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Baby Girl Born 2/17/10 to her two mommies
BF from day one. I looked up one day and realized I'm nursing a toddler!
Exclusively pumped for Lance Oct 07
Nursed until just before he turned 3 Levi Oct 09
Do you have extra milk? Consider donating!
"So I was welcomed by the consolations of human milk; but it was not my mother or my nurses who made any decision to fill their breasts, but you who through them gave me infant food, in accordance with your ordinance and the riches which are distributed deep in the natural order." -St Augustine
Breastflow bottles are the most like breastfeeding for babies who are really resistant to bottles. I had two kids who preferred that bottle.
You are still early enough that if you had to introduce a bottle, you should be able to get away with it easier than if your baby was older. And start a good stash...and check into options for donor milk in your area.
Hope you don't have to wean Bottles after knowing what BFing is like really stink
Mama to my all-natural boys: Ian, 9-4-04, 11.5 lbs; Colton, 11-7-06, 9 lbs, in the water; Logan, 12-8-08, 9 lbs; Gavin, 1-18-11, 9 lbs; and an angel 1-15-06
18+ months and for Gavin, born with an incomplete cleft lip and incomplete posterior cleft palate
Sealed for time and eternity, 7-7-93
Always babywearing, cosleeping and cloth diapering. Living with oppositional defiant disorder and ADHD. Ask me about cloth diapering and sewing your own diapers!
Gradually introduce a bottle every two days in place of a feeding until you are down to all bottles and no nursing sessions. It takes about two days for your body to adjust to skipping that feeding so I don't suggest going any faster than that. Remember being full is what tells your body to make less milk so you want your breasts to feel full just not overly full that it is uncomfortable. I have never tried cabbage leaves but I have heard good things about them for drying the milk.
Let's just hope that weaning isn't needed. Sending good vibes... I know I was drained for a few weeks after delivery of each baby.
Wife to Donnie , my best friend
Mom to Trenton 1/9/97, Dillan 11/22/01, Ashton 6/19/09
All boys, weaned at 15 months, at home with Ashton
I met with my doc and we decided to postpone going back on meds for at least two more weeks. I have begun to pump and trying to build a stash. My husband is going to try a bottle in the next few days.
The good news is that I can take an alternate med that won't be as good of treatment for me but it will keep my condition manageable so that I can continue to BF.
So many people have said - oh she'll be fine if you have to FF. And it would be fine if I HAD to, but for now am so thankful to not have to go there.
Little SW, Aug '09
Miss MW, Jan '11
Sir RW, Oct '12
3 kids in 38 mos
Baby Girl Born 2/17/10 to her two mommies
BF from day one. I looked up one day and realized I'm nursing a toddler!
Whew! Great news!
You can call me JoMo!
Mom to baby boy Joe, born 5/4/09 and breastfed for more than two and a half years, and baby girl Maggie, born 7/9/12.


text: RSS Events Feeds The Austin Python 12/11/2013 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM The Austin Python Meetup Monthly MeetupTell a friend ShareWednesday, December 11, 20137:00 PMCapital Factory (Located in the Austin Centre)701 Brazos Street, 16th floor, Austin, TX (map)We typically have a main presentation or a series of lightning talks, followed by discussion and Q&A. There is a diversity of domains and experience levels represented, so come with your questions and be prepared to talk about how you use Python!(Note: Starting November 2012, we will be meeting at the Capital Factory space on the 16th floor of the Omni Hotel in downtown Austin! This is our new regular location!) Learn More: The Austin Python

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Cramer's 'Mad Money' Recap: A New Dawn for Europe?
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- It's always darkest before the dawn, Jim Cramer said on "Mad Money" Thursday, and the dawn may finally be at hand for Europe. If that's true, he added, then it will be a game-changer for the stock market.
Cramer said he hasn't mentioned Europe of late because up until a few weeks ago there hasn't been anything positive to say. The European markets were continuing to weaken because the central bank opted to raise, rather than lower, interest rates. As the continent's economy ground to a halt, it took China with it because Europe is the largest market for Chinese goods.
But starting two weeks ago, things began to change, Cramer continued. As earnings began rolling in, companies including Eaton
That trend was confirmed by many of the European banks, which reported better-than-expected numbers, along with General Motors
Cramer said with the European Central Bank lowering interest rates just today, it is finally signaling it is interested in making things better rather than worse -- a move that will be a boon for U.S. companies that have been making their European operations leaner and getting ready for the turn that may be at hand now.
If Europe turns positive, it will instantly boost the stocks of U.S. industrials, minerals, oil and gas, banks and technology stocks, said Cramer. It could be the key to higher prices the markets have been waiting for.
Executive Decision: David Pyott
In the "Executive Decision" segment, Cramer spoke with David Pyott, chairman, president and CEO of Allergan
Pyott started off on a positive note, saying that just today a U.S. Food and Drug Administration committee has recommended approval for its drug Voluma. That positive news is on top of the company's 1-cent-a-share earnings beat on better-than-expected revenue.


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J. Christopher Stevens, the U.S. Ambassador to Libya who was among four Americans killed amid protests in Libya, was a "courageous and exemplary representative of the United States," President Barack Obama said in a statement on Wednesday.
The four -- who also included Foreign Service Information Management Officer Sean Smith, a father of two -- "exemplified America's commitment to freedom, justice, and partnership with nations and people around the globe," Obama said.
Born in 1960 in northern California, Stevens had been a diplomat for two decades after previously working as an international trade lawyer in Washington, D.C., according to his biography on the State Department website.
"Chris was committed to advancing America's values and interests, even when that meant putting himself in danger," Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday in a statement posted on the official Facebook page of the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli.
Ben Curtis / AP, file
U.S. envoy Chris Stevens speaks to local media at the Tibesty Hotel in Benghazi, Libya, in this Monday, April 11, 2011 file photo.
"I had the privilege of swearing in Chris for his post in Libya only a few months ago. As the conflict in Libya unfolded, Chris was one of the first Americans on the ground in Benghazi. He risked his own life to lend the Libyan people a helping hand to build the foundation for a new, free nation. He spent every day since helping to finish the work that he started."
Stevens had only just taken up his appointment, arriving in May after having served two previous roles in the country: Special Representative to the Libyan Transitional National Council during the Libyan revolution from March 2011 to November 2011, and Deputy Chief of Mission from 2007 to 2009.
US ambassador, 3 others killed in attacks on Libya mission
He had also previously worked in Jerusalem, Damascus and Riyadh and was a Pearson Fellow with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. From 1983 to 1985 he taught English as a Peace Corps volunteer in Morocco.
A video posted on the U.S. Embassy's official YouTube channel in May showed Stevens introducing himself to the Libyan people and speaking of his excitement at his new role.
President Obama, alongside Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, condemns "in the strongest terms" the "outrageous and shocking attack" that claimed the lives of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
He was fluent in Arabic and French, and had earned an undergraduate degree at the University of California at Berkeley in 1982, a J.D. from the University of California's Hastings College of Law in 1989, and an M.S. from the National War College in 2010.
'Smiling, easygoing'
The Washington Post reported that Stevens was "smiling, easygoing and friendly" and "well-known at the State Department and on Capitol Hill."
His efforts to improve relations between the U.S. and Libya were underlined at one of his most recent public appearances. At a reception in Tripoli on August 26, he announced that the issuing of U.S. visas to Libyans would resume the following morning, according to a report in The Tripoli Post.
Mourning the incomprehensible, tragic death of my friend Chris Stevens, a great man &proud FSO.Stunned.— Lara Friedman (@Lara_APN) September 12, 2012
"The reopening of our consular section will create new opportunities for deepening the ties between our two countries," the newspaper quoted him as saying. "Relationships between governments are important, but relationships between people are the real foundation of mutual understanding," Stevens said.
A statement from Frank Wu, Chancellor and Dean of the University of California's Hastings College of the Law, issued to NBC Bay Area station KNTV, said: "The Ambassador was performing the highest role that a lawyer is called upon to perform: public service. He and I communicated when he was appointed Ambassador. He had been looking forward to sharing his experiences with students when he returned. This is a tragedy. We mourn this loss."
U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Select Committee on Intelligence, also issued a statement, saying: "I had the chance of meeting Ambassador Chris Stevens during his confirmation process and again when I visited Libya last year. He was an exemplary diplomat and his embassy staff could not have been more helpful and knowledgeable during my visit. My prayers are with the families and loved ones of these courageous diplomats who were working to help the Libyan people rise from the ashes of Gaddafi's rule."
Steven McDonald, a longtime friend of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens who was killed in the consulate attack in Libya, comments on his friend's compassion, integrity and commitment.
Lara Friedman, director of policy and government relations at Israeli-American charity, Americans for Peace Now, who described herself as a friend of Stevens, posted on Twitter that his death was "incomprehensible, tragic."
The BBC reported that, in diplomatic cables leaked by the WikiLeaks site in 2010, Stevens had once described Col. Moammar Gadhafi as "notoriously mercurial" and wrote that he could be an "engaging and charming interlocutor."
Sean Smith was a husband and a father of two, who joined the State Department ten years ago, Clinton's statement said. "Like Chris, Sean was one of our best. Prior to arriving in Benghazi, he served in Baghdad, Pretoria, Montreal, and most recently The Hague," it said.
Ambassador Chris Stevens was popular, young. A new generation of ambassador. Active, an athlete. He'll be missed— Richard Engel (@RichardEngel) September 12, 2012
More world stories from NBC News:
- Report: US ambassador, 3 others killed in Libya
- Romney slams Obama over attacks on US officials in Libya, Egypt
- Despite dark past, young Israelis seek new lives in German capital
- No Obama-Netanyahu meeting as rift over Iran widens
- Where is China's heir-apparent? Rumors abound
- Dead Guantanamo detainee had been cleared for release
- 100 most endangered species listed; worth saving?
- Afghan Taliban made $400 million last year, UN estimates


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Editor's note: PC Hacks author Jim Aspinwall handpicks two Linux-specific hacks to share from his new book. Whether Linux just won't boot or it isn't as zippy as you'd expect, help is merely a hack away. Jim will teach you how to recover your system's boot-ability as well as how to test and optimize Linux's settings for the best hard drive performance.
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PC Hacks
Use the SystemRescueCD to repair a blown GRUB or LILO boot.
Linux has advanced disk management and repair tools too. Of note is the SystemRescueCD from http://www.sysresccd.org. SystemRescueCD is offered as an ISO file that can be written to a CD-R to make a bootable rescue CD. The packages includes several essential tools for fixing Linux boot-up problems, including:
It also includes a variety of filesystem tools that allow you to format, resize, and debug an existing partition of your hard disk supporting e2fs, reiserfs, xfs, jfs, ntfs, and DOS partition types.
With these tools on hand, you may never have to reinstall a Linux operating system again.
HDPARM is to Linux what the Intel Bus Master and Via IDETool driverperformance enhancements are to Microsoft Windows. Don't forget to include this gem in your next Linux system build.
To be on the safe side, your new Linux installation starts up with the least common denominator of disk drive performance capabilities—typically DMA-33—robbing you of 50–150% of your potential performance. Once Linux is installed, you are free and encouraged to start tweaking the configuration of your disk drive and its interface to squeeze the most of them.
WARNING: Setting HDPARM parameters too aggressively—that is, in excess of the disk controller or drive capabilities—can lead to data loss.
It is best to test HDPARM settings on a fresh installation of the operating system before committing any applications or programs to the drive and prepare to back down on the settings and reinstall the OSif the drive is unstable or the HDPARM tests show erratic results or fail.
The tool needed, HDPARM, is included with the operating system (or available from your package manager). It can be adjusted manually and then put into a startup script to make your chosen settings effective every time the system starts up.
HDPARM is a command-line utility that provides powerful control over your hard drive parameters (HD PARaMeters). It can also tell you a lot about your disk drive. Everything you do with HDPARM, until you make a script for it, will be done at the command line.
TIP: You must be logged in as root to run HDPARM. You can also use the sudo command to run the command as root if you have sufficient privileges.
Assume /dev/hda is the designation for your hard drive. (This is the default for the first IDE drive; a SATA drive may appear as /dev/hde if your motherboard also has IDE interfaces.) Run the following command:
hdparm -i /dev/hda
You should get some info like the following:
Model=QUANTUM FIREBALLlct, FwRev=APL.1234, SerialNo=1234567
Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=32256, SectSize=21298, ECCbytes=4
BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=418kB, MaxMultSect=8, MultSect=off
CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=-66060037, LBA=yes, LBAsects=39876478
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5
Drive Supports : ATA/ATAPI-5 T13 1321D revision 1 : ATA-1 ATA-2
This tremendous amount of data provided tells you:
Another command:
hdparm /dev/hda
reveals the following information:
multcount = 0 (on)
I/O support = 0 (16-bit)
unmaskirq = 0 (off)
using_dma = 0 (off)
keepsettings = 0 (off)
nowerr = 0 (off)
readonly = 0 (off)
readahead = 8 (on)
geometry = 2482/255/63, sectors = 39876480, start = 0
The HDPARM program provides two performance-testing features that are crucial to letting you know whether or not you're making improvements as you tweak along. The command:
hdparm -Tt /dev/hda1
will show results such as the following before enhancing the performance:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 5.97 seconds = 21.43 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 17.97 seconds = 3.56 MB/sec
and then results like these after enhancing the performance:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.91 seconds =140.66 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 3.78 seconds = 16.93 MB/sec
The goal of this hack is to see the time in seconds decrease and the MB/sec to increase. You can do that by using a variety of parameters, invoked one at a time, then rerunning the performance tests to see if things are improving or not.
Mistakes during the setup process may damage your filesystem and all of its data, so it's best to do this after a fresh install of Linux or right after you've done a full backup.
Begin by setting the operating mode of the interface between the system and
the disk drive using one of the following parameters:
hdparm -c0 /dev/hda #sets operating mode to 16-bits
hdparm -c1 /dev/hda #sets operating mode to 32-bits
hdparm -c3 /dev/hda #sets operating mode to 32-bits synchronized
Mode 1 (-c1) is used most often for best performance. Mode 3 (-c3) only is needed for some chipsets.
Next set the data transfer parameters, which you can determine from the output of the "-I" command shown earlier (in that case 8 is the maximum supported):
hdparm -m8 /dev/hda
Next try activating DMA mode for your system interface:
hdparm -d1
Then set the drive mode (a value of X32 is most common; UDMA-5 is X69):
hdparm -X32 /dev/hda
hdparm -X69 /dev/hda
Finally, try setting the read-ahead value, which is typically set to the same value as multcount from earlier, or 8:
hdparm -a8 /dev/hda
If any or all of these settings make incremental improvements in performance, remember them and create a script that sets them all sequentially or includes them all in one line. I prefer sequential lines to ensure the drive accepts each command separately and I do not lose a setting if another fails to take. From all of this, you might typically be using the following parameters:
hdparm -c1
hdparm -m8 /dev/hda
hdparm -d1
hdparm -X34 /dev/hda
hdparm -a8 /dev/hda
Another single-command example that may work best for your system is:
hdparm -X66 -d1 -u1 -m16 -c3 /dev/hda
Save either to a file and make the file a script to place in the directory for the runlevel at which you normally use Linux. For example:
ln -s /etc/init.d/hdparm.local /etc/rc5.d/S20hdparm.local
The next step is to keep an eye on dmesg and/or /var/log/syslog. In some
cases, an error will cause the settings to be reset. So that's where the
-k (keep) flag comes in. If you're 100% positive that these settings won't
corrupt your data, you can add -k to the script.
Jim Aspinwall has been the Windows Helpdesk columnist and feature editor for CNET.com and is the author of three books on PC maintenance.
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CLINE, Bernadine
CLINE, Bernadine, 94, of Sardis, OH died Friday, October 11, 2013 at the Monroe County Care Center, Woodsfield, OH.
She was born April 27, 1919 in Brownsville, OH a daughter of the late Charles and Amelia Jane "Jennie" Carson Busche.
Bernadine was a homemaker; a member of the Brownsville United Methodist Church; member of the Community Club of Sardis; member of the V.F.W. #9930 Women's Auxiliary and a member of the WSCS.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her first husband, Austin Hensel; her second husband, Faunt Cline; one son, Floyd Busche; three brothers, Herbert, Robert and Ralph Busche; two grandsons, William Busche and John Russell Morris.
Survivors include six daughters, Betty Hensel Cline of Hayesville, OH, Carolyn (James) Hensel Howell of Jerusalem, OH, Vera Hensel Morris of Canton, OH, Judy Hensel of Woodsfield, OH, Helen "Gene" Hensel Hawkins of Brinkhaven, OH and Patty (Dan) Cline Pikula of Gahanna, OH; one step-son, Vernon (Mary Annette) Cline of Woodsfield, OH; 18 grandchildren; 18 great grandchildren; three great-great- grandchildren.
Family will receive friends on at the Grisell Funeral Home, 37234 Mound St., Sardis, Monday, October 14, 2013 from 5-8 p.m. where funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, October 15, 2013 with Rev. Richard Wilson officiating.
Interment will follow in the German Lutheran Cemetery, Brownsville, OH.
Sympathy expressions at grisellfuneralhomes.com.


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Every Friday from now until Spring Training, we will be posting some of the better contestant stories from our I'm the Biggest Phillies Fan contest. If you think you have what it takes to be featured, but did not get a submission in, you can still share your story by filling out this form.
I live in Chicago for work, but I grew up in the Philadelphia area and have been a die hard Phils fan since I was in elementary school. 3 years ago, in an effort to rally Philly fans together in Chicago, I created a Meetup group in Chicago for Philly fans to get together and watch Phillies and Birds games. It originally began with 3 members and has now grow to over 250.
I negotiated with a Chicago bar to show every Phillies and Eagles game for the past three seasons (through MLB package and NFL Ticket) as well as negotiated with a distributor to import Yuengling beer on a weekly basis. I also organized Philly cheesesteaks (from Jim's) to be sent to the bar so philly fans can have access to an authentic Philadelphia experience while watching the Phils and Birds. This bar in Chicago has a gigantic Phillies flag and Eagles flag out in front of the bar (Mad River) and we have drawn 200+ fans for each playoff game this season
Additionally, I recently reached out to Don Tollefson at Fox Sports in Philadelphia and he is considering doing a story on this Philly bar that is located 700 miles away from the Bank.
On a personal note, I have not taken off my Phils hat since losing to Colorado last season (with the exception of important work functions). As you can see, in this picture, from last year, I didn't even take it off for my Halloween costume (the above picture is from after the Phils-Cubs game in Chicago this year in which I attended all 4).
My worst sports moment in my lifetime was Joe Carter's home run and all I want is an opportunity to see the Fightin's in the World Series. I'm already going to be in Philly for the weekend to be with my family and friends, so even if I don't go to the game, I'll be around the best Phils fans that I know.
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That's an awesome story. When I go to see play the Cubs at Wrigley next season, I HAVE to find that bar.
Nice to see the dedication, Adam.
Mark ~ I am am going to see the Cubs and Phils and I will definatly have to check out the bar. Nice story Adam.
He's full of shit. Its a u. michigan bar.
While it is an eagles bar (also a michigan bar on saturdays) and we did show up for the phillies play off games…this story is not true, and im very dissappointed someone would post this nonsense…without wasting any more time on this dribble…Mad River is a great place to go watch the games, if anyone is in town for the Birds, thats the place to be.
Hey! I know that guy! ROGGINS!
ERRONEOUS!! As a dedicated member of the Eagles group in Chicago for the last three years, I can attest that there is NO Yuengling at Mad River. The manager there brought some in from their Philly location last season but it lasted for only 3 weeks. There are NO Jim's steaks at Mad River and never has been. We eat the cheesesteaks that the bar serves. The writer of this post is merely a member and has never been involved in organizing anything! I think the only part of this dude's story that's actually true, is that his worst Philly moment was Joe Carter's homerun.
Well, nonetheless it's nice to see Phillies presence in such a baseball town like Chicago. Adam, I'll have to check the place out, Tim you might have to give Adam the Steve Jeltz award for the B.S. bud. Haha.
it was a fun month here in Chicago. Cubs fans were happy for us, and i'm still be congratulated as i walk down the street in a sweatshirt or hat. we had great representation at Mad River. the bar was packed every night, everyone waiving towels. the actual organizer did a really good job getting the bar all set up for the playoffs. it was a month i will never forget. not going to lie, it would have been nice to have real cheesesteaks, i was getting sick of the mad river version.
did he get WS tickets for this crap?
Instead of "fan friday" and posting made up stories from people who were trying to get WS tickets i think it would be cool to do a series on former phils.
A "Where are they now" type deal. for example -Darren Daulton tclaims he can time travel and writes books about it.
Micky Morandini is a highschool janitor in some small town in Indiana. I'm sure there is tons of this stuff out there.
Just a thought/.
It doesn't make sense to "send" to a bar in Chicago, 200+ cheesesteaks from Jim's. They could easily sell those 200 in 10 minutes in Philly haha
Tim, I like the idea…. But I just think that EVERYONE who has their story posted about why they deserve the tickets is going to get BASHED…. I'd like to hear about what kind of booze Mickey Morandini pours into his coffee before he goes to mop the gym floor..
No one is getting tickets for this. We already dispensed our WS game tickets to our official winners at that time.
Although this picture is of me, I DID NOT write this post and agree this not accurate . I know the organizers of the group an they deserve full credit for its organization. What is true is that this is an awesome philly bar to go to in Chicago.
Ah the art of saving face. you got caught red handed buddy
Wow. I didn't know Adam was the organizer. Interesting.
Really not that important to me to "save face" buddy.
Oh man, what a disaster. I posted this though, not Tim. We'll see how the next few Fridays go before we pull the plug completely.
well, you can always post my story. it's all true. granted i only live 5 minutes from CBP, but i have been a Phillies die hard for over 30 years.
Jesus! All you philly heads need to calm down! I posted this to screw with my friend who I've been with many times to Mad River. It's a blog for god sake. Maybe that's why no one respects you as fans- because you beat up on your own people.
Brian 22 you are a low life.
pull the plug on this idea. you have too many low life liers like brian. try to find out what mickey uses to clean the gym floors, more interseting than a 22 year old goofs who post lies.
Brian is his boyfriends name, and 22 is his boyfriend Brian's shoe size.
Brian 22, you're obviously not from philly (and maybe have never been there) and have no idea what philly fans are all about. You owe your friend an apology for posting that b.s and using his name and picture. If I were him, I'd pull an Andre Waters and knock you the f- out.
Ahh… The City of Brotherly Love… Such bliss.
hahahahah this is hilarious…. I love when a little joke just explodes… oh well, cheers!
duh, Brian22 = Adam. We're not beating up on our own people, we're calling someone out who made up a fake story to try and get world series tickets
I don't know if everyone would get bashed. It's just this story was false and took credit for work other people put a lot of effort into. I don't expect to see Adam at mad river tomorrow.
please take out those pictures.
Just to add my two cents in:
My mom once dated Don Tollefson.
[/true story]
That is all.
Tell you Mom to give me a call.
I, along with 46,000+ other fans showed our dedication by going to and sitting through Monday's game 5 monsoon. We all got what we wanted and deserved. A WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONSHIP. We are all true fans!
I own Tollie.


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Each was smiling, hoping that one of the potential buyers would take a liking to their pieces.
This is the first of two gallery showings and sales held at the college's gallery this year — each done at a semester's end.
Jayne Duryea, fine arts division chair, said that 80 artists have their pieces in the show — each made during this past semester.
In education speak, this is called Student Learning Outcome. For the students though, this is a boost in their morale as they see that their hard work has paid off — literally.
Each piece, whether made of ceramic, glass, paint or graphite, went anywhere from $20 to $150 depending upon what the artist and the buyer could negotiate.
Esmeralda Torres was there with her sister, Elizabeth Torres, admiring the work of her fellow students.
Esmeralda doesn't plan on being an artist, but she is enjoying her time in the program.
"I am going into radiology," she said. "I am just taking the class because I enjoy it."
A little later that morning, Whitney Bohac would begin smiling and wouldn't quit until she sold four of her five paintings.
"The day is still young though," she said as she pointed out the last remaining piece of hers not yet sold.
It is an abstract piece comprised mainly of black lines and a smattering of colored squares.
"It was the hardest painting ever," she said.
Her biggest fan – well, it was her mother – wanted to offer some encouragement.
Abylene Bohac said that she remembers the amount of work her daughter put into the class.
"I know good stuff when I see it. She had more talent than she thought," she said.
Each painting represents to this mother both hers and her daughter's "blood, sweat and tears."
The pieces will have a special place in her home as reminders to her daughter of just what can be accomplished with persistence.
"I am going to hang them all over the house," she said.
By early that afternoon, art collectors had paid a total of $1,035.
For those who missed these first few hours of the sale, there is still plenty of time to make offers and support these budding artists.
The Simon Michael Art Gallery is open from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. Monday though Thursday. Those wishing to make an offer should call Duryea at 361-354-2322.
Jason Collins is the editor at the Bee-Picayune and can be reached at 358-2550, ext. 121, or at email@example.com.


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- Title
- Unburned material in the ejecta of type Ia supernovae
- Author(s)
- Folatelli, Gaston; Phillips, M. M.; Morrell, Nidia; Tanaka, Masaomi; Maeda, Keiichi; Nomoto, Ken'ichi; Stritzinger, Maximilian; Burns, Christopher R.; Hamuy, Mario; Mazzali, Paolo; Boldt, Luis; Campillay, Abdo; Contreras, Carlos; Gonzalez, Sergio; Roth, Miguel; Salgado, Francisco; Freedman, W. L.; Madore, Barry F.; Persson, S. E.; Suntzeff, Nicholas B.
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- The presence of unburned material in the ejecta of normal Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) is investigated using early-time spectroscopy obtained by the Carnegie Supernova Project. The tell-tale signature of pristine material from a C+O white dwarf progenitor star is the presence of carbon, as oxygen is also a product of carbon burning. The most prominent carbon lines in optical spectra of SNe Ia are expected to arise from C II. We find that at least 30% of the objects in the sample show an absorption at 6300 Å which is attributed to C II λ6580. An alternative identification of this absorption as Hα is considered to be unlikely. These findings imply a larger incidence of carbon in SNe Ia ejecta than previously noted. We show how observational biases and physical conditions may hide the presence of weak C II lines, and account for the scarcity of previous carbon detections in the literature. This relatively large frequency of carbon detections has crucial implications on our understanding of the explosive process. Furthermore, the identification of the 6300 & 0197; absorptions as carbon would imply that unburned material is present at very low expansion velocities, merely 1000 km s–1 above the bulk of Si II. Based on spectral modeling, it is found that the detections are consistent with a mass of carbon of 10–3 to 10–2 M ☉. The presence of this material so deep in the ejecta would imply substantial mixing, which may be related to asymmetries of the flame propagation. Another possible explanation for the carbon absorptions may be the existence of clumps of unburned material along the line of sight. However, the uniformity of the relation between C II and Si II velocities is not consistent with such small-scale asymmetries. The spectroscopic and photometric properties of SNe Ia with and without carbon signatures are compared. A trend toward bluer color and lower luminosity at maximum light is found for objects which show carbon.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies. Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing
- Source
- Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 745, no. 1 (Jan 2012), article no. 74
- Publication year
- 2012
- FOR Code(s)
- 0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences; 0305 Organic Chemistry; 0306 Physical Chemistry (Incl. Structural)
- Keyword(s)
- Ejecta; SNe Ia; Spectroscopy; Type Ia supernovae; Unburned material
- Publisher
- Institute of Physics Publishing
- Publisher URL
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2012 The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. The American Astronomical Society does not allow institutions to archive either the accepted manuscript or the published version of the article. However, you can find an earlier version of the full text here: http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.3789.
- Additional information
- The authors acknowledge support from the NSF under grants AST-0306969, AST-0908886, AST-0607438, and AST-1008343, the World Premier International Research Center Initiative (WPI Initiative), MEXT, Japan, a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research for Young Scientists (23740175), and CONICYT through grants FONDECYT Regular 1060808, Centro de Astrofisica FONDAP 15010003, Centro BASAL CATA (PFB-06), and the Millennium Center for Supernova Science (P06-045-F).
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Madara is only badass right now because of his edo.
The regular madara could not last with naruto and kurama.
P.s. I think naruto will be around super saiyan 2 level after his next power-up.
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If you count my very first publication, I've been writing online for just about 10 years. Unlike people who know better, I've also spent a fair amount of that time reading the comments. I do that for lots of reasons. One is narcissism. Why bother casting a stone out into the lake if you don't want to watch the ripple it makes? Comics don't tell their jokes behind a wall of soundproof glass, right? But another reason is because even though comments sections are filled with some of the worst people in the world, you can usually learn something by throwing yourself into the mix, and exposure to contrary, even wrong-headed opinions can help crystallize your own beliefs.
We're so happy and well-balanced, we couldn't possibly be online right now.
Someday, I might write more about mistakes I've made and what I've learned about myself through the Internet (like I did in my forthcoming novel Notes from the Internet Apocalypse), but today's column is about other people on the World Wide Web. After a decade knee-deep in e-opinion, this is what the Internet has taught me about the Internet.
4 The Internet Excels At Interpreting Things in the Way That Is Most Offensive to It
There's no doubt I've written some inflammatory things online and been pretty clear about it. I've trashed Green Day, Taylor Swift and people who create gaps in lines. The funny part is, judging by the comments, some of the most insulting things I've ever written weren't even intended to offend.
Part of the problem is that even on a site like Cracked, which runs longer pieces, you only have a finite time to reach a reader. There is a balance between making a point and explaining every conceivable counterpoint. Still, despite my strong opinions, I usually recognize exceptions to every rule and often couple my damnation with qualifying statements. You'd think that would prevent people from getting offended. After all, if you had a choice between reading a sentence in such a way that's personally insulting or believing there was no insult directed at you, who would choose to be offended? Well, the answer is just about everyone.
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I've written about the value of debating or arguing because, as discussed above, confronting differing opinions usually solidifies your thinking or shows you why you're wrong. Many people avoid that conflict because they're too arrogant to believe someone else could be right. Others avoid it knowing deep down that they don't have the ability to defend their beliefs and don't care to understand them. The thing is, both times I've written about this, I've explained that, of course, arguing with some people isn't worth it. There are loud-mouthed imbeciles who only cast insults and don't debate ideas. But countless people took offense anyway and explained why they don't want confrontations with people who are just loud-mouthed insulting blowhards.
"Well, I'm sure I could interpret that as not applying to me, but then how could I be offended?"
Another time, I wrote a column about terrible college experiences that prepare you for life, like seeing people do bad things without consequences. At one point, I talked about all the women I'd met who'd been date raped. Here's a portion of what I wrote:
"I wish it were only one or two girls at school who had stories about getting date raped, but it seemed like it was at least 25 percent of all women I knew. And in almost none of those cases was there a criminal investigation. That's a lot of rapists walking around in the world, remembering that time they crawled inside that nearly comatose girl with a fond smile."
Yep, that pissed off some dudes. Dudes who wanted to defend the date rapists they knew nothing about. They said the chicks wanted it or the dudes were drunk, too. All I did was describe a date rapist, but they saw someone else, invented other factors, until they had enough information to be offended.
Of course, I've offended some women, too. One of my favorite columns talked about how Sex and the City feminism had led some women to confuse being slutty with being empowered. My point was simply that when it comes to sex, feminism means that women should have the same right as men to be whores. Nevertheless, whores (whether they are male or female) are not particularly admired. Many seemed to understand that there was nothing even vaguely inflammatory about that logic, but several people accused me of "mansplaining" and "slut-shaming." Those people read my words and heard something else: their preacher, father, abusive boyfriend, I don't know. But it wasn't me. My words were merely triggers to memories that shouted, "If you have lots of sex, you're a bad, whorish woman," but those words weren't there.
Pictured above: Not me.
3 The Internet Greatly Prefers to Be Helpful at the Very End of a Tragedy
Ernest Hemingway's famous writing advice was to write the truest sentence you know. About a year ago, I achieved that goal. Unfortunately, because I'm not Ernest Hemingway, and because I live in the 21st century, I wasted that sentence on my Twitter:
For context, that was written after Amy Winehouse and Whitney Houston died. With their deaths came a flood of tears from the Net. Such a loss. How tragic! Then all the #RIP tweets and Facebook postings. Some shitty poetry and sappy Photoshops canonizing the departed. But where were all these efforts during these artists' lives? How many cheered Winehouse while she sang about rejecting rehab and continued down a destructive path? Where were all the prayers for Whitney's sobriety? Would they have not been more constructive than those postmortem pleas to heaven that she finally be at peace with the Lord?
But that's much harder, right? I mean, to make a big deal out of suffering while it's actually happening requires action. You'd have to do something. Even worse, you'd have to keep doing something until the problem's fixed. Most people don't do that. It's too hard, and that's why I reject the bullshit sentimentality of people who wait for the very end of a tragedy to publicly proclaim their feelings. It's why I raise suspicious eyebrows to saintly comics who take pride in not making "too soon" jokes. I know it feels nice, it looks good, but you get no points for that in this life.
I'm not being holier than thou. I'm no exception. The other day, when crossing the street, I walked past a severely handicapped young man. I heard his tortured speech as he turned to speak to his caregiver, and I was so overcome by his affliction that I started to cry. Right there in the middle of the street. Do you know what I did next? Nothing. Do you know how many charities for the mentally handicapped I've donated to or volunteered at? None. My only contribution was my worthless tears. Look how good I am. I cried. And kept walking. Because it's easiest to cry when you keep walking.


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text: My baby is 7 months old. I am returning to work in a week. Since she was one month old we tried to get her to take a bottle and she refuses. I've tried every bottle imaginable even sippy cups. I've had my husband and family members try and feed her but no luck. I don't know what to do. She will be with a baby sitter and I know she will be very difficult to deal with if she goes hungry. I am thinking that if I just stopping breast feeding all together it will force her to take a bottle. I am about ready to stop and do not plan on pumping when I go back to work. If I let my milk supply dry up will she take a bottle?? Please help. :hello


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I'm still not quite sure how I made it to Phoolwari Child Development Center in Delhi's Suraj Park slum, but perhaps one never understands the directions and way to the places that exist beneath the radar.
I remember looking out the window of the van and noticing the markets, the vibrant colors of the fruits, the beautiful sarees and then the almost instantaneous transition to a land devastated by waste and trash. A desperate look in the eyes of all the children, women and men crowded together in the hollows of the dirt pathways lined with small dirt and cardboard-built homes.
Suraj Park is one of Delhi's largest slums, with more than 400,000 people living there. I traveled small dirt pathways littered with trash and waste. Children and older women stopped and stared as my group passed (literally squeezed) by them. I wondered if they too were trying to understand how I had made it to the slum.
The distinct smell of the slum cloaked me as I was led by a few of the center workers. There were five of us total, and we needed to split into two groups because we could not all squeeze through the pathways; even more so, we all could absolutely not fit into their homes.
My group was taken to a mother's house. She has two small girls and is eight months pregnant with her third child. Her name is Susema.
Susema. I say her name in my mind often as if I am afraid to forget her. It is a beautiful name and she is a beautiful woman.
I stepped through the blanket used to cover the small doorway into her home. Entering her home has forever unlocked new images of poverty within my mind. It uncovered a different understanding of poverty in my heart. It is beyond me that with one step the Lord unlocked within my being a new world, but that is exactly what He did.
The first step I took placed my feet on the corner of the family's sleeping mat. Once my eyes adjusted to the dark and I realized that I was stepping on her mat, covered by a rug — which was undoubtedly where she,her husband and their two daughters slept — I quickly moved.
I wanted somewhere else to step, but there was nowhere else to go. This mother's home was only big enough for a sleeping mat and a few shelves hung on the walls, which held some broken toys and crumbled papers.
As our translator spoke I found out Susema is eight months pregnant. Now, I have never been pregnant but I have known quite a few women who have been.
I know that during pregnancy some parents choose to find out the gender of the child. At Susema's stage in pregnancy, a baby shower (or possibly multiple showers) has taken place for many women. At this stage, the parents have prepared the nursery, and perhaps the mother's overnight hospital bag is ready to go. And surely at this stage, the mother has had regular checkups to ensure her and the baby's health.
Susema has not had such an experience. There is no nursery for her child, and to be honest I was trying to figure out how she, her husband, her two little girls and this new baby were all going to fit on the small mat tha is their bed.
With each answer she gave us to our questions, my heart poured out for her a little more. She is proud of her husband who makes a living by driving a rickshaw. She was not worried for the birth of her third child. She smiled often and rubbed her belly, an expression of care for her unborn child.
Susema. She is living in a place most people have never heard of. She is a mother to two young daughters. She is a wife to a hardworking husband. She is living in the utter definition of poverty. But Susema is also in our Child Survival Program.
Susema is not afraid of the day she will give birth. She is not wondering if her baby will receive nutritious food. She is not devastated because she has not been able to keep herself healthy during the pregnancy.
Susema meets regularly with other mothers in the slum to learn about health and how to care for their unborn children. They learn about how to care for the children after giving birth and they learn about the love of the Lord. In fact, when I entered her home the first words she uttered were, "Hello. Praise the Lord."
Susema's two daughters were happy and played with each other for the duration of the visit. They did not know shame and were not intimidated by the white women that filled their home. Maybe they were too young to know the shame poverty can bring, but I do not think that was the case because Susema had the same demeanor about her.
One lady asked, "What is it like to have us into your home? Is this a burden? Are you overwhelmed?"
As soon as the translation went through Susema smiled and shook her head, "No," she said, "It is an honor. I am grateful you have come to visit me and my family."
Her response is the product of hope, the restoration of worth; the deep knowledge of the love of the Lord and His ability to rescue her.
Susema expressed how invaluable the Child Survival Program has been for her: the fellowship with the other women, the education about pregnancy, the support from the church and the teaching of Jesus' love, and the provision of nutritious food and necessary medicines.
It is very true that Susema and her family live in a slum, actually in one of the worst places I have experienced in all my travels to the developing world. But it is also very true that I saw no ownership of this reality within Susema. I saw no hopelessness.
What I saw was the very real, very active, very living God moving in power in a woman who in her meekness exclaims, "Hello. Praise the Lord."
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Home List of Titles Ultrathin coatings from isocyanate-terminated star PEG prepolymers: layer formation and characterization
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/216068
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- Ultrathin coatings from isocyanate-terminated star PEG prepolymers: layer formation and characterization
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- Groll, Juergen; Ameringer, Thomas; Spatz, Joachim P.; Moeller, Martin
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- In this study we present the preparation of thin and ultrathin coatings from six-arm star-shaped isocyanate-terminated prepolymers on amino-functionalized silicon wafers. The backbone of the stars is a statistical copolymer of ethylene oxide and propylene oxide in the ratio 80:20 (Star PEG). Film preparation by spin coating from aqueous THF resulted in a variety of film morphologies that are determined by the water content of the solvent. Water is indispensable for activation of the isocyanate-terminated stars in solution and for proper cross-linking of the coatings on the substrate. This cross-linking results in a dense network of PEG chains on the substrate linked via urea groups with a mesh size of the network that corresponds to the arm length of the stars. Layer thickness variations between 3 and 500 nm revealed a strong dependence of the contact angle with water on the layer thickness which is explained by the chemical composition of the coatings. Due to the high functionality of the star-shaped prepolymers, free amino groups remain in the films that were detected by fluorescence microscopy after reaction with 4-chloro-7-nitrobenzofurazan (NBF). To test the system for the ability to prevent unspecific interaction with proteins, adsorption of fluorescence-labeled avidin was examined with fluorescence microscopy. For layer thicknesses between 3 and 50 nm, no protein adsorption could be detected.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Source
- Langmuir, Vol. 21, no. 5 (Feb 2005), pp. 1991-1999
- Publication year
- 2005
- Keyword(s)
- Crosslinking; Fluorescence microscopy; Hydrogels; Microscopic examination; Morphology; Oscillation frequency; Plastic films; Polyethylene glycols; Scanning force microscopy; Self assembly; SFM; Silicon wafers; Ultrathin coatings
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- American Chemical Society
- 0743-7463
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The District 158 Education Foundation recently awarded six Huntley High School seniors with scholarships totaling in the thousands.
Chad Alexander, chairman of foundation's scholarship committee, presented seniors Taylor Hilbrant, Ashley Knipp, Alexander Krum, Marek Makowski and Jason Trovela each with a $1,000 scholarship during the high school's senior awards night earlier this month.
Senior Jessica Marsh received a $500 scholarship as the winner of the Fruin Farms Student Scholarship. The committee interviewed 10 students from a pool of 18 applicants before selecting the six recipients.
The students had to list their extra curricular activities, while answering questions regarding their post-high school plans.
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White scores 27, lifts Iowa past Penn State 76-67
Penn State remains winless in the Big Ten
Published On: Feb 01 2013 07:49:35 AM CST
Aaron White had a career-high 27 points and Iowa beat Penn State 76-67 Thursday night, snapping a two-game losing streak.
Melsahn Basabe had 10 points and 10 rebounds in his first start of the season for the Hawkeyes (14-7, 3-5 Big Ten), who hit 31 free throws in 39 tries.
Iowa took the lead with an early 14-0 run and never looked back against the last winless team in Big Ten play. The Hawkeyes let Penn State creep back within 69-62 with 1:30 left, but White answered with a three-point play for Iowa.
D.J. Newbill had 20 points for Penn State (8-13, 0-9), which committed 18 turnovers.
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Many people had to scrape off their cars Friday morning after the latest snowfall, but imagine having to clear off hundreds of cars. That was the case for car dealerships all over the area.
Dahl Auto in Onalaska had about 170 cars to clear off.
The process takes between two and three hours, and includes everyone from sales and lot attendants to managers.
And being a car dealer in Wisconsin, they have to deal with all kinds of snowfall. "The heavy snow is the worst, it's trying to figure out where to put it all, get it moved, and then that's usually the toughest, getting it off the cars, I mean the ice is not fun at all either, the fluffy snow is not too bad, it moves pretty quick," said Onalaska Dahl General Manager Vinnie Pontius.
It's not just clearing cars, they also have to plow the lot which means each car has to be moved to make way for the plow.


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According to Wedbush Securities video game industry analyst Michael Pachter, you will be paying to play Call of Duty games in the future.
Yesterday, along with the dismantling on the Guitar Hero franchise, Activision announced the establishment of Project Beachhead, a studio focused on "on the delivery, digitally, of new, innovative Call of Duty content and services" that will "enable tens of millions of players around the world to continue to enjoy the experience that Call of Duty offers." While Activision didn't go into practical detail about what that will mean for gamers, Pachter says it all adds up to pay-for-play CoD.
"Project Beachhead absolutely is charging for multiplayer," Pachter said. "I'm certain to my core."
"Activision said they are working on 'value added, premium content that is exclusive,'" Pachter said. "How do you exclude people unless you do it on the basis of whether they pay or not? What are you going to have a bouncer in front of the club where you play the content? The only way it's exclusive is if it excludes non-paying members," Pachter added.
When asked how a pay-for-it Call of Duty game would work, Pachter offered this:
"The exclusive content could be pay as you go, or monthly. Let's say Project Beachhead comes up with 'Call of Duty Universe,' and it launches with Modern Warfare 3 and they say 'if you join here's all the exclusive content and exclusive weapons and we'll charge you a dollar a piece.' Or If they say, 'for $5 a month you get unlimited weapons and all the map packs we bring out for Modern Warfare in perpetuity,' a lot of people will say, 'I'm going to buy three map packs for 15 dollars anyway, so for $60 a year, I'm getting all the unlimited weapons and achievements,' so they could do that. I don't know if that's what they're going to choose to do. I'd say $5 a month is reasonable, though."
Pachter is watching for people to switch consoles if one "side" starts charging and the other remains free. "What will be interesting is to see if it spurs PS3 sales when people switch over," Pachter said.
So what do you guys think? Would you be willing to pay extra for Call of Duty content? Or would you feel more like you're being nickled and dimed to death if you have to pay for both Xbox Live and for Call of Duty?


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Register now for the Career Development Institute in Denver, Colorado, October 18-19, 2013. This event is perfect for any career practitioner looking for additional continuing education in a smaller setting and shorter time-frame. The educational and networking benefits combined with high-quality speakers make this worthwhile for all those who provide career services. A few details are included here, with full information posted on the NCDA website, under Conference: Career Practitioner Institute.
NCDA Regional Career Practitioner Institute: Practical Techniques and Strategies for Career Development Service Providers
Professional Development Institutes, October 17 & 18, 2013
Co-sponsored by the Colorado Career Development Association
Opening keynote begins at 1:00 pm Friday October 18th. Closing keynote is Saturday 10:30 – 11:45 am.
Participants will have nine workshops to choose from, in three different sessions (2 on Friday and 1 on Saturday), with a Welcome Reception on Friday evening.
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Proposed Zoning Change Hard To Enforce, Planner Says
A proposed change to the Watertown city zoning code is aimed at keeping renters out of single-family neighborhoods.
After Debbie Cavallario learned her Thompson Boulevard neighbors weren't a real family, she wanted to make sure housing situations like that didn't become a trend.
Travis Hartman is her next door neighbor. He lives with his fiance and two of his friends.
Cavallario brought a petition to the city planning board and now there's a proposed change to the zoning code.
The change simply removes a line that allows no more than four transient roomers to live in a residential district.
But the kicker is, city planner Ken Mix says the proposed change to the code won't do much.
"In a case where you have people staying in your house, it's still perfectly legal," he said.
"From a practical standpoint, we really have no way of enforcing that, because we can't tell who's blood related and we really don't know who's paying tax and who's staying in rooms or not."
Neither Cavallario nor Hartman would speak on camera.
A public hearing on the proposed change is scheduled for February 4.
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Two Out of Three (x 2) Ain't Bad
No, taking two out of three from both the Mets and the Braves ain't bad at all; in fact, I'd say it's very good.
(and darn it, now there's another song stuck in my head! Last week, it was AC/DC, now it's Meat Loaf)
In both series, the Phillies dropped the first game when one of the four aces wasn't very ace-like. Cole Hamels stunk it up against the Mets last Tuesday (Note to Cole: Giving up two hits to the opposing pitcher in the same inning is never a good idea) as the Phillies lost 7-1. Cliff Lee obviously did not have his best stuff in a 6-3 loss to the Braves.
Cole was able to redeem himself yesterday, going seven strong innings against the Braves as the Phillies won, 3-0.
In the second game against the Mets, Joe Blanton very nearly managed to lose the game after blowing a seven-run lead (Note to Joe: Please don't do that again. Ever.). Joe was saved from a loss by four scoreless innings from the bullpen, and some timely hitting from the offense for a 10-7 win.
Both series also featured the stress-relieving blowout, courtesy of the Roys. Well, stress-relieving for me, not fans of the opposition. Roy Halladay pitched the Phils to a 11-0 rout of the Mets, and Roy Oswalt got his first-ever regular season win over Atlanta in a 10-2 butt-whuppin'.
Let's hope the Phils can maintain that momentum, as they head to Washington following today's off-day.
Funny Photo of the Week
Brad Emaus looks like he's trying to do a little dance last Thursday (Note to Brad: don't try out for Riverdance anytime soon).
Don't know if he made a little love and got down that night.
Aack! More 70's music is getting stuck in my head! Must…make it…stop!
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Love that pic. It does look like he's auditioning for Riverdance! Or maybe he's trying to do one of those triple toe loops in ice skating.
Can't be too disappointed as a Phillies fan at this point in the season. And I agree, that Eamus pic is pretty sweet. Now I have the song stuck in my head. THANKS😉
Not bad indeed. Just think, two out of three for the season would pretty much guarantee a playoff spot. That photo is hilarious! Emaus doesn't look too pleased about his pose either. His is expression is kind of like "Guys, are you sure dancing is supposed to impress the ladies because I kind of think they're laughing at me."
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- It has been well established that ALPORAS® foams is a strain rate sensitive material. However, the strain rate effect is not well quantified as it is not unusual for strain rate to vary during high speed compression. Moreover, according to previous research, aluminium foams, especially ALPORAS® foams, behave differently at low and high strain rates. Therefore, different plastic deformation mechanisms are expected for low and high strain rate loadings as a result of micro-inertia of cell walls. In this paper, the strain rate effect on the energy dissipation capacity of ALPORAS® foam was investigated experimentally by using a High Rate Instron Test System, with cross-head speed up to 10 m/s. The compressive tests were conducted over strain rates in the range of 1 × 10−3 to 2.2 × 102 s−1, with each test being at a fairly constant strain rate. An energy efficiency method was adopted to obtain the densification strain and plateau stress. The effect of strain rate and the foam density was well presented by empirical constitutive models. The experimental data were also discussed with reference to the recent results by other researchers but with different range of strain rates. An attempt has been made to qualitatively explain the observed decrease of densification strain with strain rate.
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Doin' Da Butt, and Other Body Parts
Unfortunately, it doesn't take much to amuse me. And after all this heaviness of the past few days, you know, steroids and all, I'm in need of a little levity.
I have a fascination with names. Silly names, strange names, nicknames, why-would-anyone-name-their-child-that kind of names.
A few years ago, while wandering the brand-spankin'-new (at the time) Citizens Bank Park, I glanced into the visitors' bullpen and saw this:
"Poor guy," I thought, "I bet he was the butt of a lot of jokes while growing up." Yeah, I know, really bad pun, but it does lend itself to that. But you can't do much about your last name, you're kind of stuck with it, unless you want to go the whole name-changing route.
One thing led to another (in my mind), and I came across this name:
Heinie! Apparently this was a common nickname in the early part of the 20th century, especially among German-Americans. It was usually used as a nickname for Henry. I guess "heinie" didn't have the same connotations back then that it does now, as there were 23 Heinies in the big leagues at one time or another. This particular Heinie is in the Hall of Fame, in fact. But it must have eventually fallen out of favor, as the last big-league Heinie played in 1944.
This next poor soul not only had an unfortunate surname, but a less than flattering nickname as well:
In case you can't read the signature, his name is Johnny Dickshot. According to Baseball-Reference.com, his nickname was Ugly. I'm not sure which one is worse.
Sometimes, parents inadvertantly choose a name which has a whole 'nuther meaning they knew nothing about. I'm hoping that was the case here:
Merkin Valdez. Believe it or not, a merkin is a pubic wig. Now why there even exists such a thing as a pubic wig, I'm not sure I want to know.
I coudn't resist these final two, even though they're not baseball related:
Dick Trickle. Why not Richard, or Rich, or Rick? With a name like this, when ESPN Sports Center showed race results, he got mentioned every time, no matter where he finished in the race. I imagine Richard Trickle would not have.
And lastly:
Charles "Boobie" Clark. I guess when you're a 6'2", 240 lb football player, no one's going to make jokes about your nickname no matter how odd it seems.
I'm sure there are other great/funny/strange names out there. Leave a comment and let me know about them!
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Why was Dickshot's nickname Ugly? He looks normal in the picture…
Did a little more searching, apparently he proclaimed himself "the ugliest man in baseball". Though I agree, he looks pretty normal in the photo.
That's pretty funny. Did you know that Honus Wagner had 2 brothers, Albert "Butts" Wagner and Heinie Wagner? And how about Ducky Medwick.
And thanks for the comment on the post about my project, WHICH BY THE WAY I WANT EVERY SINGLE MLBLOGGER TO CHECK OUT, it really might help you get involved more with the project, if you knew what I mean. I don't want to give away hints yet, but eventually I will reveal what it is. I will need everyone's help and opinions, as it really is a community project.
LOL, great look at all these crazy names! We need some comic relief in times like this!
Sue- These are great. I too am very easily amused. I don't know if you're a football fan and a fan of the show House, I like both, and the Steelers head coach, Mike Tomlin kind of looks like Omar Epps from house, and when their defense was doing really bad, my friend was like "maybe you need Dr. House to diagnose what's wrong with your defense." Anyway, I laughed for like… days. Literally. That might only be funny to me if you don't know who any of those people are…
Hey Sue…This is my favorite subject, as you are aware. Thanks for the chuckle!
Metsmainman, thanks for stopping by! So with a Butts and a Heinie, the Wagners were a double-derriere family🙂.
Hi Elizabeth! Comic relief is always a good thing!
Hi Emily! I do watch football, but have to admit I don't watch "House"; my mother does, but she doesn't watch football.
Jenn, of course I knew you would like this one ;-)! I'll be combing my "archives" for a future post.
That's a great list. How about Don Aase. Dickie Thon. "Tug" McGraw (a hero of mine by the way)…Pee Wee…JJ Putz. As u can see I'm amused.


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The National Weather Service says it was just a really strong wind. But that won't convince Leland Pool what hit his place in Roosevelt County was anything but a tornado.
Pool said the storm around 8 p.m. Friday lasted about three minutes. In that time it tore the roof off a neighbor's barn, blew over a nearby mobile home, shattered a glass sliding door in his house and picked up a granary building behind his barn, scattering the wood splintered remains for a half-mile in all directions.
"I'm still picking up pieces of what's left of my granary," said Pool, 78, a retired farmer who lives on N.M. 236 in the Bethel area, about 10 miles northeast of Portales.
A weather service spokesman said there were no tornados or rotating winds tracked in the area, but there were some fierce 60-plus mph winds and golf-ball size hail reported by weather trackers at Cannon Air Force Base.
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Shy said weather trackers at Cannon marked the highest wind speed at 59 knots — about 66 to 67 mph.
"We got seven-tenths of an inch of rain in about three minutes," said Pool, who was watching television with his wife when the storm started. "It was hailing about the size of my thumb."
Pool said while he didn't see a funnel cloud, he was convinced what he lived through was a tornado.
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