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Stealing Home
Stealing home is something I've been hoping to do all season. Everyone knows we're a team that has to be aggressive to get runs. And, really, what's more fun or more a test of your base-running skills than stealing home? I'd never done it in the majors. But I did it this winter with my Venezuela team – while the pitcher was still holding the ball. More on that in a minute.
So Monday against the Diamondbacks, Angel Pagan was on first, and I had a good lead off third. Boch and third-base coach Tim Flannery had told me if I ever got in that situation, and the catcher threw to second, I should just go.
Sometimes catchers will bluff. So you have to wait until the ball is in the air. Once I saw the ball leave the catcher's hand, I took off. Pagan was safe, and because I had such a big lead, the shortstop didn't even throw home. I scored standing.
So here's what happened in winter ball. I had three things in my favor. One, it was a left-handed pitcher, so he was facing first base. Two, he never looked at me. And three, he had a pretty slow motion. When a pitcher sets, he has to hold the ball for a second before he throws. So as soon as this pitcher went into his motion, I ran. When he saw me, he fumbled to throw home. Not only did I beat the throw, the pitcher was called for a balk. I would have scored either way.
When I told Flan about it, he raised his eyebrow and said very slowly and deliberately "If you try that here, you had better make it.'' I don't think I'll be doing it any time soon.
As you can tell, I love running the bases. I love the cat-and-mouse strategy, the athleticism, the burst of adrenaline. In Miami on the last road trip, I got caught in a rundown between home and third. It was a 1-1 game in the sixth inning. Melky had hit a hard grounder to the pitcher, I had broken down the line and the pitcher had thrown home. Now I was caught. To be honest, I thought I was dead. So my job at that point is to keep the fielders occupied with me long enough to allow Melky to get to second – in scoring position. We needed a run.
Both the catcher and third baseman were worried about Melky and were taking theirs eyes off me for split seconds at a time. Maybe, I thought, I had a chance. I dove past the third-baseman with a wide slide and slipped my hand under the tag.
Do we practice rundowns? Of course. We practice everything. So over the years, we each develop individual strategies for various situations. Here's my strategy for run-downs:
Don't get tagged.
See? It's a simple game.
No Regrets
One of the things I really like about playing in San Francisco is that it's a lot like playing in my home country of Venezuela. Fans in Venezuela are really passionate and really vocal. They're completely into the game. They're always telling you what to do. It's like 20,000 people trying to be the manager: "Run!'' "Bunt!'' "Slide!''
The atmosphere at AT&T is a lot like that. Fans here aren't quite as bossy, but they're just as passionate. They are completely into the Giants. Completely into the game. They like guys who play hard and do everything they can to win. And that's what I love to do more than anything: Play hard and win games.
So just like in Venezuela, I feed off the fans' energy. I can't say for sure but I'd bet there isn't anybody on this roster who appreciates being here more than I do.
As you might know, I didn't play a single game in the major leagues last season. I was riding the bench on the Kansas City minor leagues. Then the team put me on waivers.
But no team picked me up. That was the lowest point of my career.
"Maybe it's over,'' I told my wife. "Maybe that's it.''
"Whatever you want to do, I support you,'' she said. "But I believe in you. I know how good you are.''
That made me stronger. I realized that no matter what happened, I was already a lucky man to have my wife and my kids and that we all had our health. So I kept playing and now here I am with the Giants.
Through all the ups and downs – being benched, traded, cut – I learned that the only thing in my control is how hard I work. So I get to the ballpark early every day to do weights, get in the batting cage, run. I do everything I can to be the hardest out in the league, to get on base in whatever way I can.
I've also learned something else about myself. I play better when the goal is winning. In the minor leagues, the goal is development. In the majors and in winter ball, it's winning. It's all about championships. I like to play under pressure. I like to compete. I think I'm more focused when the stakes are highest.
You might have noticed my ritual before stepping up to the plate. I pinch a little bit of dirt in front of the batter's box, in fair territory. Then I make the sign of the cross, touching my forehead, shoulders and heart. I'm asking God to give me the opportunity to get the ball in fair territory.
But I know it's up to me to make sure I'm as prepared as I can be. So I keep myself focused on what I want in my life – a healthy and loving family, loyal and competitive teammates — and just keep working hard.
If I do that, I'll never have regrets.
My Family of Gregs
Since I'm new not only to blogging but to the Giants, I'll start off with a little background.
I grew up in Venezuela. I have a twin brother (not identical) whose name is Gregory. And I have a younger brother whose name is Gregsman. So Gregor, Gregory and Gregsman. Why? I still don't know. My mom said she just liked the names. She even named our house "The Gregs'' and put up a sign.
My twin brother and I have carried on the tradition more or less. My six-year-old son is named Grenyer, and my 18-month-old son is named Gregor Alejandro. Gregory's son is named Greyver.
Growing up, my twin and I were always together playing baseball. Nobody ever seemed to call us by our names. It was, "Hey, Twins, what's up?''
Gregory played in the Angels and Pirates minor leagues as a catcher but left after a few years to become a phys ed teacher. Gregsman works as a jobs recruiter for the government.
My dad, Hernan, sold insurance for a while and now owns and runs a taxi company. My mother died of brain cancer six years ago when she was 47 years old. I still think about her every day.
I'm married to my childhood sweetheart, Zulay. We've known each other since we were 12.
I never wanted to do anything but play baseball. I signed with the Braves at the age of 16 and made my major-league debut eight years later, in 2008. I stayed in the majors most of that season and parts of the next two.
I was traded to Kansas City in the summer of 2010. Between the Braves and the Royals that year, I hit. 283 — my best season ever.
Then it all fell apart. I didn't spend a single day in the major leagues in 2011. Kansas City started me in Triple A then traded me to the Washington Nationals, who also put me in Triple A. I developed bone spurs in my wrist halfway through the season and had to stop playing. It was the worst year of my career.
The Nationals released me in November.
I didn't know what would happen. The Giants soon contacted me – one of their scouts had seen me in Triple A before my bone spurs and had sent a good report back to the Giants' front office. The Marlins were also interested.
By this time I was already home in Venezuela, playing for my usual winter-ball team, Tiburones de la Guaira. (Tiburones means sharks, so that's where my nickname "White Shark'' comes from.) Giants batting coach Hensley Meulens was coaching in the same league. Between him and Pablo Sandoval, they convinced me I should sign with the Giants.
What I really appreciated at spring training was the open competition. If I performed, I'd make the team. And I did.
I know we're struggling now, but this is a team that fights to win every day. That's what I really like about being here.
It's tough without Pablo in the lineup, I'll be honest. He's so important. I've known him a long time. He's a few years younger than me, so I watched him come up through the ranks in Venezuela. There's no one else like him. At least he's still in the clubhouse and in the dugout to keep us loose and laughing.
I usually hang out on the road with him and Hector Sanchez, another countryman. But yesterday, on our day off in Arizona, they went to Glendale to get tattoos, so I was on my own. I went shopping for a Mother's Day gift for my wife, watched "The Avengers'' then played some video games.
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Darren Helm had no problem watching and not playing during the Detroit Red Wings' 3-1 win over the Nashville Predators at Joe Louis Arena on Thursday night in Game 1 of their best-of-seven playoff series.
As long as the Red Wings keeping winning, he'll gladly sit out.
"It would be great to get into one of these games, but I'm really hoping the team stays healthy," Helm said in the locker room after the game. "The healthier they are, the better chance they have to go all the way. That's my first priority and wish for Detroit."
Helm was a healthy scratch on Thursday, as were Justin Abdelkader, Aaron Downy, Brett Lebda and Derek Meech. Kirk Maltby also sat out with an injured hamstring.
"All the guys that weren't playing, we just sat back in the dressing room and worked out and watched the game on the edge of our seats the whole time," Helm said. "It was exciting and I was glad to be a part of the first win here."
On Friday, Detroit reassigned Helm back to Grand Rapids, where he's expected to play against the Manitoba Moose on Friday and Saturday nights in the final two games of Griffins' season.
He'll likely return to the Red Wings shortly after that as part of the "Black Aces": players who practice in black jerseys during the playoffs. He could be joined by goaltender Jimmy Howard and defensemen Kyle Quincey and Jonathan Ericsson.
Helm was recalled on April 5, and saw 15:14 of ice time the next day in the Red Wings' 4-1 season-finale win over the Chicago Blackhawks.
He's practiced with the team since then and said he's learned a lot as Detroit made the transition from the regular season to the playoffs.
"It's been awesome, just seeing how much they work off the ice, even come playoff time," Helm said. "I know before these playoffs I used to not really work out, just kind of make sure I'm healthy, but these guys are giving it 100 percent in the weight room and on the ice. It's amazing to see how professional they really are.
"I think you can always pick up new things on the ice at practice. Every step is a learning experience for me. The longer I stay up here, the more experience I get and learn more and better things."
Helm has made three trips to Detroit in the past month. He was scoreless in seven games and averaged seven minutes of ice time. He also leads Griffins rookies with 13 goals and 28 points in 65 games this season.
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CORAL — The smell of burning wood fills the living room as thin candlelight licks at shadows in the dimly lit home of Angela and Matt Kuncaitis.
The couple's heads, and those of their six children, bow in prayer before dinner as a cookstove hisses quietly.
On this cold recent night, snow has blanketed the family's two-story farmhouse. But inside there is warmth — not from electricity, but from the labor of a family feeding wood-burning stoves.
In 2008, the Kuncaitises decided to leave their home near Zeeland and fulfill a dream of going off the grid, living without power in an old Amish farmhouse in Coral, about 35 miles north of Grand Rapids.
"Our family talked about how we could even be a closer-knit family with the world spinning so fast," said Angela Kuncaitis, the mother of Abagale 18, Anna 15, Buddy 14, Penny 10, Peter, 4 and Favour 2. "The experience has been very rewarding as we have had to work as a team 100 percent."
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After years of rumors and speculation, once-dead Fox sitcom Arrested Development returns via Netflix later this month. To mark the occasion, Holocene is hosting an Arrested Development party with live music, banana drinks and a Bluth family costume party. In Portland, where so many conversations are peppered with references to the show, this could well be the social event of the season.
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Analrapist: Tobias Fünke lists this as his profession. Pronounced "uh-NAL-ruh-pist," it means he's a combination analyst and therapist.
Annyong: The adopted Korean son of Lucille and George Sr., Annyong is sent to military school and later revealed to be a mole, spying on the Bluth family by hiding in their walls.
The Chicken Dance: Most every character in the show uses a different, memorable version of the Chicken Dance to mock one another.
The Cornballer: A device beloved by the Bluth family that deep-fries cornballs. The Cornballer was made illegal after it caused serious burns.
Franklin: Spewing offensive obscenities and racially stereotyped phrases, Franklin is Gob's African-American puppet who is often treated as a real person.
Her?: Often used to refer to George Michael's forgettable girlfriend, Ann Veal (question mark always included and necessary).
âIâve made a huge mistake...â: A recurring phrase, most often used by Gob when heâs made a huge mistake.
Les Cousins Dangereux: Dangerous Cousins, a French film that George Michael enjoys after he and Maeby discover it's about two cousins who secretly love each other.
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Stair car: Formerly used to enter the Bluth family jet, which was sold when they went broke, this truck with a staircase on top becomes the Bluthsâ only transportation, and is used to climb trees, escape from prison and knock down a homecoming banner.
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TILTONSVILLE – A proposed Tiltonsville Awareness Program will be considered at Village Council's Sept. 17 meeting.
Brandon Staats presented copies of the proposed program to village officials during a recent meeting. Five persons, according to Staats, are working on the proposed program, and it is not yet complete.
He did, however, ask for persons interested in serving as block captains to contact him at (740) 859-0170 or Police Chief Jerry Davis at (740) 859-2730.
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Mayor Kris Prati commended those involved in working on the program and asked council members to study the material presented and to provide suggestions if needed at the Sept. 17 session.
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In other matters, Village Administrator Carl Sgalla reported on the proposed line painting project on old state Route 7 in Tiltonsville, Rayland and Yorkville. The proposed project had been discussed with Jefferson County Engineer Jim Branagan in May, and the estimated cost is around $1,497.
Police Chief Jerry Davis said Jim Henry has been hired as a part-time police officer.
Davis also reported flu shots will be given by the Jefferson County Health Department from 9:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. on Tuesday at the Municipal Building.
Council tabled a swimming pool ordinance and approved a motion to accept the amounts and rates as determined by the budget commission, approving the necessary tax levies and certifying them to the county auditor.
Prati said the Warren Township Lions Club will clean the three Route 7 exits Saturday, beginning south at Public Road, Yorkville, and going north to the Rayland exit. Those working will meet at 8:30 a.m. at Warren Township Park. Volunteers are needed to help with the project, according to Prati, and those willing to help are to call Roger Warren at (740) 859-4479.
The volunteers are asked to wear long pants, long-sleeved shirts and gloves.
Lollini said he will set up a meeting with Yorkville Councilwoman Karen Vargo about the proposed purchase of crack sealer by the tri-village purchasing coalition.
A Tiltonsville family approached Tiltonsville and Yorkville councils about assisting with providing reward money to solve five burglaries that occurred between April and June. Two occurred in Rayland, one in Jackson Heights and one each in Tiltonsville and Yorkville.
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This was a review for the Wii charger taken from the Gamestop website
what is this!!!!!!!!!!!!! put a picture!!!!!!! in fact put pictures on all the things that dont have pictures!!!!!!!!! i think that the Wii will rock!!!!!!!!! everyone buy it!!!!!!!!!!!! Nintendo games rock like Mario, Donkey Kong, and Zelda!!!!!!!!! i am getting it for christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i think?
So what do you think, ! key stuck down? Does anyone here ever type like this (and will admit it) and do you think the reviewer is as excited as his review :P that's one crazy kid.
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sadly people do, and sadly i know people that act like this in real life, that talk like this
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lol that is one over excited kid. probably the n64 guy in the video of the christmas gift.
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"Boogie Woogie," MPI Home Video, 109 minutes, Rated R for strong sexual content, graphic nudity, language throughout and some drug use — With their fortunes declining, the Rheingolds (Christopher Lee and Joanna Lumley) decide to sell their Mondrian work which gives the film its title. Naturally, this causes a minor feeding frenzy in the London art world. There are plenty of plots and even more characters, so that one wishes some were more fully developed. It's a wild ride with a cast that includes Heather Graham, Gillian Anderson, Alan Cumming, Danny Huston, Amanda Seyfried and Stellan Skarsgard.
"Just Wright," 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, 100 minutes, Rated PG for some suggestive material and brief language — Leslie Wright (Queen Latifah) is a physical therapist and a hardcore hoops fan. When Scott McKnight (Common), the star point guard for the New Jersey Nets, is injured, she's tasked with his rehabilitation. While she's attracted to him, her best friend Morgan (Paula Patton) is even more attracted to his money. It's an offbeat love story with a great cast and plenty of sports cameos. Extras include a gag reel and two featurettes. X X X
"Raging Phoenix," Magnolia Home Entertainment, 114 minutes, Rated R for pervasive violent content and some alcohol abuse — In Thailand, a violent gang is abducting women. Deu is almost abducted, but she is saved by the intervention of Sanim and his crew. Desperate to give her life meaning, Deu learns the martial arts style practiced by her saviors and agrees to act as bait. It's a decent martial arts flick until it turns preposterous in the final third.
Best of the Rest:
"Princess Kaiulani" — Film is based on the true story of a Hawaiian princess who attempts to maintain the island's independence from America; ¶
"Return of the 5 Deadly Venoms" — After being crippled by an evil warlord three men learn martial arts from an old teacher and his pupil; ¶
"Afterschool" — A prep-school student captures the drug overdose of two girls on video; ¶
"Two Tickets to Paradise" — Three middle-aged men take a road trip trying to recapture the glory of their youth; ¶
"Casino Jack and the United States of Money" — Documentary explores the lies, greed and corruption surrounding D.C. uber-lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
Warner is releasing a 35th anniversary edition of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" that includes such bonus features as the documentary "Completely Cuckoo" as well as playing cards, character cards posters and more. The standard DVD is $39.92 while the Blu-ray is $49.99. Also arriving this week are the first seasons of "The Good Wife" (six discs, $64.99) and "The League" (three discs, $34.98) and "Glee" (seven discs, $59.98). ¶
Also worth checking out is "America: The Story of Us" (three discs, $39.95) from A&E Home Entertainment. This 12-part series presents a comprehensive vision of our nation's monumental history with an emphasis on the moments where America harnessed technology to advance human progress. ¶
New Blu-ray titles arriving this week include "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time" (three discs, $44.99), "Letters to Juliet" ($40.99), "Just Wright" ($39.99), "Boogie Woogie" ($29.98) and "Raging Phoenix" ($29.98). ¶
Also arriving are the catalogue titles "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" ($49.99), "Unleashed" ($26.98), "Mercury Rising" ($26.98), "Starcrash" ($26.97) and "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring," "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" and "The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King" ($24.98 each). Also Fox is releasing a number of horror hits, including "The Amityville Horror," "The Return of the Living Dead" and the 1978 "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" for $24.99 and "Carrie," "Misery" and "The Silence of the Lambs" among others for $19.99. ¶
And from TV comes the first seasons of "The League" ($34.98) and "Glee" (four discs, $64.99), the second season of "Fringe" (four discs, $69.97), the third season of "The Big Bang Theory" (two discs, $59.97), the fifth season of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" (two discs, $49.99) and "America: The Story of Us" (three discs, $49.97).
Upcoming: "The Experiment" (Sept. 14); "Robin Hood" (Sept. 21) "Get Him to the Greek" and "Iron Man 2" (Sept. 28); "Nightmare on Elm Street" and "Karate Kid" (Oct. 5); "Jonah Hex" (Oct. 12); "How to Train Your Dragon" (Oct. 15); "Predators" (Oct. 19); "Sex and the City 2" (Oct. 22); "Toy Story 3" (Nov. 2); "Charlie St. Cloud," "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World" and "Grown Ups" (Nov. 9); "Christmas Carol" (Nov. 16); "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse" (Dec. 4); "Harpoon" (Dec. 7).


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Congratulations to Cody Marsee, the winner of the #Funkblast contest! Cody will receive a brand new fourth edition Better Off Red t-shirt and the opportunity to pick a song for the August 23rd BOR fireworks show that will take place following the Reds/Brewers game at Great American Ball Park!
The best team to watch! No matter if they are winning or losing the atmosphere is always awesome! @Reds will always be my team! #Funkblast
— Reds&Bengals4evr (@cmarsee3) August 3, 2013
For tickets to that 8/23 game, please CLICK HERE.
Stay tuned to BOR today, as I'm going to give away some of our brand new t-shirts.
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Beyond The Veil
Shapeshifter Lore
"Even a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night, may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms and the autumn moon is bright." – The Wolf Man, 1941.
What Is A Shapechanger?
In the world Beyond The Veil, many creatures can partially or totally change their shape. However, by mutual agreement the term "Shapechanger" is reserved for those who have been infected by some form of the magical virus that creates Were-animals: were-wolves, were-leopards, were-rats and several others. The virus is a symbiotic one which gives its host certain powers to protect itself: increased strength, resistance to damage and access to its own magical nature for other abilities. However, by its very nature the virus is tied to the phases of the Moon and most Weres, unless they are very powerful ones, find themselves uncontrollably shifting to their animal form at certain Moon phases.
So far, there are several types of Shapechanger known. Were-wolves and Were-rats are the most common (and the virus type the carry is the most easily transmitted), followed by various forms of Were-cat including leopards, lions and tigers. However, Were-bears, Were-hyenas, Were-cobras, Were-pythons, Were-jackals, Were-coyotes, Were-owls, Were-seals, Were-sharks and even Were-spiders have been encountered. each has a different Template and a different minimum points cost. It is possible to improve upon the basic template, including by buying off Disadvantages.
The virus that causes each were-form seems to be mutually incompatible with all others and with vampirism. Once you have one, it is highly unlikely that you will catch another. Only two "pan-weres", people able to hold more than one kind of animal shape-shifting virus, have ever been documented. One was infected by the other and it is theorized this was a chance mutation of the virus. Only a few true vampire-shape shifters have ever existed, and all were made a very long time ago by the entity thought to be the very first vampire. Technomages theorize that the two viruses – vampire and shape shifter – may have a common origin and perhaps even a link to the Mage DNA that naturally occurs in some humans but that the various forms have diverged over millenia.


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By Marge Jesberger
My home is a living scrapbook. It is our virtual family album. Everyone has seen the outside of our white house with its green awnings and the American flag, flying on the pole out front. If you are curious about the interior, by all means step inside and take my guided tour.
The windows in my house not only reflect the sunlight, but all of life's events. If you could have peeked into my windows, you would have witnessed countless birthday candles being blown out and prom photos, taken at the bottom of the stairs. You would have also seen family members sprawled out on the couch after a late night or teenagers doing their impersonation of "WrestleMania" next to my breakable glass collection. Also visible were the kid's school projects, spread out everywhere. Of course they weren't ready for public viewing.
I'd like to point out our wonderful walls. They, too, tell tales from our past; a misplaced light switch, a crooked closet rod, a mysterious crack that seems to have hundreds of tentacles. I'd like to think that I rescued my boring and blank walls by filling them with photos and decorative pictures that somehow escaped the landfill. It's as if all the tag sales in Western Massachusetts found their way onto my walls!
The family's warmth comes from our wood-burning fireplace. It is known as the hearth that has to be constantly fed. First we buy the three cords of wood. After it is delivered, we transfer it from the driveway to the back yard. Then we carefully stack it next to the house. Finally, we bring it into the back porch and eventually the logs are ceremoniously placed in the family room fireplace. After using different kindling and starters, we have our roaring fire to take the chill out of our cold New England evenings. ( OK, I guess it is worth it.)
I hope my doors say "Welcome. Come on in." I do admit they could use a little curb appeal. My front door sticks, but I manage to open it for solicitors and salespeople. ( No one else comes to our front door.) The doorbell has been broken for 10 years. Instead of a ding-dong, it sounds like an anemic squeak. Decorating my doors according to the changing seasons is a challenge – a holly wreath here, a skeleton there and for spring, bunnies everywhere!
Over the years, I've gone through many design changes. There was my orange paisley period and my country phase. Pick any country in the world, and I probably have knickknacks from all of them.
"What's black and white and red all over? (the answer is not a newspaper). They were my color choices for the family room disaster.
Let's talk ceilings. Mine are those textured pebbled ones. They look as if someone took a fan to a sandbox, then painted it all white. I can live with that, but what I can't live with is our lack of overhead lighting. Sometimes, I feel like I am living in a dimly lit cave, as the side table lamps can't shed enough light on the problem. (Oh well, I guess it's romantic.)
Floors are the foundations of every home. My floors have seen babies crawl all over them, children chase each other, dishes breaking on them and dogs doing what dogs do. (I don't think we need to go into the details.) The ceramic tile has seen water puddles, tracked in mud and Jell-O molds dropped in major walkways. My rugs now have distinct traffic patterns that can't be reversed. My carpet stains have carpet stains.
The next stop on my home tour is it's functional furniture. It is an eclectic mix of old and really old hand me downs and "Oh, look at that table, the neighbors put it on the curb last night." Seriously, it is comfortable and cozy. One story passed down through generations is that my grandparents kissed and courted on our antique Morris chair. (It is like a modern day recliner.)
In the bedroom, our headboard unit came from an old waterbed. No one knows it is supported by ugly cement blocks, hidden beneath the bedding. (OK, now everyone knows!)
The last thing I would like to direct your attention to is my basement. Unless you are really brave, don't follow me down those stairs to the unknown. Here lies the graveyard of miscellaneous items. It is the final resting place for sports equipment, holiday decorations, board games and sewing fabric. Scattered about are artificial plants, luggage, toolboxes, beach towels and a relative's broken rocker.
Just looking around this jumbled room makes me realize that houses really are pictures of our past. They have seen our individual journeys and helped to hide our secret story stashes. Thanks for walking down memory lane with me. Our next home tour begins in 10 minutes. Please be sure to have your historic handouts and nostalgic tickets ready.


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I've visited The Legendary Dobbs on South Street in Philadelphia many times to see different bands including Salem County's Helmz Edge and New Jersey rockers Dive.
When there are bands on the stage, the place is alive with music and excitement.
However, when I visited the historic venue on Aug. 4 with Jersey Unique Minds Paranormal Society to investigate claims of spirit activity, the place was more alive then ever.
Many times we go into a location and don't hear or see anything. Sometimes, later on, we discover we captured an EVP (electronic voice phenomenon) or two on our digital recorders, but other times, we get nothing.
Almost as soon as we began investigating at Dobbs, the activity kicked into high gear.
I was on the first floor — the room where I have watched some of my favorite bands perform — with investigator Mellie DeVault and Dobbs owner Nina Rumpff for the first sweep of our nearly eight-hour investigation.
When we began the EVP session, we were all sitting around the bar.
After a few minutes, I felt drawn to go sit on the front edge of the stage. I didn't know why at the time, but I soon found out.
Previously, while setting up, we placed the REM Pod — a device that emits its own electromagnetic field which, when broken, activates lights and sounds — on a small stool in the middle of the first-floor stage.
I was telling DeVault that a Dobbs manager recently witnessed a shadow figure moving across the stage when only she and another person was in the room.
While I was telling that story, the REM Pod — which was located very close to me — activated with lights and sounds for about 30 seconds.
Not 10 seconds after the REM Pod went quiet again, investigator-in-training Anthony Grothaus, who was investigating on the second floor, asked if someone was walking up the back staircase, located directly behind the stage.
No one was on the staircase; at least no one we could see.
Rumpff's favorite spot in Dobbs is the second floor. There is a stage and bar up there also, but it's a more intimate setting.
While we were setting up cameras prior to beginning the investigation, I was alone on the second floor, placing a camera near the stage when I felt someone try to hold my hand.
I felt pressure briefly on my hand and offered for whoever it was to please come back and hold my hand if he wished.
Rumpff and others have said they feel that whoever may be there — they affectionately refer to the spirit as Henry in honor of an older man who used to live on the third floor — is a gentlemen, but is also "flirty."
Later, during the third sweep, I returned to the second floor with JUMPS Founder and CEO Doug Hogate Jr.
Just a few weeks ago, Rumpff and several others who were present at the time, witnessed a microwave oven fly off a table and land upright several feet from its original location as if it had been shoved.
In the hopes of recreating a similar situation, I placed a tennis ball on a table in the same spot.
When I sat the ball down, it felt like my hand went through a spider web. I shook my hand slightly, and didn't feel anything else, until I turned around and walked directly through a spider web — or so I thought.
The ceilings on the second floor are high, and there were no structures nearby that would make for a good building place for a spider.
Then I remembered something called the "spider web effect."
Sometimes, people report feeling spider webs or tiny hairs touch their bodies in an allegedly haunted location. The spider web feeling is sometimes attributed to a spirit presence — especially when there is no spider web in sight.
I am the investigator who always invites spirits to touch me, tug my hair or hold my hand. My wishes were coming true left and right at Dobbs.
When Hogate and I finally sat down with a K2 and Mel meter in front of us to conduct an EVP session, activity continued.
Hogate could see out the door and around the corner to another door which led to the third-floor staircase.
While sitting in silence, I suddenly heard what can only be described as movement just outside the doorway.
When I leaned forward and looked out into the hallway to see if anyone was there, Hogate immediately asked me what I saw or heard.
I told him I heard movement near the doorway and he was floored.
"Not five seconds before you looked out there, I saw something block out the light coming down from the third floor," he said.
I asked whoever it was to come into the room and sit with us, but I'm not sure if the entity joined us or not.
Like I said, our normal investigation may yield a strange sound or a few EVPs, but Dobbs was crazy active and we haven't even reviewed the audio or video yet.
Stay turned for any evidence we captured during the investigation. I have a feeling it's going to be amazing.
Do you know of a haunted location that JUMPS could research and investigate? Contact Kelly Roncace at firstname.lastname@example.com with your suggestions.


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The report, "Safe Routes to School: Putting Traffic Safety First - How Safe Routes to School Initiatives Protect Children Walking and Bicycling," explores the approaches used by five different communities across the nation to reverse the trend of parents driving kids to school.
Portland's Safe Routes to School program serves 85 percent of the city's public elementary schools. Since 2006, Vestal has been selected for Safe Routes improvements because it's on 82nd Avenue, which has a high rate of crashes, injuries and fatalities compared to other Portland streets, city officials said.
Spending $97,000, the city installed refuge islands in crosswalks, removed parking near sidewalks and installed traffic diverters to prevent motorists from driving the wrong way on a one-way street near the K-8 school.
The Portland Police Bureau also performs targeted enforcement near Vestal to ticket drivers speeding in school zones.
Oregon Department of Transportation surveys have shown a steady decrease in crashes (down 25 percent) and pedestrian injuries (down 32 percent) since the improvements. What's more, the school says parents have become increasingly comfortable with letting their children walk and bike to school.
"Student safety is a top priority for the Portland Bureau of Transportation and it's always encouraging to hear positive feedback nationally," Mayor Sam Adams said in a statement.
"This report shows what can happen when groups like Safe Routes to School, ODOT, Portland Police and Transportation get together and decide to make the streets around a school safe for kids."
In 2007, some 14,000 children ages 14 and under in the U.S. were injured as pedestrians, while more than 300 were killed while walking. In 2008, an estimated 52,000 bicyclists were injured in motor vehicle crashes, and 21 percent of those bicyclists—nearly 11,000 children—were 14 or younger.
Children walking and bicycling to school represent 11 percent of injuries and fatalities during the school commute, but just 14 percent of trips and less than two percent of miles traveled, according to federal transportation studies.
"Vestal ... school's success story is a wonderful example of the power and promise of Safe Routes to School to help communities all across the country in addressing traffic safety risks," Deb Hubsmith, Director of the Safe Routes to School National Partnership said, "and improve conditions for students walking and bicycling to school."
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Infectious isn't always a bad thing.
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With a short but memorable set at Rock the Green in Veterans Park last September, Las Vegas-based alternative-rock act Imagine Dragons declared itself to anyone watching as an exciting live band on the rise.
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MSO's stunning, wide-ranging look at Rachmaninoff
If the name Rachmaninoff is synonymous with piano concertos for you, you're not alone. You're also missing a big part of the picture.
Friday evening's Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra concert gave a multidimensional look at the pianist/ composer/conductor through his first piano concert, one of his choral/orchestral masterpieces and an orchestral fantasy. »Read Full Article
In Tandem's 'Beast on the Moon' capture's young couple's struggles to move on from painful past
In the first scene of Richard Kalinoski's "Beast on the Moon" - now on stage in a beautiful and nuanced production at In Tandem's Tenth Street Theatre - 19-year-old Aram Tomasian learns that his newly arrived child bride is not the girl he'd been promised.
"I ordered the girl in this picture and they sent me someone else," Aram pouts. Yes, 15-year-old Seta replies, but "I am the same girl who wrote you." Eager to please but also slightly impish, Seta can't resist adding that she is also prettier than the pictured girl. »Read Full Article


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Shorter (Georgia Tech fan) Michael Goldfeder: Boise State's 2007 Fiesta Bowl win is proof that Paul Johnson is a recruiting genius.
Sure, I can see that.
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27 responses to "Sure, I can see that."
5 degrees of separation (Paul Johnson addition)
You mean 'edition'?
addition by subtraction
I wonder if Boise ever played a AQ team in the regular season?
Probably not.
Great clips. It was nice to see us throwing deep up 38-7. We were a better team and we knew it. We just imposed our will on Boise that day, much different than the FG in Memphis. I hope we get more of the bully mentality this offseasn.
Man, DJ was so much fun to watch. I had forgotten how effortless he could make it look slinging it down the field.
Remember the previous off season, when everyone was completely down on him and doom'n'gloom? I remember being so tired of arguing for him by the first game that I almost didn't go (my friends are merciless when it comes to almost losing to Tech). Still glad to this day I did.
This clip shows what can happen when an O-line actually blocks.
Was that us scoring on a, gasp, wheel route? Or a 2 TE set with one TE going out to create mismatches? Oh my!
Yeah, we used to have an offense that used a variety of plays. That's pre-Bobo.
Every time I watch this, I am amazed by how we used to play with a hunger and ferocity that has been lacking the last 4 seasons. I hope we can get it back.
Ummm…yeah. Whatever. If the delusions make you feel better…
In his three years on the Flats, Johnson is 26-14, just a game and a half ahead of Mark Richt's record during that same time period. Yet the Atlanta media continues to look for ways to hail Johnson as a genius while Richt is basically treated like a washout.
Not that Richt's last three seasons haven't been immensely disappointing, but there must be a hell of a lot of meaning in that game and a half to account for that discrepancy.
Included in that comparison is what looks on paper like 2-1 head-to-head in Richt's favor. But as we all know, Johnson's actually undefeated at Georgia. His having coached his guys into a position to win at the end of both the 2009 and 2010 games demonstrates his superior genius and renders those final scores irrelevant.
I could have sworn that memo had been circulated.
undefeated against Georgia, that is.
Ectually….much as it pains me to agree with any Tech fan about anything, this is pretty well said: "While I too enjoy reading about college football year round, I do think that these sites have trivialized a very difficult process of evaluating high school players in an effort to replace the traditional methods of old fashioned recruitment by coaching staffs who have been doing this for quite some time before these organizations ever launched their foolproof and mystical "stars" based method of recruiting. "
As to the upcoming apology for Paul Johnson's recruiting efforts….well.
Senator you are to be complimented for allowing this blog to flourish as a beacon of liberal democracy by including the pointless observations of the spawn of ignorant white trash to snuggle up to the drivel of gay Florida fans and now….of all heresy….reasonably literate, if misguided, Tech fans.
I'd say this speaks better of you than Paul Johnson.
Global warming is proof of Johnson's genius.
Paul Johnson let global warming happen so that Athens will eventually be underwater. Genius.
Atlanta, on the other hand, will be on the beach.
Doug, let's not forget that Johnson is a game and half better that Richt by playing in the ACC, an inarguably weaker conference than the one Georgia plays in. Put Tech in the SEC and they're no better than .500 the last 3 years.
Paul Johnson can divide by zero, count to infinity, and start fire by rubbing two ice cubes together.
He once ate a Bruce Lee movie and pissed on a GI Joe action figure. The result was Chuck Norris.
My Gawd. Was this Techie getting paid by the run-on sentence? I agree with some of what he was saying, but you can tell he is only trying to justify Coach Big Tits' recruiting failure.
What failure? Johnson landed all the two stars he needed! He even landed on of the Ga top fifty. The man is a recruiting machine.
I love this quote from the article:
"They even offer a grade on how the coaching staffs did in their yearly recruitment of high school players".
Oh may I, please may I…. Richt A+, Johnson F
You guys just wait until Paul Johnson has been at Tech for three years and starts to get the guys to run his sys…wait, what? Um, never mind.
I'm no statistician, but I'm pretty sure using outliers and anecdotal evidence isn't the best way to predict the success or failure of your shitty recruiting class.
paul johnson is going to punch some noses, i see .


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Though we weren't able to plunk down the dinero to attend Baby Tattooville, we were able to meet and hang out with the one and only Audrey Kawasaki last Friday for their opening art gallery show. Audrey was as sweet as can be!
Here are the pieces Audrey included in the Baby Tattooville gift bag this year. The laser engraved wooden ovals are decorated with one of a kind colored pencil drawings. How lovely!
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i'll try again posting something... sometimes uploading doesnot work ??:((
i made a drawing of a you karpov
Perhaps nice to add a sculpture on this forum : a bronze statue of Bobby Fischer, about 20 x 15 cm, named in Dutch "De Bronzen Bob", The Bronze Bob, made in 1974 by a Dutch sculptor Jits Bakker, the first prize we have won in a tournament of twenty business and trade concerns in Amsterdam.
Although some decades ago, I still enjoy the fact that we played in both these tournaments, The Chess-Creation and also in The Chess-Olympiads For Companies in Amsterdam, for approx. 20 years in succession, with a team of four colleagues of Geveke Technical Business.
Perhaps nice to add a sculpture on this forum...
Rook to ...e6...
I am pretty new in posting pictures and now the subtitling is missing !
Post 772 is by Moritz Jung, 1910 ; post 773 is titled Gioco di Scacchi, by Giovanni Garinei, born 1846 ; and post 774 is by Louis-Leopold Boilly, 1780, and shows both François-André Danican Philidor ( left, 54 years of age ) and Legall de Kermeur ( right, 78 years ! ) in their match in Café de la Régence in Paris.
This is called " a Scene in a London Eating House " in 1932 ; by Stanley Anderson, 1884-1966.
And finally, for today, my "hero" Emanuel Lasker :
Back to post nr 770, sculptures : another one, bust of Emanuel Lasker :
My arts-and-crafts on this rainy afternoon, with thanks to the great Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher :
hello Ger, very nice to see some beautifull art here and also a piece you made yourself #779. i love how escher can make you think about dimensions :) i'll try to find a good picture of tarrash i can draw... it would be my first person with a moustache .. you made the Lasker-bust picture yourself??
Hallo J-Pax : nice you try to draw Tarrasch, but I really hope you ment to say that you should draw a picture of Emanuel Lasker ..., such in view of posts number 777 and 778 ! And, alas, no, I did not make that picture of the Lasker bust myself, I will come back on this subject, there are lots of memorabilia, e.g. see the official Lasker-Gesellschaft site ! site !
yes indeed i meant Lasker... no idea how i came up with Tarrash... maybe i saw a game between the two??:)
first i have to finish a Capablanca drawing i am working on.
This is really neat. At first glance I thought the queen was higher than the knight. I have always enjoyed M. C. Escher, too.
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They fit perfectly with each other. CROX has 1.3 billion in revs with about $280 mill in net cash( cash-debt). DECK has 1.7 billion in revs with about $70 million in net cash. CROX is recovering nicely, just as DECK is, and immediately diversifies both of their lines into all seasons. Both companies are actively working to brouaden their product lines, and CROX at least is gaining lots of traction in that effort. 11 out of the top 100 shoes on Amazon are CROcs products.
No way!! Crox are a joke and a fad. Deckers meanwhile is anchored by UGG, a top notched company that is a category leader, been in business for over 30 years and not going away anytime soon....Crox and Ugg have NOTHING in common.
How do you identify the top 100 selling shoes on Amazon?
That would be like merging Mercedes Benz with Kia...... Wouldn't like to see that at all. Don't think they could help each other enough to even consider it.
I disagree. Crox's quality is nowhere near DECK. I'd rather have a comfortable sandal from DECK than some of the CROX clogs that exist. If anything, DECK needs to merge with Coach. More value and diversification for both.
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For once, it will be good to be called a loser.
Cleveland has a chance to become the first city to take part in "The 50 Million Pound Challenge," the national weight-loss initiative started by Dr. Ian Smith, best-selling author and diet expert on VH1's "Celebrity Fit Club," and sponsored by State Farm.
Smith and Cavaliers star LeBron James will kick off the challenge at 1 p.m. Wednesday at The Q in a free, public event.
Maybe you should walk over there.
"Staying fit and having a healthy lifestyle is important for everyone," said James, the captain of the Fit 4 Cleveland team who will host his third annual bikeathon in Akron Saturday. "This is a great way to show how easy it is to stay in shape."
It's easy to join James' team, too. Go to www.50millionpounds.com and register. Click on the teams link and join Fit 4 Cleveland. Then go to any local State Farm agent's office and pick up a free kit that includes a pedometer, a DVD and brochures with information and tips. There also are diet and exercise plans on the Web site.
"We want Cleveland to set the example for the rest of the country," said Smith, whose goal is to get Americans to lose 50 million pounds. "We want to be able to say Cleveland signed up tens of thousands of people who lost tens of thousands of pounds and Cleveland as a whole is a more active and healthier community. We want everybody to realize this is for everybody and that we're doing this together. We think Cleveland has a great opportunity to show the country how we cannot just talk about the need to lose weight but can actually show what happens when you do it."
Smith started the challenge last year to combat the epidemic of obesity. He said that two of three adults are overweight, double the rate of a few decades ago, and that each week, 10,000 people die from heart disease, stroke, diabetes, cancer and other illnesses related to inactivity and poor diet. Smith said the African-American community has been hit especially hard, with 80 percent of women and 67 percent of men facing higher risk from excess weight, and life expectancy five years below the U.S. average.
Research has shown that those who take part in weight-loss programs with support lose more weight and keep it off longer. So far more than half a million people have lost more than 2 million pounds in Smith's challenge.
He's hoping Cleveland will be the first city to tackle the problem as a community.
"Our long-term vision is that we would have cities throughout the country challenging each other in a friendly way," Smith said.
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Necroptosis is a cellular mechanism of necrotic cell death induced by apoptotic stimuli in the form of death domain receptor engagement by their respective ligands under conditions where apoptotic execution is prevented. Necrostatin-1, identified as a small-molecule inhibitor of necroptosis, is also a selective allosteric inhibitor of the death domain receptor–associated adaptor kinase RIP1.
In vitro: Previous study indicated that necrostatin-1 was a selective allosteric inhibitor of the death domain receptor–associated adaptor kinase RIP1 in vitro. In this study, RIP1 was found to be the primary cellular target responsible for the antinecroptosis activity of necrostatin-1. In addition, two other necrostatins, necrostatin-3 and necrostatin-5, were also shown to target the RIP1 kinase step in the necroptosis pathway, but through different mechanism compared with that of necrostatin-1. The findings established necrostatins as the first-in-class inhibitors of RIP1 kinase, the key upstream kinase involved in the activation of necroptosis [2].
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Try this. --Manta-bee 22:41, October 22, 2011 (UTC)
- Its good for a fanon wiki. Maybe i'll take this.--Flysic 22:58, October 22, 2011 (UTC)
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I am doing great but i want you to try to edit as many mediawiki pages as you can just like you did on Banjo Kazooie wiki while you had your Ghosty account.Flysic 23:14, October 22, 2011 (UTC)
- At least. I will try to edit many pages as i can to get them silly.--Terrific joker 23:17, October 22, 2011 (UTC)
Your doing good. Now try to get up to 300 edits. If you edit more MediaWiki interfaces, i will give you a reward for getting up to 300 edits. Try to edit more as you can to get a reward for editing MediaWiki interfaces into nonsense.Flysic 01:43, October 23, 2011 (UTC)
- Thats kind but thats pretty good for me to be rewared for something when i change those pages.--Terrific joker 01:46, October 23, 2011 (UTC)
- Well thats nice to think that. That is why i wanted you to do this challenge so i can reward you for being silly on the interfaces.--Flysic 01:48, October 23, 2011 (UTC)
- Wow, You've removed the bot rights from the users that didn't need it anymore. I'm impressed. Maybe thats a point for you for revoking their unnessesary permissions.--Flysic 02:02, October 23, 2011 (UTC)
- Thats great but i noticed you change some of the interfaces for me. Thats excellent.--Terrific joker 02:06, October 23, 2011 (UTC)
- One of your edits on those interfaces are great. Also i've changed the interfaces for you but i hope the staff or helper will be surprised to see the messages you've changed.--Flysic 02:30, October 23, 2011 (UTC)
- I gotta continue but let me know if i have 300 edits.--Terrific joker 02:32, October 23, 2011 (UTC)
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You have 303 edits. Thats a good job. You completed the first mission. Now the next mission is to get about 500 interfaces or more edited. If you can edit about that amount. You will get a reward.
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I got a new assistant that will do the mediawiki messages for you. Its bubbles and shes going to help get the messages into the messages you want to get the most messages edited to get the wiki fully setup for everyone.Flysic 04:39, October 23, 2011 (UTC)
Hello there. I'm bubbles and i will edit some interfaces for you. If you wish to get the wiki fully setup. I will edit it.--BubblesMuppet 04:41, October 23, 2011 (UTC)
- Nice to meet you. Thanks for your help but you guys can continue somehow.--Terrific joker 05:20, October 23, 2011 (UTC)
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Ovshinsky died Wednesday, Oct. 17, at home in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., from complications of prostate cancer. He was 89.
"He was the most extraordinary, self-taught scientist, entrepreneur, inventor," said Hellmut Fritzsche, a former colleague. ¶
What Ovshinsky called "ovonics" helped cars, laptops, cell phones, cameras, calculators, buildings and other common objects. His clients included Standard Oil, Canon, 3M, Intel, Hitachi and top automakers. His photovoltaic film wraps Akron's Inventure Place. He earned more than 400 U.S. patents and published more than 300 papers. ¶
The political and environmental activist helped the Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy make solar cells and batteries. "Have science and technology solve societal problems, not cause them," he told The Plain Dealer in 1997. ¶
The world mocked a younger Ovshinsky and saluted an older. Time Magazine called him a "Hero for the Planet." The book "Inventing Modern America" profiled him as one of 35 Americans who "helped to shape the modern world." The Economist magazine headlined an article about him, "The Edison of Our Age?" ¶
He won seven honorary doctorates, one of them alongside President Obama in 2010 at the University of Michigan. On Nov. 7, the American Physical Society will honor Ovshinsky with its 2012 Hans Bethe Award. ¶
Not bad after flunking kindergarten and never quite mastering math. As a boy, he boxed, studied The New York Times, played chess by mail and scrutinized machines on rounds with his father, a Yiddish actor turned scrap dealer. The son graduated from Buchtel and Hower Vocational high schools but never went to college. He kept a photo of a one-room Akron library on his desk and said he got most of his early education there. ¶
Ovshinsky married a childhood sweetheart, raised three boys with her and worked briefly for Goodyear in Arizona as a machinist. He was spared World War II because of asthma. ¶
Back in Akron, he opened a machine shop with a friend in an unheated barn. He invented a lathe and sold it to makers of artillery shells for the Korean War. ¶
In 1951, he became research and developmental director for Detroit's Hupp Motors. By day, he designed tracking systems for tanks and invented a form of power steering rejected by his boss. By night, inspired by the brain's electricity, he made semiconductors from so-called amorphous and disordered materials, less organized than crystals. With help from his children and his brother, Herbert, he used these semiconductors in liquid crystal displays, nickel-metal hydride batteries and more. ¶
He worked with his second wife, biologist Iris Miroy Dibner, until her death in 2006. "I married my Ph.D.," he liked to say. In widowhood, he married another Ph.D., Rosa Young, who survives him. ¶
In 1960, the Ovshinskies formed what became Energy Conversion Devices. The publicly traded company lost money for 35 straight years. Forbes called it "a high-tech Roach Motel... The money goes in, but it never comes out." The Japanese caught onto his work sooner than Americans did. In 1987, "Nova" entitled an episode about him "Japan's American Genius." The company eventually stabilized, and the Oshinskies drew salaries in the $200,000's. ¶
Ovshinsky was honored by the Environmental Hall of Fame, Democratic Socialists of America and many other groups. He belonged to Workmen's Circle and picketed segregated swimming pools. He told The Plain Dealer, "I'm the only company president I know who was elected an honorary member by the union." ¶
He retired from Energy Conversion in 2007 and saw it go bankrupt this year. In his mid-80s, he started Ovshinsky Innovation and Ovshinsky Solar. ¶
"An inventor should truly be like a child," he'd told The Plain Dealer, "always with imagination and fresh eyes."
Survivors: Wife, Rosa Young; sons Benjamin of Berkeley, Calif., Harvey of Ann Arbor, Mich., and Dale of Miami, Fla.; stepchildren Robin Dibner of New York, N.Y., Steven Dibner of San Francisco, Angela Goddard of Minneapolis and Vicki Young of San Diego; two grandchildren; four step-grandchildren and a brother, Herbert.
Funeral: Private.
Contributions: American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan, 2966 Woodward Ave., Detroit, MI 48201, www.aclumich.org, or Ovshinsky Student Fund, c/o Darlene Logan, American Physical Society, 1 Physics Ellipse College Park, MD 20740, aps.org.
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Carb flu. It's a bitch, lol.
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I am at the Certain Age mark, old enough to be your big sister. My goals are relatively simple: to lose enough weight to avoid heart disease and diabetes, and to get through menopause without a jail record.
Since age 4, I have had problems with my weight due to issues with my adrenals and thyroid. Neither showed up on blood tests, despite having all the symptoms. After years of being told that I was a lazy hypochondriac with no willpower, I have a naturopath who believes me about the fatigue and the problems keeping weight off. She's monitoring both through bloodwork and we adjust my supplements according to the findings.
About 10 years ago, I was able to knock off about 80 lbs. The last two years have provided Wolfdaddy and I with many opportunities for personal growth (family issues, a few passages into the next world, ongoing zoning issues--you get the idea). I ended up gaining back about 60 lbs. So we rebuild, and we try again.
My one question is this: I tried going Primal on the suggestion of a nutritionist last year. About three days into it, I woke up, went to make breakfast, and had to lie down on the floor from the dizziness and nausea. What was that? Thanks.
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Hi Wolfmommy! The symptoms you're describing sound pretty intense (!), but they line up with what I've seen/read a lot of people report on here when they're going through 'carb withdrawal'--especially the dizziness (which I'm also experiencing, two weeks into Primal). Some have suggested phasing out/ratcheting back carbohydrates slowly, rather than dropping them immediately to low (ie, ketosis) levels, although others disagree and sometimes say consuming more fat is the right way to deal with it. I'm having success with the latter, while pounding tons of water--but everyone's body is different, of course. Good luck and welcome!
I hear you about the thyroid issues. I was told I was a hypochondriac too. It was nice when I was finally diagnosed with hypothyroidism that I could kinda rub it in their faces.
I noticed that within the first I had nausea/dizzy spells...especially if I got up too fast. They have subsided though.
It's carb flu. I threw up those first few mornings, and was glad to find out it wasn't something else :-D It doesn't last long. The dizziness and nausea has to do with dropping insulin levels (good thing) and electrolyte imbalance that happens when you lose water weight fast (also a good thing). Increasing sodium intake is supposed to help with that, as well as taking potassium and magnesium.
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