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BEAUMONT, Texas – The Texas A&M – Corpus Christi baseball team pounded out 12 hits and nine runs to clinch their Southland Conference series on Saturday, taking a 9-3 final over Lamar in the second game of the series. The final game is set for a 1 p.m. start at Vincent-Beck Stadium.
The Islanders improve to 23-27 on the season, and are now at 14-15 in Southland games. The Cardinals fall to 19-29 overall, 11-18 in conference play. Trevor Foss got the win for Texas A&M – Corpus Christi, pitching 5.1 innings while giving up three runs on seven hits with one walk and no strikeouts. He improved to 3-6 on the season, while Marc Damon picked up his first save of the year, pitching the final 3.2 innings in relief to close out the game.
The offense came alive for the Islanders, picking up double digit hits for the sixth straight game, and for the eighth time in their last 10. Stafford Brantley and Dan Sciantarelli led the way, going picking up three RBI and each hitting a home run in the game. Weston Montgomery, Brad Porras and Dan Sciantarelli each had two hits, while Jordan Lee, Eric Weiss and Jeramie Marek had one apiece. In addition to Brantley's three, the Islanders got three from Sciantarelli, including a two-run homer of his own, and two from Lee. Montgomery had the final RBI for the team in the 9-3 game.
Texas A&M – Corpus Christi started the scoring in the top of the third inning, with Marek leading off with a double to center, moving to third on a sacrifice bunt by Sciantarelli and coming home on a sacrifice fly by Lee, sliding under the tag at home for a 1-0 lead.
In the fifth, they added to the lead as Brantley led off with a single and stole second base. Marek was hit by a pitch to put two runners on, and Sciantarelli singled to center to bring home Brantley and move Marek to third. Lee followed with an RBI double down the right field line to score Marek for a 3-0 lead while Sciantarelli moved to third. After an intentional walk to Jonathan Gonzales loaded the bases, Montgomery came through with a two-out single to left, scoring Sciantarelli while Lee was out at the plate trying to score.
The top of inning ended with the score 4-0 in favor of the Islanders, but Lamar responded with a run in the bottom half to make it a 4-1 score.
In the top of the sixth inning, Porras led off with a double, and was followed by Brantley, who launched his third home run of the season well over the right field wall to make it a 6-1 score.
In the bottom half of the inning, the Cardinals got to Foss, scoring two runs in the inning to knock him out of the game with just one out in the frame. Damon came on to get the final two outs to preserve the 6-3 lead, inducing a groundout and a pop up to end the sixth with a 6-3 lead for the Islanders.
Texas A&M – Corpus Christi finished the scoring in the top of the eighth; scoring three more runs on three hits to make it a 9-3 game. Brad Porras led the inning off with a standup triple to center field, and came home on a Brantley RBI single through the right side. After a pair of outs, Sciantarelli stepped to the plate and hit his first home run of the season, knocking it off the top wall in the deepest part of the field to make it a 9-3 score.
Damon finished out the game in the ninth to earn his first save of the year, pitching 3.2 innings and giving up just two hits while walking none and striking out none.
The final game of the series is set for a 1 p.m. first pitch on Sunday. The Islanders will look to earn their first sweep of the season, with Adam Hoelscher getting the starting nod for Texas A&M – Corpus Christi. Lamar will start Carter Hahn in the Cardinals final home game of the season.
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6.1Apart from the specific criticisms made by the Defendants of Irving's historiography, with which I have dealt in the preceding section V of this judgment, the Defendants make the broader criticism of him that he persistently and seriously misrepresents what the evidence, obectively analysed, shows to have been the attitude adopted by Hitler towards the Jews in general and his involvement in the evolving policy to exterminate them. The Defendants' case is that, in order to arrive at any conclusion about the extent of Hitler's knowledge of the persecution which culminated in the genocide which took place in the gas chambers, it is necessary to take account of his conduct (including his public statements) throughout his political life. If this approach is adopted, the Defendants maintain that it becomes apparent that the proposition that Hitler did not know about or authorise the genesis of the gassing programme is unsustainable.
6.2 In this section I shall set out the parties' respective arguments in relation to this issue. I shall start with the issue whether and, if so, over what period the evidence shows Hitler to have been anti-semitic. I shall then rehearse the arguments as to the extent, if any, of his knowledge of and responsibility for the policies of shooting, deporting and exterminating Jews by means including gassing. For the sake of clarity I shall deal with each of those policies in separate sections, recognising that there is a degree of artificiality in such an approach. The policy of exterminating the Jews was not introduced in phases. I recognise also that there is an overlap between the questions with which this section is concerned and the issues addressed in section V (especially at (vi)). Inevitably there will be some duplication.

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Insect survival and damage of natural populations will be compared using research or commercial fields of unsprayed Bt and non-Bt crops. Research will include corn earworm and tobacco budworm comparisons, as well as other pests that are targeted by transgenic crops. When greater than expected populations of large larvae are found in a Bt field, larvae will be collected and reared for further assays to test for resistance to the Bt genes.


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A recent report from the job site Glassdoor is not really interesting for its ranking of the best CEOs to work for.
Sure, LinkedIn's Jeff Weiner is No. 1, while last year's top CEO, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, dropped to No. 10.
And Twitter's Dick Costolo didn't make the list at all, but possibly because not enough Twitter employees wrote CEO approval reviews in the past 12 months to qualify for Glassdoor's study. Maybe they were too busy, what with the IPO and the company's rocket-like growth.
But the ranking is valuable for what it says about Silicon Valley; eight of the top 50 CEOs on the list are here, after all. What struck me reading the Silicon Valley CEO employee reviews is that intangibles -- a CEO's likeability, their sense of mission, their ability to include everyone in that mission -- matter here, maybe as much as compensation.
And when Glassdoor looked at employee reviews in other industries, the desire for a CEO like that wasn't as apparent as it is in Silicon Valley, said Glassdoor community expert Scott Dobroski. For example, employee reviews for Lloyd Blankfein, the CEO of Goldman Sachs and No. 8 on the list, tended to talk about his "optimistic and motivational energy," which makes sense in the wake of the financial crisis, Dobroski said.
The top CEOs in Silicon Valley "have a very clear vision for their company where it is heading in the short term and long term," he said. "They communicate very clearly where the company is going, how the company is going to get there, and how every single employee is going to play a role."
Since it came online in 2008, Glassdoor has become the valley's watercolor, a fascinating window into the work cultures here. Reviews are anonymous but must meet Glassdoor's community standards and contain both a pro and a con, or face rejection. That may be why one Google employee jokingly complained, to fulfill the "con" requirement, that "there are not enough trees in the offices and the fish tanks get dirty sometimes."
A company's Glassdoor reviews are a must-read before a job interview, and it's become a way for employees to signal to management when something isn't working. Companies know this and follow their Glassdoor ratings and reviews closely, like a bagel shop watches its Yelp comments. Some advertise job openings on the site alongside competitors' employee reviews.
"A lot of companies are really scared by the reviews," said Jessica Miller-Merrell, a former human resources director at OfficeMax and now a HR consultant based in Mountain View who occasionally writes for Glassdoor. "These conversations were already taking place. They weren't public. Companies can't ignore these conversations any longer because Glassdoor is such a destination for job seekers and employees."
Sure, Silicon Valley's workforce has a lot to say about the quality of food in the cafeteria and office jerks.
But the general gist of employee reviews here is a thoughtful discussion about the company's execution of its mission and whether the firm recognizes the importance of each employee in that effort.
It's a message that often emanates from the CEO. In that respect, LinkedIn's Weiner, who gives biweekly, all-hands talks, gets high marks. (Like Twitter's Costolo last year, Weiner didn't appear in the top 50 CEOs last year because LinkedIn didn't meet Glassdoor's threshold of having a certain number of employee reviews). One reviewer praised the company's "culture of complete transparency," something that is echoed in other employee reviews particularly Facebook's.
Facebook's Zuckerberg probably fell 6 percentage points this year because some employee reviews flagged more of a bureaucratic feeling at the social networking giant and the addition of young middle management, Dobroski said.
If Glassdoor matters more than ever, you have to wonder if some firms try to game the system. One LinkedIn reviewer added: "P.S. don't email every employee to get them to do a review here on Glassdoor." Dobroski says that if they see reviews that are too similar sounding or if they suspect any incentives were offered for posting, the reviews are rejected. But asking employees to post a review is fine.
Silicon Valley firms are like little kingdoms, worlds onto themselves with royalty, quirky cultural norms and shared anxieties. Employees here want to feel like a part of a mission and will tell us on Glassdoor whether that's how they feel.
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Im trying to get the IMDD working and have loaded the movieinfo.conf and jar into the plugins. I noted that to get to the plugins i had to "show contents" rather than negotiate through libraries/applications etc in MAC OSX.
INFO 2012-07-16 15:39:50.298 [main] Loading MediaInfo library
INFO 2012-07-16 15:39:50.321 [main] Error loading MediaInfo library: Unable to load library 'mediainfo': dlopen(libmediainfo.dylib, 9): no suitable image found. Did find:
libmediainfo.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture
INFO 2012-07-16 15:39:50.321 [main] The server will now use the less accurate ffmpeg parsing method
Does this help?
What am i doing wrong?
And what should i be expecting to see on my samsung TV, All i get is a movie folder, with no information about the movie at all.


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A small surveillance drone flies over an Austin stadium, diligently following a series of GPS waypoints that have been programmed into its flight computer. By all appearances, the mission is routine.
Suddenly, the drone veers dramatically off course, careering eastward from its intended flight path. A few moments later, it is clear something is seriously wrong as the drone makes a hard right turn, streaking toward the south. Then, as if some phantom has given the drone a self-destruct order, it hurtles toward the ground. Just a few feet from certain catastrophe, a safety pilot with a radio control saves the drone from crashing into the field.
From the sidelines, there are smiles all around over this near-disaster. Professor Todd Humphreys and his team at the University of Texas at Austin's Radionavigation Laboratory have just completed a successful experiment: illuminating a gaping hole in the government's plan to open US airspace to thousands of drones.
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Published: Thursday, January 24, 2013 at 9:19 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, January 24, 2013 at 9:19 a.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional Democrats are reintroducing legislation to ban assault weapons but the measure faces long odds even after last month's mass school shooting in Newtown, Conn.
The measure being unveiled Thursday is authored by Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, who wrote the original assault weapons ban. That law expired in 2004 when Congress refused to renew it under pressure from the National Rifle Association.
An assault weapons ban is among the measures supported by President Barack Obama, who unveiled a package of gun safety proposals last week. But because of concerns among moderate Democrats it's seen as a heavy lift in Congress, with measures such as beefed-up background checks more likely to pass.
There's disagreement about the effectiveness of the original assault weapons ban.
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Lindsay Lohan just found out she has another sister.
Her father, Michael Lohan, fathered an illegitimate child in 1995 while married to Dina Lohan. This was just confirmed by a DNA test, and, the revelation is on tape, of course.
Lohan agreed to submit to a DNA test for an episode of "Trisha Goddard," during which he comes face-to-face for the first time with the 17-year-old girl claiming to be his daughter.
Yep -- she is.
Nope -- this isn't very surprising.
The girl's mother, Kristi Horn, has been claiming for years that Michael Lohan is the father of her daughter. She has tried multiple times to get him to pay child support, while he adamantly denied the allegations, according to TMZ.
The scene on "Trisha Goddard" is apparently pretty cringe worthy. Which makes sense, if it contains Michael Lohan.
Michael Lohan supposedly can't believe the news, while Horn bursts into tears.
Then Lohan tries to hug his newfound daughter, who's named Ashley. The girl reacts by shouting, "No! No! No!" while Lohan pleads, "I just want to hug you."
Suddenly I want to take a shower.
Lohan's two youngest children with Dina -- Ali and Cody -- were born in 1993 and 1996 respectively. Which means Ashley was conceived somewhere in the middle.
Lindsay Lohan hasn't responded publicly yet.
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Is anyone else having trouble streaming xvid videos since the latest firmware update? I ripped a lot of my dvds to xvid at 1800k average bitrate with ac3 audio within .avi files. They play perfect via a USB drive either flash or usb harddrive. They used to stream fine but since they've added divx 3.11 support my xvid have started "freaking out."
For example, I started Eagle Eye from a usb drive. Hit Info and the video bit rate ranged from 1Mbps to about 9Mbps. When streaming the exact same file (Whether through PS3MS, Twonky, Tversity or WMP11) over ethernet the video bit rate seems to jump as high as 49Mbps and audio drops below 100 before freezing and stuttering. There is no transcoding going on, so it's not a cpu issue (in case it's a dual core amd cpu, 3 GB ram).
I'm able to stream high bit rate 720p h.264/AC3 files created through mkv2vob just fine, also no transcoding, with bit rates far exceeding those of these Xvid encodes. Really just seems to be an issue with Xvid. I think i may try Dr.Divx to create some "certified compatible" divx encodes and see if the results change.


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Recipe submit: Louisiana Shrimp stuffed with Eggplant wrapped in Bacon
Published: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 at 12:54 p.m.
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Louisiana Shrimp stuffed with Eggplant wrapped in Bacon
3 tablespoons olive oil
2 medium onions, finely chopped
2 eggplants, peeled and cut into cubes
2 tablespoons Cajun seasoning
Salt and pepper to taste
2/3 cup chopped green onions
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 chopped fine jalapeno pepper
1 cup seasoned bread crumbs
24 (15-20) shrimp, peeled and deveined
1 pound bacon cut in half
24 toothpicks
On medium heat with a 5-quart pot, add oil and onions, and cook until onions are tender and brown, about seven minutes to eight minutes. Add eggplant cubes and smother for 30 minutes. Stir constantly. Add Cajun seasoning, salt and pepper to taste. Stir in green onions, garlic and jalapeno pepper, and stir well and constantly. Cook for 45 minutes or until tender and mashed and make sure you stir it constantly. Remove from heat and cool completely.
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Place bread crumbs in a plate or bowl. Stuff shrimp with one teaspoon eggplant mixture and then roll in bread crumbs. Wrap in bacon and stick with toothpick to hold bacon on shrimp. Place stuffed shrimp on a baking sheet and bake at 400 degrees for 20 minutes. Turn shrimp every five minutes. Remove from oven and serve hot.
Makes six servings.
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The El Dorado Public Schools has been notified of an IRS Audit to be conducted early in September of this school year for 2012 district payroll accounts.
In preparation for the audit, it was discovered the district failed to file IRS 1099 forms for 2012, typically used to report non-employee compensation to non-corporate independent contractors.
As a result, immediate corrective action has been taken in preparation for the audit and remediation process. The district's independent auditor has been engaged to review other routine process filings and accounts to assure there are no other areas of error or omission, and restructure of district accounting operations has been initiated to assist in preventing future failures to report.
"At the present time, we have not discovered any other discrepancies in reporting," said Superintendent Sue Givens. "However, we are committed to thoroughly investigating and correcting any procedures that would prevent our district from full compliance. This appears to be an isolated incident that requires immediate correction and we are working toward that end."
Due to personnel implications of the restructure and until the final determination of the audit, the district will not provide further comment.
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MONTARA -- Dog owners in coastal San Mateo County claim they are getting yanked around by the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, which has proposed banning off-leash dog-walking and curtailing on-leash activities on its four properties in the county's northwestern corner.
The Montara Dog Group and other canine lovers are making a furious push to amend a voluminous dog management plan that would restrict off-leash activity in San Francisco and Marin County but bar it altogether at the 3,858-acre Rancho Corral de Tierra and three smaller properties: Mori Point, Milagra Ridge and Sweeney Ridge. The proposal would also shrink the areas available for on-leash dogs .
The GGNRA says it needs to balance the needs of all park users as well as protect wildlife, sensitive habitat and historical resources.
Hundreds of dog owners on the coast have picked up a powerful ally in Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Hillsborough, who held a forum this week in San Francisco to allow her constituents to air their concerns to GGNRA superintendent Frank Dean. Speier said afterward she found Dean's stance on San Mateo County "disturbing" and will request a sit-down with U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell.
"I made it very clear that it's unacceptable not to have off-leash areas in San Mateo County in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area," said Speier, "and somehow suggest that that is providing services to the taxpayers of this region who are funding the GGNRA."
The GGNRA's dog management plan has been subject to one of the most exhaustive outreach processes in the history of the National Park Service, said Howard Levitt, the agency's director of communications. The organization must not only balance the needs and wants of roughly 16 million annual visitors, he said Friday, but also preserve it for future generations to enjoy.
"The variety of uses here is enormous and some of them conflict with one another," said Levitt, adding that the number of dogs on GGNRA land has increased substantially since the agency was established in 1972. "The passions on this issue run very, very deep."
Levitt noted that the proposal for San Mateo County is consistent with the county's strict policies on dogs. None of the county's 19 parks allow off-leash dog-walking. Only four allow dogs on a leash.
Critics of the GGNRA's proposal say there is insufficient evidence that allowing dogs to run off leash harms wildlife or habitat. Areas where dogs can roam free are community hubs, they argue, and on-leash walking provides less enjoyment and exercise than off-leash meandering for both human and canine.
"I don't see dogs as causing any damage whatsoever, on or off leash," said Michele Coxon, 68, a Pacifica dog owner who visited Mori Point on Friday. "There's no reason I have ever seen -- and I've lived her 32 years and covered these hills with four different dogs -- that they can't allow some off-leash area."
San Mateo County residents have until Feb. 18 to submit comments on the GGNRA's latest dog management plan, now in its second round of public vetting. The agency will incorporate the feedback into a proposed rule, which will also be subject to public comment. The new regulations are not expected to go into effect until late 2015.
Speier and her coastal constituents say they will continue prodding the GGNRA to rethink its vision.
"I've got to believe that in a region where innovation is our middle name," said Speier, "that we can come up with a situation that works for all the different users."
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The electronic highway signs that warn drivers of changing traffic and weather conditions in Summit County and across the state are getting an upgrade this month.
Officials say the improved signs will be sharper and easier to see.
"It's increasing their visibility," CDOT spokesman Bob Wilson said. "They're sharper, with better contrast ... so hopefully they will be more effective."
Crews replaced an older sign near Copper Mountain this week, while upgrades to the system are taking place across the state.
Older signs are being replaced with new ones featuring more recent technology, and others are being upgraded and connected to an expanded fiber optic network.
"Because the technology's changed, we can get more data onto the sign," Wilson said. "They look the same, they just function better and communicate better back to traffic operation."
Some of the existing signs are 15 years old and significantly behind current technology.
The new and upgraded signs are capable of displaying CDOT messages more quickly and cost less to install and maintain, according to a statement from the transportation department.
The $2.3 million project is set to be completed this month.
The electronic message boards allow CDOT to post changing information, generally on road and weather conditions, quickly and remotely to highways all over the state.
On the Interstate 70 mountain corridor, particularly during peak travel seasons for the highway, the variable message signs are used to inform drivers of highway congestion, road conditions and travel times.
CDOT and municipal governments have also begun to leverage the signs to push key information - such as the fire bans earlier this summer - to the public.
CDOT also began using the signs on I-70 this summer to help influence driver behavior. The signs now warn of heavy traffic that tends to build up on Sunday afternoons as mountain visitors return to Denver, recommending drivers avoid the busiest travel times.
"We try to use the signs as effectively as possible," Wilson said. "This is just another method of messaging people to let them know there's going to be increased traffic. We're trying to help the public chose their spots as far as when it's best to travel bac to the Front Range."
Transportation officials, local governments and business owners hope to supplement proposed highway projects aimed at easing congestion by encouraging drivers to leave earlier or later on Sundays.
Sign upgrades started in 2006, allowing the electronic message boards to employ wireless and fiber optic networks. Older signs are also regularly replaced when they no longer keep up with current technologies or are just ready to be retired, according to CDOT.
This month's upgrades and replacements are taking place largely off I-70 in Garfield, Grand, Huerfano, Mesa, Moffat, Pitkin, Summit and San Miguel counties, officials stated.
"The ones on I-70 are in pretty good shape," Wilson said. "Every so often they need to be upgraded, just so they maintain standards."
CDOT also has to replace traditional road signs approximately every seven years, Wilson said.


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So, last Sunday I completed my first half marathon in 2 hours and 14 minutes and 6 seconds. People tell me this is a good time for my first. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't.
I want it all now. The whole 26.2!
The problem I've been running into is any runs over 10 miles makes my knees sore for about 36 hours after the long run. During my long runs I do form checks every 3 miles or so, but I guess it could slip there at the end when I reach my maxium distance. Anyway, other than form, what else could sore up my knees like that? I seem to recover quickly from it and don't have any other knee problems. So, it is that right now 10 mile is my peak and anything other I am pushing myself? If that's the case then if I can just keep running 10 miles my body will adjust and I will be fine.
Looking for experiences and opinions. I've never ran so many miles in my life!
If you have no medical/physical issues which none of us will know. Your body and mine will adjust to the additional miles if done correctly. I would advise getting you weekly miles up to around 35 or so then pick a race about 18 weeks out. Find a 18 week plan that will fit your schedule and start training, do not worry about doing it for a time on your 1st marathon, just train to complete. Your mine will make things hurt sometimes when you get to new distances and time running. Good luck
" There will be days that you don't know if you can run a marathon...but there will be a life time of knowing that you have. Marathons are all different, but each time you cross that finish line, you hunger for the next one...it's a great feeling of accomplishment".
good for you on your distance and time.the soreness is simply your nees adjusting to the milage.try iceing after your runs. it should help.good luck
Congrats on your first half! It is a wonderful accomplishment and good motivation to continue on with other races. I agree with the advice to follow a good training plan for the full and give yourself some time in extending to longer distances.
Knee pain is very common in running, so check out your shoes and get a professional evaluation about pronation (normal, under or over) and that will help determine the best options for footwear. Also, cross-training may be of benefit with stretching and strength work focusing on quads, calves and hamstrings. In addition, try to train on softer surfaces because that will lessen the impact on the knees and increase those miles slowly to avoid over-use injuries. Finally, glucosamine and chondroitin supplements seem to work well for some and might be another option for joint health and offsetting the possibilities of OA.
Sounds like you are doing great and wishing you every future success!
I don't know of any physical/medical problems that would keep me from running longer distances. I've been able to gradually increase my mileage with no problem at all until that 10 mile barrier.
Hmm, yeah, my shoes are old. I did go and get fitted at a running shoe store, but I've ran in them since March 2012. Many 5Ks, 10ks, 4 mile races, and now the 1/2. Guess it's time to retire them.
I already take glucosamine and chondroitin. Some runners say it's bunk and doesn't do anything and other sing its praises. I take it as a precaution. If it does, great, if not, then maybe the placebo effect will kick in and benefit me in some way.
I will be using the Hal Higdon Novice 1 Marathon training guide. I know I have enough time to train for the MCM. I just want to stay as injury free as possible. So far I've not had a running injury at all (Did I just doom myself?).
For me, I HAVE to run a marathon. Leaving it at half the distance, to me, just seems unfinished.
Congrats on your half! It sounds like you had a great race & you've caught the running bug full-on.
I have found that when I incorporate some strength training into the mix, I stop having knee issues. There's been some research suggesting that a lot of knee problems originate with weakness in the hips, which then affects your form. Squats, lunges & dead lifts are all good.
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I second the 'ice' advice. Personally after finishing a long run I want to soak in a really hot bath, but I've learned from experience that that doesn't help in the long run. As soon as I get back, I wrap my foot or shin or knee tighly in a cold pack. Whatever hurts most, and I keep a couple of them in rotatilon to whatever the problem spots are.
Training for what would have been my first 1/2 Marathon 2 years ago, I started getting knee pain after 8-9 miles. Like an idiot, I tried to push through it. I ended up missing that race (and the entry fee) because I kept trying to train get back to that distance. Instead of going farther every run, I was going shorter before the pain came. The next year I was a lot more careful and finished my 1st full marathon (also using Hal Higdon). This year I've just started tapering for my 2nd marathon. I had a hiccup a couple of weeks back with some early shin splint signs. I iced a lot, took some ibuprofin after runs, and backed way off for a couple of weeks. What I realized was that I would rather be able to do the race even a bit slower from having missed a bit of training, than have to skip it altogether because I made the problem worse.
If you are going to do the MCM, be ready to sign up on Mar 27 last year the race sold out in three hours!!!! It's a great 1st or for that matter any # marathon I have done it the last 4 years. Shoes need to be changed out some where between 300-600 miles.
I second the shoe advice, most shoes break down around 300 miles depending on the surface you are running on. Ice is great too along with some strength training. If the pain is below the knee cap patella area, that is first sign of needing new shoes.
You might want to change up the surface you run on as well. Concrete is much harder on the joints than say grass or a trail. Asphalt is softer than concrete as well.
Try some different surfaces and see what happens as well.
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The New Orleans City Council appointed a replacement for Jon Johnson, who resigned after pleading guilty to fraud charges.
In a 4-2 vote, the City Council appointed Freddie Charbonnet to Johnson's former District E seat.
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NEW HAMPTON — W.S. Healey Chevrolet Buick opens Oct. 15 in a 50,000-square-foot building designed with the environment and growth in mind.
The former Fulton Chevrolet Cadillac has been transformed by a year of planning and two more of construction costing about $7 million into what Paul Healey sees as a state-of-the-art car store offering customers creature comforts and a more efficient delivery of service.
Healey and his brother, Dwight Healey, are partners in seven dealerships in Orange and Dutchess counties. The businesses sold more than 5,000 new and more than 4,000 used vehicles last year.
The new location will replace the dealership on Greenwich Avenue in Goshen, which is half the size and where the paucity of space has long been an issue.
"The new parts department alone is almost 10 times larger than the one in Goshen," Healey said Wednesday, while leading a whirlwind tour as workers applied the finishing touches to the newly renovated building and addition.
A "green" state of mind shows itself in energy-saving lights and windows, a solar system to provide up to 40 percent of the building's electrical needs, and a 6,000-gallon tank in which motor oil will be stored to be reused as heating fuel.
Recycled oil also warms the Greenwich Avenue building, but there's no significant storage capacity.
"So all summer long, we have to have the oil trucked away, while now we'll be able to store it here," Healey said as he pointed to the huge, white tank set above concrete and behind a cement block dike inside the rear of the building.
Outside, much of the rear parking lot was paved with a material allowing water to seep into an underground drainage network for a slow release into a passing stream. That portion of the lot was nearly puddle-free on a rainy morning.
Benches set in a garden near the service entrance will provide an outdoor waiting area on clear days. Indoor ones draw light from floor-to-ceiling windows where customers can read, watch TV or work on their computers in separate areas.
Sales have been inching upward since 2009, Healey said as he pointed to offices and service bays reflecting a belief in continued growth.
There's room for 24 salespeople, for example, up from 16 now employed. Staff will be added as needed, including more technicians. Fifteen will come from the Goshen store to a space holding 31 service bays with lifts.
Healey sees an eventual staff of 75 compared with the 55 people now working at the Goshen location.
"We don't have 24 salespeople today, but we're optimistic about our future," he said. "We expect this building to meet our needs for 20, 30 years. What we've done is make an environment that's functional, user-friendly," he said.
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A short Wolfman's opens the second set, and the Taste that follows it as quite well-played until the end, when some missed notes mar an otherwise strong version.
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An unexpected gift was bestowed upon 20 Silverthorne Elementary teachers Monday afternoon: $50 gift cards to Walmart to help offset classroom expenses.
"They just emphasized that they appreciated us and that they understood how much teachers spend out of their pockets every year to buy supplies for their classroom," Silverthorne principal Dianna Hulbert said. "Their intent was just to give back to the community, which I think is awesome."
The gifts are part of Walmart's Teacher Rewards program, now in its fourth year. This year, the initiative will donate up to $4.5 million to provide 90,000 teachers across the United States with reward cards.
Winning teachers can use the funds to purchase essential items like paper, folders, binder, clipboards, pens, pencils, crayons and markers.
Silverthorne was chosen out of all the schools in Summit School District through a vote by the Frisco Walmart's associates. Store staff brought over fruit trays and cookies and balloons to the school Monday, and teacher names were drawn for the gift cards. Hulbert, who said the initial call from Walmart was unexpected, called it "a wonderful celebration."
"We are proud to honor our community's teachers, who give time and often their own money to ensure our students have everything they need to be successful throughout the school year," said Jason Spatz, Frisco Walmart store manager. "At Walmart, we are dedicated to supporting our nation's teachers by providing them with the support and resources needed to continue educating the future leaders of our country."
It's not unusual for teachers to pay for classroom essentials themselves.
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Robert De Niro said he still plans on teaming with Al Pacino, Joe Pesci and Martin Scorsese to make the mob film "The Irishman."
"We have been trying to do (the film) for the last few years, and I think we will do it," De Niro told art publication Flatt.
They better hurry, or Joe Pesci will be too old to even pretend to savagely kill people.
"It's based on (the) book 'I Heard You Paint Houses' by Charles Brandt. It's about a guy who ... confessed that he killed Hoffa and Joe Gallo. I'm gonna play that character. That's something I'm looking forward to very much ... I think it will (happen) ... we're really working toward making it happen."
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On March 20, Jackson County residents will be able to offer their input on a proposed ordinance intended to increase the number of licensed dogs in the area and boost Jackson County Animal Control revenue.
If passed, the ordinance will require veterinarians practicing in Jackson County to report all rabies vaccinations to the county's Health & Human Services Department, which issues dog licenses. Dog owners with unlicensed animals would then receive letters reminding them to license their pet and a licensing application from the county.
Licensing revenue accounts for about one third of the department's budget, or about $443,000. This could see a boost if the ordinance is passed. Other counties that have passed similar ordinances, including Multnomah and Lane counties, have seen their licensing revenue double, county officials said.
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The University of West Alabama inducted three alumni into its Society of the Golden Key.
Sammy Culpepper of Toomsuba, Miss., Faye Bonner Dial of Lineville, Ala., and William A. Lunsford of Berry, Ala., received the highest honor bestowed by the university.
Sammy Culpepper, a 1962 and 1968 biology graduate, began his career at Meridian Community College where he taught for 30 years. Upon retirement he began teaching as an adjunct instructor of human anatomy and physiology at UWA and continues in that capacity today.
Faye Bonner Dial holds a 1959 bachelor's degree in education from UWA and a master's degree from Jacksonville State University, also in education. After teaching for two years in Choctaw County, Dial spent 35 years in the Clay County School System, teaching and serving as guidance counselor at Lineville High School, where she was named Outstanding Teacher for Clay County. Following a year with the Sylacauga City System, she began working in post-secondary education at Central Alabama Community College, followed by a move to Southern Union Community College, where she has worked the last fourteen years recruiting and advising students.
William A. Lunsford holds a 1968 bachelor's degree from UWA in business administration. Following graduation, he held the position of Director of Auxiliary services at UWA and served in that capacity for seven years before moving on to a successful career in real estate sales and construction. From 1974 through 1979, Lunsford worked as a realtor for Richardson Home Builders, and in 1979, he founded Capstone Real Estate, Inc., and served as President and Broker. In 1985, this company grew into Bill Lunsford Construction & Development, Inc., for which Lunsford serves as President and Broker.


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Many women dread getting on the scale.
But Diane Greenleaf-Kisner, a dietician, stepped up to the challenge. She wanted to test the Weight Gurus Scale, a product that claims to calculate weight, body fat, muscle mass, body water, and bone mass just by standing on it. It sells at Bed, Bath and Beyond for $49.99.
Diane, who is used to calculating complicated health numbers, figured her stats before stepping on the Weight Guru Scale.
"It's .7 off, according to that scale," Diane said.
Diane said the scale claimed she was heavier.
Next, we tried to sync her measurements using the free Weight Gurus app. The app helps keep track of weight management progess. We had problems scanning the scale's display for our smart phone's camera.
"It says the weight and it says muscle mass, but it doesn't say body fat," Diane said.
The app only showed two out of our five measurements the scale promised. Diane kept trying, including taking off her socks. But, she never could get the other three measurements on the scale, or on the app.
Diane said she would not use this product in her office.
"My appointments are half an hour long," she said. "It took me a half hour to do this."
But we didn't let those results weigh us down. We kept testing the Weight Gurus Scale back at KWCH. We got it to work for a co-worker. All five numbers rotated through the display. We just had to be a little more patient. We learned all your stats need to cycle through the display, before trying to sync the scale with the app.
"The weight is right, but the body fat is a little high," our co-worker Shawn Hilferty said.
Our testers thought the scale wasn't user-friendly. They also felt the weight and body fat numbers were a little high.
Our dietician said you can calculate most of these numbers for yourself. However, she feels the best way to get your bone mass is at the doctor's office.
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With the federal debt ceiling back in the news these days in connection with negotiations over the so-called fiscal cliff, right-wing Republicans find themselves with another golden opportunity to peddle demagoguery to the booboisie.
As I wrote here 16 months ago, lots of people seem to think that raising the debt ceiling would allow the Obama administration to spend more freely, to come up with more programs that will cost taxpayers ever more money.
This�myth is fostered by irresponsible rhetoric from Republican politicians who warn�against giving the president �a blank check.� That's a bogus term, but�it plays well among the�dimwits ...
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December 25th is right around the corner. If you're looking for a last-minute gift this holiday season, make these Relaxing Sage and Lavender Bath Salts. This homemade gift is budget-friendly, is quick and easy to make and speaks from the heart.
Relaxing Sage and Lavender Bath Salts
Making bath salts is easy. In fact, this relaxing beauty product is as simple as mixing all of the ingredients together and packaging them in a decorative jar. I found all of these ingredients at my local health food store, The Merc. The Epsom salts and dried lavender buds were available in the bulk section.
• 1 cup Epsom salts• 1/2 cup dead sea salt OR sea salt (I used leftover coarse sea salt from my latest baking experiment.)• 2 tablespoons moisturizing oil (sunflower or castor oil)• 10 drops sage (Salvia officinalis) OR clary sage (Salvia sclarea) essential oil• 1 tablespoon dried lavender (Lavandula angustifolia) flowers• Decorative jar with a tight-fitting lid.
These are the ingredients you will need to make these simple salts.
1. Add all of the ingredients together in a large mixing bowl and mix your newly formed bath salts with a spoon, in a plastic resealable bag or with your hands. I like to mix with my hands—just make sure that the salts, oils and buds are evenly distributed.
2. Allow your bath salts to dry before placing them in your jar to avoid wet clumps. I let the mixture dry while I made my label.
Allow your bath salt mixture to dry before packaging to avoid clumps.
3. To personalize this mixture, make a fun and decorative label educating your friend or family member about the botanical benefits present in their brand new bath salts. In this particular blend I used sage essential oil, a cheerful, warming herb known to soothe the body. I also used dried lavender, a widely known stress reliever. Here's what I would recommend writing on your handmade label, although you can write whatever you want. It's your gift!
"RELAXING BATH SALTS: Transform a regular soak into a relaxing experience. Simply add 2 spoonfuls of these salts to your bath to enjoy moisturizing sunflower oil, warming sage essential oil and stress-relieving lavender buds. Happy Holidays! XOXO Gina"
My Relaxing Bath Salts are packaged and ready for Christmas Day.
Don't feel limited to this sage and lavender combination. You can try any of the following pairings or use your imagination to come up with one of your own. Enjoy!
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Freyberger Gallery presents "Travels And Journeys"
The Penn State Berks Freyberger Gallery will present the exhibition Travels and Journeys by Nancy Sarangoulis, which features the artist's latest work inspired by her artist residency in India, from January 16–March 20, 2014. There will be an opening reception on Thursday, January 16, at 6 p.m. This event is free and open to the public, and light refreshments will be served.
While paintings, drawings, and found objects reinvented for a new purpose have traditionally been the hallmarks of Nancy Sarangoulis' artwork, a recent residency to work with artists and craftspeople in India provided the artist with another link to her artistic journey that includes explorations with automatic art, dream-like imagery, and quiet meditation.
"Painting birds is one of my current interests," says the artist. "Not real birds, but birds that are metaphors, psychologically and spiritually. These visual notations have now 'leaked' into all aspects of my work."
Sarangoulis explains that art, for her, is like oxygen. "One thing leads to another; everything is connected in its own small way," she explains.
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Applications for negative staining include imaging whole mounts of viral suspensions, bacteria, macromolecules, isolated membrane, and cellular components. Small aliquots of the suspensions typically are applied to coated grids and excess fluid wicked away with filter paper. An electron dense stain is likewise applied and excess is wicked away, resulting in a thin layer of stain enabling better visualization of electron lucent structures.
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The King Edward VII Gold Cup is the oldest match-racing trophy in the world for competition involving one-design yachts. It was given at the Tri-Centenary Regatta at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1907 by King Edward VII in commemoration of the 300th Anniversary of the first permanent settlement in America. C. Sherman Hoyt won the regatta and was the first to accept the now historic cup. After three decades of holding the Cup, Mr. Hoyt gave it to the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club and proposed a regular one-on-one match-race series in 6-Meter yachts. In his letter he expressed the propriety of "my returning a British Royal trophy to the custody of your club, with its long record of clean sportsmanship and keenly contested races between your Bermuda yachts and ours of Long Island Sound, and elsewhere..." The first winner of the Cup in its new format was the celebrated Briggs Cunningham, who was also the first skipper to win the America's Cup in a 12-Meter. In the post-war years, the Club placed the Cup in competition in 1956 for match-racing in yachts of the International One Design Class. Bert Darrell had the honor of being first to defend the Cup in this class and won it a total of six times. By winning his seventh championship in 2004, Russell Coutts surpassed Darrell to become the event's all-time winner. Through the years Bermuda has won the Cup 21 times, the United States 17 times, New Zealand 10 times, Australia 5 times, the United Kingdom three times, and in 2002 Denmark claimed the King Edward VII Gold Cup for the first time.


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Definition of field in English:
1An area of open land, especially one planted with crops or pasture, typically bounded by hedges or fences: a wheat field a field of corn
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- As she walked past pastures and small fields of crops she could not bring herself to imagine her own life coming to that.
- The project will reforest old crop fields and pastures and an abandoned rock quarry that has degraded over the years.
- The country side was woods/swamps for the most part with open farm fields of wheat and corn, that was about three feet high.
meadow, pasture, paddock, grassland, pastureland
literary lea, sward
archaic glebe
1.1A piece of land used for a particular purpose, especially an area marked out for a game or sport: a football field
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- It's this talent, he argues, that has enabled them to maximise the potential playing area of a football field.
- Usftl games are typically played on Sunday mornings on regulation football fields with 12-minute quarters.
- I don't want to see injuries happen to anyone on the football field, but they are a part of the game.
playing field, ground, sports field;
British pitch
1.2 Baseball Defensive play or the defensive positions collectively: he is fast in the field and on the bases
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- As far as the field is concerned, this year we've had the deepest and strongest field ever.
- Is the field in, hovering around the centre, or is it deep-set, flung back to the periphery?
- Other situations may also exist where there is an open gap in the field due simply to the positioning of the fielders.
1.3A large area of land or water completely covered in a particular substance, especially snow or ice: an ice field
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- After about a mile I kinked down to cross the Seven where there's a good, arched bridge and where the river, flowing through fields of virgin snow, was trimmed with a glaze of grey translucent ice.
- In this case, over time, the debris field covered about two to three square mile area.
- Observations made earlier this year by the OMEGA instrument on Mars Express showed that Mars has vast fields of perennial water ice, stretching out from its south pole.
1.4An area rich in a natural product, typically oil or gas: an oil field
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- Another wealthy tribe, the 16,000-strong Osage in Oklahoma, owns the rights to one of the richest oil and gas fields in the state.
- Salekhard is surrounded by some of the richest oil and natural gas fields in the world.
- The attention that was given to the detailed geometry of growth faults in the Gulf of Mexico, the North Sea, and the Niger Delta helped the exploitation of oil and gas fields in these areas.
1.5An area on which a battle is fought: a field of battle
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- But while vanquishing the enemy on the field of battle is necessary, it is not sufficient.
- I wondered if my classmates and I could make such a sacrifice for our country on the field of battle.
- It would have been better if they had fallen on the field of battle.
1.6 archaic A battle: many a bloody field was to be fought
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- Rupert made himself conspicuous during our Civil War in many a bloody field.
- All these were slaughtered in savage fields for the faith and fell beside the standard of the Cross, breathing loyalty to God and man in their last agonies.
1.7A place where a subject of scientific study or artistic representation can be observed in its natural location or context.
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- When traveling to a destination with large mammals you should learn about their behavior before going out in the field.
- Getting out in the field over and over is the best way to build up knowledge.
2A particular branch of study or sphere of activity or interest: we talked to professionals in various fields
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- His main fields of interest include the study of labor markets and social stratification.
- This curious publication listed its fields of interest as 'magic, fortune telling, palmistry, graphology and spiritualism'.
- According to the teacher, other factors that are at play when it comes to advising the students on career paths include studying skills and the passing of interest tests for specific fields.
area, sphere, discipline, province, department, domain, sector, branch, subject
informal bailiwick
2.1 Computing A part of a record, representing an item of data.
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- A PRM can be thought of as a Bayesian network whose variables are fields in a relational database.
- Buffer overflows are also a major vulnerability and happen when too much data is input into a field.
- You can create a collection of database fields that have unique values for each drawing in the set.
2.2 Linguistics & Psychology A general area of meaning within which individual words make particular distinctions.
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- It is a matter of word fields and changes of meaning, but also about the creation of new words.
- Those other words provide context and define the semantic fields being used.
- This predictability concerns specifically psychological processes, which, by the author's definition, take place within a field of meaning.
2.3A space or range within which objects are visible from a particular viewpoint or through a piece of apparatus: the stars drift through this telescope's field of view See also field of vision.
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- Cassini is now close enough to Enceladus that the moon does not fit within the camera field of view.
- Identification of the situs is often better made by MRI because of the wider field of view.
- Integral has a large field of view, enabling it to scan our Milky Way galaxy for neutron stars and black hole activity.
scope, range, sweep, reach, extent
2.4An area on a flag with a single background color: fifty white stars on a blue field
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- The protesters were rounded up underneath the fluttering white cross and red field of Denmark's flag.
- It was a flag bearing thirteen stars on a blue field with red and white bars.
- The Czech flag consists of a lower red field and an upper white field with a blue wedge reaching from the flagpole side of the flag to its center.
2.5 Heraldry The surface of an escutcheon or of one of its divisions.
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- In the coat of arms of Amsterdam, the field of the escutcheon (heraldic shield) is red.
- The first field (top left corner) of the escutcheon shows the national arms.
3 (usually the field) All the participants in a contest or sport: he destroyed the rest of the field with a devastating injection of speed
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- West got away, followed by one other rider, with the rest of the field contesting a very close and tactical bunch sprint in Ramsey town.
- Craig was head and shoulders above the rest of the field beating his nearest rival by over a minute.
- At 11, she won Hawaii's most prestigious women's event - beating the rest of the field by nine strokes.
competitors, entrants, competition;
applicants, candidates, possibles
4 Physics The region in which a particular condition prevails, especially one in which a force or influence is effective regardless of the presence or absence of a material medium.
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- This approach describes how electrons are influenced by the fields produced by others in the Fermi sea.
- They argue that quantum effects (such as intense radiation fields at the funnel) may close the Einstein-Rosen bridge.
- In addition, possible polarization effects due to large external steady state electrical fields have been neglected.
4.1The force exerted or potentially exerted in a field: the variation in the strength of the field
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- What is to protect us then from the pathological possibilities of strong gravitation fields?
- Generating and detecting x rays in the strong fields used for magnetic resonance is difficult, but it can be done.
- It agrees with the Newtonian theory for low speeds and weak gravitational fields, but differs from it at high speeds and strong fields.
4.2 Mathematics A system subject to two binary operations analogous to those for the multiplication and addition of real numbers, and having similar commutative and distributive laws.
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- One of Weil's major achievements was his proof of the Riemann hypothesis for the congruence zeta functions of algebraic function fields.
- He became interested in Artin's early work which was on quadratic number fields, in particular the analytic and arithmetic theory.
- His work allowed computations in groups to be replaced by computations in certain polynomial algebras over the field of p elements.
1 [no object] Baseball Play as a fielder.
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- First, he took his eyes off the ball while fielding at short leg, and failed to notice that Sarwan had lobbed an attempted pull over his right shoulder.
- He was a brilliant fielder preferring to field in the deep, where he took some outstanding catches, to close in fielding.
- In spite of the soaking wet ball, Joiner also fielded well, as befitted one who, though it was never likely to be his berth in the senior game, was in his schooldays a 1st-XV full-back.
1.1 [with object] Catch or stop (the ball): he fielded the ball cleanly, but threw it down the right-field line
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- First baseman Jack Clark fielded the ball and threw to pitcher Todd Worrell who was covering first.
- Ruhle fielded the ball and threw to first for an apparent double play.
- Orioles right fielder Ken Singleton fielded the ball off the wall and threw to his cutoff man Rich Dauer who in turn fired the ball home.
catch, stop, retrieve;
return, throw back
2 [with object] Send out (a team or individual) to play in a game: a high school that traditionally fielded mediocre teams
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- Under new Olympic rules, only the top 16 nations are allowed to field teams at the games.
- One is that he fielded a weakened team and then won the Challenge Cup final, so I'm sure he feels it was justified.
- With nine men and five women this is the first time Great Britain has fielded a full team at a World Cup event.
2.1(Of a political party) nominate (a candidate) to run in an election: a radical political party that is beginning to field candidates in local elections
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- All three main political parties are also fielding candidates in these elections, as are the Greens.
- The Socialist Equality Party is fielding candidates in the federal election to lay the basis for a mass political movement of the working class that will fight for this perspective.
- ALL three major political parties have fielded candidates for the forthcoming by-election for the Ogbourne ward of Kennet District Council.
2.2Deploy (an army): no one had the power to field an army of any consequence
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- Unfortunately, the Zulus did not resort to guerrilla warfare as previous opponents had done, but fielded an enormous army.
- This was an organizational imperative made necessary by the ever larger armies fielded by continental military systems during the 19th century.
- Each side fielded armies that were very similar in tactics, organization, and equipment, and both used African and Gallic auxiliary troops.
deploy, position, range, dispose
3 [with object] Deal with (a difficult question, telephone call, etc.): she has fielded five calls from salespeople
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- The other day, fielding questions about her aversion for holding press conferences, she openly admitted to her feeling that media exercises may not yield the desired results.
- He's fielding questions from young people around the world.
- Mr. Curtis will not be fielding any questions after his remarks, and we kindly request that you respect the family's wishes.
deal with, handle, cope with, answer, reply to, respond to
1Carried out or working in the natural environment, rather than in a laboratory or office: field observations
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- Flight Lieutenant Prudence Buckton said it was great to be out of her office and in a field environment.
- These studies can either be carried out in laboratory cultures or preferably in a field environment.
- Many experiments in fields like social psychology are laboratory experiments rather than field experiments.
practical, hands-on, applied, experiential, empirical
1.1(Of military equipment) light and mobile for use on campaign: field artillery
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- The full bag is lightweight and fits into military field clothing pockets.
- Light siege engines and field artillery bulked behind the infantry, crews crouched at their weapons.
- Matrikon was chosen to develop the main application and Tridon to implement the hardware on the field equipment.
mobile, portable, transportable, movable, maneuverable, light
1.2Used in names of animals or plants found in the open country, rather than among buildings or as cultivated varieties: field ant
More example sentences
- The fire crackled, breaking the silent slumber of the field animals who had settled down in their dens.
- My former ant loving celly, Penguin, would be in seventh heaven if left to his own devices with the field ants.
- The Field Mouse is a small rodent, found in long rolling plains or alternately old houses and any place in between.
1.3Denoting a game played outdoors on a marked field.
Example sentences
- The game, the fastest and most skilful field game on the planet, requires such devotion.
- The NLL uses the Canadian box game with certain variations taken from field lacrosse.
- Both sides get to play a number of increasingly stupid field games until a winner is decided.
in the field
- On campaign; (while) engaged in combat or maneuvers: troops in the fieldMore example sentences
- These compelling books illuminate combat at the eyeball level of troops in the field.
- Hence it came to mean a temporary encampment of troops in the field without tents and using only locally available shelter.
- This and later increases in size were initiated more by military leaders in the field than by central authorities.
- 1.1Away from the laboratory or studio; engaged in practical work in a natural environment.Example sentences
- Lubricant effectiveness is assessed by bench scale and full scale testing in the laboratory and in the field.
- It is not even the live organism held in the hand, caged in the laboratory, or seen in the field.
- Dr. Drysdale has made the same observations, both in the field and in his laboratory.
- 1.2(Of an employee) away from the home office; working while traveling: he was a salesman in the fieldMore example sentences
- At work, be it in the field or at the office, the same universal law applies.
- One of Ray Lane's practices at Oracle was to spend his time in the field actually selling.
keep the field
- archaic Continue a military campaign.Example sentences
- The Armies of National Defence, which kept the field after the defeat of the imperial armies, pointed the way ahead.
- The insurgents, under able leaders, were able to keep the field, in spite of the extremely energetic and even cruel measures that were adopted to crush them.
lead the field
- Be the leader in a race.Example sentences
- Tour leader Pierre Brambilla looked set for victory as he led the field on the morning of the last day.
- She didn't disappoint the capacity crowd at the Sydney aquatic centre as she led the field for the entire race to win in a time of 1.58.24.
- First out of the blocks in the Tory leadership race, he leads the field.
- 3.1Be the best or most popular: in the executive car group, this model leads the fieldMore example sentences
- But boys were in front on maths, leading the field in most countries.
- On the sports front the Weekender continues to lead the field in local coverage, particularly in recent years with Liam Maloney in the sports editor's chair.
- In terms of individual models, Toyota's Tazz and Corolla once again lead the field with 2236 and 1406 sales respectively.
play the field
- informal Indulge in a series of sexual relationships without committing oneself to anyone.Example sentences
- And so she breaks up with me because (I think) she still wants the freedom of being able to play the field.
- By today's standards, you married young, so there's a chance you don't feel you played the field long enough.
- She plays the field, she figures out where she's at, she knows her status and she says 'I'm capable of getting this guy'.
take the field
- (Of a sports team) go onto a field to begin a game.Example sentences
- Being forced to watch from the stands as his team took the field in the biggest game of their season was cruel and utterly unfair, the genial Padjoe admitted in the aftermath of one of his greatest triumphs.
- Bester was just one of the heroes in a Bulldog team which took the field minus star fullback Tiger Mangweni who was a late withdrawal with a pulled hamstring.
- The tournament, which is held every year with four teams taking the field in a round-robin basis, this year only saw Pingwe and Muslim from Malawi and Metropolitan and Mfuwe of Zambia participating.
- Baseball 5.1 Begin one's turn on defense in an inning.Example sentences
- As the Nebraska defense takes the field, AC/DC's 'Back in Black' blares over the Memorial Stadium PA.
- The defense that takes the field in the season opener will be far removed from the one that started last year's playoff loss.
- 'I was hoping for a little more than that,' Rock laughed as he watched the Red Sox defensive players take the field.
- 5.2Start a military campaign.Example sentences
- A true infantry soldier wants nothing more than to take the field and engage the enemy.
- He was virtual ruler of the Empire, but also personally took the field in the Turkish campaign against the Russians in the Caucasus.
- This new army then took the field in 1717 against Norway, where Charles was shot in the head and killed at the siege of Frederiksten.
Old English feld (also denoting a large tract of open country; compare with veld), of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch veld and German Feld.
Words that rhyme with fieldafield, midfield, misfield, shield, unaneled, unconcealed, unhealed, unpeeled, unrevealed, unsealed, wield, yield
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DENVER (AP) -- Conservatives are calling foul after a small university in southern Colorado offered college credit for students volunteering for President Barack Obama's re-election campaign.
Adams State University in Alamosa insists it did nothing wrong and that independent-study credits are available for students working for any campaign, but Republican Mitt Romney's camp never asked. The school says it withdrew the Obama internship offer because no students signed up for it.
The Adams State flap underscores the pitched presidential battle in Colorado and shows how the presidential campaigns have taken far different approaches to engaging college students for campaign work.
The conservative Americans For Prosperity argues public institutions shouldn't give course credit for campaigning. The state Department of Higher Education says curriculum decisions are left to schools.


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PLEASANTON -- Safeway has reached a new labor deal with unions that represent the supermarket chain's clerks and other employees, averting the possibility of a strike at the region's largest grocery company.
The tentative agreement covers Safeway's employees in Northern California, including the Bay Area.
"This new agreement provides our employees with among the best wages, benefits and working conditions in the region, while ensuring the company can compete successfully in the future, " said Karl Schroeder, president of Safeway's Northern California Division.
The tentative agreement was the result of many months of negotiations.
The union and the supermarket ironed out deals related to health care, employee compensation and other issues.
The agreement involves Locals 5, 8 and 648 of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, or UFCW. Union leaders will recommend that members ratify the tentative pact.
"It's great that there is a deal," said Mike Henneberry, a spokesman for Local 5 of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union. "I understand the agreement has adequate funding for decent medical. So that's a major achievement."
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Keep Your Eyes on the Prize
Seeing a target is the first step to hitting it, and Hetrick focuses on teaching people how to use their vision effectively.
"The gun is merely a tool, and your eyes are the greatest asset you have," he says. "The first lesson I work on with shooters is learning how well you are actually seeing the target."
When waterfowl hunting, many times this means seeing the bird—sometimes many birds—as well as the direction they are traveling, their speed and the angle of descent or ascent. While Hetrick understands that a mallard drake decoying in a snowstorm makes for a much different shot than a left-to-right crossing target on a sporting clays range, it's still all about target acquisition. Making visual contact and maintaining contact is crucial for shooters.
"I have many people who are caught looking at the end of gun. If you look at the end of the gun, you can't see the target. That's like trying to drive a car, but staring at the steering wheel," Hetrick says. "Your instincts are what make you a great shot, and applying those instincts on a good visual target is the first step to hitting it."
The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) has created a state-by-state digital directory of shooting ranges in the United States. Customize your search by selecting the type of firearm, state and zip code to find shooting opportunities near you. For more information or to find a range in your area, visit wheretoshoot.org/ This app is also available for iPhone users.
Follow Through the Target
While target acquisition is an important first step to a successful shot, Hetrick says many shooters struggle with maintaining a fluid swing while tracking the target in flight. "Shooters bring the gun up and shoot, then immediately pull the gun away to look at the target. The reason to keep your head down on the gun is because a shotgun doesn't have a rear sight. The rear sight is your eye."
Similar to a rifle, moving the rear sight—even slightly—changes the gun's aiming point. This is a common mistake made by shooters on close decoying shots. As the bird fills the shooter's field of vision, many shooters lift their head in anticipation of seeing the bird fall, which pushes the gun—and the shot—off target.
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SAN ANTONIO -- Stephen Curry didn't even have full control of the ball. Trying to execute a crossover, he lost the handle for a second and the ball rolled to his left. Curry, a step inside the 3-point arc, picked it up and immediately hoisted a shot. And there was no doubt in his mind it was going in.
"I was feeling good," Curry said. "The easy answer say I practice that over the summer . . . Ask the coach to throw a bunch of bad passes, or in a drill just mess up a dribble move and pick it up."
It was perhaps the most ridiculous shot in a ridiculous stretch, which is proving not to be so ridiculous for Curry.
For the second time in these playoffs, Curry scored 22 points in the third quarter. In Game 3 against Denver at Oracle Arena, he scored 19 points in a four-minute stretch to blow open the game. This time, at the AT&T Center, he scored 14 points during a three-minute stretch to give the Warriors an 18-point lead.
In his first ever playoffs, seven games so far, he is averaging 12.3 points in third quarters on 69.6 percent shooting, including 17 of 26 from 3-point range.
He has changed the tide of multiple games, leaving defenses at a loss for words.
"This dude is like a cheat code right now," rookie guard Kent Bazemore said. "He's out here on the bum ankle, bad eye, busted lip. You can't stop that kid, man."
Why is this happening? Curry seems to be a different player coming out of the locker room at halftime. He tends to spend the first half setting up his teammate, getting a feel for the game. By the start of third quarter he has a plan for attack and is more aggressive looking for his shot.
It also helps when opposing defenses leave him with one-on-one coverage. Curry is convinced he can get his shot against just about any guard. After all the traps and double teams he sees, he's licking his chops at the sight of a fellow point guard in front of him.