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FARGO N.D. — Kira Larson scored 21 points and led three Fargo North players in double figures as the Spartans opened the 2012-13 high school girls basketball season on Saturday with a 61-47 win over Devils Lake at the Fargo North gym. Larson, a senior who will be playing volleyball and competing in track next year at the University of Nebraska, connected on seven of 15 shots from the floor and was seven of 10 from the foul line. She also grabbed a game-high 15 rebounds. Emma Bergeron and Courtney Johnson also reached double digits for the Spartans with 11 and 10 points, respectively, Devils Lake was led by Christa Lysne and Emily Schafer with 13 points each. Madison Walford grabbed 11 rebounds to lead the Firebirds in that department. "We had our chances," Devils Lake coach Justin Klein said. "We just dug ourselves too deep of a hole." The Firebirds (0-1) will play Grand Forks Red River on Friday at the Devils Lake Sports Center and will entertain West Fargo the following day as part of a doubleheader with the DLHS boys team. Devils Lake (47): Christa Lysne 13, Emily Schafer 13, Madison Walford 7, Morghan Carew 4, Dru Lunday 3, Randii Widmer 3, Jadyn Fee 2, Alexa Gathman 2. Fargo North (61): Kira Larson 21, Emma Bergeron 11, Courtney Johnson 10, Julia Dehne 7, Kim Muellenberg 6, Kelsie Schmiess 3, Carmen Ross 2, Sally Fischer 1. 3-pointers: Devils Lake 1 (Schafer 1), Fargo North 4 (Bergeron 3, Dehne 1). Rebounds: Devils Lake 35 (Walford 14, Lysne 7, Lunday 6), Fargo North 42 (Larson 15). Fouls: Devils Lake 21, Fargo North 20. Fouled out: Widmer. Assists: Devils Lake 9 (Walford 2, Lunday 2, Gathman 2, Lysne 2), Fargo North 12 (Bergeron 3). Steals: Devils Lake 0, Fargo North 17 (Bergeron 3, Johnson 3, Muellenberg 3, Dehne 3. Blocked shots: Devils Lake 0, Fargo North 1 (Bergeron 1). Turnovers: Devils Lake 16, Fargo North 16. Halftime: Fargo North 43-25
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- Apr 17:
- Boston bombing: Feds deny reports of suspect in custody
- Apr 16:
- Boston Marathon bombs were packed into pressure cookers filled with shrapnel
- Apr 15:
- Purdy: Remember Boston bombing next time in line
- Runner's World founder has tearful reunion with son after explosion
- Boston Marathon explosions: Bay Area marathon runners describe chaotic scene after detonations
- Boston Marathon explosion: Early photos from the scene
While it remains too early to fully place blame for Monday's sinister bomb attack at the Boston Marathon, it is abundantly clear that this was an act of terror against the United States.
Whether the perpetrators of this evil act turn out to be foreign or domestic, the fact remains that they are terrorists.
At last count there were three dead and more than 150 injured, including a 12-year-old Martinez boy. There were a number of the injured who suffered amputation of limbs.
The bomb did not inflict the kind carnage that occurred during 9/11, but it does serve as a painful reminder of that horrible day nearly 13 years ago.
Placing a bomb at a public event such as the marathon usually is designed to serve two purposes: first to do maximum damage and second to scare the victims into changing their lifestyle. The result makes people feel unsafe and unprotected.
The chill created by the notion of dead children and severed body parts strewed about the streets of Boston has done just that. At least temporarily.
But Americans should not be cowed. As it did after 9/11 and the Oklahoma City bombing, the nation will survive this and carry on.
The FBI is leading the investigation of this bombing. It has the kind of resources needed to effectively conduct such a monumental investigation. Leads on this matter could stretch halfway around the world.
It was two explosions 16 seconds apart at about 2:50 p.m. that rocked the finish-line area at Monday's marathon. The marathon is one of America's most iconic and interactive sporting events, which may explain why it was the target.
The initial response by authorities to the crisis was responsible. Air traffic at Boston's Logan Airport was quickly halted, police closed off sections of city and state troopers and National Guard members descended on the city to patrol.
President Barack Obama was right to remind the nation not to jump to specific conclusions about who may have been responsible for this act or why. It may take a while, but we have every confidence that the FBI will pursue the bomber or bombers and they will be punished to the fullest extent of the law. In the meantime, our hearts and prayers go out to the blast's victims and their families.

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Wednesday, February 13, 2013
With the Precision of a Railroad Man
Posted by Shreve & Co. at 11:09:19 PM in Ball (26)
If you want to know the time, ask a railroad man. His time is accurate to the dot and three chances out of four, he is wearing a sleek Ball Watch. The history of railroad development and accurate timepieces are intermingled, and Ball Watches played a crucial role from the very beginning. Before trains were a common mode of travel, local communities kept local times. But when railroads were built and trains travelled back and forth different states, the need for Standard time arose for smooth railroad operations. Webb C. Ball was the first jeweller to use time signals in his chronographs, bringing accurate Standard time to his local Cleveland. A dismal train collision prompted Ball to implement strict standards forbidding time variations of 30 seconds among all railroad watches. This tradition of precision is still carried out today among the railroad workers and the Ball watchmakers. Accuracy is the continuing battle cry of Ball Watch. Their stylish timepieces are available in select jewelry dealers like Shreve & Co. at Post Street, San Francisco.
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Definition of printing in English:
noun[mass noun]
1The production of books, newspapers, or other printed material: the invention of printing [as modifier]: the printing industry
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- Before the invention of printing, books were produced entirely by hand by a series of painters, calligraphers, and binders.
- Nicholas V died in 1455, unaware of Johannes Gutenberg's invention of printing with moveable metal types in Mainz, Germany.
- The importance of his book is that it was printed (book printing was invented just a short time before by Gutenberg) and many copies were therefore available.
1.1 [count noun] A single impression of a book: the second printing was ready just after Christmas
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- Will new printings of traditional books be issued on demand, or printed in advance and warehoused?
- A microfiche edition of the first printings of Mathilde's works has recently been published by IDC in the Netherlands.
- A sufficiently high number of pre-orders would push the book into multiple printings early on and guarantee a high ranking.
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West Alabama softball team sweeps Delta State
Published: Monday, April 22, 2013 at 3:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, April 21, 2013 at 11:19 p.m.
LIVINGSTON | A trio of University of West Alabama pitchers limited Delta State to one run on the way to sweeping the Lady Statesmen in a Gulf South Conference doubleheader Sunday. The Tigers won the opener 5-1 and the second game 4-0.
The sweep extended UWA's winning streak to four games and improved the Tigers to 27-16 overall and 14-14 in Gulf South play. Delta State dropped to 16-31 and 8-20.
Sarah Ray (16-6) went the distance for UWA to earn the win in first game, allowing just four hits and striking out five.
Ashley Osier (4-0) and Jessica Brock combined on a four-hit shutout in the second game. Brock worked three scoreless innings for her first save.
UWA was efficient in game one, using five hits to produce five runs. Michael Robertson was 2-for-3 with a pair of runs batted in for the Tigers, including her seventh home run of the season, a solo shot in the fifth inning.
Stephanie Shoup hit her fifth home run, a two-run shot to center field, to lead the UWA offense in game two. Osier helped herself with a two-run single in the bottom of the fourth. The Tigers used just five hits to score four runs in the second game.
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The California Supreme Court on Monday reinstated an Oakland man's conviction for fatally "body slamming" his 14-month-old son in a 2003 assault the father told police was meant to "toughen up" the boy for life in Oakland.
In a unanimous ruling, the Supreme Court restored Reginald Wyatt's convictions for involuntary manslaughter and assault on a child causing death, preserving his 25-years-to-life prison sentence for the fatal assault on Reginald Wyatt Jr. It is the second time the Supreme Court has intervened and reversed a lower-court ruling setting aside Wyatt's 2008 conviction.
The decision Monday rejected an appeals court's finding that Wyatt's trial was tainted by a judge's failure to properly instruct an Alameda County jury.
"The prosecution's evidence supported its theory that defendant was guilty of administering multiple blunt force blows to Reginald (Jr.) that caused massive internal trauma and resulted in his death," Justice Marvin Baxter wrote.
Wyatt told police at the time of his arrest that he did not intend to harm his son, calling the assault "play wrestling." Court records show the father slammed his 31-pound son into a bed, hit him in the chest, elbowed him in the head and hoisted him by his neck, causing fatal injuries likened at trial to being in a car accident.
The defense argued that Wyatt did not intend to harm or seriously injure the boy, and should have been convicted of a lesser assault charge.
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Can Democrats Use Obamacare to Persuade Voters?
Are there any voters left who haven't made up their minds about the Affordable Care Act? Not many, but Democrats are counting on a few at the margins to come their way.
Tracking polls by the Kaiser Family Foundation suggest that support for and opposition to the law have remained about the same over the last six months, even as the law's impact began to be felt in people's lives, for better and worse.
But there remains a narrow band of voters whose attitude toward the law and whose political allegiance may still be up for grabs: Voters who don't like the law but don't want it repealed.
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In the last Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, 49% of those surveyed said that the law was a bad idea. But some 10% of those critics of the law said they would rather vote for a Democrat who promised to fix the law than a Republican who wanted to repeal it. Another 14% had no opinion of the law — and those people were about twice as likely to support a Democrat who wanted to fix it than a Republican bent on repeal.
That swath of voters is one target of opportunity for Democrats seeking to turn the law to their advantage — or at least stem the political damage its disastrous rollout has caused. That is why President Barack Obama and some Democrats are trying to focus attention on the problems of the health-care system that would resurface if the law was repealed — such as the return of insurance companies' ability to charge women higher rates or deny coverage because of a pre-existing medical commission.
Mr. Obama last week went to the White House press room to lambast Republicans for continuing to call for repeal of a law that is helping a growing number of people, and urged his fellow Democrats to embrace the law proudly and extol its benefits.
The response from vulnerable Democrats was not exactly an "amen chorus." But some have been testing the waters of a more pro-Obamacare line of argument. A political action committee supporting Sen. Mark Begich (D., Alaska), Put Alaska First, has run an ad that features a cancer survivor who was denied insurance in the past because of a pre-existing condition. "I now have health insurance again because of Mark Begich," the woman says.
An ad in support of Rep. Nick Rahall (D., W.Va.) by House Majority PAC features a person accusing Mr. Rahall's Republican opponent of supporting past insurance practices of "letting insurance companies charge women more for health care."
But in a sign of how gun-shy Democrats remain about embracing the law, neither of those ads mentions the Affordable Care Act by name.
One big obstacle to Democrats trying to turn the health-care issue to their advantage is the fact that the issue matters a lot more to its critics than it does to its supporters.
An early April poll by the Pew Research Center found that 60% of the voters who opposed the health law said that a candidate's position on the issue will be very important to their vote. By contrast, only 48% of the people who supported the law said it would be very important to their vote.
That raises the broader question for Democrats as they navigate the winds of Hurricane Obamacare: Even if they can change people's minds about the law, will that change their votes in the fall?
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Cascade impaction is mandated by the regulators for the measurement of aerodynamic particle size for all orally inhaled and nasal drug products (OINDPs). Multistage cascade impactors are used to size-fractionate a sample on the basis of particle inertia, uniquely enabling measurement of the particle-size distribution of the active ingredient, rather than of the complete formulation. The resulting information is crucial when assessing the likely deposition behavior of the drug during inhalation and is also widely taken to be an in vitro indicator of delivery efficiency.
Through development and into quality control (QC), cascade impaction generates significant amounts of data. For newcomers to the technique, understanding how to process and use data for comparative testing can be a significant challenge. On the other hand, those leading the industry are currently involved in an active debate over the best metrics for characterizing OINDP particle size and the optimal way of measuring them.
Beginning with an introduction to the technique of multistage cascade impaction, this article discusses analysis of the resulting data. A particular focus is the different calculation methods used to determine mass median aerodynamic diameter (MMAD). MMAD is one of the metrics most widely adopted as a single number descriptor of aerodynamic particle-size distribution (APSD), and the topic of a recent Pharmacopoeial Forum Stimuli article (1). We conclude with a review of current industry thinking as to the most appropriate way to characterize OINDP particle size, outlining abbreviated impactor measurement (AIM) and the thinking behind efficient data analysis (EDA).Multistage cascade impaction
Importantly, the cut-off diameter associated with a given stage is a function of the air-flow rate used for testing. To reflect in-use performance, nebulizers are routinely tested at 15 L/min and dry powder inhalers may be tested at flow rates up to 100 L/min. A detailed discussion of test flow rates is beyond the scope of this article but is covered in the literature (2). For data analysis, it is simply sufficient to recognize that the processing of raw data must account for the influence of the test conditions on stage cut-off diameter.
The most widely used full resolution cascade impactors (e.g., Andersen Cascade Impactor and Next Generation Impactor) separate a sample into 7–8 discrete size fractions depending on the set-up used. Analysis of each fraction, typically by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), determines the amount of active collected at each stage. Once this step is complete, and the stage cut-off diameter at the sampling flow rate defined, the analyst has the raw data needed to produce an APSD for the active ingredient of the OINDP. This is a plot of cumulative mass collected on each stage against stage cut-off diameter.


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Libeskind's Met Life Tower plans DEC 02 2008
When I profiled the Metropolitan Life Tower (and an unusual postscript) a couple of months ago, I mentioned that Daniel Libeskind was working on an addition to the building that would dwarf the iconic clock tower. New York magazine has a rendering of what the building might look like, taken from the architect's new book.
Initial designs show a glass-curtained tube with cutaways spiraling up and around the facade to reveal segments of terraced verdure, like cultivated patches on the side of a steep alpine slope. "We didn't just fill up the tower," the architect says. "We've taken space away [from the apartments] to create the gardens," which are actually balconies tucked within the envelope. "It's as if nature has come back into the city," he says.
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ST. LOUIS -- Apparently, Hunter Pence isn't the only one capable of a rousing speech.
Manager Bruce Bochy gave the slumping outfielder a pep talk before Game 4 of the National League Championship Series.
Pence responded with a 451-foot home run in his first at-bat.
It was a welcome sight for a Giants offense that was in desperate need for more than just words. Pence entered the night 5 for 31 (.161) this postseason. His second-inning home run Thursday represented his first extra-base hit and first RBI.
One miserable night earlier, Pence blamed himself for the Giants' 3-1 loss, saying "I'm the goat today. I didn't get the job done."
That's what prompted Bochy to approach the two-time All-Star.
"He was pretty hard on himself after the game. I just said, 'We don't do that here,' " Bochy recounted. "We all could have done something maybe to help in that ballgame. I looked at myself and thought of things I could have done differently.
"But (Pence) took full responsibility, which he shouldn't have."
Pence was just 1 for 11 (.091) in the first three games against the Cardinals. In the previous series, against the Cincinnati Reds, his biggest contribution was a Knute Rockne-style speech credited for helping the Giants rally back from a two-games-to-none deficit.
On Thursday, Bochy dropped Pence to sixth in the order, moving Buster Posey, Pablo Sandoval and Hector Sanchez into the 3-4-5 spots. But Bochy never considered benching Pence.
"Certain players, I believe you need them in the lineup," Bochy said. "I think you need them for their presence, their energy, how much their teammates respect them and the way they play the game.
"I don't believe, except in rare occasions, that you sit a player like that unless he's absolutely lost."
"Carlos went through some tests, and everything came back pretty clear," manager Mike Matheny said. "But it's still bothering him to the point where we can't start him."
Beltran was available as a pinch hitter in Game 4. His availability for the remainder of the series is unknown.
"Really, it's too early to tell," Matheny said. "He's had things pop up through the season that we thought would be something that would put him on the shelf for a while, and the next thing you know he's out there the next day.
"I know right now we obviously have some urgency, and he knows that as well as anybody. He's going to push it if he can."
Bumgarner has a 14.73 ERA this postseason. Bochy is not worried about the long-term effects of dropping the 23-year-old left-hander out of the rotation.
"His toughness is off the charts," Bochy said. "He understands this."
Asked what he has to do differently this time around, Lynn was matter-of-fact. "Not give up four straight two"'out hits in one inning," he said.
Ozzie Smith, who won a record 13 Gold Gloves at shortstop, threw out the first pitch. Musial and Smith combined for 39 All-Star games.


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Arrest made in deaths of mom, kids
Published: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 at 7:29 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 at 7:29 a.m.
The intruder who killed a Lockport mother and her two young daughters last year has been charged with their deaths, Lafourche Parish Sheriff Craig Webre announced today.
David Brown, 34, of Houma and Texas, is charged with the Nov. 4 murders of Jacquelin Nieves, 29, Gabriela, 7, and Izabela, 20 months.
Brown was arrested soon after the killings on unrelated charges while police gathered evidence.
"This is one of the most horrific crimes in the history of Lafourche Parish," Webre said. "A loving mother and her two wonderful children were violently killed while they slept in their beds by a violent criminal monster."
If convicted of murder, Brown faces a mandatory life prison sentence.
Webre said he hopes prosecutors seek the death penalty and "his life sentence will be shortened by lethal injection." Attempts to reach prosecutors were not immediately successful.
Brown, who remains jailed on a $3.31 million bond, is charged with three counts of first-degree murder and aggravated arson, the latter for allegedly setting fire to the Nieves' Elliot Drive apartment to cover up his crime.
Jacquelin and the girls had each been stabbed at least once and two of them had been raped, police said.
Brown, who has a violent criminal history dating back to 1994, is also charged with one count of attempted first-degree murder and two counts of aggravated rape. The first charge stems from Carlos Nieves' presence in the apartment that night, authorities said. He was Jacquelin's husband and the girls' father.
Webre declined to say which of the two were attacked.
The knife used to kill the three was recovered, and DNA collected from the apartment was matched to Brown, police said.
Brown has a long and violent criminal history, police said.
Neighbors say Jacquelin and Carlos met Brown during an apartment party held to watch the LSU-Alabama football game. Brown's co-workers invited him, they said.
Some tenants in the complex didn't lock their doors that night, including Leroy Hebert, who said Brown came into his home and up to his bedroom where his wife was sleeping the night of the killings.
Jacquelin was a former nurse who took a job with shorter hours at the Walmart bakery so she could take care of her children, neighbors said. Carlos Nieves Jr. was recently laid-off from his welding job and was seeking new employment. He did not attend a morning news conference held to announce the arrest.
Gabriela went to Lockport Lower Elementary.
Izabela had just learned to say Carlos' name.
Staff Writer Matthew Albright can be reached at 448-7635 or at email@example.com.
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Mick Gleason has resigned as Executive Director of the China Lake Alliance to assume his new position as Kern County First District Supervisor.
Eileen Shibley will serve as Interim Executive Director for the CLA pending the CLA Board of Directors' selection of a permanent replacement.
Gleason will be sworn into office as the First District Supervisor on Jan. 7, 2013.
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1. Nutritional value will be evaluated by measuring protein and lipid levels and on bee longevity. The chemical composition of pollens that are more nutritious than MegaBee will be determined. 2. Determine the effects of high fructose corn syrup containing higher saccharides on honey bee longevity. 3. Determine the effects of improved nutrition of the longevity of bees parasitized by Varroa, the reproductive potential of queens, and foraging activity of colonies used for pollination.


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Please find below a selection of personally inspected country cottages in The Cotswolds.
One of the UK's most visited areas, welcome to England's
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collection of country cottages in the Cotswolds.
Some twenty-five miles across and ninety miles long, this idyllic wedge of rolling Wolds is one of Britain's most sought-after addresses, peppered with attractive market towns and picturesque, mellow stone villages such as Bourton-on-the-Water, Chipping Norton, Moreton-in-the-Marsh and Stow-on-the-Wold.
What to do on your country cottage holiday in the Cotswolds...
Pack your boots and binoculars! For panoramic views across
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Discover all kinds of amazing historical treasures and gardens
such as Sudeley Castle, Malmesbury Abbey, Beverston Castle and
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Almost immediately after Dusty Baker was fired last season, the networks came knocking. ESPN was interested, he said, as was the MLB Network and the television home of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Baker had the same answer for all of them: not yet.
"It was too soon after the fallout," the three-time manager of the year said this week.
More than that, Baker, 64, still wants employment in the dugout, not the broadcast booth (http://www.mercurynews.com/sports/ci_25137639/spring-training-dusty-baker-is-out-at-home).
After 20 years with the Giants, Chicago Cubs and Cincinnati Reds, Baker's managerial record stands at 1,671-1,504 (.526). His victory total ranks 16th all-time, one spot behind Jim Leyland and one spot ahead of Ralph Houk.
Will he get another shot?
"I really hope he gets another job. That shouldn't even be in question," said Tim Kurkjian, the ESPN analyst and longtime baseball writer.
Still, Kurkjian said, it's ominous for Baker that baseball managers are skewing younger. An increasing number of teams are looking for the new breed, a generation more open-minded to the power of sabermetrics and other analytics.
Kurkjian said that the instant success of youngsters such as Mike Matheny in St. Louis and Robin Ventura with the Chicago White Sox has helped fuel a trend in which teams are more likely to take a chance on a young guy.
Chili Davis, the A's hitting coach and Baker's longtime friend, has also noticed the trend toward the fresh faces. "Leyland and Baker are like managers from a different era, but they're still successful in what they do," he said.
Davis, who was teammates with Baker on the 1984 Giants, understands as well as anyone the way numbers are re-shaping the game. He works for the organization that spawned "Moneyball."
But he said he has no doubt that Baker can keep pace. He said that Leyland got another job after a long layoff. "Hey, even Bobby Valentine got another opportunity, for crying out loud," Davis said with a laugh.
"So Dusty will find the right situation. It's more of a numbers-based game now, with sabermetrics and WAR, but those things didn't come about in the past year. Regardless of how things are classified or how much the game has evolved, you're not going to change the foundation of the game. ... Dusty's been able to deal with that. He's won every place he's been."
Baker's unquestioned strength had always been to bring out the best in his players, which is why it was jarring that Baker's downfall in Cincinnati was blamed on a lack of fire. On the day Baker was fired, Cincinnati Enquirer columnist Paul Daugherty wrote:
"We want to be inspired, pushed, challenged, driven. Choose your descriptive. Dusty's style might have allowed his players to play free and easy. It also encouraged a certain complacency. No one who witnessed this team's last week of games could come away thinking it really needed to win. Wanted to win? Of course. Needed it? Not really."
Daugherty also pointed to an August incident in which second baseman Brandon Phillips interrupted Baker's pregame chat with writers to berate an Enquirer reporter.
"Baker should have politely told Phillips to get the hell out of his office. Instead, he shrugged, smiled awkwardly and said it wasn't his fight. He looked foolish and powerless."
Jim Bowden, the former Reds general manager now with ESPN, is among those who think some time away -- and a change of scenery -- bode well for Baker's final chapter, wherever it is.
"Dusty will land on his feet again," he said. "We know how good a motivator he is ... There's a trend right now toward going with a younger guy, because they've seen what someone like Mike Matheny can do, but there will come a time when teams start looking again for a proven winner. Dusty Baker's track record speaks for itself."
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daemon 1
(also daimon)
1(In ancient Greek belief) a divinity or supernatural being of a nature between gods and humans.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- Iamblichus also stressed that theurgists usually worked with lesser divinities - heroes, daimons and angels - and only the greatest of all, in exceptional circumstances, would trouble actual deities.
- I am an ancient daemon, and although I give the impression of being a model of youth and femininity, I have lived so many centuries I have begun to lose track.
- Exiled daemons are reincarnated into all sorts of living forms, finally coming to be as prophets, poets, physicians, and leaders among men.
1.1An inner or attendant spirit or inspiring force.
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- That's how the spirit is controlled - daemons are fiercely independent beings, if they can get away - they will.
- Casey's brain kicked into gear, her inner daemons flagging something from an old puzzle book.
- They 'send' - via Mercury - those inner daemons that are bent on shaking up and shattering limiting preconceptions of who we are and what our role in life is.
2 archaic spelling of demon1.
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- is the entire town possessed by a malevolent daemon, forcing people to worship it by carving its image into fruit and vegetables, and hanging its likeness in their windows?
- The ghosts are back; the manic daemons who make me think of spirits and kill the science.
- Many returned to the old idea that the child was an evil spirit, or daemon sent to punish the royal family.
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- I admire those proud, cold beings who adventure upon the paths of great and daemonic beauty and despise 'mankind'; but I do not envy them.
- Thus, a purely aesthetic veneration for the old and defeated culture coexists with an intimation of its still unquiet daemonic power.
- Moreover, in Jacobean drama calculation and cynicism are typically coded as daemonic and intrigue is in league with Evil.
Mid 16th century: common spelling of demon1 until the 19th century.
Palabras que riman con daemoncacodemon, demon, Freeman, freemen, Philemon, Riemann, Schliemann, seaman, seamen, semen
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(also demon)
A background process that handles requests for services such as print spooling and file transfers, and is dormant when not required.
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- Before you can start using the administration daemon over the network, you have to create a keytab file containing the key for one of the kadmin principals created when we initialized our realm.
- The slave component is run as a daemon (Unix) or system service (Win 32).
- I added this new line with an appropriate IP address for my subnet, and restarted the named daemon.
1980s: perhaps from d(isk) a(nd) e(xecution) mon(itor) or from de(vice) mon(itor), or merely a transferred use of demon1.
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Phillip Capshaw provides his own unique perspective on everything from local to world events and, as the blog title suggests, believes that nothing is funnier than observing the comical nature of our fellow man and especially Southern Oklahomans. Phillip is a native of Ardmore, Oklahoma, with varied interests who likes to poke fun at almost any group and occupation, but feels as if there is much to make fun of in passing the mirror everyday.
I was dismayed to see a friend of mine the other day post this as her status on Facebook:
"Man, people are so mean! My little one, literally just broke my heart. He asked, 'Mommy, do I have brown skin?' I said yes, with a smile. He very sadly, with watery eyes, said, 'I don't want brown skin anymore. Can we make it lighter?' When I asked him why, he explained that 3 boys at school have been teasing him and said, 'They don't play with brown skins.' " Just heart-breaking! Racism and ignorance are sadly still very much in existence.
Indeed they are and we are ALL guilty of it in some form or another. I started thinking about the who the "brown skins" are in my life, so I wrote this.
Just for this day, may I not judge a person because of the color or shade of their skin.
For one day, may I not judge someone because of their religion or lack thereof.
For a single day, may I not pre-judge a family because of their mansion or shanty.
For twenty-four hours, may I not judge people based on their higher or lower education.
For one day, may I not discriminate against a person because of their outward looks.
For today, may I treat people the same regardless of their political affiliation.
Just for this day, may I treat all people, religions, races, classes and groups the same, regardless of whether they are just like me or at the opposite end of the spectrum.
Just for this day may I love and respect everyone and treat them the way that I wish to be treated.


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January 26, 2011
World's Largest Solar PV Project Receives DOE Loan Guarantee
A 290-megawatt thin-film solar project expected to be the world's largest photovoltaic project (PV) has received a $967 million DOE loan guarantee, the agency announced on January 20. DOE's backing will support construction of NRG Solar's Caliente Solar generating facility in Yuma County, Arizona. The project, which will use First Solar Inc. thin-film solar panels, is scheduled to be completed in 2014. It will power about 100,000 homes and create 400 construction jobs. The company anticipates the project will avoid approximately 237,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions per year, an amount equivalent to taking over 40,000 cars off the road annually.
The Agua Caliente Solar project will deploy fault ride-through and dynamic voltage regulation, technologies that are new to solar power plants in the United States. These technologies are designed to improve the reliability and predictability of the electricity generated by solar power plants and supplied to the electricity grid. Pacific Gas and Electric Company will purchase power generated from the project for California consumers. DOE, through the Loan Programs Office, has issued loan guarantees or offered conditional commitments for loan guarantees totaling more than $17 billion to support 17 clean energy projects. See the DOE press release, the NRG press release, and the Loan Programs Office Web site.


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A detailed and referenced Islamic perspective of the Soul, Death, Hereafter and the Day of judgement. Sayyid Saeed Akhter Rizvi's expertise on Islamic subjects such as these and simplistic use of English language makes it a "Must Read" book.
It is hoped that this book will give enlightenment to our brothers and sisters; and will help them in appreciating and following the tenets of Islam more faithfully.
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Published: 2011-09-04
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The Hayward and Campolindo high boys soccer teams both had similar tasks in mind Saturday afternoon -- solidifying their status as a top contender for this season's North Coast Section Division II championship.
That's what both teams did.
In a hard-played nonleague match, the Farmers and Cougars took turns rallying from deficits before settling for a 3-3 draw.
Campolindo scored three straight goals to take a 3-2 lead in the second half. But host Hayward scored the equalizer in the 73rd minute on a goal by Tomas Ascencioe, who also scored in the 23rd minute to give the Farmers a 2-0 lead.
"Honestly, I'm pretty happy to get a good result against a good team," said Campolindo coach Shane Carney, whose team was coming off a 0-0 tie against Las Lomas on Friday. "To comeback and get a draw on the road is a good result."
After tying the match on goals by Rod Deichler and Michael Samaniego, the Cougars (10-4-4) took a 3-2 lead in the 69th minute on Jeremy Raine's header.
Rigo Castillo opened the scoring for Hayward with a laser shot that got just under the crossbar in the 16th minute.
"It was a really good game," Hayward coach Alex Ortega said. "It was intense, and both teams had a lot of opportunities."
The game was a rematch of a NCS Division II quarterfinal last year that Campolindo won 4-1. The Cougars advanced to the final before they lost to Concord 1-0.
West Bay 31, East Bay 14: Saratoga's Jonathan Walters threw two touchdown passes and the defense intercepted four throws and recovered a fumble to lead the West Bay to a victory over the East Bay in the Literacy Classic All-Star game at San Jose City College.
The East Bay got a short touchdown run by St. Mary's Lorenzo Logwood and a scoring pass from Deer Valley's Nsimba Webster to Arroyo's Malcolm Hale, but that wasn't enough to overtake the West Bay.
St. Francis' Alex Andrighetto was named the game's most valuable player.
The two-way standout intercepted a pass, had several big runs and caught a screen pass that set up his 2-yard scoring plunge that gave the West Bay a 21-7 halftime cushion.
The crowd wasn't quite as large as last season, when the first Literacy Classic matched the northern end of the Central Coast Section, including San Jose schools, against the southern end of the CCS.
But the second game was a little more competitive.
"It was fun," Andrighetto said. "It was definitely different playing with a bunch of guys that I didn't know. Coming into it, I was excited, very excited, getting a chance to play in my first all-star game."
Though his team fell short, Webster appreciated the opportunity to suit up for one more high school game.
"It was a really good experience, playing with these guys, the East Bay," Webster said. "Even though we lost, we still had fun out here. It was a great experience."
-- Darren Sabedra
Girls basketball
Etiwanda 65, St. Mary's 49: The Panthers, ranked No. 1 in the Bay Area News Group East Bay poll, were outscored 36-20 in the second half as they lost to the Eagles at the MLK Classic at St. Mary's-Stockton.
The game was tied 29-29 at halftime, but St. Mary's (14-3) was held to just seven points in the third quarter as Etiwanda (12-4), ranked fourth in California in Division I by CalHiSports.com, took a 46-36 lead entering the final period.
Gabby Green led St. Mary's with 10 points and teammate Mikayla Cowling added nine. Amy Okonkwo had 22 points, including five 3-pointers, to lead Etiwanda.
St. Mary's, which had its nine-game win streak snapped, takes on Windward-Los Angeles in the second day of the event on Monday.
Etiwanda plays host St. Mary's-Stockton on Monday.
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Kennedy-Richmond 80, College Park 71: Julian Robinson had 25 points and 13 blocks to lead the Eagles (12-4) past the Falcons (8-10) at the MLK Shootout at Pittsburg High. Lexius Meriweather and Destanee Alexander each had 16 points for Kennedy, which had five players score in double figures and extended its win streak to seven games.
Victoria Peleras led College Park with 23 points and nine steals.
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Please come out and support our dear friend in the toughest challenge of his life.
Softball Benefit Tournament
Firecrackers 16U-KING will be hosting a Softball Tournament on November 22nd - 24th, 2013
Age GROUPS: 12/14/16/18 age groups
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Entry Fee $125 per team and pay at the plate.
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Mickey was recently diagnosed with cancer; he has been involved in the softball community for many years supporting his daughter Doris "Scrappy" Smith.
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I like your writing on the benefits of softball tournaments. You have come up with a great and nice topic, which is appreciated.
With all the time we spend together playing softball, they become like family. This family needs its softball family's support in a time of need. Please consider this tournament to help out Mickey and his family. And get to play on the new fields.
Just added 2 more teams in 16U and 1 in 12U. Still looking for more.
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But I also knew that if anybody could pull this off, it'd be Rowan. The U.K.-based designer yarn manufacturer produces consistently excellent materials in subtly exquisite colors, and sure enough the DK Wool Cotton is no exception.
At first glance, you may think this yarn a tad boring. Its texture and spin are steady and consistent but lack any Mussoni-esque slubs or flash. But flash isn't the point here. You use Rowan yarns when you have an exquisite pattern and don't want anything -- yarn included -- to get in its way.
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Some yarns do all the work, but this one will need a design or stitch motif if you really want it to shine. (Not to mention the fact that endless stockinette at this gauge could get a trifle boring.)
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The Tuscaloosa County Industrial Development Authority on Thursday approved plans for a new building that will supply parts to be used in the making of new Mercedes-Benz C-Class vehicles in Vance.
The 18,000-square-foot expansion of ISE Innomotive Systems' Tuscaloosa operation will be in Airport Industrial Park. The new building will house machinery used to clean and preserve an inventory of automotive parts that will be shipped in from all over the world.
The Tuscaloosa County Industrial Development Authority approved a plan for ISE to lease a building for the new machinery in January. But in May, when Metalsa, a subsidiary of Grupo Proeza of Monterrey, Mexico, acquired ISE, an expansion into a new building was planned.
Metalsa manufactures structural components for the light and commercial vehicle markets.
Andreas Hackstedt, CEO and plant manager of ISE's Tuscaloosa operations, said Metalsa acquired ISE because of its technology and its global footprint. The aluminum-cleaning process that will operate in the new building will be unique to the South, Hackstedt said.
"I think it (the acquisition) will help ISE by giving them an owner that's in a similar business, is well-capitalized and is looking to grow the business," said Dara Longgrear, executive director of the IDA. "The previous owner (of ISE) was an investment company, so the idea that the new ownership is in the business, wants to grow the business and is well-capitalized — all those are good signs to us."
Hackstedt said the company has about $7 million in investments in the new building and inventory.
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"Come Grow With Us" is for families who are interested in healthy nutrition and physical activity to achieve and maintain ideal weight for children and family members. Activities include planting a vegetable garden and eating healthy snacks and local produce as well as exercise initiatives such as walking and jumping rope. This educational program has been taking place at the Renaissance Family Center of Windham.
The Renaissance Family Center of Windham offers health, exercise, after-school program, meals, thrift store, senior activities and much more to enhance the quality of life for families of Windham and neighboring communities.
"Dr. Mary Marsick was known for her devoted care to the children of Portage County and was supportive of grass roots projects such as Come Grow With Us," said Mindy Gusz, RN, Manager, Health Education Center, who is overseeing the program.
The Dr. Mary Marsick Pediatric Education Endowment Fund, administered by the Robinson Memorial Hospital Foundation, honors and memorializes Dr. Mary Marsick who was a pediatrician with Robinson Memorial from 1980 through 2004. She was also a staff physician for TownHall II and other well-child clinics in Portage County.


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I still get some "buffering" or "stuttering", even with Java heap set to 2048M (I have 10G overall memory and transcoding is set to use 6 of the 8 cores). This is to a PS3 where both the Mac Pro and the PS3 are on a wired connection.
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A lot has happened since the end of the Key West event. February and March continued to be a very busy time for the crew. With a few alterations and a little time to pull everything together, the group was heading even further South in order to reach for another win. To recap:
Team Soozal was immediately off to the Pineapple Cup which began in Florida and headed straight to Montego Bay, Jamaica. Just coming off the high of the action in Key West, Soozal kept her cool, remained focused and was able to conquer 2,000+ ocean miles and secure yet another win. With blown newly installed electronics, a shredded spinnaker and a tremendously arduous journey to the islands, Soozal once again astonished all who were there and achieved a second big win, carving out a space for Soozal in the media and creatING a buzz about the new Mills "King 40" design. You can check out the coverage on the events website at: http://www.montegobayrace.com/
With 2 solid back to back wins on a virgin boat, the team was headed back up the coast for Premiere Racing's second week-long regatta, this time located in Miami, FL. Take a look at a professional shot by Tom Wilkes.
What is that saying: "The third time's the charm"; well it must be true becasue Soozal took another 1st in Miami, proving to be the best of all the best of the West - this time on the East Coast. This win proved that Soozal is now the most prestigious boat in her class, and that the West Coast has a new threat out there on the water. You can also get the week's details on the following website: http://www.premiere-racing.com/miami09/pages/AMGP09_entry_information.html
Plenty of media attention has been given to the well deserved team and captain aboard Soozal. Most notably, there has been a spread in Sailing World magazine (April issue) and we received word that Dan Woolery was just nominated as sailor of the month in Seahorse magazine (the premiere International voice of sailing). You can pledge your vote on Seahorse Magazine's website: http://www.seahorsemagazine.com/
If you can't see the link, just search Seahorse Magazine, click the link and you will see the voting call out on the lower left hand side of the screen just to the bottom of the page. As more information becomes available I will fill all of you in. please stay tuned in and go out and vote the American nominee
Details on the upcoming annual sailing event held in Key West, Florida. Event will be held from Jan 19th - Jan 23rd and will consist of a series of multiple races per day. Elite sailing competition and back story from the King 40 "Soozal"
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Probably the best way to lessen the danger of conflicting genealogy records and erroneous mistakes is to have at least 2 documents supporting one another. This is all right if the documents state the same information like the dates being the same, also the names being the same, plus the places are the same.
However what if the information retrieved from one document or record gives different info from the other? Does this imply that the older data is correct and the new data, incorrect, or visa versa?
Not really, it just means you will have to check out all the information available and decide which one is the accurate piece of information. In fact sorting out conflicting genealogy records is really not that difficult. Because all you are required to do is pay attention to the information and ask the following questions.
How accurate is the source compared to the original information? The vicinity of the original information could differ from one database to another, and this is definitely the case with some genealogy websites. However, one should work with the possibility that some of the genealogy records offered me be from the original source, because some sites have definitely got their information from original records. So as a rule of thumb the information at is closest to the original records is usually the most accurate.
What do other individuals say about the source of genealogy records? Probably the official records are the most accurate and credible source of information. On the other hand, if you are getting your information from a book or database you may want to check fire the Internet see what other users have written about the accuracy and validity of the material.
Does the document look to have been edited? The editing or changing of official documents is very rare, however it is a possibility. When checking a document, be sure to look for any differences in handwriting, because this can be an indication that information has been added to an original document.
Is there a time discrepancy between the actual event and the time where the conflicting genealogy records was created? For instance a record of a birth may have been created several months or years after the actual birth took place, or maybe a gravestone was added to a grave some years after the burial. These are just some of the things you should look out for when doing your research, because often times when genealogy records are created some time after an event took place this can lead to possible inaccuracies.
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Sage, don't let people who are quite obviously batshit outta their minds get ya down. Unfortunately we are all surrounded by stupid people every day. It doesn't matter where you go, they're everywhere! I have been completely appalled at some of the comments and conversations that people post on your forum, including their opinions about our nations current state of war. I remember the first time I "really heard" MakeShift Patriot. It brought me to tears. To this day it is still the most accurate, right on statement I have heard about 9/11. It gave me hope that there actually were people out there that felt the same way I did and saw thru all the bullshit our government trys to feed us. Truth is, the fella who wrote you that email represents a large fraction of people in our country right now. Scary, believe me I know. So even at Sage Francis shows and on your forums you will continue to see these nutballs in full effect. But you can't forget the hundreds of people that you are getting thru to each and every day. Me included. So thankyou for the inspiration and motivator you continue to be to me. You're a modern day Kerouac, man! And I am still eagerly awaiting your arrival to Colorado! Much Respect and Love!
Thu Feb 20, 2003 9:40 am
Joined: 30 Oct 2002
Posts: 173
Location: Kansass City
Sage, you should give us that dudes email address....
Thu Feb 20, 2003 10:01 am
Joined: 27 Sep 2002
Posts: 739
Location: Presque Isle, Maine
Re: I'm not liking this life.
Depression strikes.
Day after day I do these motherfucking shows. Long rides. car accidents. drunk people. hecklers. critics. I think these things are starting to overshadow the love and enjoyment that I am able to get from this lifestyle.
Bro, in the beginning, (yes, I said in the beginning) everything can seem purdy fucking heavy on your shoulders.. and I know a decent-set depression isn't carrying the workload with you. Maybe you need a break from touring.. get some other acts to push your merchandise for you for a little while..
What the fuck kind of fans am I attracting? How can someone be heckling me from the crowd and I am the ONLY ONE who deals with it? Pussies. A crowd of pussies.
I got in a scuffle with someone in the crowd two nights in a row. They both made me feel sick to my stomach. It felt like I was taking a necessary measure at the time.
You think there's an artist in existence who doesn't have some homothug, eccentric do-gooder fans? C'mon that's not true. Lotsa ppl get this mental image of this artist in their head, and if you fall outta their ideals they complete turn on you? C'mon, you don't need those kinds of fans anyways.. at least not right now.
I am getting well constructed emails from people calling me a hypocrite because I tour in a van (and that's just as bad as an SUV somehow.) How the hell else are 9 people supposed to sufficiently travel from city to city? I sprained my ankle at yesterday's show (very badly) and performed in horrible pain without saying as much as "shit." Today I was lashed out at by a couple audience members because I wasn't the saint they think i make myself out to be.
Who the FUCK have y'all been listening to????????
Well constructed e-mails, huh? Sounds like someone trying their hardest to get on your case.. read what you're typing Sage.. 9 ppl cross country via van.. sprained your fucking ankle onstage without missing a beat.. and now a couple audience members get physical and you're gonna sit their and question your essence as an artist, and as a person? Chill man..
I hate this new wave of people I have come across on this tour. They didn't exist before.
Yes, I sell merchandise. Selling merchandise is what has kept me away from serving ice cream for the past three years. It's the only reason I'm able to be your topic of coffee table conversation. I have not ever tried to present myself in a "holier than thou" manner, which I was also accused of today. i am a man with many MANY flaws. I write, record, perform, and entertain. That is my passion as well as my job.
Who doesn't sell merchandise? Just 'cause someone's making a couple weak links and using them to question your motives.. you sell that just to barely keep your ass on the road and making more merchandise to keep the cycle going..
As far as your holier than thou manner, I've never met you, and the only place I'd think anyone would be able to misconstrue your intentions as far as interacting with others go, is your clownass AIM convos.. and you're not wholeheartedly serious in many of them.. obviously.
the emails I am getting are insane. like...the things people blame me of really blow my mind. today's show was so difficult for me. I almost feel like crying right now and I don't know why. We woke up at 7 AM (on 2 hours of sleep), got in a car accident, drove 14 hours through rain and snowy mountains in order to get to Missoula, MT. The stage was miniscule but that was fine since I had a sprained ankle and needed to stay stationary anyway. The amount of smoke in the room coupled with my inability to hear my own voice on the monitors really put a strain on my throat to the point that the whole performance was painful. It literally hurt to perform. And unfortunately, the low mood I was in was translated to the crowd in the form of an iffy performance. I was offered weed so many fucking times that I stopped responding to voices.
The blame game.. if you aren't in question of your own motives then why you getting so down man? For every evil-stan you run into you have 1,000 completely support-bearing fans in their place.
I came back to the hotel room to recieve this email from Matt Cerullo:
"sage, i am a twenty-six year old male form boston who has recently relocated to montana to get as far away from pricks like you as possible. i am against invading iraq, for the obvious reasons. after hearing so many great things about you and your words i went to see your show in missoula tonight and walked out halfway through your set. i had to get home and check you out on the web cause i was sure that a pompous ass such as yourself would have a web site selling all your shit. sure enough,
during the performance of 'Makeshift Patriot' you mention all the suvs americans have to gas up, how the fuck did you get from tallahasse to missoula? in the interview on mvremix.com you make reference to recording/sampling the crowd at ground zero cheering on the rescue workers after the eleventh, simply perverse. also you are quoted as saying "It disturbs me for a number of reasons. and not just because I won't be seeing any money. that's the least of my concerns. I don't want to talk about this"(mvremix), in reference to your album being leaked on the web. why don't you want to talk about it? maybe because you are pissed about the $$$$? of course you are, why don't you call james hetfield and cry to him, i'll bet he'll listen. on your website there is a banner announcing,"COMING SOON!!Sage Francis store!Buy all Sage related items and get frequent show updates"(sagefrancis.com) i just wanted to bust your balls a little because you attempt to come across with this holier than thou attitude, then turn around use our insane capitalistic society to your advantage. it's pure bull-shit. what I truly think is that you have used 9/11 and are continuing to use this fucking war as a platform launch you and your 'Personal Journals' lp. you are fucking pathetic. you might as well tour w/eminem. get a life, and some ethics while your at it. if you ever make any dough i'd like my ten buck back please."
This is not an isolated incident. In fact, I am seeing some of the same sentiment on the messageboard and it really effects me.
Why'd he leave halfway thru your set? Sounds like he ain't feeling you.. I think this guy was really just pissed over his 10 bucks..
So what if you're selling your merchandise on your site? How many kats aren't? Not many these days..
A van ain't a SUV for one.. and you
the shit to get place to place.. you can't hold that against yourself..
What's wrong with you sampling ground zero? That's some of the realest shit to me..
As far as you not wanting to talk about your album being leaked.. This guy expects you to open yourself like a book at the drop of an interview? Please man, say whatever you want, don't-say whatever you want.. it's your life.
You obviously aren't using 9/11 to inrease your Personal Journals album sales.. First, the album isn't very focused on society.. Second, did that homothug stand out in the freezing fucking cold to protest? Did that fucking homothug record Makeshift Patriot and turn thousands of heads?
Does this kat seriously have you thinking you don't have any ethics?
I am sad. That's all. Disappointed in myself as well as many of y'all. I hope to be signing with a big label soon. And I look forward to doing away with as much involvement with people as possible. There will be others who can do the dirty work.
I don't know how this all turned so wrong
Bro, purdy much everything you typed up here about flak you're getting and accusations and judgements against you, is alllll bullshit..
Just recognize it man.. you know what's real and what's some stupid crazed-fantasy..
All in all only a handfull of ppl have any outlook even resembling what you've described today, towards you.
Think of the fans who are gonna give you shit when you sign with a major label.. Over a wholllle new topic..
Kats just find shit to bitch about man.. that's that.
Don't let some bullshit accusations and hype fuel your depression..
Just sit it out and keep reassuring yourself..
Thu Feb 20, 2003 10:07 am
Seamus Ignoramus
Joined: 06 Nov 2002
Posts: 935
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Re: I'm not liking this life.
"sage, i am a twenty-six year old male form boston who has recently relocated to montana to get as far away from pricks like you as possible."
If I moved from where I live to get away from some pricks I wouldn't be running around to check out these pricks' shows and then devote my time to e-mailing them. Unless I was a fuckhead.
Sage, this shit is getting on top of you at the moment because you're currently in the middle of it. When you get a few days rest you'll realise once again how insignificant fuckheads' misconceptions are.
Thu Feb 20, 2003 10:16 am
gerhupsom vanbone
Joined: 03 Jul 2002
Posts: 2697
i know what its like to work really hard for something and have people that dont understand it ,or spending all your time perfecting what your gonna say to someone and have them not listen to you. It sucks, and its like the most depresing thing there is. Just remember that there are people out their that love your music, and its probably saved someone from killing themselves or something like that.
Hope you get better.
Thu Feb 20, 2003 10:44 am
Joined: 27 Jan 2003
Posts: 25
Peace Sage,
If you read this I'm the kid with the hair from the denton show and the other 6 in the DFW area.
I wish you luck.
See you at scribble jam.
Peace and your music does change people's lives.
Hope your still aware of that
Enjoy your work,
Brock aka Sassy Wendy
Check the post on Rehash and Hydroponic sound system
the music is very relaxing
Thu Feb 20, 2003 10:45 am
Joined: 11 Jul 2002
Posts: 1715
Location: Newark, DE
You're getting a lot of emails like that? Wow....who the fuck are these people?
Thu Feb 20, 2003 11:03 am
Joined: 02 Jul 2002
Posts: 6165
Location: privileged homeless
Jeez man, I can see how that'd hurt but you can't overestimate people or the way they'll behave. You've spent enough time around message boards to see how blind people can make themselves, right? If you're finding yourself criticized by people who think that selling anything ever is morally wrong, well then... pat yourself on the back, my man, because IDIOTS hate you.
keep the old head up, man. you're more than a match for the dickwads.
Thu Feb 20, 2003 11:08 am
Heroin Sheik
Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Posts: 162
Fuck the new age, band wagon hopper fan base. Sage, you have a diverse listening crowd that follows, respects and praises your music since day one.
I have learned in the past week that you can't please everyone, and molding yourself to please these mother fuckers is not the answer becasue these mother fuckers will find another reason to hate on you.(i know you know this already but. i just wanted to address it)
As far as signing to a major label, do what you want to do if that was your plans before these incidents occurred. Don't jump to drastic measures over some recent bull shit. You know what...go ahead and sign. If anyone deserves it, you do.
Haters, WAKE THE FUCK UP! People need to eat.
Thu Feb 20, 2003 11:27 am
Joined: 02 Jul 2002
Posts: 128
Location: anaslime,ca
i like sage's music and from countless ramblings ive read or heard, i respect him as a person.
hang in there, you still have fans.
devoted kid from anaheim,
Thu Feb 20, 2003 11:33 am
Joined: 01 Jul 2002
Posts: 3087
Location: Wisconsin
Anyone that touches certain people is rubbing others the wrong way.
That's just life... your personality and style of music will always attract a few people who think you are full of shit... I'm surprised you are surprised by these people... I would've thought they would have been a staple at every show you've ever done...
Overall, Sage, you are making money making music... the people talking shit to you have to work real jobs. You win.
Thu Feb 20, 2003 12:51 pm
Joined: 05 Jul 2002
Posts: 3208
Location: San Diego,CA
I'm not suprised by the emails they have sent you Sage. The reason you receive them is for no other reason than because you allow people a way to directly contact you.
As an artist there has to be a line drawn where you don't let your fans cross. None of the shit in that email from the relocated Boston guy in Montana was true and even if it was its just his opinion he doesn't deserve the opportunity to even present it to you unless hes gonna do it to your face (which will never happen).
The internet is a great place to tell someone "fuck you" without ever having to deal with the consequences or atmosphere that would be present by saying those words in real life.
Its your own fault for making yourself so accessible. I'd be willing to bet that some of these emails you are getting were generated for no other purpse than to be mentioned on this message board.
Easy solution, get another email and only give it out to people who
want to know.
Thu Feb 20, 2003 1:17 pm
Joined: 30 Jun 2002
Posts: 3885
Location: San Francisco
there is nothing wrong with driving a van or a suv, if you actually fucking use it, not like soccer moms who have their one child strapped in 9ft behind them watching a fucking dvd player.....this kids a fucking dairy queen, you shouldn't sweat this shit.....I do think that you are attracting more fans that don't have a lot of exposure to this hiphop shit and expect to see some type of poet/hippie on stage.... I say you tour with Dibbs and MOP, fuck all the bullshit...sucks about the anklehopefully shit gets better for you
Thu Feb 20, 2003 1:20 pm
Joined: 14 Jul 2002
Posts: 222
i appreciate you
Thu Feb 20, 2003 1:21 pm
Joined: 14 Feb 2003
Posts: 79
i would be a great loss to see you withdraw from your audience.
i haven't been this excited about anything in years!
Thu Feb 20, 2003 1:25 pm
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TAHOE/TRUCKEE, Calif. — Six cyclists are each preparing to tough out 70,000-plus pedal strokes - the approximate number of strokes it will take them to ride non-stop from the mountains of Truckee to San Francisco on the Pacific Ocean.
September's ride marks the third year in a row a dedicated team of bicyclists, with ties to the Truckee-Tahoe region, will attempt to ride non-stop together for 300 miles to raise funding for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Nevada County and North Lake Tahoe's mentoring programs for at-risk youth.
Years one and two featured courses that took the riders from Fort Bragg to Truckee, and a loop route from Truckee to Sacramento and back, respectively. For year three, the group is excited to be heading west, traveling through the service areas of other Big Brothers Big Sisters agencies, and finishing in Sausalito, Calif.
The ride will begin on Friday, Sept. 21 at 7 a.m. from the Coffeebar, 10120 Jibboom St., Truckee and the riders expect to arrive at Cavallo Point in Sausalito to greet supporters on Saturday, Sept. 22 around noon.
According to ride organizer Hardy Bullock, the team is excited about this year's ride because, "Unlike years past we haven't trained together much. This ride will give us a chance to catch up, reflect on the season and hopefully drum up some late night humor to keep it fun. It's weird at 3 a.m. on a bicycle, but that's part of the deal."
Returning rider Carey Thrasher said, "Over the course of 24 to 30 hours we definitely experience some suffering on the bicycle. What makes this unique and most rewarding is the fact that our effort is chosen. The kids who we ride for do not get a choice in their situation. What suffering we experience out there on the road pales in comparison to some of the things children experience in their daily lives. Knowing this, it makes it much easier to ride through any suffering or pain."
Asked what motivates him to keep pushing his limits year after year, Bullock said it's all about the kids:
"I feel a deep connection to kids who need guidance and support. I feel that as a community we can affect their lives in a positive way now and create a better society in the long run. It is also important that my children understand the value of helping others. They inspire me in a profound way; I want to be their hero. We enjoy the spirit of the supporters and the crew and we always seem to discuss things of real importance… That's what keeps us riding every year. Those connections that put our everyday lives in perspective are so valuable; they apportion what's truly important and what is just noise."
The team's hero status extends far beyond their own families.
"The impact that Hardy Bullock and the riders have had on our ability to provide quality mentoring for at-risk children is significant! In just three years, they have raised nearly $40,000 — all of which goes to helping us connect kids facing adversity to caring and responsible mentors and friends," said Dena Valin, executive director for BBBSNC.
This year's ride is being sponsored by TahoeStaff, Hanson McClain Independent Investment Advice, CoreLogic, Sara Zimmerman Design and local radio station KTKE 101.5 FM, which will broadcast live progress updates during the ride. In addition, the six team members will collect pledges in person and online, with a goal of raising at least $30,000 for Big Brothers Big Sisters. Last year the athletes raised more than $20,000 for the local nonprofit.
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Although Dr. Felicia Brabham's practice has been shuttered with the surrender of her license, the board says requests for medical records should be sent in writing to the doctor's former address: 735 Sixth Ave., Suite D, Hendersonville, NC 28739-4169.
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Brabham was investigated by the Medical Board when record requests from patients and another physician went unanswered, along with inquiries from the board. She was charged with unprofessional conduct and failure to respond to the board's inquiries and was scheduled for a hearing in October. She voluntarily surrendered her license on the day that was initially set for the hearing.
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Hello New York. I hope things are shaping up nicely for the upcoming St. Patrick's Day celebrations. I know some of the parades are about to kick off this coming weekend so have fun.
Unlike in Ireland, St. Patrick's Day in New York is a month long celebration. In Ireland it's literally the day of March 17 and possibly the night before.
It will be our first St. Patrick's Day in Ireland in nine years and our first as parents of two so it will be exciting. The parades in Ireland are extremely colorful and fun.
Thousands of adults and children come out to parade through their towns, march with their dance classes, their local bands and their schools. Others spend months before designing and putting together floats that also participate in the bigger parades throughout the country, and more often than not a tractor or two will make an appearance. The parades are extremely kid friendly so we look forward to it all.
John, my husband, works every second weekend, so we make it our business to see friends, plan weekends away or just spend quality time with the kids when he is off. The weekends he works I'm left doing it all -- cleaning, cooking, minding the babies (Colum, two and Sadie, one) but I can't complain. It's nice to have time with them when they are so small.
Sadie turned one last week -- February 20. She was born on President's Day in New York in 2012.
The year has flown by. Sadie has been an incredible baby. She has a very placid way about her, takes everything in her stride and just fits in everywhere she goes.
We had an afternoon tea party for her first birthday in the house the weekend before (when John was off) and Sadie thoroughly enjoyed the attention. It was special.
The first three months of Sadie's life are a blur. In that time we packed up our home in Yonkers into boxes, packed the boxes into a 20 foot container (just about) and spent weeks saying goodbye to our friends.
The following nine months involved settling into Ireland, getting jobs, a place to live and establishing a routine, and I can safely say we are at a great place in our lives.
So now it's time to look towards the future for the Mooney family.
First up is vacations. It's that time of the year when people are planning for their summer holidays.
In Ireland companies give significantly more vacation time to their employees, so as it stands at the moment John will have 10 days off in June, a week in July, August and September and a few long weekends in between. I work as a freelance sign language interpreter so I can take off when I wish.
We won't go abroad this year but we will get away. Our main vacation will be to Co. Roscommon. John, the kids and I, along with two other couples and their kids, have a deposit paid at a log cabin just outside Boyle for a week in June.
I saw a program on television about an adventure park where the kids can enjoy some fun (and the adults too) and beside it are log cabins by a lake. There is plenty of room for barbequing and boats to hire to take out onto the lake.
Naturally this is Ireland so it may pour rain for the week, but that's a risk we are willing to take. We are already looking forward to it.
So that's the vacation taken care of. We also have four weddings to attend, two in Cork, one in Clare and one in Cavan. They are spread out between July and October.
And I'm also going to see Bon Jovi in Slane, Bruce Springsteen in Thomond Park in Limerick and Beyonce in Dublin, so it's safe to say it will be an eventful few months for us.
In the meantime we are on the house hunt. We hope to purchase our own home in the next few months.
We've already seen a few potential properties. Some need work, others are a little far from town and others are just horrible and not worth the asking price. It's still a buyer's market in Ireland so that is a bonus, although homes are selling quicker now in the last few months than they were in the past few years.
The only issue I'm having with this house hunting situation is the relaxed attitudes of the auctioneers. We might be waiting a few weeks for a response to an email, and sometimes we don't get a response at all.
I was used to getting things done yesterday while living in New York. I would send an email in the morning and I could be guaranteed by mid-afternoon, early-evening that I'd have a response.
It's frustrating in Ireland. If I follow up with a call it helps sometimes, but more often than not the relevant person is busy in which case a message is taken and, guess what, I never get a response. It certainly weeds out the professionals from the cowboys in my opinion.
The ones who do respond I have the most respect for, but if I were a customer selling my home I'd be more than angry knowing I was paying these people money and they weren't putting in the work to get my house sold.


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