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"Not to mention it is inaccurate," Valai says, scoffing. "I still believe those creatures replaced parts of their anatomy with devices, rather than the other way around. Forward, Ms. Deschmertz. Let us attempt diplomacy, indeed."
|Celia Deschmertz
"Okay. Just... I can't really talk to them. I can just understand, so I'll be tellin' ya if things get outta hand."
Lulled into a sense of security that, at worst, the 'face-stealers' would think her a thief, lost, or insane, the gnome made sure her weapons were less than conspicuous and made her way towards the group of residents.
"S-sorry to be interruptin'," she offered, hands out to her sides.
"But my friends and I, we're lost, and we could use a little bit of help-,"
Diplomacy: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (12) + 3 = 15
|A Voice From The Heavens
The room fell silent as Celia made her introduction. The Kethans turned to her and stared with what seemed like blank expressions. There were four in the room and the largest acted first. It stood from a stone bench and lumbered over to Celia. It towered over her, standing nearly eight feet in height. Its movements were slow and precise, but seemed to be a bit hesitant, as if it was approaching with caution rather than a lack of speed.
|Celia Deschmertz
The gnome continued to stand in place, blinking as the alien being sized her up. She seemed quite content to let them examine her as her curiosity was somewhat sated. Still, she wished they were still talking so she could know what the big one was making to do.
|Booker Graves
Valai slowly steps out of hiding - but not so far from the doorway that she can not dart back if she needs to. She addresses the Kethans in an odd language with sibilant qualities, her face unreadable, her eyes dark.
|A Voice From The Heavens
The Kethan found its way to Celia and reached out to her. Placing a hand on her helmet, it began to speak. It's voice bellowed deeply and shook Celia to the bone. After a moment, the words began to sound a bit clearer, eventually sounding as pleasent as any noble elf's. The words swirled in hear head, twisting and rearranging until, almost instantly, they made sense to her.
"-stand by now. Please, tell your companion that I do not know her tongue."
|Celia Deschmertz
"Valai, this one says he doesn't know the language you're speaking, and something about standing by."
The gnome continued to stay in place, eyeing the Kethan's hand benignly.
"Do you understand me, though?" she asked the speaker.
"I do now," it nodded. "The nanites in your suit originate of our technologies. I've altered them to allow translation between us. Your friend's language is far too old or too foreign for our knowledge. Why have you come here?"
|Celia Deschmertz
"We... I know this sounds a bit silly, because it is, but we're lost travellers from Golarion, and an incredibly bored man abducted us to the sun and said we had to go find him on Aucturn. We came here because his construct teleported us to this planet and we have no way off!"
Grinning sheepishly, Celia couldn't help but add,"We didn't know anyone would be here, yeah? You're pretty cool looking!"
"I see. Well, we may have what you need to leave this planet. If you would follow me, I can show you."
The Kethan began to lumber back towards the rest of his kind.
|Celia Deschmertz
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|Celia Deschmertz
|Booker Graves
"Wherever it is, please tell me it is a place where we may leave this red dustball," Valai says. She blinks slowly, then adds in a grudging tone: "Though I would not object too vehemently to a brief delay, should that allow me to learn more of the history of these 'Kethans'."
|Celia Deschmertz
"Yes, of course. The invitation is for all of you."
|Celia Deschmertz
|A Voice From The Heavens
The group followed the Kethan into a small room. Inside, they found four more Kethans of varying sizes. Two appeared to be shorter in stature, another a bit more shapely insinuating that she was female, and the last was a bit more haggered and worn. The Kethan leading them made note to touch all their helmets and allow them to understand his speech.
"This is my family. We welcome you," he said, with a bow.
"A greeting unto all of you," Valai says, offering a rather complex Elven bow. (As in, the bending from the hip, rather than a weapon.)
The Elfmaid seems to struggle with something -- and relents. "While our group is seeking an exit from this world, the scholar in me demands I ask: Might I partake of the history of your people? We have found some scant clues as to your past in this building, but nothing conclusive."
"Of course. Originially, our people left our original planet and landed on a planet named Keth' Al, which became our home. There, we adapted our bodies over millenia to the ones you see now. We came here from our home planet a long time ago across many galaxies. After landing here, we began to create multitudes of automatons, robots, and androids. They prospered, but some went rogue and attacked the others and ourselves.
"Many lives, mechanical and organic, were lost during that time. It took us years to determine a way to put an end to their actions. We made our way here, our primary militant outpost which had been overrun. The few of us that were left surrendered ourselves to gain access inside and from here, enabled the zone around the area that disables their actions. As penance, we have remained here, below the base living our lives ever since.
"Have you question on any specific details?"
|Booker Graves
"Not at all," he says, with what seems like a chuckle.
Seems honest to you!
|Celia Deschmertz
|Booker Graves
He shook his head. "No, not at all."
Keth had been hanging back, as if not wanting to draw attention to himself. With Celia's call, he flew forward into sight. The female Kethan gasped and strode forward to touch Keth.
"Oh, dear one," she whisepered.
The male Kethan went over to inspect Keth.
"No," he said, "but the technology is ours, though modified. This device is generally reserved for prisoners. In our society, rather than run the risk of escape, their essence or soul is bound to one of these devices for their sentence. However, this one is modified with access to one our information centers back on our home planet along with various other capabilities. This would all be extremely interesting if not for the fact that the soul contained within is one of a child."
Valai... blinks. Her expression does not otherwise change. "I may need to speak with a priest sometime soon," she says in a distant, pensive tone. "No matter. This one tends to... fall asleep and suffer short-term memory loss when certain questions are asked of him. I dare say his master is using him poorly. Do you have the means to extract and properly house this soul?"
Yikes, and to think Valai recommended burying him in the dead zone before... >_< Feeling guilty, here.
The male Kethan shook his head.
"I might be able to do so were this a standard unit. However, I dare not risk the boy's soul in this contraption. All the modifications would probably make it impossible for me to remove him without harm, let alone at all. If you know the one who created this, I recommend you speak with him."
"He is the one who has set our feet on this merry path," Valai says, the look in her dark eyes adding considerable irony to the word 'merry'. "Keth, do you have the ability to communicate with your mystery master at will?"
"I do not request so," Valai says, her eyes briefly closed in an expression of what seems almost like pain. "Not at this time."
Turning back to the Kethans, she says: "The mystery prankster makes his home on the planet farthest from the sun. Does that suggest anything to you?"
He shook his head.
"No, I would have no idea about that."
|Celia Deschmertz
|Celia Deschmertz
Valai bows her head to the Kethans. "Were we to learn the precise nature of these... modifications... could we contact you for help in extracting and properly housing the child's soul?" she asks.
"And on another note... Can you help us get off this planet and back to Golarion, or at least to the next planet in sequence from the Sun?"
|Celia Deschmertz
"They already said they would, Valai. The second thing, of course."
It seemed that the elf did have a heart, after all. It was just mutely beating in that graceful ribcage apathetically most of the time, but it was [i[there[/i].
|Booker Graves
The Kethan nodded.
"Of course, I shall go make preparations. Please, feel free to relax here with my family while you wait."
He moved over to the female and whispered a few things before moving to a nearby wall. He placed a hand upon it, revealing a door way. Before moving through, he turned to the group.
"Would any of you like to join me?"
"That depends," Valai says, her cool exterior apparently restored. "What is it that you will be doing?"
As an aside, she beckons to Keth. "You will kindly remain within my reach at all times, barring requests to the contrary. In addition, I would ask you to consider a different name than the one provided by the mystery man. How does 'Kevin' suit you, for instance?"
"No, Miss Valai. I will refuse as that is the name I know. I will take that I was named after this technology and these people and not for any other malicious reasons. I have grown to like my name."
Had he arms, Keth would have crossed them, it seems.
"I am going to meet with a mechanic," replied the Kethan. "He will help prepare your transportation off this planet."
|Booker Graves
"As do I," Valai says. She briefly inclines her head to the Kethan family. "No offense to your kind hospitality, good people. But I have not encountered such artificing on Golarion anywhere, and I am a scholar by vocation."
|Celia Deschmertz
|A Voice From The Heavens
The Kethan nodded and led them through. On the other side, they found these Kethans were not alone. There were dozens walking about as if they were unaware of their containment. From the looks of it, this was a market as the Kethans were trading goods, sharing stories, and enjoying their surroundings.
They walked through the area without a single turned head. It was as if the Kethans found strangers in their midst to be a common occurence. After making their way across, they reached another wall, which opened up in the same manner. Inside was a lone figure hunched over something resembling a workbench.
Their guide called to other Kethan, but when it spoke, the sounds were nothing but an amalgam of syllables. It seemed this word had no translation. The worker looked up and gave a nod.
"Friends," the Kethan said with a motion, "this is the Mechanic."
The Mechanic stood and gave them a bow.
Valai responds with an Elven variation on the same movement.
"I understand that for a people such as your own, you must be an individual of great importance," she says. "It is my honour to greet you. We are travelers from Golarion, seeking passage to either our home world, or the next in sequence from the Sun. May we impose upon you?"

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Jose Canseco turns 46 today. For a guy who juiced as much as he did and who is almost as famous for letting a pop-up bounce off of his head as he is for belting tape measure home runs, it's kind of amazing to think he could make it to 50.
It would also be amazing if this dimwit makes it that far:
"Hey Jerry! Guess what? I totally shorted BP and I'm going to make a killing……..Of course I'm going to the Hamptons this weekend, well, as long as my herpes don't flare up again….."
No more Hamptons and so much for that nose job.
Happy Friday!
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You are a hell of a lip reader, bruss, to get all that! I laughed when the guy put the phone AFTER getting popped in the head. The look on his face was one of extreme embarrassment. Good! Get off the phone! You're at a game!
saw something on my yahoo front page about Canseco taking up boxing. guess that blow of the ball on his head hasnt made him all unconscious
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As you are learning I'm a man of many talents, unfortunately none of them pay. I've decided to try my hand at video editing for fun not for income. I'm working on a couple of these and I'd like to know which one you like the best or if you think they're all crap.
Here's my first video. Remember I've never done this before. I'll post a few more as the day goes by…D
Here's the second video I made. This one has a few clips of Hunter in it from Coors Field.
This was fun, I might decide to make one of these each game I go to…D
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Hey D,
Love the second video!
I like how you keep adding new things to your blog, keeps it interesting.
I think you have just inspired me to shoot some ballhawking video when I'm in Phoenix next week! Thanks, bro.
I like the 2nd vid…I love me some AC/DC!
Nice montage! Similar to Rocky 4, but with Todd Helton playing Rocky! lol. I need to buy a camcorder so I can do that, and maybe final cut pro.
Hey everyone thanks. I'm still working on one of these for the 2008 regular season. I think I might do one of these vidoes for each game or every couple of games. It's fun and a good way to use the video I shoot…D
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I got the feeling that a lot of men on that site would message literally any woman who had a profile, but the optimist in me wanted to believe that there was a limit. Maybe there was a woman so awful, so toxic, so irredeemably unlikeable that no one would message her, or if they did, at least they would realize they never, ever wanted to meet her. So I made the OkCupid profile of the Worst Woman on Earth, hoping to prove that there exists an online dating profile so loathsome that no man would message it.
I did not accomplish my goal.
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In making this profile, I made sure my creation touched on every major facet of being truly horrible: mean, spoiled, lazy, racist, manipulative, and willfully ignorant, and I threw in a little gold digging just for funzies. I maintain that there is not a human on this planet who would read this profile and think, "Yes, I'd like to spend any amount of the fleeting time I'm given on my journey around the sun getting to know this person." This profile is my magnum opus; it will be engraved on my tombstone. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair:
(My wonderful friend Rae agreed to let me use some of her Facebook photos for this profile. In addition to being a journalist, mother, and all-around A+ person, she's also a model. Only that last bit is relevant here, I guess.)
The Messages
I figured any profile with photos of a beautiful woman would get a few messages from men whose boners were willing to overlook her personality. The captions on her photos were just as draped in red flags as her profile was, so there's no way they were totally clueless as to how awful she is, but sure, I figured, maybe she'd get a couple of messages a day from people with especially low reading comprehension.
She got 150 messages in 24 hours.
OK, I thought, pouring myself a stiff drink as I prepared to sift through these messages from actual, living men with functioning central nervous systems. Maybe none of them read her profile, or maybe they thought that she was fun-crazy instead of actually-ruin-your-life crazy. I just had to convince them that she was the latter. My new goal was to get these men to stop messaging her back. I was going to make AaronCarterFan come across as so abhorrent that not even the kinds of dudes who comment on YouPorn videos would respond to her.
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Tenth grade – Kaelan Cheatham, Connor Dziuk, Dayton Jaskinia, Conner Jendrusch, Mitch Lyssy, Amber Pawelek, Alexis Sekula
Eleventh grade – Haleigh Blocker, Alexa Chaplin, Madison Hartmann, Cody Houdmann, Kayla Jendrusch, Tessa Jendrusch, Hailee Kowalik, Kelsey Labus, Madison Olinick, Ryan Pawelek, Kolton Pollok, Jennifer Pruski, William Stolle, Chloe Wilson, Courtney Witte
Twelve grade - Austen Camber, Alyssa Dziuk, Taylor Dziuk, Chelsea Galvan, Dean Gaskamp, Devon Lyssy,Taylor Moy, Quincey Olenick, Jonathan Sekula, Eric Wiatrek
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text: Is death just a shift of conciousness into another reality?? 123>weldkatom posted:3/14/2012 9:16:33 PM I have just read a very interesting story in a book by the English paranormal investigator Jenny Randles. Two women,a mother and daughter are travelling by car on the multi lane freeway near Hollywood when the lose control of the vehicle and are sent spinning into three lanes of fast moving traffic.They reported later that "time stretched out and slowed down,and all the sounds around them disappeared,it was as if they were in a deep well and every contact with the bustling real world environment had disappeared".Then they describe "two men in a car in close focus laughing and joking and completely ignorant of them as their car was slicing through them as its its body were made of fog.They felt a bump,and found themselves on the other side of the road with not so much as a scratch on the car. My question is this,did the two women die in many realities,and by sheer luck survive in one?Or was something else at work?breeld posted:3/15/2012 6:02:58 AM Good god, man. If you read the thread I started on "How Do You Know?", you`d see how confused I already am. Now you go start a thread like this, and give me something else to be confused about. lol j/k Anyway, I`ve read about things like this, and one theory is that events are imprinted on time, or something like that, and every once in awhile, we bump into it. Supposedly that`s why we see ghosts. Guess I need to find it and read it again. I`ve thought about this, and am still confused. haharicerocket posted:3/15/2012 7:23:56 AM this is something that ive been thinking about for quite a while. a few years ago i was walking past a newsagents and i had a sudden urge to play the lottery, something that i rarely do. anyway i went in and started putting my numbers in and it felt like i was the luckiest man alive and no matter what happend i couldnt do wrong. the first 4 numbers were fine but then the last 2 numbers i started to lose the feeling almost like i came out of the zone. when the draw came up i had 4 numbers but the last 2 didnt come out. i firmly believe that in some way i tapped briefly into another reality. there are a lot of instances of this type of thing where people KNOW they are in for a big win, im sure theres lots of other ways this can manifest itself like the car crash if only it could be studied scientificly and repeated then theres no end to the doors it could openspiritech0 posted:3/15/2012 10:35:40 AM @weldkatom: I think that accident was averted by very powerful beings to put this timeline into a particular order. Those particles were rearranged so that everyone on that road would continue to live, especially the mom and daughter with their vehicle. Most "miracle" auto accidents leave cars wrecked but bodies unscathed. In this case, everything was preserved except their trajectory, which was controlled only after they cleared the highway. Wether it was "Divine" or by tech-based design, the result is that many people were safe at that moment in time. Perhaps keeping the women conscious throughout the event was what kept them alive, like an active paramedics triage en route to hospital? Also, phasing them like that rendered them and their car invisible, aiding the transition and keeping up the safety factor. @breeld: "The Others" is a well presented idea of the relation of hauntings and time. @RiceRocket: Parallel realities are funny with synchronicity being off by a fraction, aren't they? The trick, so I hear, is to affect only your actual reality. And if someone would volunteer to be part of a scientific death-defying car crash experiment, they're either professional stuntmen with 99% control over the event, or a suicidal maniac. Either way consequences don't mind the matter. Yeah, I'm good.Ars Mysteriorum posted:3/15/2012 1:46:14 PM Good authority has it that it is not a shift to a different reality (as the most cohesive of philosophies adhere to the notion of one whole and wholly physical reality not separated into planes as Cartesian Dualism would have it), but rather a shift in the perception of time. When one understands that the bulk of interactions with angels take place in the realm of dreams and/or just after waking or shortly before sleep (as Moses Maimonides notes), this matches up on some level with Stoic notions of sleep and its closeness to death. From the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: The doctrine of pneuma and total blending allowed the Stoics to adopt Plato's definition of death as "the separation of the soul from the body." The Stoics, however, used this definition against Plato, arguing that since only physical things can separate from physical things, the soul must be corporeal. Since the soul pervades the body as a crasis type mixture, separation is possible. The separation seems to occur by a loosening of the tension of the soul. Sleep is said to be a kind of mild relaxing, whereas death is a total relaxing of the tension which results in the departure of the soul from the body. Dying is not the end of a person's existence, according to the Stoics. Once the soul has separated from the body it maintains its own cohesion for a period of time. Chrysippus and Cleanthes disagreed regarding the fate of the soul after death. Cleanthes held that the souls of all men could survive until the conflagration, a time in which the divine fire totally consumes all matter. Chrysippus, on the other hand, held that only the souls of the wise are able to endure. The souls of the unwise will exist for a limited time before they are destroyed or reabsorbed into the cosmic pneuma. The souls of irrational beasts are destroyed with their bodies. In no case is there any indication that the survival of the soul after death had any direct benefit to the individual or that the Stoics used this as a motivator toward ethical or intellectual behavior. There is no heaven or hell in Stoicism; the time to live one's life and to perfect one's virtues is in the present. Interesting to ponder.spiritech0 posted:3/15/2012 3:44:48 PM Though I disagree with your bulky angel statement, I give ya a gold star Mr AM. Show me a sage, and I'll show you the mask of apathy. I mean, Flatliners is a comedy skit just like these necronauts, but I ask again, who has the ovaries to put such theories of Death to practice? If people would provide publicly accessible evidence and proof to esoteric musings on time, space, creatures beyond mortal humans, and death... everything will be fine. Life is short, pray hard. Let's stop wondering and play with, I mean scientifically study "death"! No? No takers? Oh, alright... I'm just sayin' that even skeptics use anecdotal evidence to justify their Vulcan ways. LOL A shift in consciousness is definitely a perception of "time". spooky1 posted:3/15/2012 4:33:15 PM I technicly should b dead, many times over. My therapist at one timesaid to memybe ur cats r giving u some of there 9 lives. I thought that was lovely.gary107 posted:3/16/2012 5:46:37 PM death is very cold where all your concerns fade away.weldkatom posted:3/20/2012 10:30:58 AM In Reply To:gary107 posted:3/16/2012 5:46:37 PM death is very cold where all your concerns fade away.Thats a very final statement.Do you believe that when you die,thats it??You and your mind,your memories,your conciousness just cease to exist??spiritech0 posted:3/20/2012 12:26:19 PM Forgetting does not mean a thing ceases to exist. There is no "oblivion". Even if we went along with the incomplete scientific fact that when a person dies their heat energy is released, it implies the basic idea that one form of energy is converted into another, but the particle is still there. This is why I say that when a person dies (and how many clinically did but came back to 'life') and this fleshy body turns to a $5 gallon of gasoline, the part that powered it, the spirit, the intelligence, that will always be. When a person dies, they keep their experiences, personality, and relationships. As to spatial recognition, well of course there's a place to go and things to do after 'death'. Consider the many aspects of water, when ice melts then boils and travels as it does. That electric spark that is your true unique individual self, always existed and always will. Unless I'm somehow resucitated by medicine (water), CPR (air), transplant (earth), or tiny jumper cables (fire), I'll make sure to haunt everyone on Earth so you know what's up. LOLOrphen posted:3/21/2012 7:27:03 PM As I said, I am Sephiroth. For me, death is a travel to another Life.LincolnGenghis posted:3/21/2012 8:44:58 PM So what are you the dark prince of anyway I forgot to ask?Orphen posted:3/21/2012 9:55:23 PM I am a far heir of the Great Ones blood. That's all.LincolnGenghis posted:3/21/2012 11:34:20 PM I am confused, if you are a far heir of the Great Ones would that not make you more something on the order of Duke or Earl or Sir or something like that. : Oh crap somebody that knows how royal lineage works help me out here. What are some of the other titles for far removed royalty. : And why are they the great ones.... Did they give themselves that title? Orphen posted:3/22/2012 5:32:49 AM I consider them as the Great Ones cause I know how great they are. Actually, I consider myself as an human like others. Moreover, this is not easy to find I have a part of their blood. Death is simply a body/soul separation. Body biologically dies and the soul should go to the Spirits World and she be reincarned later in newborn human.LincolnGenghis posted:3/22/2012 7:35:56 AM Fair enough.Orphen posted:3/22/2012 8:58:57 AM for a Dark Prince, I have no weapons x) But with my mind can I build weapons from what I have in my house (which actually are common objets)weldkatom posted:3/22/2012 10:26:51 AM Toilet roll inserts can be lethal!!Orphen posted:3/22/2012 11:42:54 AM x) I do prefer metal bars for nowLincolnGenghis posted:3/22/2012 12:34:26 PM In Reply To:weldkatom posted:3/22/2012 10:26:51 AM Toilet roll inserts can be lethal!!Awesome choice. I wonder how condoms filled with rocks would do? A toilet plunger might be formidable also. Please log in or become a member to add a post.


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Drilling hearing draws large crowd; passions running strong three years on
November 30, 2011 —
Wes Gillingham, program director of Catskill MountainKeeper, has a tone that is perceptively more strident than when he and many others began the campaign to educate the public about the realities of hydraulic fracturing.
He was at the center of a news conference of like-minded groups outside of the Selig Theater and Sullivan County Community College on November 29, a short time before a public hearing was to begin. The hearing was about the years-in-the-making Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement (SGEIS) that will govern drilling and fracking going forward.
Gillingham's message, along with others who spoke, was that Governor Andrew Cuomo and the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation should pay attention to the science of fracking, which Gillingham said shows that it cannot be done safely, regardless of the rules imposed.
On the other side of the issue, Brad Gill of the Independent Oil & Gas Association of New York, issued a press release which said the SGEIS is too restrictive. He wrote, "Without moderation, these well-intended but unnecessarily burdensome requirements will prove to be a regulatory monument to lost opportunity."
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that has been traversed by thousands of comments that have come before. It's not clear when the SGEIS will be adopted as the new law of the land, but it's clear that the upwelling of public sentiment against fracking has delayed it coming to New York State much longer than most people thought possible back when talk of landmen and leases began in 2008.
It's FOUR YEARS of meetings, hearings and sacrifice so far !
Jill Wiener of Catskill Citizens and Wes Gillingham of the Catskill Mountainkeeper are two very fine folks.
They are motivated by love for their neighbors and for the natural world. They know we are fighting for our lives, literally ... and their tireless work and sacrifice is very important.
Please note a correction to your report. Wes Gillingham has been working to protect the Catskill Region and the Upper Delaware River Basin for four years now. It was December of 2007 that his work began on the fracking and drilling issue.
Wes and Ramsay Adams were doing their all-important research going into early 2008. The maps they worked hard to assemble were most valuable during the spring of 2008, and their research of the drilling out west, along with their talks with conservation professionals, also proved to be most important.
The work during December of 2007 was necessary as a " foundation" for much of the results that have come to pass recently. We thank you Jill and Wes and our wonderful community.


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An Albuquerque man is in jail and a Texas man is facing child solicitation charges in connection with Internet investigations conducted by the Curry County Sheriff's Office.
Brian Michael Gray, 33, of Albuquerque is charged with three felonies for soliciting a child by electronic device and is being held at the Curry County Adult Detention Center on a $20,000 bond, according to a press release.
Undersheriff Wesley Waller said Gray was arrested just before midnight Tuesday after he drove to Clovis from Albuquerque to meet with what he thought was an underage girl he had been chatting with online.
Gray began chatting online with an undercover agent in March and the chats became "very graphic and sexual in nature," the release said. Gray tried to talk the female into riding a bus to Albuquerque to see him, the release said.
He was arrested after he made contact with an undercover female officer.
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Charges are pending against the man, a former resident of Clovis who contacted a sheriff's department decoy Internet chat profile and solicited what he thought was an underage girl, the release said.
When authorities searched the residence, the suspect was logged in on his computer and was found to be in possession of a "large amount of child pornography," the release said.
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Springfield - The number of Illinois teachers pursuing certification through the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) is rising significantly -- just as a study shows for the first time that NBPTS-certified teachers do a better job educating students than other teachers who sought but did not achieve National Board certification.
The State Board of Education today heard an update of the program's success at its monthly meeting.
The program is at a critical juncture because of its exciting, but unexpected growth and the research showing the effectiveness of NBPTS certification on teaching. The State Board directed staff to present a report in September setting clear goals for the program, outlining ways to measure its impact and increase the number of NBPTS-certified teachers.
The number of Illinois teachers participating in and earning certification through NBPTS has grown significantly in each of the last two years. About 435 teachers are seeking NBPTS certification this year, up from 180 the year before. In 2000, 98 teachers successfully completed the rigorous NBPTS requirements - a 111 percent jump over the 88 total teachers certified in the five previous years.
NBPTS certification is the highest teaching credential available. A 2000 study by the University of North Carolina at Greensboro showed conclusively that NBPTS-certified teachers "outperformed their non-certified counterparts on every one of 13 generally recognized measures of good teaching." The report also says that students of NBPTS-certified teachers demonstrated a deeper understanding of the concepts they were taught.
"Teachers who achieve NBPTS certification are among the best of the best," said State Superintendent of Education Glenn W. McGee. "They are a critical component of our mutual efforts to give our students an education that is Second to None."
"I am also very proud that Illinois' NBPTS program is the fastest growing in the nation," McGee said. "That shows that our teachers want to be the very best educators they can be."
The process to earn NBPTS certification includes sophisticated performance-based assessments measuring the teachers' performance against the standards in their area of practice, and a detailed, portfolio analyzing elements of the teachers' learning experience and reflecting on ways they may strengthen their practice.
Illinois now awards NBPTS-certified teachers with a Master teaching certificate and a $3,000 stipend. NBPTS-certified teachers can also get an additional $1,000 to $3,000 for mentoring other teachers, depending on where they mentor. State Board staff suggested that raising the stipend might be a way to attract qualified teachers into the program. The application fee for NBPTS certification is $2,300 per teacher. The candidates' fees are paid through a combination of state, federal and private funds.
The State Board has conducted several workshops to help NBPTS candidates achieve certification. The workshops link NBPTS-certified teachers acting as mentors with candidates.
The State Board is also working with college and university programs that support NBPTS to help continue the program at its current high level. Several colleges and universities have done a great job in helping prepare National Board candidates, ISBE staff reported. The State Board at Thursday's meeting discussed further collaboration with these institutions.
Additional work needs to be done to attract more minority and rural candidates to the program, as most of the state's NBPTS teachers now are from the Chicago metropolitan area.
A 25-member NBPTS Design Team comprising key educational, governmental, union, community, professional and business partners has also recommended requiring prospective NBPTS candidates pay the initial, non-refundable $300 application fee to increase commitment on the part of prospective candidates. The State Board is still exploring the implications of this suggestion.
About 10 percent of candidates usually do not complete the yearlong NBPTS process. Illinois is one of only a small handful of states that pay a candidate's entire fee.
State Board staff also recommended increasing publicity and marketing efforts about the program to better inform prospective candidates of the program's rigorous requirements. State Board members also said that continued recognition of NBPTS-certified teachers for their accomplishment might also act as an incentive.
As well, the program's overall budget may also need to be increased if the number of candidates continues to grow as it has. This year, $1.075 million was budgeted and paid primarily for the stipends for current NBPTS-certified teachers and application fees for candidates.


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About The Group
Welcome to CTC West, the Cyclists Touring Club for the West of England.
Within CTC West there are six local CTC member groups:
Geographically, CTC West includes Bristol, Bath, Gloucestershire and most of Somerset and Wiltshire. It is an area of outstanding natural beauty which includes the Cotswolds, Mendips and Quantock Hills, part of Exmoor, the Severn Vale, the Forest of Dean and the Wiltshire Downs, all of which are ideal for cycling.
CTC West and its Groups enable members to enjoy regular club rides which, together with the CTC national programmes, provide a comprehensive series of events and audaxs throughout the year catering for the interests and abilities of most cyclists.
To find out more visit our website www.ctcwest.org.uk
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Home List of Titles Effects of CFRP bond locations on the Mode I stress intensity factor of centre-cracked tensile steel plates
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- Effects of CFRP bond locations on the Mode I stress intensity factor of centre-cracked tensile steel plates
- Author(s)
- Wu, Chao; Zhao, Xiao Ling; Al-Mahaidi, Riadh; Duan, Wen Hui
- Abstract
- The fatigue life of cracked steel members can be greatly extended by externally attached carbon fibre reinforced plastics (CFRP), which reduces the stress intensity factors (SIFs) at the crack tip. Access to cracks is sometimes limited and the CFRP has to be attached away from the cracks. There is a lack of knowledge on SIFs for such strengthening scheme. This paper presents the effects of CFRP bond locations on the Mode I SIF of centre-cracked tensile (CCT) steel plate. The Mode I SIF at the crack tip is calculated using the finite element (FE) models. A correction factor is introduced as a function of CFRP bond location and crack length. The FE results are compared and agree well with experimental tests conducted by the authors. By combining with another two factors (one considering CFRP mechanical properties and the other considering CFRP bond width) derived previously by the authors, SIF formulae are proposed for CFRP reinforced CCT steel plates.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Sciences
- Source
- Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures, Vol. 36, no. 2 (Feb 2013), pp. 154-167
- Publication year
- 2013
- FOR Code(s)
- 0905 Civil Engineering; 0912 Materials Engineering; 0913 Mechanical Engineering
- Keyword(s)
- Carbon fibre reinforced plastics; Composite patch repair; Fatigue crack propagation; Finite element modelling; Fracture mechanics; Steel; Stress intensity factor
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- Wiley-Blackwell Publishing
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- Copyright
- Copyright © 2012 Wiley Publishing Ltd.
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Chelsea Baker
B.A. in Comics and Sequential Art, The Evergreen State College, 2006
Biographical Note
Born in Omaha, NE, Chelsea Baker decided to pursue a career in cartooning at the ripe old age of eight. She moved to Olympia in 2003 to attend Evergreen despite the fact that she had never set foot in the Pacific Northwest until the day she moved into her dorm room. At Evergreen, she studied Comics and Sequential Art. She is currently a self-employed illustrator/cartoonist and the director of the annual Olympia Comics Festival. She draws a diary-style comic every day and is currently working on a graphic novel about her older sister, Moira, who has Down syndrome.
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George D. Brosseau Sr.January 03,2013
George D. Brosseau Sr.George D. Brosseau Sr.
(November 29, 1919 - January 1, 2013)
BLISSVILLE, Vermont Mr. George Brosseau Sr., 93, died on January 1, 2013, at the Vermont Veterans Home in Bennington, Vt., surrounded by loving family, friends and caretakers.
George was born on November 29, 1919, in Highgate, Vt., the son of Eugene and Cora (Piedalue/Praire) Brosseau.
He was married to Lucienne H. (Demers) Brosseau, who died in 2008.
A decorated soldier of WWII, George fought and was wounded during the Asiatic-Pacific War, earning two Bronze Stars, the American Theater Ribbon, and Purple Heart, and finishing as a Tec-5, U.S. Army Soldier.
George was a 55-year member of American Legion Post 49, Fair Haven, Vermont.
For over 40 years, George worked and raised his family with Lue in Blissville, Vermont, as a dairy/apple farmer and tenant farmer for his late friend, Robert Brown Sr.
Surviving are his seven children, Gaylord, George Jr., Francis, Dianne, Jeanne, Michael, and Robert; 19 grandchildren and 26 great-grandchildren; and his siblings, Ceciele, Leo, Alice and Irene.
In addition to his wife, Lucienne, George was predeceased by two grandchildren, Curt and Tanya; and siblings Albert, Theresa, Laura, Paul, John, Lucille, Aimie, Phillip, Lorraine, and Blanche.
Graveside services with full military honors will be held in the spring at Vermont Veterans Cemetery in Randolph, Vermont.
Should friends desire, gifts in Mr. George Brosseau Sr.s memory may be made to Vermont Veterans Home B-Wing, Brandon Way, 325 North Street, Bennington, VT 05201.
Georges family would like to express appreciation to the Vermont Veterans Home for their excellent and compassionate care of their father during his six-year stay. Team B-Wing, The cows have now gone home.
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"None of my detractors have ever been harmed in any way by me or my business; two of my biggest detractors are trying to sell their over-priced riverfront homes." That was from Wayne Holbert who spoke at a meeting of the Upper Delaware Council (UDC) on August 4, about the Holbert Bluestone Quarry in Lackawaxen, PA.
The Lackawaxen Township supervisors voted on July 20 to give Holbert a permit to expand from some 10 acres (although neighbors claim it is actually about 18) to an additional 40. The UDC and the National Park Service have objected to the development because the quarry is in the river corridor and the River Management Plan (RMP) dictates that operations such as the quarry should not use more than four acres of land at any given time.
Holbert said that his operation must be larger than four acres because otherwise "there's no way you could have enough room to turn around." He added, "It's the way it's going to be, it's the way it is now." The Lackawaxen supervisors have claimed that the quarry is not subject to the RMP because it existed before the plan was adopted in the 1980s.
In a reference to some neighbors who oppose the expansion, Hobert said to the board, "You are not shills for big government or extreme tree-huggers."
On the other side of the issue, Ron Parker, who owns a home in the St. Vincent's Pointe neighborhood adjacent to the quarry and has said he will bring a lawsuit against the township because of the expansion permit, also addressed the board and commented on a letter sent to the UDC by Holbert's lawyer, Richard P. Mislitsky.
The Lackawaxen supervisors had denied a NPS request to speak at a hearing on the permit application. Mislitsky wrote that federal law prohibits NPS from participating in "matters like this," and the UDC was also denied standing. Parker said, if that was so, then township solicitor Tony Waldron would not have recommended that both organizations be included as parties to the proceedings, and in an earlier application regarding the same expansion in 2008, both organizations were, in fact, included in the proceedings.
Mislitsky's letter to the UDC also said, "Please do not make your decision because someone claims it is clearly 'not allowed.' Make your decision on what the RMP is intended to do—protect the river. Make those people prove to you how this application will harm the river."
But perhaps the most attention-getting item in Mislitsky's letter was the final, which said: "One more thing and I am truly reluctant to say this. If this matter must go to court, I will be forced to challenge the entire corridor in Lackawaxen Township. While I would never be so presumptuous as to predict what an appellate court will do, given existing law from the Commonwealth Court, in my opinion, it is more probable than not that the corridor will be removed from Lackawaxen Township due to procedural deficiencies in the adoption and administration of the overlay district."
The UDC board ultimately approved a motion to retain legal counsel for possible litigation.


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Home List of Titles Pair-instability and super-luminous supernova discoveries at z = 2.05, z = 2.50, and z = 3.90
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- Title
- Pair-instability and super-luminous supernova discoveries at z = 2.05, z = 2.50, and z = 3.90
- Author(s)
- Cooke, Jeff; Sullivan, Mark; Gal-Yam, Avishay; Carlberg, Raymond G.; Ellis, Richard S.; Barton, Elizabeth J.; Ryan-Weber, Emma V.; Horst, Chuck; Omori, Yuuki; Diaz, C. Gonzalo
- Abstract
- We present the discovery of three super-luminous supernovae (SLSNe) at z = 2 - 4 as part of our survey to detect ultraviolet-luminous supernova at z > 2. SLSNe are ≥10 times more luminous than normal supernova types, reaching peak luminosities of ≳1044 erg s−1. A small subset of SLSNe (type SLSN-R) exhibit a slow evolution, and thus enormous integrated energies (≳1051 erg), consistent with the radiative decay of several solar masses of 56Ni. SLSN-R are believed to be the deaths of very massive stars, ∼140 - 260 M☉, that are theorized to result in pair-instability supernovae. Two of the high redshift SLSNe presented here are consistent with the behavior of SLSN-R out to the extent in which their light curves are sampled, with the third event being consistent with the more rapid fade of the type II-L SLSN SN 2008es at z = 0.205. SLSNe are extremely rare locally but are expected to have been more common in the early Universe and as members of the first generation of stars to form after the Big Bang, the Population III stars. The high intrinsic luminosity of SLSNe and their detectability using our image-stacking technique out to z ∼ 6 provide the first viable route to detect and study the deaths of massive Population III stars which are expected to form in pristine gas at redshifts as low as z ∼ 2.
- Publication type
- Conference paper
- Source
- AIP Conference Proceedings: proceedings of 'From Hayashi to the Future', the First Stars IV Conference, Kyoto, Japan, 21-25 May 2012 / Masayuki Umemura and Kazuyuki Omukai (eds.), Vol. 1480, pp. 200-203
- Publication year
- 2012
- Keyword(s)
- Pair-instability supernovae; Super-luminous supernovae
- Publisher
- American Institute of Physics
- 0094-243X (series ISSN)
- 9780735410923, 0735410925
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North Central College recognized faculty and administrative staff members for their outstanding teaching, scholarship and service "above and beyond the call of duty" for the 2011-2012 academic year. Each was presented with endowed awards established in memory of two North Central College alumni—Clarence F. Dissinger, Class of 1921, and his sister Ruth C. Dissinger Althaus, Class of 1922. With the exception of the scholarship prize, awards were based on student, faculty and staff nominations and announced in May 2012.
The administrative staff award recipients are:
• Kristi Bonn (left), enrollment information systems specialist, received the award for Outstanding Administrative Manager. She has served the College for 10 years and earned a master of leadership studies degree from North Central College.
• Bessma Shammas (right), secretary in the Office of International Programs, received the award for Outstanding Administrative Support Staff. She has worked at the College for four years and earned a master of health professions education degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
The faculty award recipients are:
• Norval Bard—professor of French, chair of modern and classical languages and director of the Roberta I. Myers Language Resource Center—received the award for Distinguished Teaching by Senior Faculty. A member of the faculty since 1997, he holds a Ph.D. from The Pennsylvania State University.
• Carin Silkaitis, assistant professor of theatre, received the award for Distinguished Teaching by Junior Faculty. A faculty member since 2002, she holds an M.F.A. from The Theatre Conservatory, Roosevelt University.
• Bruce Janacek, associate professor of history, received the award for Outstanding Faculty Scholarship for his published monograph, "Alchemical Belief: Occultism in the Religious Culture of Early Modern England." A faculty member since 1999, he holds a Ph.D. from the University of California Davis.
In addition, President Harold R. Wilde received the Student Government Association 2012 Distinguished Service Award, which is presented during Honors Convocation to one person who has gone above and beyond to help students. Wilde has served North Central College as president for nearly 22 years and will retire from his role December 31, 2012.
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Bellaire bridge demo eyed
BENWOOD – U.S. Rep. David B. McKinley asked questions Thursday about the permit issues surrounding the proposed demolition of the Bellaire Bridge, its owners and the city of Benwood.
A scheduled teleconference set by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio involving Benwood leaders, bridge owner Lee Chaklos of Delta Demolition, Rep. Scott Rigell, R-Va., and legal professionals was canceled Thursday, Benwood Mayor Ed Kuca said. Judge Algenon L. Marbley has rescheduled the teleconference for 5 p.m. Tuesday.
On Feb. 11, the court gave KDC Investments and Delta Demolition 120 days – until June 20 – to secure the $1 million performance bond needed to obtain the permit, or face a $1,000-per-day fine. Benwood officials have since reduced the requested bond amount to $500,000 cash, but Chaklos has yet to obtain the bond or receive the required permit as the deadline has come and gone.
Kuca said McKinley now is slated to participate in Tuesday's teleconference.
"When the meeting didn't happen (on Thursday), we did get to speak by phone with Rep. McKinley," Kuca said. "We made a few statements on the situation, and on the liability insurance we would require. We also talked about the bridge permits.
"Rep. McKinley didn't know all of what was needed, and that's why he wanted to talk to (Police Chief Frank Longwell) and me. It also seems like he will be talking to the congressman from Virginia (Rigell)."
Chaklos has enlisted the help of Rigell, who has sent a letter to U.S. Department of Transportation asking the agency to intervene in the Bellaire Bridge issue. McKinley's office on Thursday acknowledged McKinley – also a civil engineer – had spoken with Kuca and Longwell.
"Our office is aware of the issue, and we've discussed it with city officials, but that's the extent of our involvement," said Jim Forbes, spokesman for McKinley.
In 2005, former Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio, included $1.7 million for the demolition of the Bellaire Bridge in a federal transportation bill. He later withdrew the request from the measure amid criticism of spending public funds to demolish private property, and that the bridge was not in his district.


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LED Light Bulbs
The bulbs can overheat during use, posing a fire hazard.
Lighting Science Group toll free at (855) 574-2533 from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. ET Monday through Friday, or online at www.lsgc.com
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The 120-volt LED bulbs, sold as 6- 8- and 9-watt bulbs (equivalent to 40 or 50 watts), were marketed under the brand names Definity, EcoSmart, Sylvania and Westinghouse. The model numbers A19, G25 and R20/PAR20 are found on the packaging and on the light-colored circular neck above the base of the bulb where the date code is also printed. The date code reflects the week and year of manufacture; for example date code L4010 was produced during the 40th week of 2010. The date codes listed below may have the letters "CH " or "MX " at the end. For example, date code L4010 can also appear as L4010CH or L4010MX. The date codes are:
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Catch & Toss
The Phillies found a back-up catcher today when they signed Brian Schneider to a $2.75 million, 2 year deal. Schneider spent the last 2 years with the Mets and the previous 8 seasons with the Nationals/Expos. The best news here is that Schneider was notorious for being a Phillie killer; pitching to him has been a 10 year nightmare. Overall, Schneider is a .251 hitter and should fit nicely into the back-up spot vacated by Paul Bako and Chris Coste before that.
And in a very odd twist to the situation, Coste has just been signed by the Mets! Coste started the 2009 season with the Phillies before being tossed and subsequently picked up off waivers by Houston in July. The self-proclaimed 33-year old rookie is now in enemy threads which is sure to send shockwaves throughout Philadelphia. Coste was well loved in Philly and many were unhappy with his departure. Not to mention, many would rather see him retire than play in a Mets uniform. It is a sad, sad day for Coste fans. But look at the bright side; at least we will get to see him a lot next year :O)
As for the other holes in the line-up, like third base, no word yet except that midnight tonight is the deadline for all teams to offer salary arbitration to their free agents. The Phillies are likely to offer arbitration to Chan Ho Park as they have stated they want him back next year. Park may decline and decide to look around for a starting pitching spot as several teams have seemed interested in him. If he accepts, he will be with the Phillies for 2010 and probably get a raise. As for the other free agents, Bako and Eric Bruntlett are out of the picture with their replacements already signed in Brian Schneider and Juan Castro. Brett Myers has already been shown the door, as has Jack Taschner. Pedro Feliz, Pedro Martinez, Matt Stairs and Miguel Cairo are also unlikely, although Stairs and Cairo may be offered minor league deals.
Ticket Prices
So, have we all looked at our season ticket invoices yet? This is not a huge shock, but Phillies ticket prices went up again this year by $2- $4 per ticket. Not only that, but some season ticket holders received worse seat assignments. Someone I know got bumped backwards 2 rows in the same section. So, we are now paying more for less? While 2 rows is not earth shattering, traditionally, season ticket holders have been rewarded for their loyalty with better seats from year to year, not punished.
So yes, the World Series win in 2008 plus the return trip in 2009 do affect the prices, unfortunately. But that does not make it any easier to swallow. The money does not go towards improving the team or free agency; it is just more in the pockets of the owners. And with the team winning now, they do it simply because they can.
Prices over the recent years have increased tremendously. A seat that cost $42 in 2004 is now $58 for 2010. The last year of the vet for the same seat was $26. What I am wondering though is what happens when the team sucks again? Do we become the Nationals with a stadium that is only 25% full? I follow the team win or lose, but I will not pay those prices to see them lose when I can do that at home for free. Then again, maybe they will never suck again…one can dream ;o)
So, did anyone else get there ticket invoice and wonder what happened? Did you get the same seats or did you get bumped back? What do you think about the prices? Let me know in the comment section below.
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I am a Sunday plan season ticket holder so the two dollar per seat takes the seats higher but at a level I am still comfortable with price wise I sit in the first level in the outfield. I couldn't afford a seat for 14 games between 1st and 3rd base really, so that's too bad that they are rising so quickly at $55 – 58 each. I remember only a few short years ago in the Vet, the same tickets were much more reasonable but you had more seats in that stadium also, it wasn't as intimate as CBP is that is for sure.
Anyway my real gripe is parking going up to $15 – this year, that is a high price to park. It just seems like they want to fleece you of all your money. I wouldn't pay anymore to park at the stadium, if it goes to $16 in '11 – I won't renew my seats. I am even thinking of not renewing next year, and maybe only picking two or three games out of the season and be happy with that. Like you said in your post, you seats shouldn't move, you should have first chance at renewing your seats and now that you mention about the seats, they are so small it's not really comfortable unless your in the Diamond Club Box Seats or Hall of Fame seats really!
This seems to be the trend all around baseball. I'm not fortunate enough to be a season ticket holder — I'm more a sucker for the cheap matchup (i.e. Sox v. Royals, et al) but I am equally as perturbed to see all the prices go up. I remember going to Dodger stadium in 2003 for $9 (bleacher seat but still). And that wasn't that long ago. Stick it to the fan, they say. As long as players are making $20 million a year, someone (you and I) has to pay for it.
My parents are Sunday season ticket holders, and while they didn't complain too much about the price increase, they're really ticked that they will be given fewer playoff game ticket opportunities than last year. Last year they were given tickets to 3 games…this year it'll only be 2 games. 😦
That pickup of Brian Schneider will be beneficial beyond just getting rid of a "Phillie Killer".
Gives the Phillies a little more flexibility behind the plate, and also upgrades the position a bit.
So far I have seen pretty low increases on the MLB's teams Season Tickets prices for 2010.
I know with the Rays, my section only went up $ 99 for the entire season.
Teams recognize the financial pains of the public, and know that if they try and boost or even hide raises, people will balk and stay home, or attend games less.
But so far it seems that the MLB clubs have done the right thing………..so far.
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Sorry to hear about the rise in ticket prices. I'd be mad if my seats were bumped back, I can tell you that! I guess it's a good thing I'm just a TV watcher for the most part and only attend a few games a year these days, via StubHub.
Unfortunately these days I am too far away to go for the season tickets… but it could be worse, it could be Yankee Stadium prices, or it could be the Indians or the Nats you have to watch for that price…2009 was actually cheaper to go to a Phillies game than an Indians game….and when the win the World Series in 2010, then 2011 prices will probably be higher again…
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Nutrition Facts
Serving Size ½ of recipe
Calories 288
Total Fat 15 g
Saturated Fat 4 g
Sodium 380 mg
Total Carbohydrate 1 g
Dietary Fiber 0 g
Protein 35 g
Ingredients and Preparation
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Butter brought to room temperature 2 teaspoons
Cilantro, chopped 1 tablespoon
Lemon zest ¼ teaspoon
Salt 1/8 + 1/8 teaspoon
Ground cumin ¼ teaspoon
Dash of cayenne pepper (optional)
Trout filets 2 (6-ounce)
Cooking spray
Fresh lemon juice 2 teaspoons
- Using a fork, combine butter, cilantro, lemon zest, and 1/8 teaspoon salt in a small bowl until smooth. Set aside.
- Sprinkle 1/8 teaspoon salt, cumin, and cayenne pepper over flesh side(s) of fish.
- Heat a large nonstick skillet generously coated with cooking spray over medium-high heat. Cook fish (skin-side first, if applicable) 2-3 minutes on each side, until it flakes easily with a fork.
- Plate fish, drizzle with lemon juice, top with cilantro butter, and serve.