium
where I found some words
whispered from blowing limbs of willow
trees far away, but also alive in night sky
right above our heads as we tried
to get over the strangeness
that lingered like a thing lingers
when there's been some
hurtful problem
that sends you reeling
into thoughts of dying's
bright and faithful enterprise,
and even at the Sheetz
twenty-four-hour coffee bar,
my dying body fell in love with strangers.
Oh, the light off of that lake is so inviting
that I think of this as the end of my life,
as in the phrase
"the end of his life,"
and it could happen to you
that some cool air
blows through the window
extravagantly open to the
unattended night,
so you're delivered,
rapture style,
to another place. It
happens (to me) all the time.
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Bessie Disney, 103, of Le Mars, died Tuesday, April 6, 2004, at Plymouth Manor Care Center in Le Mars.
Bessie Grothe was born March 31, 1901, in Oklahoma, the daughter of Sam and Annie (Johnson) Grothe. Bessie was raised near Cheyenne, Wyo. She was united in marriage to Frank Raymond on June 21, 1921 at Rawlins, Wyo. They lived in San Pablo, Calif., and later moved to Grants Pass, Ore. Bessie was later married to Jim Disney in November 1948 at Reno, Nev. Jim died May 22, 1984.
Bessie moved to Le Mars in 1998 to be near her daughter, Martha Smith. In August 2002, at the age of 101, Bessie moved to Plymouth Manor Care Center.
Through the years, Bessie enjoyed gardening, canning, crocheting, and going fishing.
Survivors include her two daughters, Martha Smith of Le Mars and Margaret Heitz of Gold Hill, Ore.; a son and daughter-in-law, Frank and Lolly Raymond of Little Sioux; 20 grandchildren, 47 great-grandchildren, 63 great-great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her two husbands, Frank Raymond and Jim Disney; a son, Albert Earl Raymond; two grandchildren, Lucky Rolfes and Rusty Williams; and three brothers and seven sisters.
Graveside services will be 11:15 a.m. Friday at Graceland Cemetery near Blencoe, Iowa. Visitations will be after 10 a.m. Friday morning at the Rush Funeral Home in Onawa. Arrangements are with the Carlsen Funeral Home of Le Mars.