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There is nothing worse than watching a baseball game in which you cannot play.
For Berkeley Stags rising senior Brad Browder, the majority of his high school baseball career has involved those exact words, You cannot play.
Especially when its your doctor telling you this.
Browder, a pitcher, hasnt thrown a competitive pitch for the Stags since his sophomore year and JV ball, and even then, the experience was excruciating.
Its hard to pitch through pain, especially ligament damage pain. If you want to know how that feels, take your elbow and bend it back the other way - the way its not supposed to bend - until your fingers touch your armpit.
For Brad Browder, every pitch felt like this.
In the fall of 2013 I had to shut down playing fall baseball because of pain in my elbow, he said. We went to doctors and tried rest and for most of the year I didnt pitch because of pain in my right elbow.
Browder took the summer off and tried to resume throwing in the fall. Less than a dozen pitches into his first bullpen session he felt something pull in his elbow.
And then the pain came.
He knew he was finished.
You watch guys like Kris Medlan and Brandon Beachy of the Braves throw a pitch like that and just walk off the mound. You wonder how they know their elbow is done. When it happens to you, you just know. You cant throw another pitch.
Its one thing to pitch through pain. Every pitcher has done it. Most pitchers live with pain every time they pitch.
Its quite another thing to pitch hurt.
I was running out of time, he said. I had to make some kind of decision. Either I get my elbow fixed or I find another position to play besides pitching or another sport to play besides baseball.
Browder wasnt ready to throw in the towel just yet. Maybe because he couldnt throw.
Lets do this, he said finally.
Do this, in baseball vernacular, meant go under the knife and have Tommy John surgery at age 17.
Tommy John Surgery, known in medical practice as ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) reconstruction, is a surgical graft procedure in which the ulnar collateral ligament in the medial elbow is replaced with a tendon from elsewhere in the body. Recovery from the surgery takes anywhere from 12-to-15 months.
For a high school athlete thats almost half their four-year career.
I felt like my high school baseball career was slipping away, he said at the time of the surgery. If I didnt do something now my high school baseball career would be over and I wouldnt have played an inning.
Browder decided to forego his junior years season and have the surgery, putting all his eggs in one basket on the hopes of a healthy senior season. Armed with that mindset, the decision was an easy one.
Baseball is my life and I want to play in college if Im good enough, he said. What Ive done with the surgery is push everything back a year.
In college recruiting terms, Browders coming out year will be his senior season as opposed to the junior year he just missed where he had to sit and watch his Berkeley Stags fall to Hartsville in the Class AAA Lower State Championship.
Its so hard to just sit here and watch, and not be able to do anything to help out the team, he said during a practice session where he was doing just that, sitting and watching from the dugout.
The bulk of Browders varsity baseball experience has been manning the Stags Gamechanger application, which posts live action game results online. He has handled a laptop more often than hes picked up a bat or ball.
But dont think Browders time on the sidelines has been wasted. He is a disciple of the game and he is involved on every pitch. When Coach Landy Cox has a game question as to what a hitter has done on a previous at bat, or what pitch was thrown that resulted in a particular play, he consulted Browder.
Brad is a smart young man and a devoted student of baseball, Cox said. He knows whats going on out there on the field. He knows the game.
Browder hopes to capitalize on the experience. He did so much more than just sit on the bench and mope.
I watched. I listened to everything they said. Most importantly, I learned.
And what did Browder learn watching his teammates play day in and day out?
If they ever let me hit theres no way Im ever swinging at any pitch above my hands. No pop ups. Everything on the ground. I cant believe when I see these guys continue to go after the high fastball and not a minute before Coach Cox has told them, Lay off the high fastball. Hit the ball on the ground.
The biggest lesson hes learned though, is proper pitching mechanics.
My mechanics before the surgery were awful, he said. I was dropping my arm and putting all the pressure on my elbow. I wasnt staying tight or bending my back with my follow-through. I was throwing all arm.
Browder has seen photographs of his pitching delivery before the surgery and was amazed his elbow could bend that way.
All the pressure, he said as he tapped the six-inch railroad track scar along his right elbow, Was right here.
During bullpen sessions this spring and summer, Browder has taken these lessons to heart and is making the most of them.
Hes already throwing in the mid-80s, Cox said. Hes supposed to be taking it easy in these sessions, but you can tell when he cuts loose on a pitch. Hes got great location and great movement on his fastball. If we can have him healthy next season, Browder will help us out a lot.
For Browder, throwing sessions now are a test to answer some serious questions, most importantly being, Will this hurt?
So far, no.
His throwing sessions have been pain free.
That makes the lanky righthander smile.
It also helps his parents understand they made the right decision in having their son proceed with the Tommy John surgery.
Watching her son undergo such an invasive and drastic surgicial procedure was difficult for Kim Browder, but she had to remain strong, and have faith the doctors knew what was best for her son. The decision to proceed with the surgery wasnt one she or her son took lightly.
We all sat down as a family after meeting with the doctor and discussed it at great length. He definitely had our support with whatever decision he made... We didnt want him to do it if he wasnt serious about the game and didnt feel like he had a future in it.
Brad actually told me a couple of days after his surgery that if he knew hed be in that much pain he might have given baseball up and played football.
Kim knew her son had just one chance to follow his dream. Brad has had this dream of playing college baseball ever since I can remember and of course that would lead to playing Major League Basebal one day - what kid doesnt dream that right?
The Tommy John surgery has kept her sons baseball dream alive for now.
Brads been very dedicated with therapy, stretching, excercising, and now its back to the throwing program that will prepare him for competitive pitching.
She called the unconditional support from her sons baseball friends inspiring.
The support from his friends, family and coaches has been amazing, she said. The day of surgery he had an entourage of people with him that love him dearly and many, many more who called and sent text messages all day checking on him and so we waited and waited and waited, then finally what we had been waiting for... The doctor to tell us everything went well.
Kim knows watching him pitch next season for the first time will be a tense and frightening ordeal at the start.
Ill be honest. Seeing him throw the ball now makes me scared, its not only been a physical adjustment but a mental one as well. But I can tell you that hes ready... Seeing his teammates on the field and not big able to join them in battle is not easy. We know there will good days and bad days but hes got so much support from friends and coaches all around us that want to see him succeed and so do we.
For Tracey Browder, Brads father, seeing his son be physically unable to play the sport he loved was difficult.
As a father who has watched his son play the sport he loves for 12 years its tough not seeing him on the field, but Brad is not only a pitcher hes a team player. Since his surgery he has not missed a practice or a game and hes right there with his teammates everyday and Im very thankful for his coaches who has made him a part of this great season that Berkeley is having.
Tracey knows the road back is a long one still and his son has a long way to go until he can take the mound again for the Stags in 2015.
Patience is the thing Brad has to have. There arent many days that go by that Im not sending him a text asking, Hows the elbow feel? or How did the 180 feet feel today?
Tracey is grateful for his sons recovery. No parent likes to see their son in pain. Hes also thankful for the Stags family that has stood by his son during his rehabilitation and recovery.
I personally would like to thank all of our baseball family from years past and present who have sent well-wishes, prayers and words of encouragement.
This coming February, 2015 and the start of the Stags baseball season is still months away, but Brad is patient. He knows his time is coming and he knows hell make the most of his second, and last chance.
Ill be ready, he said. And Ill make the most of it.
No regrets?
No regrets, Brad said.
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Western blotting is one of the most ubiquitous procedures used in the life science research lab today. Commonly used to assess relative protein expression differences, accurate Western blot quantitation requires careful attention to procedural details and normalization.
The most common normalization method is the use of housekeeping proteins (HKPs). This article will review the frequent challenges of using HKPs for normalization and propose an alternate method for verifying HKP results, and/or possibly replacing HKP normalization.
Tubulin, GAPDH, and actin are frequently chosen as HKPs due to their general lack of variability associated with changes in experimental conditions. As a number of publications have shown, however, caution should be used when selecting HKPs since not all HKPs are constant under changes in experimental conditions or sample types. For this reason, it is often recommended that results are validated using multiple HKPs, adding time and complexity to Western blot experiments.
The process of using HKPs for blot normalization can be daunting. Two widespread techniques are "strip and re-probe" and multiplex fluorescent detection.
Using the strip and re-probe method, the protein of interest is probed and detected. Antibodies and detection chemistries are then stripped from the membrane using some combination of heat, detergent, or reducing agent. The blot may then be re-probed with HKP specific antibody and re-detected. Not only is the process time consuming, but inevitably, the stripping process will remove some level of antigen, thereby compromising downstream results.
Multiplex fluorescent Western blotting is a more elegant solution, whereby multiple antigens can be simultaneously probed and detected using multiple fluorescently labeled secondary antibodies. Western blotting frequently requires optimization of blocking reagents, antibody concentrations, and incubation times. Users need to be mindful of challenges like antibody cross-reactivity, and should have an optimization process in place that validates the detection of each antigen separately, before attempting a multiplex detection.
The challenges associated with the use of HKPs by stripping and re-probing, or optimization of multiplex fluorescent blot detection, can be avoided. A new, easier method uses Stain-Free technology for total protein Western blot normalization.
Find out why Ji-Joon Song, assistant professor in the department of biological sciences at the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, prefers the ChemiDoc MP.
Stain-Free technology is a unique in-gel chemistry that is available in Bio-Rad TGX Stain-Free precast gels. The gel formulation incorporates a trihalocompound that when exposed to UV irradiation activates a covalent reaction between the trihalocompound and tryptophan residues on the proteins in the gel, resulting in UV induced fluorescence.
Stain-Free technology enables fluorescent visualization of 1-D SDS PAGE gels and corresponding blots using Bio-Rad Laboratories' (www.biorad.com) ChemiDoc MP imaging system (Figure 1A). The quality of SDS-PAGE separations before blotting can be easily monitored and the transfer efficiency of the blotting process can be quickly inspected by imaging both the membrane (Figure 1B) and the SDS gel after the blotting process. Furthermore, using Image Lab 4.0 software, which is included with the ChemiDoc MP, the relative amount of total protein in each lane on the blot can be calculated and used for quantitation normalization.
Stain-Free technology offers comparable sensitivity to conventional blot stains such as SYPRO Ruby and Ponceau S, and provides better reproducibility and linearity. Linear range of the Stain-Free technology is up to 80 µg protein for 18-well and up to 110 µg per lane for 12-well Criterion mid-size gels. This range fits well with usual protein loads in quantitative Western blotting experiments and enables loading control calculations over a wide protein-loading range.
HKP-based normalization with GAPDH, actin, or tubulin needs to be optimized for antibody dilutions, incubation times, and imaging settings. This is a very lengthy process compared to Stain-Free technology, which gives accurate, standardized protein-loading control with no optimization.
Ryan Short ([email protected]) is a marketing manager in the lab separations division of Bio-Rad Laboratories. Anton Posch, Ph.D. ([email protected]), is a staff scientist in the protein technologies R&D group at Bio-Rad Laboratories.
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Wil Riley made a name for himself in the Lowcountry's real estate market by working through the ranks as a Realtor.
At a glance
Who: Wil Riley is the new CEO of the Charleston Trident Association of Realtors.Age: 52From: SummervilleEducation: Bachelor's in accounting from Clemson UniversityBackground: Most recently the association's vice president of operations.Family: Wife, Ann; daughter, Logan; son, Walker. Website: charlestonrealtors.com
The background in home sales, office management and other facets of the tri-county's real estate market was a major plus when a selection committee recently tapped him to take the CEO post at the Charleston Trident Realtor Association.
"It's important to have a leader who understands what the membership is facing on a day-to-day basis," said Owen Tyler, the association's president.
This month, Riley replaced Terry Hyde Ketchem, who retired as the group's CEO on March 31 after 26 years.
Riley, 52, was promoted from his former job as vice president of operations, a position he had held since 2011.
Previously, Riley was director of finance and administration at the Coastal Carolina Association of Realtors in Myrtle Beach.
Riley, a native of Summerville, was also a Realtor in the Lowcountry for several years before shifting to administrative posts.
That included working at Prudential Carolina Real Estate and being broker-in-charge at Century 21 Properties Plus in Summerville.
Riley heads an association that dates back more than 100 years and calls itself the "Voice of Real Estate" in the Lowcountry.
In his newest role, the CEO manages a staff of 13 and oversees a $4 million annual budget for the North Charleston-based group, which has 3,600 members who work in various aspects of the residential and commercial real estate businesses.
The association also operates Multiple Listing Service sales database and compiles monthly housing reports for Berkeley, Charleston and Dorchester counties.
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Riley cautioned that there will not be a major shift under his leadership, crediting Ketchem's groundwork and unchanged marching orders coming from the association's executive board and membership.
"It comes from the board and that has not changed," Riley said. "What we do here as a staff is to basically implement what their vision is."
Tyler, who also heads the association's executive board, said the CEO post is very important "key role," that must understand the needs of the membership that includes agents, property managers and appraisers.
"It's interacting with our membership and there is a diverse business model among them," he said.
"You have to understand that and meet their needs to continue and improve their business."
The association is also an advocate for the industry in legislative and other governmental matters.
That currently has the organization busy looking into the impacts of the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform and Modernization Act of 2012.
The new law removes subsidies for second homes, rentals and businesses, as well as dwellings that have had repeated flood losses.
That means the premiums will rise as much as 25 percent yearly until they reflect full insurance risk.
The association is gathering survey information from its members and homeowners as it works with state and national counterparts to determine if the reform needs to be evaluated, Riley said.
"This is something we are battling now and they are rates set by the government," Riley said.
"We don't have much con-trol over that, so we have expressed our thoughts and are now gathering data to see how this is affecting current homeowners and how it might impact future homeowners"
Riley also is helping the association find a new headquarters since its current home within the S.C. Research Authority campus on International Boulevard was purchased by Boeing as part of its continued growth in the Lowcountry.
Riley also takes the CEO post as the Lowcountry's housing market is recovering from the ills of the housing meltdown.
In addition to climbing home sales, that also means growing membership. That's an about-face to the hemorrhaging of Realtors in the region years ago.
The association offers courses for members throughout the year, including Realtor introduction training and property management seminars. The group recently added an international sales training series due to an uptick in overseas buyers looking at the region.
Riley said he plans to make some "tweaks" to a few things done at the association, perhaps using his finance background to help members further understand issues such as the tax code and the financial impacts.
"Membership was declining, but this year we are seeing a slight uptick in membership and we are gearing up with their needs in mind," Riley said. "As the market gets busier, we want to be there to make sure our members have the necessary tools."
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UNIVERSITY PARK - Aaron Rodgers might want to think twice before coming after Matt McGloin for stealing his touchdown move.
The Penn State quarterback would probably give him quite a fight.
"I love coaching competitive people, and he is a competitive guy," Nittany Lion coach Bill O'Brien said of McGloin.
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Penn State quarterback Matt McGloin looks downfield while in the grasp of Deonte Gibson.
The 6-foot-1, 210-pound senior from Scranton has shown that many times over his career, rising from walk-on status to becoming the undisputed starting quarterback and leader of the Lion offense while several much more highly touted players fell by the wayside.
Very few of his games at Penn State, however, exhibited McGloin's grit and just how far he's come than did Saturday's 39-28 win over 24th-ranked Northwestern before 95,769 at Beaver Stadium, with two long touchdown drives in the last 10 minutes engineering another comeback versus a Wildcat team he made his major debut against two years ago.
It wasn't McGloin's best day. His 35-for-51 passing for 282 yards was good - in fact, his total completions broke Wally Richardson's record of 33 against Wisconsin in 1995 - but he could have been intercepted a couple of times, and he tried a side-handed flip pass that fell well short of an open Michael Zordich in the second quarter on fourth-and-4, giving Northwestern great field position to drive 66 yards to take the halftime lead.
He nearly fumbled the game away at the Wildcat 5 late.
But that served as a microcosm of McGloin's day. He refused to be denied - whether it was fighting for 2 yards when he only needed 1 on a third down at his own 24 on the game-winning drive or scrambling and diving in for a 5-yard touchdown run on third down one play after the fumble to put Penn State ahead to stay.
"He's definitely the leader on offense, and, once we start playing, he's in control of everything," sophomore running back Zach Zwinak said of McGloin.
McGloin keyed the Lions in converting five of six fourth-down plays. He passed for three of those - including a 6-yard touchdown to Allen Robinson with 9:49 left to pull Penn State to within three points and a 13-yard connection with Brandon Moseby-Felder going without a huddle inside the Wildcat 20 on the lead-taking drive - and ran for another.
He kept several plays alive with his feet throughout the game, avoiding sacks or wiggling free.
"He's going to come in on Monday telling me he runs a 4.3 40. I'm going to tell him we're timing his 40 with a sundial," O'Brien joked.
O'Brien could afford to enjoy the light-hearted moment. When Penn State took the ball at his own 14 with 8:15 to play and Northwestern ahead, 28-25, McGloin was right in his element, and conveyed that confidence and enthusiasm to his teammates.
"He said 'Down four points with another drive. You've got to love it,' That tells you how he came into that drive, approaching it like we needed to score seven. We knew we had to. We wanted to put the game on ourselves, not kick and field goal, not leave it on the defense," Robinson said.
Robinson caught nine passes for 85 yards, including both of McGloin's touchdown throws. In three games against the Wildcats, McGloin now is 70 for 106 for 699 yards, eight touchdowns and no interceptions. He came on in relief of Rob Bolden in 2010 to bring the Lions back from 21 points down and give Joe Paterno his 400th career coaching win.
"We knew Matt had a couple of big games against Northwestern in the past, so we just wanted to help him pick up where he left off," Robinson said.
McGloin, of course, always has been known for his competitiveness. Sometimes, in the past - and even still, from time to time - that has gotten him into problems as he tried to throw a pass into a window that his arm strength just wouldn't let him, or he'd try to escape the sack of a 290-pound defensive lineman and wind up losing 15 yards instead of 5 from going down or throwing the ball away.
As the 2012 season has progressed, those instances seem fewer and farther between, though, as McGloin has matured under the eyes of O'Brien and Lion quarterback coach Charlie Fisher.
"Coach Fisher always says, 'You have to play as a fifth-year guy. Play like a guy with experience.' That's something I've always tried to keep my mind on," McGloin said. "I've played a lot of games here at Penn State, a lot of downs, a lot of snaps. It's just an experience thing. You know when to make plays, and you known when you've got to step up and make a play for your team."
A case in point was his winning touchdown scamper.
"It was third down on the 5- or 6-yard line. If you don't get it there, you just got to throw it away, it's basically an extra-point on fourth down," McGloin said. "They brought some pressure inside, so I just rolled out and saw an opening. Kyle [Carter] and Allen did a good job staying on their guys, blocking them, and I just got in.
"I kind of guaranteed on third down a score to the coaching staff, so I had no choice but to get it in there."
McGloin dove to the pylon to score and poked fun at himself for his lack of grace.
"I was unsure of whether to run it in or dive, but, unfortunately, my knee brace got caught in the ground, so I just looked like a complete fool," McGloin said. "I stuck the landing, though."
It was typical McGloin. It wasn't pretty or exactly textbook, but it served the purpose. Senior fullback Michael Zordich said it was evident fairly early that McGloin wasn't just another walk-on when he first met him.
"He's got a great attitude as a leader on the field and taking care of an offense. I noticed that right away," Zordich said. "He's been coached up. He spends a lot of time in the film room, and it's good to see him on the field making plays."
It being Penn State's homecoming, Zordich talked postgame about how important it was for this group of Lion players, particularly the seniors, to set the tone for what is to come in the next few years, when the team will have limited scholarships and will need to rely heavily on non-scholarship players. McGloin is a big part of the image the Lions project.
"He plays a huge role in this offense. He is one of the key parts. He earned a scholarship, now he's the guy at QB," Zordich said. "I think he embodies what this team's all about. It's just a group of guys that's going to grind to get where they need to get."
McGloin said this was probably the most excited he's been for a game. As the Lions polished off the win with a defensive stop and a late touchdown, McGloin showed his fire by doing Rodgers' touchdown dance, where he uses his hands to outline where a boxing or wrestling championship belt would be about his waist.
"I was thinking about doing it for a few days now if I got another rushing touchdown. I was kind of looking for where the refs were so I didn't get called for it," said McGloin, who now has 12 passing touchdowns and a team-high five rushing scores this year.
Of course, McGloin doesn't do much the typical way, so he even added something to the dance.
"I kind of do a leg kick after mine," McGloin said with a big smile.


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Bert Stewart: Always a student
Bert Stewart: Always a student
Hoard's Expo Supplement to profile top showman, judge, and educator.
The discussion turned to showmanship at the recent Holstein USA's national judges conference in Fond du Lac, Wis. As over 70 national-caliber show judges debated how to judge showmanship, Bob Fitzsimmons simply reminded those in the audience, "You are escorting a lady into the ring."
That was the simple advice he received from Ontario's Bert Stewart years earlier. Stewart's calm demeanor and unique ability with cattle still make him a sought-after leadsman . . . leading an unequalled 16 Grand Champions at the Royal Winter Fair. And that is just one of many reason's we are profiling Bert Stewart in our September 10 World Dairy Expo Supplement.
As the World Dairy Expo Supplement approaches, we will trickle out some snippets of our conversation with Bert.
In addition to working with your family's Ayrshires, you worked for Holstein breeders like Romandale Farms and Spring Farms as a youth. What did you learn by working for them?
Working away from home was a great experience. I was fortunate enough that Dave Houcks, the Romandale farm manager, drove from Romandale Farms in King City, Ontario, to Bolton, Ontario. He was able to pick me up on a daily basis. At those two farms, I got a chance to work with some better cows than I could at our family's farm. We had decent Ayrshires, but they weren't Holsteins, and they weren't in as great of demand.
As part of my job, I was hand milking a couple of cows at Romandale. Mahoney Babe Lochinvar was the first cow that I ever milked 120 pounds out of in one day. That was pretty exciting.
It wasn't all easy work. I broke the Lonelm Texal Highcroft get of sire group to lead. That bull ended up with six Excellent, seven Very Good, and eight Good Plus daughters for a remarkable 91 percent or higher Good Plus in an era where A.I. was just getting started. Dave Houcks bought most of the daughters, and none of them had been on a halter. It was a big job getting them ready to go to the CNE. (The Canadian National Exhibition was a prestigious show in the 1950s and 1960s, having over 300 head of Holsteins.) They ended up winning the Get of Sire class and one of them went on to be the winning 3-year-old.
I continued to work for J. M. Fraser of Spring Farm through college. During the Royal Winter Fair, I would take time off from school and help him. In fact, I was the first person to ever clip the legs of Spring Farm Juliette who was All Canadian Junior Calf, All Canadian 4-year-old, and a five-time All Canadian mature cow from 1949 to 1953.
Jack told me very clearly, "That cow has been six times All Canadian (up until that point). She has never had her legs clipped."
Well, it couldn't have hurt because Juliette went on to be Grand Champion at the Royal that year as a dry cow. That was quite exciting for me since I had not only clipped her, but also clipped her legs in an era where that wasn't common.


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I've never been a loser at any point of my life, let alone to girls, i've been dominating the game for 20 years straight without a loss. but now i feel completely sad. My girlfriend was tagged on some pictures on facebook with her friends from a party and almost all of the pictures of the entire night she was beside this one guy, they didn't looked extremely sweet but there is this holding on the shoulders kinda thing and every picture they are both like pulling their faces close together.. she told me he was her childhood friend and there's nothing really between them. maybe shes telling the truth. or maybe i was just overreacting and so insecure because the other guy is also good looking(not better than me though). or maybe it was really something else.
I know its a bit immature for me to feel bad that way, but I've always consider myself as the A side of the relationship, which means I get to call the shots and control everything. But recently my gf has been winning various pageants and has been showing off on a lot of fashion shows, her popularity has grown big in the city lately and I feel like I can't control her anymore and my relevance in her life has lessen. I dont seem to influence her anymore the way I used to. She sometimes gives me this "I dont give a **** attitude". Eventhough Im still on top of the social ladder its hard to compete with her anymore.
Thank you guys for making me happy at this one sad day of my life, i wrote this because i dont get too many sad days at all and this one is even quite shallow. threads like "You know **** got real, that **** ain't right and yo mama still got me rolling"
For the last two years I have also devoted my life to the underground pick up community. I suggest you guys read the book "the game" and "rules of the game" by Neil Strauss. it teaches you the ultimate method on how to pick up girls at any day of the week, easier than you can imagine.
from an average frustrated chump to a superstar. thats how it'll change your life.. from a masterbater to a sex God. its funny how I wanna be a great boyfriend but at the same time be a master pick up artist. but it is what it is. tell me if it changed yours
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Add Neil Strauss to the list of crackheads with degrees
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The problem you have is guilt you have openly admitted to cheating on your girlfriend and now you're guilty and paranoid of her every move and tbh I have zero sympathy and you only have yourself to blame.
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Karma is a Motherphucker and the energy you put out is the same energy you will sow. Hopefully your just overreacting because of your insecurities but if it turns out she did fool around. you can't hate the player but the game. life goes on man!
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brad chillax lang. pero naiintindihan ko yang ibig mo sabihin. wag ka ma insecure dahil umaangat sya at medyo nakikilala dahil sa pag momodel. pero expect mo na marame talagang lalapit dyan. i-expect mo na yun dahil wala ka magagawa kahit anung pigil mo. pero pag lumake ulo at talagang may makikita sya na mas aangat sayo wala kana magagawa. pilitin mo nalang gawin ang kaya mong ibigay pero pag tingin mo na sablay na hayaan mo na kaysa lalo ka pang masaktan. atleast ang impurtante naging malaking parte ka ng buhay nya at nakauna ka.
dami ka pa makukuha bro pinas to. teka matanung nga anu pangalan ng gf mo na nagmomodel at yung isa na kinukwento mo?
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I remember not long ago you bragging about how you cheat on your girl...
what goes around... you know the rest.
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I still regret making that thread though.
Im not really that big on Karmas, I carry a very positive aura to the world and its people. I'm just resting on the 8 count for now and letting out whats inside. its funny I chose it to be here. wtf.
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ok lang yan bro. syempre di ka naman talaga basta basta pwede gumive up kasi mahal mo eh. kahit naman anung pilit natin maging matigas wala tayo magagawa pag nagmahal.
just make sure that u would be smart with ur decisions with your relationship with her. hindi yung basta basta ang gagawin mo. isipin mo muna maige bago mo gawin. at aralin mo din sya maige kasi kung medyo tingin mo niloloko kana iba na yun.
but of course only u can have the answer with your situation. goodluck pre!
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Hi people sorry i havent been on for ages ive been busy trying to sort things out with my ex girlfriend. Have i missed out on anything?
No you haven't missed alot. it's been kind of quiet around here recently, Yoshimsu wasn't around for a while and phanton got a new job so haven't neen around a lot either. the conversations have legged and it's been loney. :( "You will See, in Time you shall walk the same path as I"
I'm sorry for leaving you so lonely, dear. The job is nice in that I set my own hours, but I also have to do my own marketing, advertising, and scheduling. I miss being on here as much as I was. It will be worth it when the money starts to flow, though. 92% of the teenage population would be dead if Ambercrombie and Fitch or Hollister said it was uncool to breathe.
I know people have stuff to do. I just have a lot of free time, I'm only taking one class this summer then i graduate and school has always come pretty easy for me so i am just dead ass bored a lot of the time and people around my town just are stupid so i am here all the time. "You will See, in Time you shall walk the same path as I"
One Class and i can hardly bounce up any one online on the site The path to conquest leaves nothing else to be desired!!!!
I ha,ve a really good memory, semi-photographic and near perfect auditory. It pretty much is the biggest pain in the ass. i had seven class this spring and goofed off most of the time. "You will See, in Time you shall walk the same path as I"
Boredom is the state of in between nothingness that consumes the body into the realms of the mind clearly signalling that there is no purpose to life other than to enjoy it... I'm bored but hey my fingers are workin' and my keyboard is smokin'....The path to conquest leaves nothing else to be desired!!!!
Boredom is my biggest prroublem, that is why i am on here all the time. let's start a new topic though, we've pretty much beat this one to death. "You will See, in Time you shall walk the same path as I"
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hi every body im new! ^_^
welcome back "blood isnt enough..."
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Coursefork is like a GitHub for course creation, interview with Eric Martindale
Coursefork: a new way to collaborate on open education
What if teachers could fork educational materials just like software developers fork code? Imagine if educators far and wide could collaborate on curriculums beyond their school, district, or university. Imagine a revolutionized education system by way of the open source model. Well, the future is now.
Eric Martindale, Cofounder and CTO of Coursefork, is replacing closed education systems with open ones with a new development tool for educators. It's not a MOOC, it's not Moodle, and it's not edX. It's a GitHub for course creation. It's about building a community.
Coursefork was born at an event called Triangle Startup Weekend in March 2013, and it's well on it's way. Find out more in this interview with Eric.
Tell us about Coursefork. What is it and what does it do?
Coursefork is a platform for open-sourcing and collaborating on educational material. We've built a way to upload course material, allow others to create copies, modify them for their own use, and share their improvements both back "upstream" and to the community at large.
We obviously take a lot of cues from the open source software development model. We recognize that the process adopted by open source software maintainers is analogous to the process that would be necessary to enable collaboration in education, so we're applying many of these lessons to the platform we're building while expanding on them in ways that make sense for the education community: modular components, built-in annotations, and resource libraries.
We're creating the "pull request" for courses, and the process of getting there means creating the tools necessary to support the community of a new open future for education.
You describe Coursefork as a "GitHub for course creation." What's the grand vision? Is this just about education?
Coursefork's immediate goal is to replace closed systems with open systems in the world of education.
It's pretty clear to us that the open source model continues to transform the way software is built and is beginning to permeate other areas in ways that we think are exciting, but more importantly, are wildly improving the quality of products and services. You can see the "open" philosophy in practice in fields like hardware design (Circuits.io, OpenDesk), architecture, and even governmental open data initiatives (at the city, state, and federal levels!). We believe that just like in the software world, the years to come will be filled with a myriad of tools and services built around the new open economy, and our long-term vision aims to be at the heart of this global revolution.
Education is a huge space to be in, and it is even larger when you consider that it's a fundamental component of modern life that spans far beyond the industry into areas like professional training and personal fulfilment. While education is ripe for disruption, the cycle is long and it's going to be difficult to effect change at the scale we're hoping for, so we're buckling in for a long journey. At the same time, the problems we're solving in the education space are the very same problems that exist in all these other fields, just as they existed in the admittedly more esoteric world of software. What we're building at Coursefork is portable to all of these other fields.
Tell us about the backend. What language is Coursefork written in and what are some other technical details you're proud of?
We've got quite a few different technologies being utilized, each applied where it makes sense, and all designed following the guidelines of the Unix Philosophy so that improvements and iterations on each component of our stack is as seamless as possible, with minimum impact to the rest of the system. Our focus is to maintain the flexibility of a small company, even as we scale, by keeping our systems atomic. As such, we've focused on speed of iteration during these first few months, with the full understanding that no single technology can be a magic bullet for performance and every system will likely be replaced in the future.
Our current core stack is built on Node.js, MongoDB, and a distributed system built on redis. We're experimenting with Go for our reverse-proxy / load balancer, but Nginx is currently fulfilling the majority of requests for us until we're satisfied with Go in production. We're using (and heavily extending) Mongoose (an ORM for MongoDB developed by Aaron Heckmann at LearnBoost), and we're utilizing the Express framework for our web layer for the rapidity at which it allows us to develop.
One of the most interesting things we've built is an extensible distributed version control system that will form what we hope will become the new backbone of collaboration around the world. Our first implementation is built on a document database that keeps track of the changes that've been made to the documents (in this case, course material), both major and minor, and then allows a visual comparison of the "change trees" that result from an environment where timelines can diverge and converge.
Coursefork was the winner of a Startup Weekend, what was that experience like?
We won the education-focused Triangle Startup Weekend in March of 2013, and the Startup Weekend experience was utterly instrumental in our formation. When I first signed up, I was looking for a vacation from the stretch of consulting I'd taken on after leaving my last startup, but when I got there, I was completely swept away by the convergence of so much talent and energy. The education-targeted guidance and mentorship we received in the process was invaluable, and was truly formative in nature—immediately convincing me that the time was right to wholeheartedly commit to an education-focused endeavor.
We've continued to stay engaged with the mentors who helped us through the weekend, and wouldn't be as far along as we are now without their continued help and support. Startup Weekend provided a fantastic platform for our formation and continues to provide momentum as we move forward, so I'd encourage others to take advantage of the same opportunity.
How can someone get involved with the project?
The easiest way to get involved is to join the site and start sharing your knowledge! We've been building a great library of programming and engineering related material, and would love to have more contributions and iterations on the content we have.
You might also want to help with some of the open source projects we're using, like Mongoose, Express, and Node.js. You can see a list of tools we're using internally on Coursefork's GitHub profile. We'll be iterating on these existing projects internally as well as releasing our own tools for public consumption.
If the idea seems compelling to you, take a look at the Coursefork Careers page. We're hiring world-class talent to help us lead the way in applying the open source philosophy to education.
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Excellent Jason! An open source is the the future for education and will revolutionize it across the globe.
Thanks, Carolyn! We really believe the open source future will build a much better education, and will be the foundation of many things to come.
Open source will build a much better education. I totally agree.
The corporate conglomerates have been dominating the k-12 market for many years. Pearson, McGraw-Hill and other textbook publishing houses have really blocked any educational alternatives to printed/av materials in k-12 for years and years.
In time, there will be a tipping point with open source in education, but the road to the tipping point will not be smooth and there will be many barriers (local, state, and other policies and regulations, for instance) to bringing open source to the k-12 market. But the k-12 market is ripe for disruption as you say and for an open global education revolution.
The political landscape of the publishers and the institutions is a challenge, but I think you're right; we've reached a point where the system simply cannot sustain this level of systematic incompetence any longer. Something has to break, and open source is going to rush to fill the void.
Wonderful! How exciting is this?!
I do have a few questions though:
1.) Is this just for k-12 or is it for post-secondary education as well?
2.) You stated that: "we've built is an extensible distributed version control system " - Why not just use Git? Why write a new one (please forgive my ignorance)
Thank you for all of your contributions to this critical project!
Thanks, Don! We're all extremely excited about Coursefork as well.
1) all of the above; we're even trying to expand the definition of "education" to include coworkers and industry peers. We have a narrow focus initially, but will expand outward in concentric circles as we gain traction.
2) Our first prototype was based on Git, but we found that the system wasn't quite designed for the same type of content that would be included in an educational syllabus, which are often [large] rich media and interactive exercises that need to be treated as a single unit. We had to spend some time thinking about the problem space and made the decision to implement a more robust system--which notably, we're planning on exposing a subset thereof as a git-speaking endpoint.
Thanks for your questions!
Hi Eric -- will CC license options for content/courses be supported?
That's a great question, Jane -- we're having that conversation internally right now. If we formally support licensed content, CC will almost certainly be among the supported licenses.
On the other hand, we may want to abstain from delving into the licensing morass altogether, and instead focus simply on the simple mechanics of open-sourcing educational material. GitHub for example doesn't formally support licensed code (as a feature), but provides a reference site for those wanting to include explicit licenses and even makes the process of including a license _file_ very simple. This means the license lives with the code itself, rather than with GitHub (as a feature / attribute on the data), which may be preferable.
What would you like to see?
Hey Eric -- that's a good point about GitHub.
I was thinking that if Coursefork is about creating and hosting content, then options for licensing that content could be included, eg. via an integrated license chooser. We provide support (somewhat outdated) for that at http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Web_Integration. This would also encourage the open education community to make use of Coursefork, as OER creators and users are all about the content licensing -- and prefer that process to be made easy for them. Especially if educators are a potential audience of yours.
Over at School of Open (http://schoolofopen.org), our volunteer course organizers use whatever tools they find the most useful for their specific course. This could be a WP site, a Wikipedia page, or the P2PU UX. I could imagine Coursefork also being a potential tool for them, but as you can see we're all about "open" and would want the ability to clearly indicate the CC BY-SA (or more liberal content license) license on the course to encourage others reuse and remix of it.


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Softball Travels To Akron For 2013 MAC Tournament
► THE SECOND SEASON STARTS NOW: The No. 1 seed Ball State softball team opens play in the 2013 Mid-American Conference Tournament Thursday with a 5 p.m. contest versus No. 4 Northern Illinois at Firestone Stadium in Akron, Ohio . . . The Cardinals earned the tournament's top seed and a double bye in the double elimination event by capturing the league's regular season title.
2013 MAC Softball Tournament Schedule:
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Game 1 No. 5 Miami (12-10 MAC) vs. No. 8 Toledo (8-14 MAC) 11 a.m.
Game 2 No. 6 Ohio (9-13 MAC) vs. No. 7 Bowling Green (9-13 MAC) 1:30 p.m.
Game 3 Game 1 Winner vs. No. 4 Northern Illinois (14-8 MAC) 5 p.m.
Game 4 Game 2 Winner vs. No. 3 Central Michigan (15-7 MAC) 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Game 5 Game 2 Loser vs. Game 3 Loser 11 a.m.
Game 6 Game 1 Loser vs. Game 4 Loser 1:30 p.m.
Game 7 Game 3 Winner vs. No. 1 Ball State (18-3 MAC) 5 p.m.
Game 8 Game 4 Winner vs. No. 2 Kent State (16-6 MAC) 7:30 p.m.
Friday, May 10, 2013
Game 9 Game 6 Winner vs. Game 7 Loser 11 a.m.
Game 10 Game 5 Winner vs. Game 8 Loser 1:30 p.m.
Game 11 Game 7 Winner vs. Game 8 Winner 5 p.m.
Game 12 Game 9 Winner vs. Game 10 Winner 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, May 11, 2013
Game 13 Game 12 Winner vs. Game 11 Loser 11 a.m.
Game 14 Game 11 Winner vs. Game 13 Winner 1:30 p.m.
Game 15 Replay Game 14 - If Necessary 4 p.m.
► LISTEN LIVE: Ball State Sports Link Radio WCRD 91.3 FM will continue its coverage of Ball State softball at the 2013 MAC Tournament with Torey Fox (play-by-play) and Andy Wright (color commentary) bringing fans the action LIVE over the airwaves on WCRD 91.3 FM in Muncie and online at BallStateSports.com ... To listen online for FREE, visit: http://ballstatesports.com/liveevents and click on the link when the event goes live.
► FOLLOW LIVE: Fans can follow the Cardinals at the 2013 MAC Tournament with live stats by visiting: http://ballstatesports.com/livestats ... Fans can also get regular updates by following the team on Twitter: @BallStSoftball and Facebook: BallStateSoftball
► CARDINALS ALL-TIME: After going 3-1 last weekend, the Ball State softball program enters the 2013 Mid-American Conference Tournament with an 852-913-4 (.483) all-time record in 38-plus seasons of play ... Established as a varsity program in 1975, Ball State has won four Mid-American Conference regular season titles (2009, 2010, 2012 and 2013), two MAC Tournament championships (1998 and 2010) and advanced to the NCAA Tournament twice (1998 and 2010).
► HEAD COACH CRAIG NICHOLSON: The 2013 Mid-American Conference Coach of the Year, Craig Nicholson is the fastest coach in program history to eclipse the 100 and 200-win marks ... Nicholson picked up 950th collegiate coaching victory with a 10-4 win over Western Michigan April 7, while earning his 100th league win last Saturday with a 6-5 (8 inn.) victory over Kent State ... In his seventh season as Ball State's head coach, Nicholson has amassed a 239-160 (.599) record at BSU, including a 100-47 (.680) ledger in MAC action ... Nicholson owns a 962-250 (.794) career coaching record including his 723-90 mark in 11 years at Central Arizona.
► MORE FROM THE COACHING FRONT: Craig Nicholson, who also earned the 2009 MAC Coach of the Year award, will be coaching his 400th career game at Ball State when the Cardinals take the field Thursday in the MAC Tournament ... Under his guidance, the program won its first-ever MAC regular season championship in 2009 with the best league record in program history at 18-3 and repeated the feat in 2010 with a 17-5 league mark ... The 2010 squad, which set program records for wins in a season (43) and winning percentage in a season (.729), also captured just the second MAC Tournament title in program history to advance to the NCAA Tournament ... The Cardinals added a third MAC regular season crown in 2012 by virtue of its 17-3 league mark, while capturing its fourth league title in five seasons by tying the best league record in program history at 18-3 this season.
► SCOUTING THE CARDINALS: Picked as the preseason favorite to win both the 2013 Mid-American Conference West Division title and the 2013 MAC Tournament as voted on by the league's 12 head coaches, the Cardinals enter the league tournament with a 35-15 overall record and an 18-3 MAC mark ... Junior left fielder Jennifer Gilbert, the 2013 MAC Player of the Year, leads the MAC at the plate with a .451 (73-for-162) batting average, 65 RBI and 52 runs scored ... In the circle, 2013 MAC Freshman of the Year Nicole Steinbach has thrown a league-best six complete game shutouts, owns a team-best 2.19 ERA and is limiting opposing batters to a .236 average ... As a team, the Cardinals own a MAC-best .312 batting average and rank fourth in the league with a 2.81 ERA ... BSU's opponents are batting .257 and have a 6.04 ERA in the circle.
► RPI UPDATE: Based on the strength of its 35-15 record entering the week, the Ball State softball team was ranked 62nd in this week's NCAA RPI rankings ... The Cardinals' highest ranking of the season came April 15 with BSU holding the No. 50 slot among the 291 ranked NCAA Division I softball programs ... Ball State is the top-ranked team in the Mid-American Conference with Kent State second at 112 ... The Cardinals are also the second-best team in the state of Indiana, trailing only Notre Dame (42nd).
► MAC PLAYER OF THE YEAR: For the second consecutive season, Jennifer Gilbert has been named the Mid-American Conference Player of the Year ... Gilbert is just the fourth player in MAC history to earn the league's top honor twice in a career, joining Central Michigan's Pam Stanley (1991 & 1992), Central Michigan's Tina Kinney (1998 & 2000) and Eastern Michigan's Lauren Clark (2006 & 2007) ... Overall, Ball State players have garnered MAC Player of the Year honors six times: Bernie Coffman (1989), Katie Shea (2002), Alicia Barkley (2009), Jessie Ware (2010) and Gilbert (2012 & 2013).
► GILBERT IN MAC PLAY: Jennifer Gilbert earned her second straight MAC Player of the Year award by ranking second in league-only contests with a .446 batting average, while ranking first in slugging percentage (.973), RBI (34), runs scored (23), home runs (11) and total bases (72) ... Her 34 RBI were 11 better than the next closest player, while her 23 runs scored were three better than second place, both of which were teammates ... Gilbert had 10 multiple-hit games in MAC play, including four games with three-or-more hits ... She also had 11 multiple-RBI games in league action, with four RBI in one game and six RBI in another ... She reached base safely in 19 of BSU's 21 league games, while also posting a 14-game hitting streak in MAC action ... Gilbert posted six game-winning RBI, scored two game-winning runs and blasted a pair of seventh-inning, game-tying home runs to play a crucial role in 10 of BSU's 18 league victories.
► MAC FRESHMAN OF THE YEAR: On the strength of her 9-1 record and 2.06 ERA in Mid-American Conference play, Nicole Steinbach became the first player in program history to win MAC Freshman of the Year accolades ... A six-time MAC West Division Pitcher of the Week honoree this season, Steinbach has held opposing MAC teams to three-or-fewer hits in five starts, while holding teams to three-or-fewer runs in nine of her 11 appearances.
► ALL-MAC TEAMS: In addition to earning their specialty awards, Jennifer Gilbert was named to the All-MAC First Team, while Nicole Steinbach was named to the All-MAC Second Team and MAC All-Freshman Team ... Junior first baseman Taylor Rager joined Gilbert on the All-MAC First Team, while senior center fielder Amanda Carpenter joined Steinbach on the All-MAC Second Team ... In addition, shortstop Selena Reyna was also named to the MAC All-Freshman squad.
► MAC WEEKLY AWARDS: The Ball State softball team led the Mid-American Conference with eight MAC West Division Player of the Week selections and seven MAC West Division Pitcher of the Week honors this season ... Jennifer Gilbert earned the division's player of the week nod four times this season, while freshman Nicole Steinbach is a six-time pitcher of the week honoree ... Overall, the Cardinals had at least one MAC weekly award winner in 10 of its 12 weeks of play this season, while sweeping the award five times; Feb. 19, March 19, March 25, April 1 and April 15 ... Gilbert and Steinbach have combined for three of the sweeps; Feb. 19, April 1 and April 15.
► RECORD BREAKER: With a two-run blast over the right-center field wall in the fourth inning of the nightcap at Florida International (March 5), Jennifer Gilbert became the program's career home run leader ... Gilbert has tallied a Ball State single-season record 21 home runs this season to raise her career total to 54 ... The total is second in MAC history, trailing only Kelli Metzger's (1996-99 for Akron) career mark of 57 ... Gilbert enters the MAC Tournament ranked second in the MAC in long balls this season, trailing only Lauren Gellerman's (Ohio) total of 23.
► RECORD BREAKER PART 2: With her third career grand slam in the eighth inning of game two of the April 12 doubleheader at Akron, Jennifer Gilbert became the MAC's all-time career RBI leader … Gilbert enters the MAC Tournament with 180 career RBI which is 13 better than the previous league standard of 167 set by Kelli Metzger from 1996-99.
► ON THE NCAA STATS FRONT: Jennifer Gilbert entered the week ranked fourth among all NCAA Division I players with her 65 RBI this season, while her 1.30 RBI-per-game average is fifth … In addition, Gilbert ranked fifth in slugging percentage (0.926), sixth in home runs per game (0.42), seventh in home runs (21), 14th in batting average (.451), 25th in runs per game (1.04) and 28th in on base percentage (.526).
► DOUBLING UP: Led by Amanda Carpenter's MAC-best 18 doubles this season, the Ball State offense entered the week ranked third in the nation with a 1.82 doubles-per-game average ... Carpenter, who currently ranks second in program history with 51 career doubles, was 10th among all NCAA Division I players with her 0.37 doubles per game average ... As a team, the Cardinals have tallied 91 doubles this season which was 21 more than the next closest team in the MAC in Northern Illinois at 70 ... Ball State collected a program and MAC single-season record 100 doubles in 2012.
► MORE FROM CENTER FIELD: In addition to ranking second in program history with 51 career doubles, Amanda Carpenter is third in BSU annals in career hits (225) and RBI (149), while ranking fourth in career runs scored (139) and home runs (21) ... She boasts a .981 career fielding percentage, with 308 putouts and 10 outfield assists compared to just six errors ... In fact, Carpenter has played 105 consecutive games without an error.
► DOUBLING UP PART 2: The Ball State defense has picked up where it left off in 2012, turning 29 double plays so far this season ... Taylor Rager has had a hand in 22 of the twin killings, moving her into the top spot in program history with 51 career double plays turned ... Sophomore second baseman Taylor Cox has been involved in 16 of the twin killings this season, raising her career total to 39 which is second in program history ... BSU entered the week ranked fourth in the nation with both 29 double plays and a 0.58 double plays-per-game average this season ... Last season, the BSU defense led the nation with both 33 double plays turned and a 0.60 double plays-per-game average.
► THE RAGER FACTOR: In addition to being the program's record holder in double plays turned, Taylor Rager is also quickly climbing up BSU's career offensive charts ... Based on the strength of her .403 batting average this season, Rager has moved into fourth in program history with a .348 career batting average ... Her 26 career home runs rank third in BSU annals, while her 125 career RBI and 37 career doubles are both fifth.
► STEINBACH DOMINATING THE CIRCLE: In her 28 appearances this season, Nicole Steinbach has held teams to four-or-fewer hits 15 times and surrendered two-or-fewer earned runs 20 times ... She currently leads the league with six complete game shutouts, including three in MAC play ... She recorded a career-best 10 strikeouts versus Creighton (Feb. 22) and has tallied five-or-more Ks in an appearance 11 times ... Over 147.1 innings of work, Steinbach has limited opposing batters to a .236 average and has recorded 106 strikeouts.
► THE NATIONAL RANKINGS: The Ball State offense entered the week ranked 27th in the nation with its MAC-leading .312 team batting average, while its 1.82 doubles-per-game average was third ... The Cardinals offense also ranked in the top 25 nationally in scoring (6.68/10th), home runs per game (1.26/16th) and slugging percentage (.516/20th) ... Complete national rankings for the 2013 Ball State squad can be found on page 15.
► NCAA ACTIVE CAREER LEADERS: Jennifer Gilbert's 54 career home runs placed her 11th among all active NCAA Division I players entering the week, while her 180 career RBI ranked 13th ... Gilbert also ranked in the top 25 in slugging percentage (.782/10th), doubles (46/17th) and runs scored (157/22nd) ... Amanda Carpenter entered the week ranked fifth among all active players with 51 career doubles, while placing in the top 40 in at bats (696/14th), hits per game (.323/29th), RBI (149/33rd) and runs scored (139/40th).


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A reject of society, one who lives in the shadows of his imagination, a failure when judge even by his peers
de The Truth ALR 13 Septembrie 2010
someone who you wouldn't mind making their intestines look like a f*cked up balloon animal.
OMG! That Ass Clown Totally Cut Me Off!
de KillerAce 02 Noiembrie 2008
The feces that results when shame gorges itself on too much stupidity. A person who consistently disappoints in the most dramatic fashion they can manifest...in other words, at the crucial moment - he/she HAS to fuck everything up.
Of course Rudy burned the house down...what else would you expect from such an ass clown?
de hoity-toity 29 Octombrie 2008
someone with no talent
1)Michael Bolton is a no talent assclown.
de Jonnyboy88 27 Decembrie 2006
an ass clown is someone who is normally male, they are full of aids. an ass clown is easily amused by cheap ipod apps. they usually spend their time facebook creeping, smoking cigarettes or just simply being an asshole. normally goes by the name of Mike or Joey
person #1; "i am an ass clown"
person #2; "yes, yes you are"
person #2; "yes, yes you are"
de canadatarj 25 Iulie 2010
a talentless, overly dramatic hack who pretends to know it all and wants to it off.
that no talent ass clown is a black hole of time.
de betherz 13 Mai 2010
Someone who wastes the time of two or more people due to their inability to see what is obvious to the other two.
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Jaxon Daniel "Jak-Jak" Hamilton, 8, died Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012, in a house fire in Republic. He was joined in death by his parents, Joseph D. and Holly R. Hamilton; his brother, Linkin J. Hamilton; and sister, Olivia R. Bondy.
Jaxon was born Aug. 19, 2004, to Joseph D. and Holly R. (Adams) Hamilton. Jaxon attended second grade at Seneca East School. He enjoyed playing outside, rough housing with and hugging his siblings and playing with the family pets. Jaxon enjoyed people and animals; he was a tender-hearted boy. He liked going to zoos and wildlife parks; he loved to be outside. He especially enjoyed deer and giraffes.
Jaxon is survived by his paternal great-great-grandfather, George Bemke; his maternal great-great-grandmothers, Jean Adams and Renada "Ren" Funni; his paternal grandparents, Terry M. and Phillip C. (Dorie) Hamilton Jr.; his maternal grandparents, Willy (Lisa) Adams and Chris Adams; his paternal uncle, Phillip C. (Jaime) Hamilton III; cousins, Phillip IV, Jacob and Benjamin Hamilton; his maternal uncle, Joshua Adams; his paternal aunt, Nicole L. Hamilton; his maternal aunt and her daughter, Heidi Adams and Destiny Gurley; and a large number of great-aunts, great-uncles, cousins and step-relatives.
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Jaxon Hamilton
His memorial service will be 1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012, at St. Joseph Catholic Church, Tiffin, with the Rev. Joseph Szybka officiating.
Visitation for family and friends will be 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday at the church.
Engle-Shook Funeral Home and Crematory, Tiffin, is assisting the family with their arrangements.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Hamilton Family Benefit Fund, Firelands Federal Credit Union, P.O. Box 8005, Bellevue, OH 44811.
Online condolences may be left for the family at www.engleshookfuneralhome.com.


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INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. - Thanksgiving is only a week away and "word on the street" is that more snow is on the way to help fill our village with visitors for the holiday. Bring it on!
This is the last week to donate frozen turkeys to Project MANA as the distribution is on Saturday. Drop off frozen turkeys no later than Friday at the Donald W. Reynolds Community Non-Profit Center at 948 Incline Way. Canned goods or monetary donations can be dropped off any time as they can also be used for regular weekly distributions.
If you are looking for someplace to spend Thanksgiving you are in luck as the annual Community Thanksgiving potluck is on Thanksgiving Day at the North Tahoe Event Center in Kings Beach. The event is from 2-7 p.m. For information about this event go to www.tahoecommunitythanksgivingcelebration.blogspot.com or call 775-230-1066.
In case you have not noticed, the Toys for Tots collection barrels are out and unwrapped new toys can be dropped in the barrels now. Check out today's Bonanza for a list of all the local giving programs in our area during the holidays.
Tickets are now on sale for the special Mark Twain Celebration, "Secrets to Longevity," This special presentation will be from 6-8:30 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 30, at the IVGID Rec. Center and is part of the Rec. Center's 20th Anniversary Celebration. The last time Mark Twain made an appearance at the Rec. Center it sold out, so be sure to call for tickets now at 775-832-1310.
Another popular community event to put on your calendar is Brunch with Santa. This event is on Saturday, Dec. 8, at The Chateau and information is available at www.tahoefamily.org or call Tahoe Family Solutions at 775-298-0004. Tickets for this event sponsored by IVGID and Tahoe Family Solutions can be purchased at the Potlatch, Tahoe Family Solutions or Rec. Center.
Did anyone hear from our local senior bowlers? They were down at the Senior Tournament in Carson over the weekend but mum is the word. We are all waiting to hear the results. Please share.
Birthdays this week include: Ace Zendner on Nov. 23; Christopher Veregge on Nov. 15; Susie Homola and Victor Rodriguez on Nov. 17; Dean Ailor, Bill Horn and Danielle Nelson on Nov. 18; Zander Wallpe on Nov. 20; Bea Epstein and Ronnie Rector on Nov. 21. Happy birthday, everyone!
The best deal or steal in town this week is at the TFS Thrift Store. The store is expanding to offer more incredible items and deals. Check it out at 797 Southwood Blvd. Remember, volunteers are also needed at the store.
As always send in your birthdays, anniversaries and news, along with the best deals and steals you can find, to email@example.com.


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It seems to me there should be a better name for today than Black Friday. I know the origin - that this is the day retailers expect to be out of red ink and into the black for the holiday season and the rest of the year.
But, still, I don't like the connotation black suggests.
It sounds depressing and foreboding, when actually we should be happily looking forward to Christmas and New Year, still conscious of the joy we experienced yesterday with family and friends.
So, I am going to refer to today as Thank You Day.
Customers can thank the retailers, the retailers can thank the wholesalers, the wholesalers can thank the manufacturers, and shopaholics can express gratitude for the opportunity to shop all night.
I am thankful today my garden keeps on giving through the winter. Even though almost everything is in winter dormancy, there still are plenty of useful and beautiful gifts from the garden.
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I recently attended an herbal luncheon at the historic Grammes Brown House, and the tree in the front window has been decorated with natural materials from the garden.
I decorate several trees for the season, and the one in the kitchen is a garden tree. I went outside to look for inspiration and found feathery plumes from the ornamental grasses, hydrangea flowers that have dried naturally, purple seed pods on the remnants of the hyacinth bean vine, many different sizes of rose hips still on the branches of the roses, twigs with next spring's buds on the shrubs, and many sprays of thyme, sage and rosemary that still are sweetly scented.
I will be stringing popcorn and cranberries with my great-grandboys, and the tree will remind me of summer past and springs to come.
And I am certainly thankful today for the vegetables in the freezer. The favorite food of my wonderful just-1-year-old great-grandaughter Sophia is peas, and she generously shares them with any family members within reach (and the dog who lurks under the table).
So, next year, I need to plant many more peas to keep her happy.
And the broccoli crop needs to be bigger, too. Noah and Owen eat as much as they can hold at Sunday dinner every week and take home leftover broccoli in containers to be enjoyed later.
I definitely need to encourage such healthy habits by having a plentiful supply on the table.
My gratitude, too, goes to all those who read this column. I have been writing weekly since March 2004, with a year of monthly columns before that, for a total of around 400 columns, and I have met more interesting people than I can count and corresponded with many others. I enjoy all your comments, suggestions, corrections and opinions.
I am going to change my phone number in a week or so. Technology is slowly catching up with me, and I am going to use a cell phone, but I can always be reached at the e-mail address below or by letter at 390 S. Jefferson St., Tiffin.
I am thankful, too, for my health and the doctors who keep it there for me, for friends and family, for my dog, Penny, who barks enthusiastically at everyone whether they are friend or foe, for the organizations to which I belong, for city and county parks, for the library, for the people who rescue me when my computer skills prove inadequate.
And the list goes on.
I simply cannot call today Black Friday when my mind is full of so many blessings. Have a happy Thank You Day!


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Your Take: Do You Get a Flu Shots?
I get a flu shot every year. I visit my doctor, pay my $10-15 or whatever it is, and get my shot in the arm. In some years, out of convenience, I get it at Costco or some other place, but generally it's with my regular doctor and it's not really a big deal. A few days of soreness in the arm and I'm on my way.
You've probably read all the news that this year's flu season is going to be a particularly nasty one. I have a few friends who have already come down with it and having gotten the flu in the past, I know it sucks. You feel heavy, everything hurts, and you sleep all day but never feel rested. I get a shot because I figure it's ten bucks to have a pretty good chance of avoiding it.
I also know people who never get the flu shot, in part because they say they never get the flu. That strikes me as a pretty bad reason but I'm not in the business of trying to convince people to get flu shots so I usually just let it go. In all the times I've driven, I've only ever once gotten into an accident (someone ran a red light) but I wear a seat belt each time. But it's all a matter of personal choice and I don't judge, I am, however, curious why some people get a shot and others don't.
I get it because I would rather pay $10 for a 50% chance at avoiding a flu that knocks me out for 4-5 days. That's my logic and I know that the flu shot isn't 100% protection, so I peg it at 50%. It's probably higher but at 50% it's still worth it to me. Heck, I'd pay $100 for a 50% chance to avoid 4-5 days of suck.
Do you get flu shots? Why or why not?
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Dinosaurs Theme - 40 Die cut 2 inch circle Stickers with scalloped edges - Choose your design - Thank You Stickers - Birthday Labels
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You can give a great touch to your keepsakes with these cute stickers. They are die cut 2" circle with scalloped edges, white matte. They are perfect to stick them on your keepsakes, envelopes, or tags of your birthday party, baby shower or any special occasion.
Listing 40 die cut 2" circle stickers with scalloped edges, white matte, printed with the design that you choose in the picture above.
Please remember type which number of design you want (#1, #2, #3 or #4), and the message that you want at the bottom of the stickers.
Please let me know if you would like to a different quantity of them before making payment, so I can create a custom listing for you.
Every design that you see in my shop can be printed in cupcake toppers, stickers, favor tags, lollipop tags, mini notebooks, place cards, table numbers, birthday banners, invitations or thank you cards.
The way as I work is: I send the proof via e-mail within 3 business days (it doesn't include Sundays or Holidays) after you made the payment, so you can approve it or ask for the changes that you want on it. I don't make designs or send proofs before you place the order, and I received your payment.
I ship the orders within 7 business days after you approved the design.
Normally I send out the orders by First Class mail via USPS with delivery confirmation.
If you need a RUSH delivery, please DO NOT PLACE THE ORDER BEFORE TALKING WITH ME ABOUT IT. That way I can let you know the extra-cost, and I would set up a custom listing for you including also the shipping cost to send out the order by Priority Mail via USPS or via overnight service.
I ship my items worldwide by First Class mail via USPS with tracking number (just for the customers located inside of the US). It takes 3-6 business days to receive it (if you are inside of the US) or 7-12 business days (if you are in the rest of the world).


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Top Definition
An orgasm for your head delivered by a "Headgasm" scalp massager. Only the best feeling in the world. Comparable to the feeling of a cold shiver down your spine, but on the top of your head.
That thing is like an orgasm, for your head! Headgasm!
por joell86 01 de Setembro de 2010
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When your head gets all tingly, an orgasm of the head.
Dude I totaly just had a headgasm after that head massage my girlfriend gave me.
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COLUMBIA — At times this season, Steve Spurrier has openly criticized his team's preseason top 10 ranking.
It was about The Hit, South Carolina's football coach has said. People from across the country saw Jadeveon Clowney deck Michigan running back Vincent Smith. They expected it to happen every play. The hype was great, swelling through the summer months, building until the Gamecocks were No. 6 in the Associated Press preseason poll.
Now, it appears the hype was justified.
South Carolina returned to the top 10 Sunday, jumping two spots in the Associated Press poll to land at No. 10. It sets up arguably the biggest rivalry game ever between the Gamecocks and No. 6 Clemson, which travels to Williams-Brice Stadium for a 7 p.m. kickoff Saturday on ESPN2.
For the first time, both teams will be ranked in the top 10.
"It's sort of neat that we've got two teams in the top 10 that started the season there and are still there after 11 games," Spurrier said Sunday during his weekly teleconference. "So I know our state is proud of the two football schools we've got in the state of South Carolina. Should be a heck of a game, looking forward to seeing what happens here Saturday night."
There's a reason this hasn't happened before. It's rare for two schools from the same state to be in the top 10 this late in a season.
South Carolina is one of two states with multiple teams in the top 10. The other is Alabama, owner of the past four BCS championships.
When No. 4 Auburn hosts No. 1 Alabama this weekend on WCSC-TV, that game will take center stage across the country. Clemson coach Dabo Swinney knows that. He understands the Iron Bowl rivalry as well as anybody, spending three seasons with the Crimson Tide as a player and nine as a coach.
Regardless, Swinney said this rivalry shouldn't be ignored.
"I think this rivalry is right up there now, as big as there is (anywhere) in the country. I really do," Swinney said Sunday on his teleconference. "When you look at the consistency both programs have had over the last few years, I think it's right there. I really do."
It's an abrupt, course reversal for Swinney. Just two years ago, he said his "kids' grandkids won't live long enough" to see this game blossom as a rivalry.
Perhaps several things have changed since then. The biggest is no secret.
"It's got BCS implications," Swinney said. "There's not many of them out there that are going to bring that to the table. I think everybody will be tuned in to see Clemson-South Carolina for sure."
Clemson likely has an Orange Bowl bid locked up, so long as Florida State heads to the BCS championship game in Pasadena, Calif. South Carolina is still in the hunt for a Sugar Bowl appearance, though it has plenty of company in the SEC.
So the BCS implications are there, but Saturday will be about more than that. Swinney said it's about bragging rights — something South Carolina has and Clemson desperately wants back. It's about staying in the top 10, representing a state whose football credentials can be argued with any other in the country right now.
"I think it just adds to some recognition to our state that both the universities are pretty good in football," Spurrier said. "They emphasize football, and we're trying to be the best we can be just like they are. I just think it just adds some recognition and maybe some prestige to both of our schools."


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This vigerous top fermenting Belgian style strain produces a distinct spicy character along with mild esters. Phenolics developed during fermentation may dissipate with conditioning. This strain is an excellent choice for a variety of Belgian beer styles including pales, dubbels and brown ales.
Origin: Leuven, Belgium
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Attenuation: 75-78%
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Alcohol Tolerance: 12% ABV
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VB Part 3: Navigation, layout, and views (2 of 2)
- Posted: Oct 26, 2012 at 10:02AM
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How about those Chinese plates?
I have felt (pun intended) that I've been feeling more little earthquakes lately, and the news reported that several have been based near the Salton Sea (probably 100+ miles away from here) over the past few days, which apparently is on a southern connector to the infamous San Andreas Fault. Maybe Mother Nature is mad that her best shaker has been linked to violent video games...
From Star Wars Episode VII: the Broadway Edition... FN and the Amazing Technically-Poe's Dream Jacket.
Frighteningly enough, that fault has apparently been dormant for around 300 years, and is overdue for a big shaker.
That's my jacket!
I seem to remember from a geography course that the Salton Sea was created from an earthquake that let the run-off water collect in the basin it left there.
From Star Wars Episode VII: the Broadway Edition... FN and the Amazing Technically-Poe's Dream Jacket.
No the Salton Sea is the sight of the landing of a huge alien spacecraft that was used to transport North American dinosaurs off the planet before a giant asteroid hit the earth.
Ah! the Ark of dinosaur meat.
"Ohh, maxi big da fish! Well dat smells stinkowiff"
"No time to discuss this as a supercommittee.... I am not a supercommittee!"
You know how the publishing cartels will never give the true truth...
From Star Wars Episode VII: the Broadway Edition... FN and the Amazing Technically-Poe's Dream Jacket.
This thread now looks like a joke next to the Italian earthquake.
Geeze. Those poor folks never had a chance, I guess.
It makes me rethink living in California a little. But I think quakes are less frequent than Midwest tornadoes or Southern hurricanes and Northeast snowstorms.
No. I'll stay in SoCal thank you. I'd suppose Italy is equally as appealing to Italians. (I've been there, but I'd rather be Californian any day of the week.)
The ironic thing is that Italians were not only forewarned but they did have a chance to prepare or evacuate several weeks prior to the quake. A scientist there was using a new method to predict earthquakes by measuring radon gas levels/emissions and discovered that a major quake could be possible. He even had vans with loudspeakers attached to them drive through the streets in an attempt to warn people.
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Top Definition
The food for or excrement of small rodents such as the guinea pig.
"Eat a pellet, make a pellet, eat a pellet, make a pellet!"
de EmpTheodosius 12 juin 2006
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Something which falls pathetically short of being acceptable.
de OC Hamster 4 août 2003
a bitter person, who is difficult to deal with
I was trying to help, but he was such a pellet about it I gave up.
de tcb 4 novembre 2003
Pellet is a dude in sweden who lives his life in slow motion! We call these slowmo living guys pellets or runksepe!
Olle - I'll pick u up at 7 PM
Pellets - I'll be there buddy! (but he never shows up earlier then 7:15 it's their rule of thumb, those Pellets).
Pellets - I'll be there buddy! (but he never shows up earlier then 7:15 it's their rule of thumb, those Pellets).
de DevilsTounge! 11 mars 2010
safer alternative to BB. my ass. these things can put ur fuckin eye out. they can also kill you. yea. alot safer than fuckin BBs. at least wen ppl use BBs they noe that they are dangerous. however, when ppl use pellets they are under the impression that they are safe. my ass.
i got shot my some dumbass with a pellet, and now im blind.
de asswipe 21 janvier 2005
No, not the one which comes out of a gun, but out of your bum. When the solidity of a turd breaks down in to smaller fragments. The scientific name of a fragment is a pellet.
I had an AK47 up my ass which fired so viciously it sprayed the toilet and walls with many a pellet.
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Emmy for WMMB, Discover Mediaworks
Emmy for WMMB, Discover Mediaworks
The Art and Science of Cheesemaking, a television segment that explores the complexities of crafting award-winning Wisconsin cheeses, recently received an Emmy from the Chicago/Midwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
The segment, produced by Discover Mediaworks, Inc., is part of WMMB's Corporate Communications programming. It aired as an episode in the Into the Outdoors series during 2010 and this year. The Emmy is the second for a WMMB show in the Into the Outdoors series, the first being Green Cows, a historical perspective that chronicles Wisconsin's continuing dedication to sustainability and ecology.
Into the Outdoors is educational programming targeted to school-age children. The Emmy-winning episode included information about the production and variety of cheeses available in Wisconsin, emphasizing the relationship between technical expertise and artistic inspiration in cheesemaking. The segment also features visits to outstanding Wisconsin dairy farms and their importance to the cheesemaking process. It can be viewed here.
"This is a prestigious award, and it recognizes the hard work and creativity of our staff and Discover Mediaworks," said Patrick Geoghegan, WMMB's senior vice president of Corporate Communications. "It's a reflection of the outstanding accomplishments of Wisconsin's dairy farms and the state's dairy industry."
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President Obama has thus far failed to use the bully pulpit to make the case for bold action on climate change. After successfully passing his green stimulus package, he did nothing to defend it when Congress decimated its funding....Without presidential leadership that focuses intensely on making the public aware of the reality we face, nothing will change.
Many political advisers assume that a president has to deal with the world of politics as he finds it, and that it is unwise to risk political capital on an effort to actually lead the country toward a new understanding of the real threats and real opportunities we face. Concentrate on the politics of re-election, they say. Don't take chances.All that might be completely understandable and make perfect sense in a world where the climate crisis wasn't "real." Those of us who support and admire President Obama understand how difficult the politics of this issue are in the context of the massive opposition to doing anything at all — or even to recognizing that there is a crisis. And assuming that the Republicans come to their senses and avoid nominating a clown, his re-election is likely to involve a hard-fought battle with high stakes for the country....But in this case, the President has reality on his side. The scientific consensus is far stronger today than at any time in the past. Here is the truth: The Earth is round; Saddam Hussein did not attack us on 9/11; Elvis is dead; Obama was born in the United States; and the climate crisis is real. It is time to act.
quote: And why in the world would I possibly take someone serious who is one of the worlds biggest hypocrites? Even if he WAS buying carbon credits and becoming "neutral" that doesn't justify his actions. He's a hypocrite. A horrible hypocrite. Do as I say not as I do. As far as I am concerned anything that comes from his mouth should be completely ignored as complete nonsense or an attempt to generate more revenue. Either way it couldn't possibly be worth a damn.


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Katt Williams concert ends with heckling meltdown at Wells Fargo Theatre (news)
UPDATED: With comments from one attendee who had a bird's-eye view. According to promoter Live nation, tonight's (Friday, Nov. 2) show is going on "as planned." Thursday night's highly-anticipated Katt Williams concert came to a grinding halt last night after the controversial comedian jumped off stage at the Wells Fargo Theatre into the heckling audience and Denver Police joined his bodyguards to prevent a shoving match from turning into a brawl.