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This dynamite devotion and object lesson teaches kids that when
we're weak, Christ is strong. With this knowledge, why would any
Christian ever worry?
Verses to View: 2 Corinthians 12:9-12
Tricks of the Trade: You'll need a Bible,
balloons, a black permanent marker, straight pins, transparent
tape, and a paper towel with one end dipped in vegetable oil.
Devotion: Before class, blow up and tie off two
balloons. Draw a smiley face on one balloon and a sad face on the
other. Now here is the key to this slick trick: stick one two-inch
piece of transparent tape to the side of the happy-face balloon. Be
sure the tape is stuck tightly to the balloon!
Place the balloons, the paper towel with vegetable oil, and a
straight pin on a table. Hold up the sad-face balloon. Say:
I'd like you to meet Mr. Worried N. Weak. Mr. Worried N.
Weak has a lot of troubles, and he's sure no one can
What are things that make you worried or
Hold up the straight pin. Say:

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Nutrition Facts
Serving Size ¼ of recipe
Calories 440
Total Fat 20 g
Saturated Fat 11 g
Sodium 1,219 mg
Total Carbohydrate 43 g
Dietary Fiber 9 g
Protein 28 g
Ingredients and Preparation
Ingredients Measures
Swiss chard, cleaned and ends trimmed ½ pound (about 1 bunch)
Low-fat ricotta cheese 10 ounces
Parmesan cheese, shredded 2/3 cup
Sharp cheddar cheese, shredded 2/3 cup
Olive oil 2 teaspoons
Small yellow onions, diced 2
Garlic cloves, sliced 3
Crushed tomatoes 28-ounce can
Dried basil 1 teaspoon
No cook lasagna noodles (need about ½ box) 1 box
Cooking spray
1% milk ½ cup
- Preheat oven to 425ºF.
- Place the chard in a large pot of boiling water and cook for about 5 minutes. Drain and let cool a bit. Squeeze out any excess water and cut the chard into large pieces.
- Mix chard, ricotta, and 1/3 cup of each type of shredded cheese in a bowl. Set aside.
- Heat oil in a deep nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add onion and garlic, and sauté for a few minutes. Reduce heat to medium, and add tomatoes and basil. Cook for 10-15 minutes without a lid, stirring occasionally.
- Coat a 9x9-inch, or similar-sized, baking pan with nonstick cooking spray. Layer first with the chard-ricotta mixture, then the noodles, and then the sauce. Repeat layers about 2 more times (or until sauces run out), finishing with tomato sauce on top. Add the milk around the pan's edges and sprinkle with the remaining cheese.
- Bake uncovered in oven for 30-35 minutes.


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I mean, I was really drained by the constant fuss about the poor pooches and, although I would feed them, the principle of the situation was that they wanted the animals and didn't want me to get rid of them, so I was showing them what responsibility meant.
They haven't yet figured that out with their rooms unless I stand over them, and a clean room is not as rewarding as getting food. Anyway, as I walked out to the utility room, I called them back to the scene of their crime and pointed out that they had to clean up the food they had spilled on the floor as well.
Perhaps they would learn not to spill quite as much, or maybe they should get out of earshot faster, I don't know. Merrily and they were! It was the oddest thing - they set about cleaning up the dog food left in the laundry room and the utility room quite industriously.
My daughter came to me to report. "Mom, we cleaned it up inside the house, but we left the stuff outside on the porch, okay?"
OK, can you explain that one, I am thinking, but before I get to ask, she pipes up, "It's like a dog food buffet, Mom. It's out there for them to eat what they want."
Can you tell they might have been at a buffet or two? Seemed logical to me, and with so many other things to fuss, um, direct them in I thought I would let this one slide.
I will not even begin to pretend that I know what God is all about. Why this person and not that one? We can look back over a situation and surmise what we want, but ultimately, we won't know for sure until we see Him in glory.
Sometimes, we see people around us literally getting slammed emotionally where they are devastated by some turn of events. Sometimes, it's like Job, where the devil taunts God and says, I'll make them change. Sometimes, it is the potter and the clay where God is trying to mold us and shape us. Sometimes, we simply need to make changes and that is the only way to catch our attention.
Whatever the motivation, God is in control. Let me repeat that - God (the Supreme Being, Creator of the universe) is (past, present, and future) in control (He wields all the power - the big cheese, the big Kahuna, the original Master of the Universe).
Sometimes, "bad" people seem to win, but ultimately, they lose. I've told you I cheat when I read books. I flip to the last few pages and want to know what happened. It's really OK to do that. God wins.
If we are with Him, we win, too. What we face here are the "little'" things, even when they mean the world to us, because God means to be our world. Maybe we are the modern-day "Paul," persecuted and imprisoned. Shout to the Lord all the earth hear us sing!
When he was at his lowest, Paul continued to lift all to God. So in my efforts to lift your spirits for the new year, I am heading back to my all- time favorite - Proverbs 3:6-. "In all your ways acknowledg3 Him and He shall direct your paths."
Plural - more than one path (all of them). He guides. God bless, and Happy New Year.


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The Internal Revenue Service is promising more video conferencing assistance for taxpayers, social media tools and an improved Web site as it launched tax season Wednesday, along with stepped-up efforts to protect taxpayers from tax refund fraud and identity theft.
IRS Promises Better Service as it Kicks off Tax Season
Washington, D.C. (January 30, 2013)
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product.
Name of Product: Floor Puppet Theaters
Units: About 10,000
Manufacturer: Guidecraft Inc., of Englewood, N.J.
Hazard: Surface paints on the puppet theater's wooden panels contain excessive levels of lead, violating the federal lead paint standard.
Incidents/Injuries: None reported.
Description: The recalled puppet theater has a chalkboard surface on the front and colored side panels. The puppet theater measures about 35 inches in length, 14 inches in width and about 52 inches in height.
Sold at: Specialty toy stores, gift shops, catalogs and Web sites nationwide from June 2006 through August 2007 for about $90.
Manufactured in: China
Remedy: Consumers should immediately take the recalled puppet theaters away from children and contact Guidecraft to receive a replacement theater or another product of equal value.
Consumer Contact: For additional information, contact Guidecraft toll-free at (888) 824-1308 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. CT Monday through Friday, or visit the firm's Web site at www.guidecraft.com
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Whittlin's: Learning from the masterMarch 17,2014
They say youre never too old to learn, and believe me, my 66 years are living proof of that. One of my most memorable lessons came by way of music from a great teacher.
It happened a few years ago but has recently resurfaced in my mind through the sudden death of my friend John Mead. John, a fellow trombone player, was 10 years older than me. We were kind of the odd couple as trombone players because he had a doctorate in music, taught at the college level and played professionally. I, on the other hand, picked myself up by the bootstraps. My playing was nurtured much like the crops on our farm, with a lot of hard work sprinkled with a little TLC.
Over time, the fruits of my playing developed well enough to find me in some of Vermonts popular groups including the Vermont Philharmonic Orchestra. It was in the VPO where, playing the second bone part, I first heard of a dynamo who would soon be our principal trombonist. Knowing that I would be sitting right beside him made me a bit nervous to say the least. I sat rigid on the edge of my chair like a toy soldier when John Mead, a tall man with a gray beard, approached. He held his horn in his left hand and stretched his right hand out for a shake. Ive heard about you he said. Youre the maple man.
And that was it. Quickern Flight of the Bumblebee, John had beat me to the draw, totally disarming my fears. On top of that, he quickly proved to be a typical trombone player, a special human being predisposed toward practical jokes, wry comments and roguish grins.
Before long, he became my mentor. Whether carried by his interest in me as a maple sugar maker or recognizing my raw musical talent, he offered both critique and praise of my playing. With each passing measure, I felt myself improve.
One time after we had played together for about a year, he turned to me during a break. When we get to that passage he pointed to a few measures on his music marked pianissimo that had notes way up high in the trombone range I want you to play those measures for me. He explained that through some past chemotherapy treatments, he had lost his confidence in playing high pitches at low volume (and Im totally convinced he made that up for the sake of my lesson). He ended his request with another of his roguish grins and beckoned toward the conductor, We cant let him know were doing this.
Johns request put me right on edge because the part I was asked to play, although soft and subdued, was critical to the piece. I knew that any classically trained ear in the audience or among my fellow musicians would be zeroing in on that passage like a hawk to a field mouse.
Having this great man place his confidence in me, however, spurred me on. I played the passage fine during the following rehearsals and again in the first of two concerts. John complimented me and even said the conductor had been praising him on the quality of it all. Although feeling great about my covert début as principal trombonist, I could not totally relax yet because we still had one more concert to do. Just before the downbeat of that concert, John dropped his bomb. Turning to me with a veritable masterpiece of trombonist grins, he said, Yknow, Burr, nobody has ever played that two concerts in a row without really screwing it up.
Oh, cmon, John, dont do this to me! I exploded to his face, but behind his back I was thinking, Ill show you, you son of a *#%&!! I held it together through the first part of the concert. When those dreaded measures were suddenly upon me, I breathed deep, visualized the first critical pitch in my mind, and nailed it like a seasoned professional.
Thoroughly convinced that passage had never been played better, I turned to John. Never two concerts in a row, huh, big guy? I mimicked, fishing for praise.
Oh, OK he said, Once in a while theres an exception. He knew what he was doing.
I walked away from that musical event not only feeling great but with a new level of confidence that still carries me through both my lives of music and maple. One of our countrys early mentors, Ben Franklin, said, Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn, and he knew our country would do so.
Trombonist John Meads adjusted version for me was, Ycant do that two times in a row without screwin it up, knowing I would have the same success.
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New Perspectives on Students – Part 1
by gwilson on May.10, 2009, under Students
Those of us who have taught for awhile have noticed a change in our typical students over the past few years. Their attention spans are shorter, their study skills are less polished, their course expectations are higher while their will to work is lower. This new reality has caused huge consternation among educators, who are inclined to write off these students as not being "cut out for science".
We see this attitude in certain areas of academia, where a professor or department will summarily dismiss students as somehow unworthy of the field because of poor success in freshman level classes. One fellow dean shocked me at a meeting by stating that prestigious departments in his field pride themselves on high failure rates, where only the strong survive. [My response was that such departments must have horrible teachers, because the hallmark of good teaching is maximizing student success, not student failure.] These self-important faculty and programs see themselves as the guardians of knowledge who have to be appeased, setting themselves up as the judge and jury of every student coming through their doors. Only those like themselves are helped and encouraged; anyone else is "weeded out" as being unworthy of the call. Any extenuating circumstances, like adjustment to college and new expectations, adjustment to being away from the structure and support of their family and friends, an all the other joys and trappings of college life are ignored. If a student is not ready to succeed in their field right out of the chute, they just don't have "the right stuff".
Can we afford to write them off? Demographic after demographic shows that the US is losing its edge in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). As one nationally-known scientist once stated, "Sure most Nobel Prize winners are Americans, but they are European immigrants!" Our citizens are losing their interest in science, and our dependence on foreign science and technology places us in an unmentioned position of vulnerability. They are expecting our schools to "go light" on the science and focus on the social and athletic elements of a high school education. And our nation, as long as it gets cheap and bountiful access to the fruits of science and technology isn't choosy about who provides it – our fellow citizens or emerging threats half a world away. American industry must outsource science and technology jobs or import professionals in those fields because supply from American colleges is not meeting demand. How did we get to this place? How can we afford to dismiss the current generation of students as "not cut out for science"? Are we really producing a generation of substandard students unable to "do" science? Those questions reflect presumed opinions posed by more than one pundit.
I have another opinion. Talk to the students and it is quite clear that they are plenty capable and as bright as their predecessors. I believe we're at a critical point in science education where the straight line we instructors see as the way to success in teaching and learning science does not align with the rapidly-diverging arc the students are following. Something has to give if education is going to take place. Do we force them to straighten out the arc and be like us? Or do we learn to bend and so conform our teaching methods to better approximate their learning styles and expectations? Do we take advantage of their exceptional skills or do we ask them to abandon those to use archaic ones valued more highly in our day and age?
Unfortunately, students outnumber us and the cultural pressures driving the paradigm shift are not going way. Our students fail in science because we are failing them, and how we respond to the growing challenge will be vital to our success as a nation in educating our children in science and math.
Our response to this crisis is vital to our nation's future, a matter of national security and concern. Stay tuned as I provide my opinion about the true source of the problem and a possible way out of this abyss.


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Honolulu police are investigating the stabbings of two men at the McDonald's on Keeaumoku Street Friday morning.
It happened just before 4:30 a.m.
Police say there was an altercation between two groups of people in the part of the parking lot closer to Sheridan Street. The fight then moved to the Keeaumoku Street side of the parking lot.
After the stabbings, the groups dispersed.
"He looked at the guys. I guess he didn't like 'em," said witness Tony Castro. "Grabbed his knife out and started making trouble. The guy said put 'em down. The guy said, 'Brah, you better move to the side," and that when I seen the guy just whack the kid and I just booked."
A 27-year-old man and a 22-year-old man were hospitalized in the incident, according to Emergency Medical Services officials.
At last check, the 27-year-old man was in critical condition. The 22-year-old man was in serious condition.
Police are still looking for the stabbing suspect.


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Bhudevi, c. 1025India: Tamil Nadu, 1000-1050
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Vishnu is often depicted with his consorts Sri Lakshmi and Bhu Devi. Sri Lakshmi, the goddess of beauty and good fortune, is Vishnu's main consort. She is distinguished from Bhu Devi by the breast band (kuchabandha) that adorns her chest. Bhu Devi is the earth goddess. Although she is just as beautiful as Sri Lakshmi, she does not have any distinguishing features. Each figure would have held up a lotus, one of Vishnu's main attributes, in her raised hand.
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Nutrition Facts
Serving Size 1
Calories 396
Total Fat 13 g
Saturated Fat 4.5 g
Sodium 751 mg
Total Carbohydrate 29 g
Dietary Fiber 1.5 g
Protein 39 g
Ingredients and Preparation
Ingredients Measures
Sole filets ¾ pound
Salt ½ teaspoon
Freshly ground pepper 1/8 teaspoon
Flour ¼ cup
Plain breadcrumbs ½ cup
Fresh parsley, chopped 2 tablespoons
Large egg 1
Olive oil 2 teaspoons
Butter 2 teaspoons
Lemon, sliced into wedges ½
- Season fish filets with salt and pepper.
- Distribute flour and breadcrumbs onto separate shallow plates. Add parsley to breadcrumbs and mix until evenly distributed. Lightly beat egg and place in another shallow plate. Dip filets in flour, then egg, and then breadcrumbs.
- Heat oil and butter in a large nonstick skillet over medium heat. Add filets and cook for about 3 minutes on both sides, until golden and opaque throughout. Drizzle with lemon wedges and serve.


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You think you're cold? Try running a marathon in minus-36 degrees like Boris Fyodorov.
The Siberian native completed what's being called the coldest marathon on record on New Year's Eve, running a solo course from his home in the Siberian village of Oymyakon, according to the Siberian Times.
He completed the 26.2-mile course -- his first marathon ever -- in just over five hours.
Next time? Fyodorov wants it to be even colder.
"I really want to organize [the] next Oymyakon marathon in January when the air goes down to -50 C or -60 C," he told the Times.
Oymyakon is considered one of the coldest places on Earth, with a record-low temperature of 90 below zero recorded in 1933.


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If you're on the internet at all (and you obviously are) you probably either play Farmville or get bombarded with invites from one of the 60 million people who do, and think less of them for it. You might have wondered how such a dumb Flash-based game can be hooking so many people. Are people so stupid? Or is Farmville smart? Both, probably, but we've got enough articles about the first thing. What doesn't get discussed much is how fiendishly clever Farmville's creators are.
Most video game companies spend their money on game quality, believing that game quality will lead to people wanting to play the game, which will lead to money. The philosophy behind Zynga (Farmville's creators) is: Why make the process so convoluted? Skip game quality and just focus on figuring out what you can do to make people want to play any game, no matter how bad it is. To that end, they've hired a full-time behavioral psychologist to figure out how to manipulate players like lab rats.
A cry for help from within the game.
And as Zynga founder Mark Pincus freely admitted in this popular quote, he won't confine himself to using those powers scrupulously: "So I funded the company myself but I did every horrible thing in the book to, just to get revenues right away. I mean we gave our users poker chips if they downloaded this zwinky toolbar which was like, I dont know, I downloaded it once and couldn't get rid of it. *laughs*"
Pincus around the office.
And it worked. Zynga is projected to rake in $1 billion in 2011 and Google has poured $100 million into the company in an attempt to get in on the action before it's too late.
Here's how they pull it off:
6Invite A Neighbor! Share An Achievement! Give a Gift!
What They Offer You: Have more fun playing with friends!
What The Real Point Is: Help us disguise spam as Facebook messages between friends.
For some of you, 90% of your messages on Facebook are acquaintances bombarding you with Farmville spam. When you play, Farmville has approximately 1000 ways of saying, "Send An Ad For Farmville to Your Facebook Friends!" If it just blared the same, "Invite a friend! Invite a friend!" message at you every two minutes, you'd not only quit the game but take a shotgun to their headquarters. So they ask you in a different way every two minutes. Advertising the same thing in different ways lets them keep throwing ads at you in a way that avoids triggering the parts of your brain that make you begin to hate the product, a psychological trick advertisers have been using for decades. Since these various hints come up in relation to many different features and items you want, the only subconscious pattern that gets picked up is that you can get a ton of sweet shit if you just invite some friends.
Prompts from just five minutes of playing the game.
You can either recruit friends who don't play the game, or spam friends who do play the game with "gifts", which helps remind anyone beginning to drift away that, hey, free shit. Many games send messages to lapsed players trying to lure them back with free shit, but Zynga uses you to do it, so it's coming from a friend and not a company robot. Your friend Andy sending you a free goat doesn't set off the same mental defenses as "Zynga Games (tm)" sending you a "Special Offer (also tm)".
Once you're involved in a game with friends, it adds a subtle pressure to not just quit when you feel like it. Quitting right in the middle of helping build your friend's barn? Dick move. And as these guys describe in detail competitive gaming types will be drawn in by the urge to one-up and brag to their friends.
And to find new ways to do so.
And thanks to the Facebook connection, you don't even have to leave the game to bombard your friends with these ads. As the above article mentions, Farmville actually auto-sent these "updates" at one point without even asking you, until angry Facebook users inundated by spam made them put in a prompt. Sadly for Zynga, there's no way to vary Facebook spam ads enough to avoid making people angry.
5Hey It's Actually Pretty Free
What They Offer You: An indefinite amount of time to play all the features of the game - free!
What The Real Point Is: More time to get you hooked.
"Sure," you might think, "of course it's `free'. But the moment you want anything decent, you have to pay, right?" No, you don't. Impatient companies give you short, minimal demos of their games, and before you've gotten attached enough to set your heart on it, the "please pay to continue" window comes up, which ends the flirtation for most users. Zynga puts off that moment as long as possible, letting you get more and more invested. The pressure to pay is low and gradual - a lot of, "You might want to buy this new faster plow. No? That's cool, I'll just get out of the way and let you keep playing. I'll just sit here as an icon on the side of your screen in case you change your mind."
These icons sparkle like a Twilight vampire every 30 seconds or so, in case you forget you can get free Farmville tractor fuel for playing Mafia Wars!
It's a slow buildup of a few popups and many small, unobtrusive reminders in every screen, with no sudden jarring demands to put you off, and by the time you're really feeling the pressure, you're probably hooked enough to not storm off in a huff of righteous indignation.
Only a small percentage of players give in, but that's all they need - 82% of Zynga's customers pay nothing, but the company rakes in $1 million a day from the other 18%.


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Adamson Industries Corp. Announces New SoundOff nFORCE Lightbar Product
Haverhill, Mass. - Adamson Industries Corp., a leading provider of public safety vehicle equipment and installation services is pleased to announce a new product from SoundOff Signal, the nFORCE Lightbar featuring Nexus Technology. An innovative solution that combines next generation design with attention grabbing performance.
The nFORCE lightbar features inboard LED module options: any combination of single color 6 or 9 LED, dual color 12 LED or tri-color 18 LED counts. Corner LED module options of any combination of single color 12 or 18 LED, dual color 24 LED or tri-color 30 LED count. "All White" forward facing modules option for intense scene lighting. 6 LED Take Downs and 3 LED Alley Lights are standard. Manual dimming capability for nighttime use. Cruise mode. Ability to shut down complete front or rear inboard and select corner modules. Rear arrow option.
Pricing and Availability
The nFORCE lightbar comes with 25 Warning, 9 Takedown/Alley and 4 Arrow L/C/R flash patterns. Sizes include 24", 36", 42", 48", 54", 60" and 72". 5-Year warranty is included.
For more information, request a demo or a personalized quote on the nFORCE lightbar, contact Adamson Industries at 800.232.0162. Be sure to ask about our introductory special package pricing.
About Adamson Industries Corp
Adamson Industries Corp. located in Haverhill, Ma, provides agencies with safe, reliable and user friendly vehicles and equipment. With more than 50 product lines, Adamson Industries Corp. offers a wide selection of equipment including vehicle lights, lightbar systems, prisoner partitions, siren systems, K-9 units, consoles, push bumpers and more. In addition, Adamson Industries Corp's state of the art installation facility offers a one stop source for creating highly productive law enforcement vehicles from simple installs to more complex upfits. Adamson Industries is a multiple GSA Contract holder. For more information or to request a copy of the 2013 Fleet Manager Buyers Guide, visit us on the web at www.adamsonindustries.com.


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We weren't supposed to get this far.
I haven't yet read a single article or blog about last night–well, except my Cliffy's. I've got to write my own take first–and once it's down, I know I won't be disappointed any more. Here's what I wrote to Cliff Floyd at 2:38 AM:
We're an injured team. We were supposed to be hobbled and down for the count before the counting ever began.
Well, that didn't happen. Instead what happened was we made New York a Mets town again.
I remember all the way back at the beginning of the season when our standing in the division was #1, above the Braves. I almost took a screenshot of that, so I'd be able to show Rob that special Mets moment further–and lower–in the season. Because for my 3 years as a Mets fan to that point, that's all I knew. I knew our team were fighters, but that maybe we just weren't there yet.
Well, we are there. And we're firmly ahead of schedule.
Omar Minaya thought he'd need 3 or 4 years to do what he's done in 2. Look at the stunning trades he made to get us Maine, Perez, El Duque, Bert Hernandez, and all the others I know I'm missing. Getting Carlos Delgado was one of the most brilliant moves by any GM ever. (And Carlos, I love the **** out of you.) Omar's a genius at creating a team. Not just a group with a certain skill set, or one able to fulfill certain strategies, which we've got. But a team. And it's our team. Who other than the Mets, in all of baseball, better suits that word? No one. Thank you, Omar. Thanks for this special year.
We're down Pedro Martinez, El Duque, Duaner Sanchez, Cliff Floyd. 4 out of 25 men. That's almost a fifth of the whole team–and it's some of our best guys. When Pedro was out of it, they said we had no chance. When El Duque fell? Well, then it was over before it began, now wasn't it? What kind of Mets fairy dust went round that clubhouse? It's as if the sheer energy of our guys boosted up the surprising, exciting, and absolutely welcome talents of John Maine and Oliver Perez. They pitched the games of their lives, and if that continues next year? One word for you: unstoppable.
But perhaps the greatest miracle of this year? Ever since I've been a Mets fan (since 2003), I've heard people dissin' on the Mets. David Letterman. Conan O'Brien. News media. New Yorkers. Well, they've been eating their words this season, and especially this month. For the first time in over ten years, this city belongs to us again. We've got our own rocking network, with the greatly beloved Ron Darling, Gary Cohen, Keith Hernandez. We've got pictures like this in the New York Times–the Style section of all places. We've got every fan–including me!–wearing Mets hats, shirts, jerseys, jackets all over town. My new Mets slogan for next year? Our Team. Our Town.
I'm not gonna "front" as I used to say (laughably) in Brooklyn. I'm disappointed. Every single time we had a key at bat, I truly, wholeheartedly believed, and somehow I thought that was all it would take. So I'm sad. But not overly so. I feel like the whole postseason experience was a stupendous extra. We had such a great *******' year, and then so many let downs as our boys lost their health. But we battled. Boy, did we battle. Next season I'll be a little scared–for the other teams, of course.
Cliff Floyd goes to surgery in a week. His last Achilles heel procedure left him strong and fantastic on the field. And we already know what a key asset he is in the clubhouse. I hope he comes back, and I know a lot of you are with me on that. And I want Endy back too. We got to witness last night one of the best all-time catches in postseason history. Not too shabby.
Thanks, Metsies. Thanks for our year. And thanks for the love you give back to us every day. I'm proud to be your 26th man.
Goodbye 7 Train, and goodbye Shea. WE'RE GONNA GET 'EM NEXT YEAR!
Our Team. Our Town.
Let's Go Mets!
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Zoe… your clip made me smile, and smiles didn't come too easily for me today! Thanx much!
Your post was right on the money. Once the disappointment from this loss subsides, I'm gonna look back at a great team that created the kinda buzz I don't think existed here since the 1980s.
We are young and we'll survive this. I think these players will come back even hungrier than ever. With a few new additions as well🙂
Mets in 2007! (We are gonna get 'em next year!)
~ Eddie @ Willie Ball
Great post, you described exactly how I feel. I really enjoyed reading your blog this season, you did a great job! I especially enjoyed your hilarious clips of all of the mets' little antics during games that I'm not able to see on SNY while living in KY. Hope to see you blogging again next year!
Opening day next year is in St. Louis.
Karma is a [word that will be censored by MLB]
Zoe, that was very eloquent. We have a lot to be thankful for. We had a great season. And like you said, being a Mets' fan isn't as hard as it used to be. The team is finally getting the respect it deserves.
We'll get them next year for sure!
Do you have your 2007 season tickets yet?
Also wanted to ad that I really enjoyed the pictures and videos. Hope you'll keep on blogging. 🙂
Zoe. You are pulling at my heartstrings.
I feel like you have said everything that I have been thinking.
Thank you for your blog. I enjoyed it immensely.
I regret not getting a chance to meet you, Cerrone and Hot Footie, but hten again there is always next year…
…or maybe Cerrone can round up some real die hard fans for the Rule 5 draft. lol.
Anyway, I dont know how often you plan on keeping up with this during the offseason, but know that I will be poking my head in and seeing what is what.
Good bye for now, sweet girl with the mighty pen(keyboard).
One last thing, Call up jay Horowitz again and see if you can get him to lean on Omar to get our boy Cliffy back here.
I agree. It was a GREAT year, WS or not. All these clowns on ESPN Radio need to loosen up.
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read my post again clearly say boxing day is not ideal but town dont want that or the 30 th as they say they cant raise a team
I think you'll find that Town have said that they would prefer not to play on Boxing Day - FACT.
Your comment that Town have also turned down the 30th December is an absolute lie..!!
At no point has any date been "turned down"..!!
Either get your FACTS right, or don't post anything at all.
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And I expect that I'll continue to wait a little while longer before the word "cheap" to describe Coca-Cola can be repeated.
The fact is, very rarely do companies like Coca-Cola and rival Pepsico
In the April quarter, for example, although Coca-Cola overcame some challenges, there were also plenty of noticeable room for improvement. Although the company did an excellent job growing volumes worldwide by 4%, which beat expectations, revenue still fell 1% year over year to $11.04 billion. There were noticeable pressures in the company's prices and product mix.
For that matter, much of the company's growth came from Coca-Cola's portfolio of sparkling (carbonated) beverages, which grew 3% year over year. The growth was led by 6% increase in Fanta, while both Sprite and Coke added 5% and 3%, respectively. I won't says that these were good results. But they also produced roughly two-thirds of the company's worldwide volume growth.
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I woke up out of a bad dream. There are days like today when I wake up to this awful depression. It's like waking up to another stark day of laying around in the uncertainty of chronic illness. I just don't have the tolerance for it.
Lately I've been having this dull achey pain in my lower right side. I've had it before. I had it in the summer of 2007 when Kaiser was running all the medical tests. I've also had liver pain too but my liver values are normal. Anyway, I dreamt I went to see two doctors-both partners. I think they were women ob-gyn's. The one I saw also had CFIDS. I was glad to see she was able to return to her practice but she told me she always felt tired. She went on to tell me that I would be forever tired and that I had ovarian cancer. I woke up shortly after that in a funk. On days like these I find myself unable to find any reason to get up and start another day of taking supplements, giving myself shots only to have the same result. But I do anyway. I get up and I take everything I'm suppposed to take.
My mood didn't change. I checked my email late in the day and found that I had been nominated for the Kreativ Blogger Awared by Renee. I was moved that someone both read and got something out of reading this blog. Tomorrow when I'm less sleepy I will talk about it more. The timing of it was perfect. It got me out of my depression. But more importantly was feeling a sense of connection with someone else who suffers from this. This sense of connection is very important to me.
Tonight I went out with Daphne, Bill, Lindsey, and Ella (both of whom are adorable, wonderful kids). Upon leaving the apt I knew something was wrong. It felt like I was about to have vertigo or that things were going to start spinning but they never did. At times it felt like the ground was going to shift sideways but it never did. I decided to keep going anyway-I wanted to try to enjoy Halloween. We all walked for awhile. I was having a difficult time in this strange anticipatory mode of how I would handle it if the ground did suddenly shift or things did start spinning. It was a strange and frightening sensation. Between that and trying not to step on or be stepped on by anyone made me tell the group I needed to bail. Daphne drove. She decided to stay with Bill and the kids. Against my better judgement I turned around to head back to the car. Destination unknown. I couldn't remember where the car was. I was disoriented. I kept walking with a growing sense of unease. It was dark. There were lots of people. All I knew was to stay on San Antonio. I kept feeling a sense of relief when I would come upon a familiar looking house knowing I was on the right path but just not having a clue where the car was.
I could not find the car though and started to feel a sene of panic. I had to calm myself down because I knew I would pass out if my adrenaline started going. I was already feeling woozy. I did not have my cell phone. I ended up walking through the streets lost and in tears. Finally I found the car. I sat there for a moment shaken by the experience. It was like being in the Fun House at the fair where the rooms are all mishapen. Except it just wasn't very fun.
I got home and immediately started researching neurological diseases. This is a fairly new symptom for me. I've had dizziness. I've had short bouts with feeling like things were tipsy but not for an extended period. I assume this is part of CFIDS. Maybe it's part of how HHV6A manifests. I don't know anymore.
I want my mom.
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Oh my gosh, I am so sorry you went through this experience. It must have been awful at the time. I think it is amazing that you did so well with the whole ordeal. You are strong, and courageous, CFS Warrior. I mean that. I think we all are with what we go through.ReplyDelete
I'm glad that the blog award came at a good time.
With thoughts of you
Hi, I'm glad to find your blog through Renee's.ReplyDelete
I too have CFS. The early years were the hardest. "How can I be so sick and have a disease with such a mild sounding name?" "How do I know something else isn't wrong with me?...are the doctors missing something?...am I going to the right doctors? ( CFS patients can feel as sick as patients in late stages of cancer and Aides.)
Their are so many changes and losses...it can really send one tottering.
Wanted to tell you that I too experience spatial disorientation in the dark. Thinking this might have been part of what was happening Halloween night. Also, the stimulation of lights against the dark, excited children etc...can overwhelm a CFS nervous system.
Again, I am happy to have found your blog and look forward to reading more. I understand with CFS there are times the cognitive symptoms make writing difficult (me too)...I hope you feel as well as is possible and that you're able to write again soon. Kerry
So sorry to hear about your bad experience on Halloween! That kind of disorientation is very scary. I think you may be right about needing to find a new doctor. I can't believe he's not sure whether you should take an anti-viral and your EBV counts are 1600!! Wow - my viral counts for both EBV and HHV-6 are only borderline positive, and I benefited from Valtrex and Famvir.ReplyDelete
I know of one well-respected CFS doctor in California, Dr. Holtorf. Don't know whether he's anywhere near where you are, but you might want to check him out. Living on the East coast, I don't have any personal experience with him, But I've heard good things from other CFS patients, including one guy who traveled all the way from Italy to see him! His website is www.holtorfmed.com. His website addresses Lyme as well as CFS. Might be worth a try.
Oh, and your last line was just how I felt all week, too - when I get that sick, I just want to be taken care of by my mom, like when I was a little kid.
I hope you're doing a bit better today.
Thank you for your words. They sure help. I'd never had an experience like that before so it was scary.
Thank you for stopping by my blog. You certainly voiced my feelings. It's a rough illness. I'm sorry to hear you have it too. Thanks for giving an explanation for what happened on Halloween. It makes sense and in doing so takes the fear out of it. I look forward to reading your blog.
Thank you for your wise advice. I really appreciate it. I have what I expect to be my last appt with this doctor tomorrow. You are the second person to mention Holtorf to me. I checked out there website. It's looks good so I sent an email asking about fees, insurance, ect...


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Mr. Morse goes to WashingtonFebruary 04,2013
All this talk lately of the presidential inauguration brings me back to my youth and thoughts of a couple of encounters of my own with a U.S. president.
The president was Lyndon Baines Johnson and the first time I met him was in 1961, just months after he became our V.P. It was in the middle of a scorching hot summer and I, along with three of my buddies, was touring Washington. All four of us were Vermont legislative pages.
Thanks to the chaperonage of my grandpa, our parents deemed our trip safe. We were 11- and 12-year-old hellions, so the question might rather have been, Was Washington safe with us? My grandpa, Sen. George Aiken, met us at the bus station and took us back to his Washington home at the Carroll Arms Hotel.
Grandpa Aiken and his staff had our week all planned out: a tour of the U.S. Mint, the FBI, and many other quintessential Washington tourist stops. But we were particularly delighted to learn we would meet the vice president of the United States.
On the day of our visit, we were brought to the vice presidential suite in anticipation of LBJs arrival. As I remember, we were waiting in an outer office when suddenly a door burst open and in came a harried vice president.
Whaddaya want, George? LBJ asked with monumental impatience.
My grandfather, ever the diplomat, said Lyndon, I thought youd like to meet my grandson and his friends.
Trapped, Johnson beckoned us into his office where he briskly made time enough to shake our hands and pose for a quick picture. Ill never forget the feeling I got that day, though it was of total insignificance in the mind of a very cold and unfriendly man.
In less than three short years, the world would learn that President Kennedy had been assassinated and Lyndon Johnson would step up to the presidency.
Enter a weird music juxtaposition ... Everyone from my era remembers exactly what they were doing when they first heard of the assassination. I was a second-year high school trombone player attending a district music festival in Northfield when word came out.
Strangely, it would be music that would lead me to my second meeting with Lyndon Johnson.
The Montpelier High School Band was not only a good band but was my high school piece de resistance. You see, I was a poor student on the whole, but playing in the band brought me out of my shell and made me want to excel. I always looked forward to band practice, but one in particular brought an exciting announcement ... the MHS Band had been selected as Vermonts delegate to play in the upcoming presidential inauguration parade!
Johnson had been officially elected president in November 1964 and sometime in December, we got our invitation. We immediately hit the cold December streets of Montpelier practicing our marching band techniques. When the January day finally arrived, sixty crazily excited adolescents, Mr. Mix, our band leader, and a handful of chaperones loaded onto two Vermont Transit buses for the 10-hour trip to Washington.
The song Norman was popular at the time and one of the bus drivers was named Norman. That poor guy suffered something terribly!
Two things stand out in my memory of our inauguration experience:
1) It was so cold that a striking combination of stuck and frozen valves, keys, and slides rendered our erstwhile average high school musical group into an out-of-tune, out-of-step mishmash!
2) Our team of hard-working chaperones was somehow able to keep the 60 of us out of trouble with the law and free of premature parenthood during our two-night stay in the nations capital!
Most of our contingent was excited about a distant glimpse of President Johnson, but not me... I already knew the scoop on him!
A lot of waters gone over the dam since those two trips to Washington. Recently Ive renewed my friendship with a couple of my page buddies from long ago and weve laughed about our vice presidential visit.
Johnson didnt spoil us for life... we feel totally significant these days! And my musical connection has followed me almost to geezerdom thanks to that foundation I got in the Montpelier High School Band. I still go out and play my horn a lot. Its something Ill always have, along with a couple of chilly memories of Americas 36th president.
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California eighth-grader Jacob DeVera launched a three-quarter-court buzzer-beater that won the game for Roseville's Eich Middle School. This shot won the championship game of the Western Division of the Foothill Intermediate Schools Athletic League (FISAL). Parent Megan MacPherson submitted the video to KCRA 3.
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Deal being discussed right now is
New York gets Vince Carter
Miami gets Eddy Curry
and New Jersey gets the expiring contracts of Jason Williams & Ricky Davis
THAT would be the centerpieces. New York will still have to give up rough 3-5 million and Miami would have to pick up the same. A few other pieces are rumored to be involved in this trade but at this point this deal is very likely.
isiah stated the idea is not to get undercap cause we are already on schedule for that BUT to add players to add wins... OKKKKKK then.
itll be interesting to see what the other pieces in this deal are. also carters deal runs up in 10... the year lebron becomes a free agent anyway..
#15...So good it had to be retired twice
Gms, coaches, players may change but as long as Dolan is in charge the results will stay the same.
Simple fix to me.
Heat get what they want and we get the cap space and minutes for Lee, Balkman, and James. And yes i know i just used Jerome James.
The only thing that scares me is giving Curry to Riley (a great big man teacher) and the Heat for nothing. If Curry every puts it together he could haunt us for awhile, but thats a big IF.
I'd rather trade him out west but i don't think you could turn it down.
I agree, Knicks get Williams, and Davis for Curry.
But look what the Nets are starting to do... They are starting over, basically brand new, there player they will build around Richard Jefferson, and develope Devin Harris's game.
I don't like this. It seems as if the Knicks never learn. Sign and trade for players on the UPSIDE of their career's not the downside.
I've watched a few NET games this year and let me tell you, VC is never ever ever ever going to be the player we remember him for. He's not a leader and looks like he is on the "My game is slipping away, but I don't care because I;m getting paid" cruise control mode. Many Net fans really soured on him for this and want him gone as well.
Thats a bad contract right there, and these are the type of moves that have sealed Isiaha as one of the worst GMs in the history of sports.
Curry Sucks, but dont trade him for a contract like that. wow. its the same feeling i got before the Steve Francis trade happened
I guess we will see tomorrow what will unfold in the next chapter of this New York Knicks horror, but on the brighter side I hope I see Artest in a Knicks jersey Friday against the Raptors.
i think the heat would much rather have the cap space by keeping wiliams and davis. i think they would not mind trading dorrel wright and mark blount for eddy curry though. we can also add a young guy from our team into the trade and it will still work.
The only reason why I would be happy if we got Vince Carter is so I can make the trade on 2K8, im following along with the season but im a week and a half behind rite now. It would be nice to have Vince only for that reason, but if Isiah acquires Vince I will kill myself, I know at this point that I cant change my favorite team murderin myself would be the best left option.
If this trade goes through, Isiah must be assassinated.
Anyone wanna start making the plans for his assissanation ?
i hope these are only rumors
I dunno bro. I don't like the part about it being said to be very likely to go down.
I just got one thing to say. F!ck V.C.! Why would we want him on our team? We already got Jamal who can score and Jones who can defend. The shooting guard position is not an area we need help in. Offense is not an area we are lacking. The Knicks shoot a good fg% collectively, and 94 ppg is good enough to be a succeful team in this league. The Knicks during the Ewing, Oakley, Mason, Starks and Harper days were not a high scoring team, but they threw some D on that b*tch.The Knicks during Ewing,Johnson, Camby, Spewell, Houston, Ward, and Childs also were not high scoring, but they threw some D on that b*tch. That's exactly what the Knicks need. We don't need offense, we don't need huge contracts, we need D. A good point guard with D and ESPECIALLY a good center with D is what we need.If we can get a point guard or Center that can score and has D, even better, but D is what we need most.


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Ancestry and Public Trees
Today, I was looking at Ancestry at the local library to see if there was any information or public trees on my George Thomas Mathews. George was born around 1840 at Prospect NSW and died sometime after 1894. I have looked at every death of a George Mathews/Matthews who died between 1894 & 1920 in New South Wales (when his wife remarried) but to no avail. You can read more about George and his 'disappearance' here and what I have done to try to find out when he died (which I get that I'm never going to know), in the hopes that maybe one day I'll find out his parents' names. I have 5 birth certificates of George & Ellen's children and in all of them George was the informant and his birth place is listed as Prospect, New South Wales. Therefore I have to believe that he was born in NSW.
Today I found a number of public trees with George Mathews and his wife Ellen Shoulders with children. Now for the life of me, I don't understand is why the public trees I found with George Mathews have incorrect information.
- One tree has their Daughter Susan Jane Mathews, who married Robert Tailby, with a death date of 1955. Wrong! I have her death certificate and she died in 1916.
- There are a couple of trees that had George's birth to be around 1836 or 1840 and with the parents of Henry Mathews & Susan or Susannah Morris. I thought cool; someone must have found some information but I'm not so sure. Some had no source citations but one of them did as follows:
- Source Detail for George's birth was: A shipping record, he is listed as age 5, on a ship called Victorian, which arrived in NSW in 1841 and he was travelling with Thomas Mathews (aged 24) and Sarah Mathews (aged 35). Yeah, maybe George was born outside of Australia (which is probably why I cannot find his birth in NSW but then again, I don't know the name of his parents and yes, I have checked the corresponding births in NSW and cross them out for various reasons) but that does not solve where or how someone was able to work out that this shipping record relates to my 'George Thomas Matthews'.
- When you click on the father's name Henry Mathews, the source details for Henry & his wife Susan, are connected to a 1861 UK census and living at: Guilden Morden, Cambridgeshire, England. Henry, age 61, Susan Age 61, George, age 21, and Eliza age 18. Me is now confused. I also note that this family also appear in the 1841 & 1851 UK Census.
I can't help but think someone has picked up some information and just attached it without bothering to verify the information and then everyone else has just followed suit. So therefore, I conclude that the parents of Henry & Susan that are attached to George Thomas Mathews in the trees I found, and the source information of the 1861 UK census is incorrect and the family above are not related to my George Mathews.
Why don't people verify the information they find on the Internet? Why is it so hard to do the actual work to trace your family history? Tracing your history means, getting information and verifying information, such as obtaining Birth, Death & Marriage certificates. Why is this so hard for people to do? I have done a lot of the leg work over the last 20 years and am happy to provide and exchange information with people. In some cases, things don't seem quite right and you just have to take it that what you find is more than likely correct but I still put a disclaimer on what I have found if I am still not 100% sure.
I guess, I'm still at square one. Right now, I believe this one will always stay a mystery, especially considering that I have no proof of the names of George's parents.


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Acxiom is the poster-child for why tough new laws are needed to protect personal information on the Internet, in electronic systems, and on cell phones ASAP. No data should be collected about Americans without prior meaningful, informed consent.
Natasha Singer's story is a must read to understand how the use of personal data threaten people's jobs, reputations, and future opportunities. The information is analyzed and sold to those who want detailed real-time profiles of who we are, including the health of our minds and bodies. Data analytics enable Acxiom to create and sell far more intimate, detailed personality and behavioral portraits than our own mothers or analysts might know about us (and would never share).
Most people have never heard of Acxiom or other hidden data users. Today, most Americans have no idea that personal data is used by thousands of corporations and government agencies to make decisions about whether they will receive jobs or benefits.
Even though the hidden data mining industry began by using personal information to improve marketing and advertising, Acxiom proves that the kind and amounts amount of identifiable data being collected are simply unacceptable. As for the collection of health information, the data mining industry is clearly violating Americans' very strong legal, Constitutional, and ethical rights to control and keep personal health data private. To the public, this is theft of personal health information.
On June 6th at the 2nd International Summit on the Future of Health Privacy, Professor Latanya Sweeney of the Harvard Data Privacy Lab along with Patient Privacy Rights introduced theDataMap.org. This project will enable citizens and whistleblowers to help create a detailed picture/map of where sensitive personal health information flows, from prescription records, to DNA, to diagnoses. Without a 'chain of custody' for our identifiable health data, it's impossible to know who uses our data or why. A 'chain of custody' for personal health data could show us whether potential employers or banks had bought or received our health data, learn about the many ways the federal government uses health data as described in the Federal Health Information Technology Strategic Plans, and see the names of for-profit and public research and public health institutions that use personal health data.
Health data has long been used to discriminate against people for jobs, insurance, and credit. This fact is so well known that every year tens of millions of us refuse to get early diagnoses and treatment for cancer, depression, and sexually transmitted diseases. Hidden data flow causes bad health outcomes; treatment delays can be deadly. We need the same kind of control/consent over the use of electronic health data that we have always had for paper medical records.
US Internet and electronic systems have made us the most intimately surveilled people in the Free World. In Europe, strong laws and privacy-enhancing technologies prevent hidden data collection and data flow, so everyone benefits from technology and harms are avoided.
European standards for the collection of personal data were created after WW II, when data were used to decide who would die. Europeans consequently passed the world's toughest data privacy laws, preventing personal data from being collected or used without consent.
Europe also established regional Data Privacy Commissioners to defend citizens' rights to control the collection and use of personal information and ensure data accuracy. The US needs them too.
Unless we know where trillions of bytes of our personal data flow, who uses it and why, we cannot weigh the benefits and risks of using the Internet, electronic systems, or cell phones. It's time for Congress to end the massive hidden flows of personal data.