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SAN RAMON -- Fran Paxson figured to get a little credit and admiration when she replaced the old lawn around her suburban San Ramon home with drought-resistant plants.
Her public water supplier is even rewarding her with a rebate.
But her homeowners association -- drought and a new state law be darned -- is punishing her with a fine.
Paxson's plight is turning up the heat in the conflict between the aesthetics and the thirst of water-hungry green lawns as California struggles through a third year of drought.
The Twin Creeks South Estate Homes Association in San Ramon informed Paxson three weeks ago that it is fining her $50 a month until she puts lawn back in 25 percent of her recently landscaped front yard. "It would look better," the association wrote.
Paxson said the association board members said her lawn-free front yard would lower neighborhood property values.
"I think it's ridiculous for a homeowners association to threaten a fine to force someone to put in lawn in a drought," said Paxson, a retired elementary schoolteacher. "It's just wrong on so many levels."
She said she hired a contractor to overhaul her front yard with California native plants on drip irrigation to save money and water and provide a sustainable landscaping. The homeowners association told her she should keep grass in 25 percent of the area, but Paxson went ahead with the new landscaping anyway.
"I didn't just cover my front yard with volcanic rock," she said.
A spokesman for the homeowners group did not respond to email and phone messages seeking comment. But in a July 31 letter to Paxson, the board wrote that it "feels that your front yard appearance would look better with the percentage of turf that was approved by the architectural committee."
A board member of the East Bay Municipal Utility District -- the public water supplier to San Ramon -- said the board is out of line and setting a bad example for managing water in a drought.
"I am amazed by this," said John Coleman, an EBMUD director from Walnut Creek. "The homeowners association is completely out of touch."
Coleman said the board's action appears to clash with the spirit of a new state law barring homeowners associations from fining homeowners for letting their lawns turn brown during droughts, and another in the works that prohibits fines for removing grass.
The language of a the new law authored by Assemblywoman Nora Campos, D-San Jose, and signed by Gov. Jerry Brown on July 22 "protects homeowners from being penalized for doing the right thing by conserving during the drought." That bill took effect immediately.
A second bill headed to the governor's desk prohibits homeowners associations from fining residents who replace lawns with drought resistant landscaping. The bill will take effect Jan. 1 if the governor signs it.
"It is time for people to wake up and realize we need water in California to put food on the table rather than to grow lush lawns," said bill author Lorena Gonzalez, a Democratic assemblywoman from San Diego.
Gonzalez said of Paxson: "She is a hero."
Meanwhile, Coleman has asked EBMUD's managers and lawyers to determine if the water district has authority to get the homeowners group to back down.
Paxson submitted her landscaping plans this summer to both the water district and her homeowners association. EBMUD said her plans met guidelines to qualify her for a district rebate to convert lawns to low-water use landscaping -- a program offered by many Bay Area water districts. Her homeowners board and a board architectural committee endorsed most of her plan but told her to keep 25 percent in grass.
While waiting to hear the final decision, Paxson went ahead with the lawn removal, installing a mint-like ground cover in the disputed area.
She said she thought she would win her appeal because a few other homes in her development lack lawns, or have brown or dead-looking grass.
Danville real estate salesman Bernard Gibbons supported Paxson's appeal in a letter.
"A front lawn does not have the appeal it once did," Gibbons wrote to the homeowners group. "I can assure you that any suggestion that a professionally landscaped, low-water-use front yard would have a negative on home values appears to be without foundation."
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Inbiomotion raises €2m
09.07.2012 - Spanish molecular diagnostics company Inbiomotion S.L. has raised €2m in a series A round.
The new investor, Ysios Capital, led the round. Fundacio Vila Casas and JVRisk Technologies also participated. Inbiomotion is a 2010 spin-off from the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) and the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA). The firm develops biomarkers to predict bone metastasis from primary tumour biopsies, with its lead biomarker coding for an undisclosed nuclear protein. Inbiomotion, based in the Barcelona Science Park and founded by Roger Gomis, is carrying out a trial to validate the capacity of its marker to predict future bone metastasis using technology developed by IRB Barcelona. The investment raised will go to fund the validation of this marker through various clinical trials in Barcelona and England, and to advance development through regulatory approval. According to Inbiomotion, its biomarker has been validated with more than 900 patient samples in two different trials carried out with independent techniques (gene expression and immunohistochemistry), with a negative predictive value of 95%.http://www.european-biotechnology-news.com/news/news/2012-03/inbiomotion-raises-eur2m.html

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OWINGS MILLS, Md. -- Albeit 18 months late, the 49ers defense stood up Sunday to Joe Flacco, the most valuable player of Super Bowl XLVII.
An excellent outing in training camp certainly won't lessen the sting of losing that Super Bowl to the Baltimore Ravens. But three days of joint practices are allowing the 49ers defense a chance to face an offense unlike the version it typically sees in Santa Clara.
"Just to change pace and see something different," rookie cornerback Dontae Johnson said, "it's great to learn, so you can adjust in the game if you're playing against shifty guys, a strong-arm quarterback and quick receivers that love to run deep routes."
Johnson, vying for a job in the revamped secondary, made the 49ers' defensive play of the day when he intercepted a short pass by Flacco and returned it for 40 yards for a would-be touchdown.
The honor role of other pass-defense highlights against Flacco were:
Asked if any 49ers defenders caught his eye in Day 2 of their joint practices, Ravens coach John Harbaugh quipped: "Yeah, the outside (line)backer, No. 99. He's pretty good."
On one play, Smith -- No. 99 -- absolutely steamrollered tight end Owen Daniels and forced Flacco to throw away the ball.
Flacco, who led a touchdown drive in his only series of Thursday night's 23-3 exhibition win, certainly has attempted a lot more deep passes in two days of joint practices than the 49ers typically see.
"They may have a few more speed receivers, so it's good to go against that speed," defensive coordinator Vic Fangio said. "Their running game is different, so it's good to go against that. I've done over 20 of these joint practices in my days, and they're always very good and very beneficial."
Snyder walked off on his own power but looked in dismay when trainers tended to him for several minutes on the field. With incumbent starter Alex Boone entrenched in a contract holdout, Joe Looney has taken the first-team snaps and Snyder the second-team reps. Ryan Seymour replaced Snyder after his injury.
Although Willis sounds most comfortable lining up next to Michael Wilhoite in the absence of NaVorro Bowman, Borland has impressed the defensive captain. "He's a little pit bull. I love watching him play. He's real low and compact and seems like he never breaks stride."
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Islamic law pulls the plug on four beauty pageant contestants
Federal Territories mufti Datuk Wan Zahidi Wan Teh, the bigwig in question, based his ruling on findings from a 1996 Administration of Islamic Laws Act and the pageant organizer, Datuk Anna Lim, was forced to yank the girls from the competition.
"I disqualified the girls because he (Wan Zahidi) posted a comment online saying that these girls are doing something illegal and against the Muslim law," said Lim, who maintains that she has never seen a copy of the rule before and wonders why, "If Miss World pageant can be held in Muslim countries such as Indonesia, it cannot be so in Malaysia?"
Naturally, the DQ'd women, who range in age from 19-23, are disappointed by the ruling. "I was so excited that Muslim women are able to represent our country at one of the largest international competitions," Wafa Johanna De Korte said in an interview. "We were told that all Malay girls will be wearing sports attire in the Malaysian finals and that the swimsuit section was taken out of the whole competition in the Miss World finals."
Lim, the organizer who remains flummoxed by the situation, says that unfortunately the decision has been made and that now, "the competition will go on as usual, and we are very excited about presenting the best beauty pageant for our non-Muslim finalists."
Does this seem like an unfair ruling to you? Or, should the women have known that participating was treading a thin line? (To learn more about the pageant, and see the contestants, you can click on over to the Miss Malaysia World Facebook page.)
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In a new interview with CBS "Sunday Morning" airing this weekend, the 35-year-old musician admits that he "was just a jerk" in the past and that "it's very liberating when you finally realize it's impossible to make everyone like you," according to the Huffington Post.
The singer-songwriter, who's said he's "quite happy" with current girlfriend Katy Perry, has a history of putting his foot in his mouth, especially when it comes to his sex life. He famously compared ex-girlfriend Jessica Simpson to "sexual napalm," slammed Taylor Swift for her song "Dear John," allegedly about their relationship, and once dropped the N-word in trying to explain his relationship to the black music community.
"I was really caught off-guard, and it really humiliated me at a time when I'd already been dressed down," he told Rolling Stone about Swift in June 2012. "I mean, how would you feel if, at the lowest you've ever been, someone kicked you even lower?"
Well, at least she does the same thing to all her other ex-boyfriends.
Mayer said he's come to peace about his public perception. "I wanted everybody to like me. I thought I was one shuck and jive away in every direction."
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BIRTHPLACE: Cole Harbour, NS, CAN
DRAFTED: PIT: 2005-1 overall
Art Ross Trophy (2)
Mark Messier NHL Leadership Award (1)
Conn Smythe Trophy (1)
Hart Memorial Trophy (2)
Ted Lindsay Award (3)
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Goals: 3 (5 times), 2/1/10 vs. BUF
Assists: 5 (1 time), 12/13/06 vs. PHI
Points: 6 (2 times), 1/19/10 vs. NYI (2+4)
PIM: 21 (1 time), 1/3/09 vs. FLA
SOG: 9 (4 times), 1/3/10 at FLA
Hat tricks: 5, 2/1/10 vs. BUF (3G)
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In 6 NHL seasons, has already won the Stanley Cup (2009), Hart Trophy (MVP - 2007), Art Ross (scoring champion - 2007), Rocket Richard (goal-scoring champion - 2010 - tied with Steven Stamkos), Ted Lindsay (outstanding player as voted on by peers - 2007) and Mark Messier Leadership Award (2010).
Alternate captain of Canada's 2010 Olympic gold-medal winning team, scoring the medal-deciding OT goal against the U.S. in Gold Medal Game.
Started the 2010-11 campaign by scoring 32 goals and 66 points in first 41 games before missing the rest of the year with a concussion.
Posted a 25-game scoring streak from Nov. 5 to Dec. 28, 2010, totaling 50 points (26G-24A). The 25-game run is 3rd longest in team history and tied for 8th longest in NHL history. Only 5th player in NHL history to average a goal per game in a streak of 25 games or more (Wayne Gretzky, Brett Hull, Steve Yzerman & Bryan Trottier).
Also recorded a 19-game scoring streak from Oct. 6 to Nov. 17, 2007 for 30 points (11G-19A).
Posted 100-plus points, 50-plus assists 4 times in career.
Notched 30-plus goals 5 times in career.
Became youngest captain in NHL history (19 years, 9 months) and youngest captain in NHL history to lead his team to a Stanley Cup title (21 years old).
Career average of 1.32 postseason points per game ranks 3rd in NHL history behind only Wayne Gretzky (1.83) and Mario Lemieux (1.6) - minimum 40 games played.
3rd-youngest player to reach 500 points (22 years, 244 days) in NHL history: Wayne Gretzky (21 years, 52 days); Mario Lemieux (22 years, 172 days).
Set 3 career milestones Oct. 18, 2008 vs. Toronto with his 100th goal, 200th assist and 300th point.
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Youngest player in NHL history to reach 200 points (19 years, 207 days) with a goal March 2, 2007 vs. Carolina.
In 2007, became youngest scoring champion (120 points), youngest Ted Lindsay recipient and second-youngest league MVP (Wayne Gretzky).
Ranked 5th in NHL scoring (102 points) as 18-year-old rookie in 2005-06 and youngest player in league history to reach 100 points. His 102 points surpassed Mario Lemieux's team rookie record of 100 points (1984-85).
Represented Canada at World Championships (2006) and World Junior Championships (2004, '05). Won gold in '05 and silver medal in '04 tournament.
Youngest player to lead World Championships in scoring with 16 points (8G-8A) in 2006 (18 years old).
Played 2 seasons with Rimouski Oceanic of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League from 2003-05.
Was named Canadian Hockey League Player of the Year and won scoring champion in each of his 2 seasons of CHL play (2004 and '05).
Led Rimouski to QMJHL title and Memorial Cup berth in 2005.
His 135 points in 2003-04 were 2nd most by a 16-year-old in CHL history behind Wayne Gretzky (182, Sault Ste. Marie, 1977-78).
Averaged 2.51 points per game with Rimouski, the 2nd-highest average in CHL history behind Mario Lemieux (2.81).
Holds 2nd-highest single-season points per game total (2.71, 2004-05), behind only Mario Lemieux (4.03, Laval, 1983-84).
Father Troy was a goaltender for Verdun of QMJHL and was drafted by Montreal in 1984.
Won ESPY award for Best NHL Player 4 years in a row (2007-10).
Top-voted player in All-Star Fan Balloting for 4 straight seasons (2007-10).
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The McPherson City Commission approved a resolution to transfer $42,000 from the Cemetery Endowment Fund to the general fund for the mausoleum at the city cemetery on Monday. The transfer of funds will cover the remaining costs for the mausoleum's maintenance.
The commission also approved a request by Randy Pauls, cemetery sexton, for the purchase of two dehumidifiers and Oklahoma River rock. Pauls said that the acquisition of these items will complete the renovation of the mausoleum.
The rock will keep water from standing and possibly soaking into the limestone exterior, said Pauls. The dehumidifiers will help to keep the humidity down and prevent water from forming inside the mausoleum.
The budget approved for the purchase of these items was $2,025.23.
Pauls said the renovation on the mausoleum will be finished around Jan. 6.
In other business:
• Commissioners approved a request by Tom Stinemetze, McPherson zoning administrator, for the purchase of a new Dell desktop computer for the inspection department. The new system will be an upgrade from a current computer which does not run necessary software for the department. The approved budget for the computer is $1,543.55.
• Commissioners approved an encroachment easement for the McPherson Hospital to retain the chain link fence located near the hospital's helicopter landing pad. The fence was established as a safety measure to prevent stray animals or people from wandering into the whirling blades of a helicopter as it lands. Tom Stinemetze, zoning administrator, said that the easement was to move the area the fence was covering into city property, as the fence previously was on Fourth Street's right of way.
• Commissioners approved a request by McPherson Public Works to purchase a tote of polymer for $3,565. Commissioners also approved payment of an invoice of $2,010.64 for an emergency repair to the Motor Control Center for the Sequencing Batch Reactor Blower building.
• Commissioners approved a request by McPherson Public Works for the renewal of a sewer services contract for 2013. The contract establishes labor rates for routine and emergency repairs.
• Commissioners approved payment of a number of inspection costs, including an inspection of sanitary sewer district No. 190 for $1,885.13, an inspection for street expansion at The Veranda for $5,848.37 and an inspection/engineering cost for the Barnstormers West Field Addition for $154.68. Commissioners also approved payment of engineering costs for a street expansion at the Barnstormers West Field Addition for $140.51.
• Commissioners approved a request by Tim Maier, general manager of BPU, to purchase real estate for the use of secure outdoor storage.
• Commissioners approved payment of operation and maintenance costs of the McPherson Law Enforcement Center totaling at $342,593
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Celebrate the Holidays with all things fossil! Dino face painting, fossil casting, and make your own dinosaur egg are just a few of the activities and experiences on the agenda. The Observatory also will be open, weather permitting, for special live daytime viewings of the sun! Daily planetarium and bat programs also will be available Dec. 23 and Dec. 26-30 at an additional charge.
Use your smartphone or iPod camera to take unique pictures of fossil amber specimens using our magnifying stands. These unbelievably and beautifully preserved specimens make for interesting and unique photos of ancient life.
Scientists make replicas of their fossil discoveries and share them with other researchers. Many fossils on display in museums are actually casts. Work like a scientist and use our air-dry clay to make an exact copy of one of the Institute's unique fossil specimens and take it home with you.
Paleontologists are sometimes unable to remove fossil footprints from the bedrock in which they are found. There are many sites like this in the U.S. Instead of breaking up and destroying the sites scientists instead make casts or full size tracings and rubbings of the prints for study in the lab. Make a fossil footprint rubbing to take home as a token of your visit to Cranbrook.
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Explore four unique activities: Mammoths vs. Mastodons which includes real bones and replicas of their teeth; Michigan Geology offering rock samples and a set of Cores for permeability tests; Michigan Fossils featuring fossils laid out across a map of Michigan illustrating where one may find fossils in the state; and Fossil Preservation, an experience that illustrates and simulates fossil preservation.
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Make sure your little one's wardrobe is prepared for Double Duty on the coolest of Boise State game days with this hoodie and pants set from Nike. The warm pullover hoodie features a sewn-in double layer hem and sleeves with a distressed team name and logo printed on the front, while the sweatpants boast contrast stripes down the sides. Pair up the pieces of this comfy set for the ultimate in chilly team gear or let your pint-sized Bronco wear them separately for subtle bursts of BSU spirit.
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PORTSMOUTH — Salvage crews are slated to return to Portsmouth this morning to lift a sunken tugboat from the waters beside the Memorial Bridge construction project.
Carol Morris, a spokeswoman for Archer Western Contractors, said equipment has been mobilized to lift the boat from the Piscataqua River.
"Low tide is about 9:30; slack is around 11 am, so that is when you will see activity," Morris wrote in an email Friday morning. "They will be using boats to pull the tug away from the barges and attempt to position it against the seawall slightly upriver of the barges so it can be raised and drained."
The boat's owner is in charge of the operation, according to Morris, who said the U.S. Coast Guard will also be keeping tabs on it.
Two crew members escaped injury Wednesday when the Benjamin Bailey became pinned against a barge at the Memorial Bridge construction site and capsized.
The 1,200-horsepower tugboat is owned by Riverside and Pickering Marine Contractors in Eliot, Maine. It was being operated under contract with Archer Western Contractors, the company running the bridge project.
Crews have been gearing up to try to raise the ship intermittently since Wednesday afternoon, but the efforts haven't panned out.
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December 07. 2012 6:00AM
It was 7:48 a.m. in Hawaii when the first wave of Japanese aircraft hit Pearl Harbor. The reverberations from that attack -- which sank or damaged 21 U.S. Navy ships, destroyed or damaged 347 U.S. aircraft and resulted in the deaths of 2,403 Americans -- threw the U.S. into the second world war and changed the world profoundly.
That day, Dec. 7, 1941, would be a day that would "live in infamy" President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared. And it has. In honor of the men and women who died in that devastating attack, www.telegram.com takes a look back at that fateful day in photos. See links.


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My Oracle RAC and Oracle Solaris Cluster Cheet Sheet
By RickRamsey-Oracle on Aug 03, 2012
This gets complicated, so stop watching motoGP crash compilation videos for a sec.
We have Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC). RAC lets you deploy a single Oracle Database across different servers. If the server in your Des Moines data center gets picked up by a tornado that hates you and dropped off in East Texas, the other servers pick up the load, and the database continues to operate without interruption. That's easy to understand.
We also have Oracle Solaris Cluster. It lets you deploy the Oracle Solaris operating system across different servers. If the server in your Barbados data center gets washed away by a hurricane that hates you and dropped off in West Africa, the other servers pick up the load, and the operating system continues to operate without interruption. A good quote:
White Paper: Extending Oracle Solaris for Business Continuity
"Oracle Solaris Cluster offers comprehensive and robust capabilities for keeping your business IT, including those running Oracle Database and Applications, up and running in the face of nearly every conceivable situation."
That's easy to understand, as well.
So why would somebody complicate our sysadmin lives by suggesting we install Oracle RAC on Oracle Solaris Cluster? What would that be, highly-available high availability?
Turns out that's not what they're suggesting. They're suggesting we install Oracle RAC not on Solaris Clusters, but on zone clusters. What's a zone cluster, you ask?
A zone cluster is a cluster created from Solaris zones that are physically located on different servers. That's similar to a regular cluster, but it uses zones instead of entire OS instances. Don't confuse a zone cluster with a failover cluster. Instead, read this white paper:
White Paper: Zone Clusters: How to Deploy Virtual Clusters and Why
This paper introduces the zone cluster, a virtual cluster in which an Oracle Solaris Zone is configured as a virtual node. The zone cluster supports the consolidation of multiple cluster applications on a single cluster.
That's all very interesting, but what about our original question:
Why would someone want to complicate our sysadmin lives by suggesting we install Oracle RAC on a zone cluster?
Turns out there two good reasons:
- It's a better high-availability solution for a multi-tier application environment
- It lets you isolate your database development, test, and deployment environments from each other.
How the Oracle RAC/Zone Cluster Combo Is Better For Multi-Tier Applications
Let's say that you are using your Oracle database as one tier in two different application environments. The first one is an HR application, the one second is an e-business suite. Both access the same database. Well, Oracle RAC would give you the high-availability for that database. But the applications would not be highly available. However, if you installed the database with Oracle RAC inside one zone cluster, and each application inside its own zone cluster, you'd make both application environments highly avaiable. And, if you limit the administrative privileges for each zone cluster, you'd get administrative isolation, as well.
How the Oracle RAC/Zone Cluster Combo Is Safer for Deployment
You've probably heard by now about Knight Capital Group's trading glitch that dropped the company's value by 50% in one day. I don't know exactly what happened, but I wonder if they didn't deploy either their development or their test environment instead of the one that was ready for prime time.
I suppose it's a sysadmin's duty to learn from another sysadmin's misfortune. So, if you divide your zone clusters into development, test, and deployment environments, you might have a better shot at avoiding a similar catastrophe. For example, install Oracle RAC with an Oracle DB into your development zone cluster, and keep it isolated from your test and deployment zone clusters. One sysadmin controls the development cluster. Another the test cluster. And the biggest, baddest sysadmin controls the deployment cluster. When the development environment is ready for testing, the test admin must OK the migration. That goes double for the deployment environment. And all the while, each environment remains highly available.
Turns out that Oracle and the portion of Oracle that was once Sun Microsystems have been collaborating on Oracle RAC/Solaris Cluster solutions for a long time. Customers like this approach so much that we just published three articles explaining how to do it. Each article covers a different version of the software:
|RAC Version
|Solaris Version
|Cluster Version
|How to Deploy Oracle RAC 184.108.40.206 on Oracle Solaris Zone Clusters
|How to Deploy Oracle RAC 184.108.40.206 on Oracle Solaris Zone Clusters
|How to Deploy Oracle RAC 22.214.171.124 on Oracle Solaris 11 Zone Clusters
And if you want more, we also have a page full of links to all our Solaris Cluster how-to articles and background white papers:
Where to find everything Solaris Cluster-related
Don't be the sysadmin who bankrupts your company in one day. Get educated.
- Rick


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The count goes on until the end
|A Lapland longspur. Credit: Mark Szantyr
I was out over the weekend trying to add species to the statewide total on the Great Backyard Birdcount, an event much more far-reaching that its name implies.
The count, conducted by Cornell University and National Audubon Society, has been integrated with eBird and includes checklists of birds seen anywhere in the world from Feb. 15 through 18.
When I went out Sunday, one of the birds still missing from the tally was the northern pintail, and I knew right where to find this handsome duck. A small body of water in Stratford, known as Raven Pond, attracts hundreds of mallards along with a motley collection of domestic and non-native waterfowl, but it also attract other wild species.
An adult male pintail has been there all winter. It didn't take me long to find it in water kept open by a mass of mallards, and this time it was accompanied by a female. I also saw another duck that's been there all winter, an adult male mallard X northern pintail hybrid.
I tried without success at a couple of other Stratford spots for Wilson's snipe and black-crowned night-heron. They both winter in the area annually. But before the count was over both had been located.
While looking for the night-heron, I got lucky with another species that was missing from the count, a greater yellowlegs. A few of these shorebirds winter, or at least try to, each year along our coast, but by mid-February they can be hard to find. When I stopped by a small tidal ditch near the Shakespeare Theater, I found a yellowlegs in a spot I though might hold a night-heron or a bittern. Then I found a second one in a bigger channel across the street.
Sikorsky Airport in Stratford offers good habitat for open country birds. As soon as I pulled into the main entrance a flock of horned larks scurried across the pavement into a small grass median. I looked them over very closely, counting and then counting again, as I noted 40 of them. They can hunker down in very short grass, and a species that sometimes accompanies them, the Lapland longspur, is smaller and even better at hiding in grass.
Knowing this, I kept looking and eventually found one longspur in the group, another first for the count. As a bonus, a light rough-legged hawk flew over as I pulled away from larks.
I searched unsuccessfully around Stratford for a pied-billed grene and then decided to try Mondo Ponds in Milford. Most of ther main pond was frozen, but the open part was full of ducks. I looked them over carefully, checking again after a fly-over bald eagle stirred them up, but I couldn't find a grebe.
I almost left without finding anything missing from the count, but a little double call noet in a thicket caught my attention. With some patience Iwas able to see the winter wren hiding there, a final addition to the count.
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The McKinley Presidential Library & Museum will celebrate McKinley Day on January 28, 2012 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. with special activities to honor the President. The traditional Wreath Laying Ceremony will be held at 3 p.m. Open Hearth Cooking demonstrations, special shows in Discover World and history tours will also be offered. Planetarium presentations will be held at 11 a.m., 1 and 2 p.m. Lunch will be available for purchase. Enjoy reduced admission of $5 per person which includes the planetarium presentations.
The Museum is located at 800 McKinley Monument Drive NW in Canton. Visit McKinleyMuseum.org or call 330.455.7043 for more information.
Why not combine this event with an overnight at our Ohio Bed and Breakfast and we will include the $5 per person admission ticket.
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Discover Dartmoor
Extending over 953 square kilometers, Dartmoor National Park has been described as the last remaining wilderness in southern England, and it's easy to see why.
The landscape offers a rich diversity of activities including walking, fishing, horse riding, rock climbing, mountain-biking and white water activities – to name but a few – but you can also come just to take in the breathtaking scenery and to recharge the batteries.
This is a romantic, rugged landscape, ranging from rolling valleys and wetlands to wide open landscapes, dense forests and tumbling waterfalls. However you choose to explore it you cannot fail to be in awe of its beauty.
Gidleigh Park is perfectly located to take the popular local route following the Mariner's Way, between Kestor and Gidleigh. According to legend, seafarers used to land on the south coast of Devon and walk this route to the ports on the north coast.
Alternatively there are beautiful routes through our own grounds and a number of guided walks are run locally to allow you to discover more of the geology, archaeology, nature and history of Dartmoor.
It's no coincidence that we offer a boot room for guest use, wellingtons and stout walking boots are almost compulsory attire for many of our guests.
Dartmoor is a walker's paradise, offering a huge variety of trails that cater for all levels of walker and discovering this magical landscape on foot affords the opportunity to experience the wildlife and natural vegetation that are at home here.
A circular route of about six miles is a good initial hike, Postbridge and Bellever or are both circular walks taking in a varied mix of scenery, riverside trails, moorland, woodland, waterfalls and historical remains.
The famous Dartmoor ponies are perceived to roam free and wild on the moors, but they are in fact owned by farmers who work the moorland and their health and wellbeing is taken care of all year round.
The skies above the moors are home to many birds of prey, watch out for buzzards hunting in pairs or on higher ground the endangered red grouse may make an appearance.
Dartmoor's butterfly population continues to thrive on the moors and nearby Buckfast Butterflies and Dartmoor Otter Sanctuary at Buckfastleigh offers a wonderful opportunity to see many of these delightful species. Otters can be spotted playing in the rivers where if you are lucky you can engage them in a game of hide and seek.
One thing is for certain, after all this activity you will be the first in the pantry for a nice cup of tea and some homemade biscuits.


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Apparently, Adam Lambert is now auditioning for the role of movie critic.
The Season 8 "American Idol" runner-up used Twitter to blast the musical performances of top-named actors in the movie version of "Les Miserables," starring Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe and Amanda Seyfried.
"Les Mis: Visually impressive with great Emotional performances. But the score suffered massively with great actors PRETENDING to be singers. It's an opera. Hollywood's movie musicals treat the singing as the last priority," Lambert tweeted.
It wasn't all scathing. Lambert liked Hathaway for her "breathtaking" performance as Fantine. The rest he skewered for their live singing. "I do think it was cool they were singing live, but with that cast, they should have studio recorded and sweetened the vocals," he wrote. "The singing was so distracting at times it pulled me out."
"The industry will say 'these actors were so brave to attempt singing this score live,' but why not cast actors who could actually sound good? Sorry for being so harsh but it's so true!"
Simon Cowell would be so proud.
Kanye West spills Kim Kardashian's pregnancy
Kanye West delivered what may be the last big, shocking news of 2012 -- he and girlfriend Kim Kardashian are expecting a child.
West dropped the bombshell during his Atlantic City concert Sunday night. He not so subtly sang "Now you having my baby" to the crowd of about 5,000. In case that wasn't clear enough, he then asked fans, "Can we make some noise for my baby mama right quick?" according to an Associated Press report.
TMZ adds that Kardashian sources say the reality TV star is 12 weeks pregnant.
Apparently, West, 35, stole Kardashian's thunder with the news. She reportedly said after the concert, which she was attending, that she had no idea West would spill the beans. We can only imagine how the TV producers for "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" feel this morning.
After West's big reveal, Kardashian, 32, blogged about the happy news, which included an emotional wish regarding her late father, Robert Kardashian, who died of cancer in 2003, and West's late mother, Dr. Donda West, who died five years ago from complications after plastic surgery.
"We feel so blessed and lucky and wish that in addition to both of our families, his mom and my dad could be here to celebrate this special time with us," she wrote. "Looking forward to great new beginnings in 2013 and to starting a family."
The couple publicly announced they were dating in April, six months after Kardashian filed for divorce 72 days after marrying Kris Humphries. The divorce is still pending -- but looks like Humphries has a new bargaining chip to bring to the table.
Kardashian is expected to ring in the new year at 1 Oak in Las Vegas. She reportedly will receive a six-figure appearance fee at the event, which costs $3,000 for a table and $125 to stand.
It didn't take long for the Kardashian clan to jump on the baby news via Twitter.
Sister Khloe Kardashian wrote, "Keeping secrets is hard with so many family members! Especially when you are so freaking excited!!!"
"Oh BABY BABY BABY!!" added mom Kris Jenner.
And sister Kourtney Kardashian chimed in with, "Been wanting to shout from the rooftops with joy and now I can! Another angel to welcome to our family. Overwhelmed with excitement!"
Green Day announces new concerts
Singer Billie Joe Armstrong is back. Green Day is ready to tour again. California, however, won't be among the band's initial 11 gig slate, despite the band's Bay Area roots.
Green Day announced Monday that they will play 11 new concerts, beginning March 28 in Chicago, while also canceling their 10 scheduled shows in January and February.
On Sept. 21, Armstrong entered rehab for unspecified substance issues after an onstage meltdown at the iHeartRadio Festival in Las Vegas.
"We want to thank everyone for hanging in with us for the last few months," the band said in a statement. "We are very excited to hit the road and see all of you again, though we regret having to cancel more shows."
Armstrong also issued a statement of his own: "Dear friends ... I just want to thank you all for the love and support you've shown for the past few months. Believe me, it hasn't gone unnoticed and I'm eternally grateful to have such an amazing set of friends and family. I'm getting better everyday. So now, without further ado, the show must go on. We can't wait to get on the road and live out load! Our passion has only grown stronger."
The last time he was onstage, Armstrong launched into a rant when the band was told to wrap up its set. "I'm not (expletive) Justin Bieber, you (expletive)," he shouted. "You've got to be (expletive) joking. I got one minute left." Green Day members smashed their instruments as they departed the stage."
Earlier in September, the band also canceled a concert in Italy after Armstrong was hospitalized for what the band called "severe dehydration."
The new shows are all East-based and include Pittsburgh; Philadelphia; Rochester and Brooklyn, N.Y.; Fairfax, Va. Providence, R.I.; and Toronto.
Canceled shows included Green Bay and Madison Wis.; Portland, Maine; Cleveland; and Las Vegas.
A lisp made him do it
Blame it on a lisp.
Charlie Sheen is backpedaling madly after dropping an anti-gay slur at the opening of his new bar in Mexico. A video clip surfaced on TMZ of the "Anger Management" star using the slur during the Dec. 28 event at El Ganzo Hotel in Cabo San Lucas.
"I meant no ill will and intended to hurt no one," he told TMZ, adding that he "meant to say 'maggot,' but I have a lisp."
Also attending the opening were Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash, who performed at the opening, and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, the New York Post reported.
Today in History
Today is Tuesday, Jan. 1, the first day of 2013. There are 364 days left in the year.
1785: The Daily Universal Register -- which later became the Times of London -- published its first issue.
1863: President Abraham Lincoln signed and issued the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that slaves in rebel states shall be "forever free."
1890: The first Tournament of Roses was held in Pasadena, Calif.
1892: The Ellis Island Immigrant Station in New York formally opened.
1913: The U.S. Parcel Post system went into operation.
1942: 26 countries, including the United States, signed the Declaration of the United Nations, pledging "not to make a separate armistice or peace" with members of the Axis.
1953: Country singer Hank Williams Sr., 29, was discovered dead in the back seat of his car during a stop in Oak Hill, W.Va., while he was being driven to a concert date in Canton, Ohio.
1959: Fidel Castro and his revolutionaries overthrew Cuban leader Fulgencio Batista, who fled to the Dominican Republic.
1962: The Beatles (with Pete Best) auditioned for Decca Records, which opted to sign Brian Poole and the Tremeloes instead.
1983: The current version of the Internet came into being as the Internet protocol suite, commonly known as TCP/IP, became the mandatory standard.
1984: The breakup of AT&T took place as the telecommunications giant was divested of its 22 Bell System companies under terms of an antitrust agreement.
1993: Czechoslovakia peacefully split into two new countries, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
1994: The North American Free Trade Agreement went into effect.
2003: More than two dozen surgeons in West Virginia stopped performing elective surgeries to protest the high cost of malpractice insurance. (They returned to work two weeks later when they were convinced that the governor and the legislature would address their concerns.) Brazil's first elected leftist president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, took office. Oklahoma romped past Washington State 34-14 in the Rose Bowl; Georgia defeated Florida State 26-13 in the Sugar Bowl; Notre Dame saw its sixth straight bowl loss, losing to North Carolina State 28-6 in the Gator Bowl.
2008: Revelers celebrated the new year around the world; a ball dropped for the 100th year in New York's Times Square. Violence claimed scores of lives in Kenya, Iraq and Afghanistan. U.S. diplomat John Granville and his driver were shot to death by Sudanese gunmen in Khartoum. New no-smoking rules went into effect in France, prohibiting people from lighting up in cafes, bars and restaurants. Cyprus and Malta adopted the euro. The Georgia Bulldogs romped past Hawaii 41-10 at the Sugar Bowl, ending the Warriors' perfect season.
2012: A Mount Rainier National Park ranger, Margaret Anderson, was shot and killed by the driver of a car that blew through a checkpoint. (Searchers later found the body of the man, 24-year-old Benjamin Colton Barnes, in a snowy creek.)
Today's Birthdays
Former Sen. Ernest Hollings, D-S.C., (91), actor Ty Hardin (83), documentary maker Frederick Wiseman (83), actor Frank Langella (75), rock singer-musician Country Joe McDonald (71), writer-comedian Don Novello (70), actor Rick Hurst (67), country singer Steve Ripley (The Tractors) (63), Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., (59), rapper Grandmaster Flash (55), actress Ren Woods (55), actress Dedee Pfeiffer (49), actress Embeth Davidtz (47), country singer Brian Flynn (Flynnville Train) (47), actor Morris Chestnut (44), actor Verne Troyer (44) and actress Eden Riegel (32).


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POSITION: Center
SHOOTS: Left
BIRTHPLACE: Belleville, ON, CAN
DRAFTED: COL: 2003-163 overall
Assists: 1 (5x: Last, 3-31 vs. DAL)
Points: 1 (5x: Last, 3-31 vs. DAL)
+/-: Plus-1 (4x: Last, 3-31 vs. DAL)
TOI: 14:01 (2-7 at NJ)
Shots: 4 (2-5 at WSH)
PIM: 5 (10-24 at STL)
THIS SEASON: Activated from injured reserve Jan. 23 after missing 22 games...Placed on injured reserve with foot injury on Dec. 16 (retroactive to Dec. 3)...Recorded first point as a King with an assist Oct. 25 at Nashville.
|2008-09: Recorded five points (all assists) and 11 penalty minutes in 31 games with the Kings and three points (1-2=3) and zero penalty minutes in three games with Manchester (AHL) on a conditioning assignment…Activated from injured reserve Jan. 23, 2009 after missing 22 games...Placed on injured reserve with foot injury on Dec. 16, 2008 (retroactive to Dec. 3, 2008)...Recorded first point as a King with an assist Oct. 25, 2008 at Nashville.
2007-08: Recorded five points (2-3=5) and eight penalty minutes in 22 games with Colorado…Was recalled from the Lake Erie Monsters (AHL) three times during the season…Recorded 40 points (14-26=40) and 18 penalty minutes in 38 games for Lake Erie…His 40 points ranked fourth on Lake Erie, while his 26 assists tied for third on the team...Averaged 1.05 points per game, which led Lake Erie…His 20 power-play points tied for second on the club…Had five three-point games, one four-point game and one five-point performance with the Monsters…Notched hat trick and recorded five points (3-2=5) March 29, 2008 at Syracuse...Had 16 points (3-13=16) in a nine-game stretch with Lake Erie (March 2 to March 20, 2008)…Missed entire preseason and first 14 games of the regular season due to a wrist injury.
2006-07: Recorded career-high 22 points (14-8=22) and 28 penalty minutes with Colorado…11 of his 14 goals and 19 of his 22 points came on the road…Led Colorado with three short-handed goals…Became the first Avalanche player to score three short-handed goals in a single season since Joe Sakic in 2000-01 (also three)…Ranked first among Colorado forwards in short-handed average time-on-ice (2:53 per game)…Appeared in Colorado's final 27 contests...Scored first career overtime goal March 4, 2007 at Detroit…Recorded career-high three points (all assists) Dec. 19, 2006 at Edmonton…Recorded first career multi-goal game Oct. 5, 2006 at Minnesota…Also recorded one point (0-1=1) and two penalty minutes in three games for the Avalanche's AHL affiliate the Albany River Rats.
2005-06: Recorded 13 points (3-10=13) and 12 penalty minutes in 41 regular season games with Colorado…Appeared in 37 of Colorado's final 39 regular season contests…Scored first career NHL goal Jan. 28, 2006 vs. Vancouver…Added an assist in the same game to record first-ever multi-point game (1-1=2)…Recorded first career NHL point with an assist Jan. 9, 2006 vs. St. Louis...Made NHL debut Nov. 27, 2005 vs. Vancouver…Recorded 17 points (4-13=17) and 20 penalty minutes in 29 regular season games for the Avalanche's AHL affiliate the Lowell Lock Monsters…Appeared in all nine playoff games for Colorado, recording one goal and six penalty minutes…Played first career NHL playoff game in Game 1 of the Western Conference Quarterfinals April 22, 2006 at Dallas…Collected first NHL playoff goal April 28, 2006 vs. Dallas.
2004-05: Recorded 97 points (41-56=97) and 60 penalty minutes in his final year of juniors for Owen Sound (OHL)…His 97 points was third in the OHL, while his 41 goals was tied for third and 56 assists were sixth in the league…His nine game-winning goals was second in the OHL…Was runner-up for OHL's Most Outstanding Player Award…Won the Jerry Reid Memorial Award as Owen Sound's Team MVP…Named a Third Team OHL All-Star…Also appeared in eight playoff games for Owen Sound, recording a team-leading 10 points (6-4=10) and eight penalty minutes.
LAST AMATEUR CLUB: Owen Sound, OHL…Named Owen Sound's Team MVP in 2001-02, 2002-03 and 2004-05…Named Owen Sound's Rookie of the Year in 2001-02…Named OHL Third-Team All-Star in 2004-05.
TRANSACTIONS: Selected by Colorado in the fifth round (163rd overall) in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft.
PERSONAL: Nickname: Richie…Off-season home: Belleville, Ontario…Favorite movie: Dumb & Dumber…Favorite TV show: Curb Your Enthusiasm…Favorite actor: Leonardo DiCaprio…Favorite band: George Strait…Favorite NHL city, other than Los Angeles: New York City…Favorite magazine: any music biography…Favorite sport other than hockey: golf…Favorite hockey moment: first NHL game…Favorite pro athlete: Tiger Woods…Favorite hockey player growing up: Wayne Gretzky…Favorite road arena: Xcel Energy Center…Favorite food: sushi…Favorite holiday: Christmas…Favorite vacation spot: anywhere warm…Superstitions: put left skate on first…First job: pool boy…Wears jersey number because: wore it all his life…Charities: supports Children's Aid Society Belleville…Helps the environment by: recycling…If not a hockey player he would be: golfer…Miscellaneous: loves learning water sports.


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Skiers and snowmobilers are loving the winter storm that's dumped up to 16 inches of snow on parts of the Upper Midwest.
Last year, folks in the Minneapolis area suffered through a near snowless winter. This season, the Twin Cities saw only meager bursts of snow before the weekend storm. With the fresh blast, people are excited.
At Lutsen Mountains ski resort 90 miles northeast of Duluth, Minnesota, marketing director Jim Vick says you could "hear the hoots and hollers" as skiers took to the slopes amid the falling snow. The resort got up to 8 inches Sunday.
He says folks really felt cheated by last winter because they didn't get the snow "and they are just dying for it."
The snowfall has also been a boon for the hardware stores. Mike Frattalone co-owns a Twin Cities hardware store chain and says his 18 stores have sold a lot of snow shovels, ice melt and "hundreds" of snowblowers since Sunday's snow.
Last winter, the Twin Cities' heaviest snowfall was 4.2 inches on December 3.


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Cucumber Fresca Scented Tealight Candles
Color: Lime Green
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Spoiler Alert --- Cubs Win! Cubs Win! Cubs Win!
I know many of you probably watched today's game on WGN, but for those of you who didn't, or for those of you who did but weren't paying attention....
Reed Johnson slugged a two-run PH home run in the bottom of th 4th to break a 2-2 tie, and the Cubs defeated the Padres 5-3 at Dwight Patterson Field at HoHoKam Park before a Cactus League record crowd of 13,262 in hot & sunny Mesa.
Iowa Cubs RHP Mitch Atkins got the start today, and went two innings. Pitching under no presssure (Atkins was optioned to AAA earlier this week), the young right-hander labored through two innings of work (52 pitches - 30 strikes), allowing two unearned runs.
Atkins should have been out of the 1st inning 1-2-3, but a two-out bobble by second-baseman Mike Fontenot allowed Chase Headley (that's Headley, not Hedy) to reach base, and then Mongo (Kyle Blanks) launched a two-run HR over the LF fence. Atkins walked the next two batters after the long ball, but escaped further damage, although he did need 36 pitches (while throwing only half for strikes) to complete the inning.
Atkins had an easier second frame (16 pitches - 12 strikes), finishing strong with two strikeouts (Chris Burke called & David Eckstein swinging).
The Cubs scored a run in the bottom of the 1st off Padres starter RHP Kevin Correia (ex-SF). Alfonso Soriano led-off with a single, but was thrown out (easily) trying steal (Soriano got a bad jump off 1st, and he seemed to be favoring one leg while he was running). Ryan Theriot drew a one-out walk, and advanced to 2nd on a ground out. Milton Bradley then lined a two-out single to CF to score The Riot, and took second on an E-8 bobble by Padres CF Emil Brown. Aramis Ramirez followed that with an infield single to short, but Bradley ran through 3rd base coach Mike Quade's "stop" sign and was caught drop-dead cold just a few feet past 3rd base (made a third out at third base again) as SS Everth Cabrera threw behind Bradley. (And this was not the first brain cramp by Bradley on the bases this Spring, either). Like I've said before, this is going to be a long year...
This is the point in Spring Training when Cubs Manager Lou Piniella likes to have his relievers try to throw more than one inning in a game at least one time, so Carlos Marmol relieved Atkins and worked the third and fourth innings (six up, six down - 24 pitches - 4/1 GO/FO). Marmol only threw 13 strikes, but nobody hit the ball hard off him in either inning.
The Cubs tied the game in the bottom of the 3rd when Soriano singled (again), and advanced to 3rd on a beautiful hit & run single by Theriot, who punched the ball right to the spot just vacated by 2nd baseman David Eckstein (who broke to 2nd base to cover). Micah Hoffpauir then roped an L-7 SF (Hoffpauir's MLB-leading 18th Spring Training RBI) that was hit so hard it almost went over Headley's head(ley) to score Soriano.
The Cubs took the lead in the bottom of the 4th, when, with two outs, Sam Fuld walked and PH Reed Johnson (batting for Marmol) followed with what would prove to be the game-winning HR.
Kevin Gregg worked the 5th inning and into the 6th (1.1 IP, 28 pitches total), allowing just a two-out single in the 5th. Esteban German mishandled a grounder and then made a bad throw to 1st base for an error (I guess you could call it either a fielding error or a throwing error--take your pick) to start the 6th, but Gregg struck out the next batter, Emil Brown. Piniella then brought in lefty reliever Jason Waddell to face lefty-swinging Chris Snelling, and the Australian ripped a line-drive that was certainly headed for the RF corner. But somehow, someway,1st baseman Micah Hoffpauir caught the ball with a leaping stab, doubling off Kyle Blanks at 1st base forr an unassisted inning-ending DP (and next time you come by, bring my stomach!).
Waddell came back out for the top of the 7th, but got yanked after walking lead-off hitter Nick Hundley on five pitches. Angel Guzman was then brought into the game, and had his best outing of 2009, retiring all six men he faced (22 pitches- 15 strikes), on three easy ground balls and three strikeouts (Brett Dowdy, Matt Antonelli, and Chase Headley). When Gooz trusts his stuff and throws strikes, he gets outs. .
The Cubs scored their final run in the bottom of the 7th, when Theriot led off with a single, and then PR Andres Blanco advanced to 2nd on a wild pitch, before scoring on a two-out RBI single chopped through the infield by Esteban German.
Kevin Hart had struck out nine of the last 11 men he had faced coming into today's game, but struggled with his command in the 9th while trying to get the save. Hart hit the first two batters he faced (Drew Macias and Chad Huffman) to bring the tying run to the plate, but the right-hander recovered to get a 4-6-3 DP (thanks to a strong relay throw to first by DP middleman Andres Blanco). Everth Cabrera then grounded a triple into the RF corner to drive-in Macias from third, but Hart got Dowdy for the final out of the game on a pop-up to short RF that was caught by So Taguchi while battling the afternoon sun.
Four Cubs had two hits each today, including Ryan Theriot (who also reached base a third time with a walk), Alfonso Soriano, Milton Bradley, and Aramis Ramirez, and eagle-eye Sam Fuld walked twice while playing a stellar CF.
The Cubs travel out to Camelback Ranch tomorrow for a Cactus League game with the cross-town rival White Sox (and with the White Sox now based on the west side of Phoenix, the Cubs and the Sox are actually "cross-town" rivals out here, too!)
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Like I've said before, this is going to be a long year...
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Perhaps we should teach MB the girl's softball method of running the bases - station to station, no rounding! Listening to your coaches would be nice, too...
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not to let him off the hook, but hey...the guy was running full out around the bases. it's spring...i'll take the healthy legs over the stupidity. hehe..
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If he gets on base at 436 again he can run the bases backwards for all I care.
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Good point!
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2003-2004 Moises Alou is the gold standard of ridiculous base running in my book. There may have been goofier Cubs base runners, or those from other teams, I just didn't see them. MB has some way to go to match Moises, however early returns aren't good. I've seen (at most) 4 of MBs at bats so far this spring , and 2 running blunders.
Re: Spoiler Alert --- Cubs Win! Cubs Win! Cubs Win!
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Off topic - I'm looking to sign up for a new credit card with benefits, and I was wondering if anyone here on TCR owns a Cubs credit card. I was just looking to find out what perks you get with that card.
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I believe the interest rate is always lower at the end of October.
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Re: I was wondering if anyone here owns a Cubs credit card
I'm number 73,112 on the waiting list.
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In the end they never deliver on the perks they promise. That card always disappoints.
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2nd in defensive WAR, NL.
6th in NL in RBI
Go complain about something else, like, "they never play good against the good teams", or some other shit.
Addy really has trouble breaking through .250 BA -- after his hot streak got him to .251, he has gone 1-for-17.
Thank goodness for Jansen's 2 WP on Friday -- otherwise this would have been a sweep.
There seems to be a direct correlation with overconfidence in the Cubs offense against mediocre/young pitchers and really poor offense against mediocre/young pitchers. So, let's fear the Pirate pitchers!
Rizzo due for a power surge -- one HR in August so far. He truly does hit them in bunches.
Sometimes I'm not as supportive of Cahill as maybe I should be. There, I said it.
Rough 8th inning all around -- HBP, Cahill error, Javy's poor decision.
Oh well - given that the Cubs didn't look like they were going to score, it's better to lose in 9 innings, save the bullpen and get changed for the PJ trip home.
Baez still learning
heyward with his 3rd multi-hit game since the all-star break (all in august)...2nd in the past 3 games during his 7 game hitting streak.
he's gone from flirting with a sub-.300 ob% to nearing .310 ob% in 3 games (1 game was just a 1 for 1 pinch hit appearance). all 5 hits in the past 3 games have come in a row...neat.
stewart with 7Ks through 3ip...of course.
that 10-13 mph difference in his fastball/change is working today...and they're swinging at his crappy slider.
brock stewart...steven brault...fun times for the cubs hitters vs allegedly competitive teams...maybe.
Maddon would have started three lefties against the Dodgers, Montgomery, Zastryzny and Lester, except that he doesn't have the juice to do that. No manager does. Maddon has a boss, Epstein (and probably Hoyer, too), who gave him a starting rotation of five guys including Hammel. Maddon was asked yesterday about the starting group for next year and basically said, Not my call, that's why I drive away in my RV in the summer and occasionally check in, etc.
video of Maddon.
always nice that he actually tries to honestly answer questions. Does mention that he wanted to give Zastr? a chance in a meaningful spot rather than a mop-up role.
from Muskat:
#Cubs Maddon: "I'm not going to make up an excuse for why I did what I did. It has nothing to do with lack of confidence" ... "It was the right thing to do today based on what I saw, what their lineup looked like and Rob Z.'s availability." #Cubs
Hammel not particularly understanding of getting pulled out...as he should. Be curious what Maddon had to say. All I can think of is is keeping arms fresh and maybe wanting to see if Zastr? is worth considering for the playoffs and how he'd do against the Dodgers.
great defense
Heyward, Russell, Baez, Bryant, Ross in particular...although Bryant's a bit hard to judge with all the positions.
Fowler and Rizzo in the top half of the NL for their positions as well (per fangraphs)...Zobrist right at the halfway cutoff for 2b in the NL.
I'm sure some luck is involved too, but the Cubs and Maddon knew what they were doing.


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Ona Wood writes about life in Wood County in the early 1850's reflecting the life of Peter Gunstream and especially the Holly Springs community of eastern Wood County in Chapter 2 of the story of her ancestor's coming to the county. This chapter is available on the members only site by going to the link at the top right of this page. Here's an excerpt from the chapter:
It was not until the year 1857 that the first school house was built in the settlement of the deep eastern part of Wood County. The little log school house was located about one half mile southwest of the Gunstream home. The principal patrons were P. M. Gunstream, Mr. Isham Burnett, and Mr. B. L. Robbins.
The first school that was taught in the log structure was under the tutelage of Miss Emily Smith, a very young girl. She had an enrollment of fifteen pupils.
The school term was very short. That was the case of all the school terms throughout the entire county, and in many other places of the state for the next half century. The school usually ran for a term of three or four months; and in some instances two months in the summer time after crops were "laid by."
The children had to walk long distances to reach the school house, even as much as four miles or more. By the time a youngster reached the school building, ate his lunch, and returned home, most of the day was gone.
The only school books were those that parents might have brought from the old states or , perchance, some father had been lucky enough to find during a trip to Jefferson or Marshall when going for supplies for the family.
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