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Sources said Facebook is going to build its own operating system, based off Google's Android, keeping users on the social network. The phone, which is reported to be an HTC phone, will come with Facebook's native apps, including Camera and Facebook Messenger to keep its users from venturing outside Facebook's walled garden.
Facebook is set to make the announcement at 10 a.m. PST on Thursday. TheStreet is covering the event live.
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Google aims to ship as many as 8 million of the low-end tablets, the sources said.
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Lululemon said the departure was part of a plan to reorganize its product team to support long-term growth. The yoga wear maker wouldn't comment specifically if the departure was related to a recent problem with see-through pants.
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Dear Colleagues,
Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, "People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad." This November, thousands of people will crack the spines on new notebooks or open empty Word docs to write "Chapter 1" at the top of a blank page while praying that Emerson was right. As you likely know, November is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), in which participants attempt to write 50,000 words of a novel in just 30 days. There is no prize for winning, save for the knowledge that you thought of so many words, and in a row. Yet NaNoWriMo has proven through its explosive popularity that we can never underestimate the willingness of people to clumsily pile sentences together, even when no one is listening and they have nothing to say.
And with any luck, this year I will be one of those people. I am participating in NaNoWriMo, but I'm aiming for a more tangible prize than a 400KB document cluttering up my hard drive. I want some goddamn money. I've opted to write a novel in the only genre that guarantees to sell regardless of quality: hardcore erotic fiction.
[Editorial Note: There's no such thing as "a picture of genitals high-fiving." Even if there were, you already know we wouldn't run it.]
Below, I've provided excerpts -- a taste, a kiss -- of the stylishly subtle romance novel I've been working on the past few days and I'm hoping as writers you can offer me some feedback. If you help me now, I assure you that when Naked as Fuck hits the shelves and everyone at your local airport is clamoring for a copy, I will give you one for free. As a disclaimer, all of the characters and circumstances are fictional and born from my spectacular imagination, so it's no use trying to find real-world analogues of any of them. They simply don't exist. Now, light a few candles and settle into the most arousing chair in your home or office, because you're in for a tender treat. If you are in the bathtub, get out of the bathtub. You know better than to put your computer that close to water. We talked about how dangerous that is. Use your head, for God's sake.
Chapter 3: Don O'Bangin and the Animatronic Polk
With the last circuit soldered, the heap jolted. Don flipped up the face of his welding helmet and stared. What had seconds ago been only a collection of wires and twisted metal convulsed now into something more, something living. An arm flailed, then found its course and righted itself, slowly, irrefutably making its way to the being's heart. The skinless jaw fell open, as if to breathe.
"Glory, glory hallelujah" it sang. Don mouthed the words along with it.
"I am James K. Polk" it rattled, "11th president of the Unit-"
"Shhh," whispered Don. "I know. I know who you are. I built you."
With Monroe, with Pierce, even with Grant, he had been detached. He had fingered their wires and turned their screws with the cold calculations of an engineer, but with Polk it was different. There was love. He had savored the creation, he had birthed Polk like a mother. Don loved presidents, but a single-term leader who did exactly what he set out to do in four years had a way of standing out from the pack. "You can't rush that," thought Don. "You can't rush the really good ones."
The being's eyes rolled in its metal head, searching the room, searching for understanding, searching for eyelids.
"I'll complete your face soon. I just ... I had to see you." Don played with a flat-head screwdriver as he spoke. "This is home. You live here now. The Hall of Presidents."
Polk's head fell to one side, his gaze landing on Adams, or maybe Washington. It was hard to tell.
"I turned the others off for now to give us some privacy," said Don.
"I am James K. Polk," it said again.
"I'm Don O'Bangin," said Don O'Bangin, allowing his hand to rest on the cold steel of Polk's animatronic cheek. "I gave you life. I am your God, and once I've added the rest of your artificial skin, I'm going to make love to you, slowly. I just ..." Don struggled to find the right words. "I just wanted you to know first, so it could be special."
Don would be sure to coat all the important parts first.
The being stared, then nodded, just as it was programmed to do. Don had not anticipated how arousing it would be to see Polk like this, unfinished and truly naked in a way that no human could ever be. Best of all, only Don would ever see the president, every president, in such an intimate way. He smiled, and had Polk any lips, he would have, too. "This is the best job in the world," thought Don.
"Glory, glory hallelujah" sang the robot. "Our God is marching on."
Chapter 6: Rubber Buckway and the Soul of the Native American Princess Stuck in a Coyote
It was their sixth night in the canyon, but the first that they needed a fire. Rubber poked at the cinders and estimated that her tribe would be a day and a half behind them, and gaining. She stood at the edge of the darkness beyond the fire, pulling in sensory information humans have no access to. If only her people could see what was right in front of them. If only they bothered to open their eyes and recognize that this was an unstoppable, inescapable force of love that bound these two together. Well, technically these three together, if you count the coyote she was trapped inside. But some people are afraid of the truth. They're not willing to look it in the face, eye to eye, and kiss it on the lips.
"It will frost in the morning," said Rubber.
"We will keep each other warm," said the princess, telepathically.
"Do you want some more mescaline?" Rubber asked.
"No," she said, in the back of his skull. "But I think you should have more."
"OK," he relented.
Minutes, or maybe nights later, the yips started. Distant at first, and then closer, just beyond their camp. The princess yipped back, communicating with the wild beasts. She pulled at her makeshift leash.
He could see it written in her bristling fur, in her steaming breath: She wanted to be with them.
Curse you, biology.
"I see. So just like that, then?" Rubber shouted to keep his voice from quivering. "After everything I did for you?"
She tugged again, howling now to the shadows beyond the fire.
"You want to run off with them? Fine. Fine! Go ahead, but know that I cared about you more than anything in the world. I adored you! I adore you." He pulled his knife from its sheath and severed the rope that bound the two together like veins to a heart, like the invisible tendrils of love.
"You misunderstand, Rubber Buckway," she said, because that was his name. "I'm not calling to them because I want to go. I'm calling because they are other princesses trapped in the bodies of coyotes, and I want them to know you as the hero I've come to love."
As she spoke, true to her word, the other Indian ghosts encroached from the darkness in the form of wild dogs, their teeth bared in reverence for Rubber.
"They think you are the most handsome man they have ever seen," she said. "They want to know if you would be willing to have an orgy with all the princesses. That means have sex with all of them at the same time."
"I know what 'orgy' means."
"I think it's a good idea."
"Then, yeah. Sure. Let's do that," he agreed. He could never say no to her.
With everyone in agreement, the dogs rushed at him in a fit of passion, longing just to touch him, to feel him, to absorb him. They all pulled in separate directions, ripping at his clothes, kissing at his face with their jaws. As one being, they tumbled around in the dust between sandstone walls, loving one another recklessly, violently. He felt the playful bites of the coyotes as they explored his body, eager to have Rubber inside of them, tearing at his flesh in a flurry of passion.
"Be patient," he said, but with his mind, because his throat was being carried off in the frothing mouth of some princess. "We have a day and a half at least."
It was pure ecstasy.

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A senior Pakistani official told NBC News the United States' decision to cut aid to Pakistan would only contribute to the growing sense of anti-Americanism within the population.
He said the cut would deepen the perception within Pakistan that U.S. interests extend so far as its own foreign policy goals and would "strengthen our resolve to formalize and renegotiate our terms of engagement with USA."
Following the NATO crossborder strike on November 26 that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, military and government officials in Pakistan have called for a reassessment of the relationship with the U.S.
The Army Chief issued new rules of engagement for his ground troops and commanders, granting them "full liberty" to respond with force if ever under attack, without any form of higher clearance.
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ISLAMABAD - The United States has frozen $700 million in aid to Pakistan until it gets assurances that Islamabad is helping fight the spread of homemade bombs, a move likely to further strain ties between the countries.
A Congressional panel halted the payment to Pakistan, a nuclear-armed country that is one of the largest recipients of U.S. foreign aid, late on Monday as part of a wider review of defense spending.
Calls are growing in the U.S. to penalize Islamabad for failing to act against militant groups and, at worst, helping them, after the secret U.S. raid on a Pakistan garrison town in which al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was killed in May.
At least two dozen Pakistani troops along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border were killed by NATO aircraft, straining already tense relations between the U.S. and Pakistan. NBC's Atia Abawi reports.
Homemade bombs, or improvised explosive devices (IEDs), are among militants' most effective weapons against U.S. and coalition troops in Afghanistan as they struggle to fight a resurgent Taliban insurgency.
Many are made using ammonium nitrate, a common fertilizer smuggled across the border from Pakistan.
The freeze on U.S. aid was agreed as part of a defense bill that is expected to be passed this week.
The U.S. wants "assurances that Pakistan is countering improvised explosive devices in their country that are targeting our coalition forces," Representative Howard McKeon, a House Republican, told reporters.
The U.S. has allocated some $20 billion in security and economic aid to Pakistan since 2001, much of it in the form of reimbursements for assistance in fighting militants.
Although the frozen $700 million is only a small portion of aid to Pakistan, it could presage even greater cuts.
Harm to Pakistan-US relations
Salim Saifullah, chairman of Pakistan's Senate foreign relations committee, warned that relations, which are already at a low point, could worsen further following the decision, by the U.S. House-Senate panel.
"I don't think this is a wise move. It could hurt ties. There should instead be efforts to increase cooperation. I don't see any good coming out of this," Saifullah told Reuters.
There have been many proposals to make U.S. aid to Pakistan conditional on more cooperation in fighting militants such as the al-Qaida-linked Haqqani network, which Washington believes operates out of Pakistan and battles U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
The White House is being careful in its response in part because officials don't have all the facts. NBC's Kristen Welker talks to NBC's Lester Holt about the balancing act.
But Pakistan's civilian leaders have in the past warned against aid cuts, saying it would only harden public opinion against the U.S.
Pakistan says it is doing all it can to fight al-Qaida and the Taliban and has lost thousands of soldiers since it joined the U.S.-led war in 2001, some of them at the hands of coalition troops.
Islamabad has accused NATO of deliberately killing 24 Pakistani soldiers in an air strike near the Afghan border last month and shut down supplies for foreign troops in Afghanistan in anger.
The decision to freeze aid could prompt Pakistan to harden its stance toward Washington.
"I think the Pakistan side will understand the type of signal that is coming, which shows it's not only a question of aid," said former general and security analyst Talat Masood.
"The whole attitude of the U.S. and the relationship will be affected by these measures because they know Pakistan will not be in a position to control the smuggling."
Two fertilizer factories
U.S. lawmakers said many Afghan bombs are made with fertilizer smuggled by militants across the border from Pakistan into Afghanistan.
"The vast majority of the material used to make improvised explosive devices used against U.S. forces in Afghanistan originates from two fertilizer factories inside Pakistan," Republican Senator John McCain said in the Senate last week.
A Congressional Research Service report in October said the Pakistani factories, owned by one of the country's biggest companies, Pakarab, have been producing over 300,000 metric tons of ammonium nitrate per year since 2004.
The United States has urged Pakistan to regulate the distribution of ammonium nitrate to Afghanistan strictly. So far, Pakistan has only produced draft legislation on the issue.
Pakistan's fragile economy is heavily dependent on agriculture, so cutting down on fertilizer output would hurt the sector.
The provision freezing $700 million in aid was agreed upon by leaders of the armed services committees from both parties in the House and Senate, including McCain. It is part of compromise legislation authorizing U.S. defense programs expected to be approved this week, McKeon said.
The bill would also require the Pentagon to deliver a strategy for improving the effectiveness of U.S. aid to Pakistan, he said.
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The drop in fuel prices over the last month haven't just been good for consumers, it's good for gas companies too.
When fuel prices are high, gas companies have to pay more just like regular consumers. April Rutter, office manager for C&S Fuel in Portales, said it's a relief to be able to buy and sell at lower prices.
"It's good for us. We're glad to see it, it's better for us overall, she said.
Gasoline prices in New Mexico have dropped an average of 80 cents per gallon in a month's time.
The AAA auto club and the Oil Price Information Service say the average price of a gallon of regular unleaded gas in New Mexico is $2.40, which is 20 cents higher than the national average.
Cortez Gas station attendant Mary Wood said it's been a nice change to see customers happy when they fill their tanks.
"They're actually liking it," she said. "Instead of coming in and complaining about the prices, they're coming in and complimenting on how many gallons they're getting."
Gas was selling at an average $2.08 for a gallon of regular unleaded in Portales Wednesday and an average of $2.29 in Clovis, according to www.gasbuddy.com.
Wood said the price at her station was $2.19 a gallon Wednesday, about half what gas was being sold for in the area just a couple months ago.
With the drop, customers are more likely to purchase convenience store items such as snacks and soft drinks at the south Prince Street station, she said.
"The gas prices are going to continue to go down, I'm hoping, and that brings more business out here," she said.
AAA and OPIS say the relief at the pump is due to the slumping economy. Consumers have less money to spend, so people are driving less, which is dampening the demand for oil.
Nationwide, gas prices have dropped for the 17th week since early July.
Rutter said C&S owns three stations in Portales and has seen a slight drop in fuel consumption in recent weeks, but nothing dramatic.
"You still have to get from here to there. Maybe people aren't traveling as much, but I don't think in a rural community like this you can cut out your driving really," she said.
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The winners were announced Friday at the TGCPA Convention in Port Aransas.
The County Press won four first-place plaques in general excellence, feature photos, headline writing and display advertising; second in editorial writing and feature writing; third in news writing, sports photos, humorous columns, and the Farris Block Memorial Community Service award; and honorable mention in serious columns.
In general excellence, the Press was rated excellent in overall appearance, quality of local copy and quality of photos and drew the comment, "Great covers! Local copy excellent. Great job on a wonderful picture cover."
On Editor Kenda Nelson's feature photo of a 9-year-old boy sitting on the porch of his family's home, which had been destroyed by fire, the judge wrote, "I want to reach in and give the young man a hug." Of her photo, Saluting the Veterans, the judge wrote, "Very, very nice, Great photo."
Nelson's headline, Woodsboro water woes waxing wearisome, the judge commented, "Clever! This one won it for you." In her headline, "Bobcats buckle Buckaroos in rueful flummoxing," the judge wrote, "Nice work. I have never seen 'flummoxing' in a headline." The headlines drew three excellent ratings.
Nelson's feature on Calvin Robinson's World War II service drew the remark, "Great story. The reader can feel the emotion and you did a nice job."
The judge's comments on Nelson's editorial on the criticism of the Bobcats' high scores include, "A good editorial on a local issue. You handled this very nicely."
The community service award on Woodsboro's water problem drew the judge's comment, "Good coverage of a problem."
On Nelson's two news stories – one on a pushing incident in Elderly Services and the other on a sex offender who died during his attack, the judges said, "Wonderful testimony and supporting quotes on incident – solid information and plenty from all sides."
On the sexual attack, the judge said, "Very interesting story reported with much professionalism – good background information as well."
Neil Tucker's sports photo of the Bobcat catcher attempting to catch a foul ball earned a third and drew the comment, "Great photo! Tells a story."
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Guys, we may have to keep any eye out on the entries, now the championships have been moved I can assume that skaters will pull out/do shows etc.
Already out is Shawn Sawyer (doing shows)
Myriane Samson (knee injury)
Kerr/Kerr (Sinead shoulder problem)
Laura Lepisto (back injury)
Valentina Marchei (knee injury)
Patricia Glescic (injury?)
Hoffmann/Zavozin - doubtful
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As the nation celebrates Black History Month, here are 10 things you may not know about the historic March on Washington, where MLK delivered his "I have a Dream" speech.
The event was officially titled the "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom."
An estimated 200,000 to 250,000 Americans, mostly African-Americans but also including thousands of whites, held the march to focus attention on blacks' demands for immediate equality in jobs and civil rights.
The march was organized by the "Big Six" leaders of the civil rights movement: A. Philip Randolph, Whitney M. Young, Jr., Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., James Farmer, Roy Wilkins, and John Lewis. Bayard Rustin was chief organizer of the march.
The marchers were entertained by celebrities, including Ossie Davis, Joan Baez, Bobby Darin, Odetta, Bob Dylan, Peter, Paul and Mary and Jackie Robinson.
Marchers were not supposed to create their own signs, though this rule was not completely enforced by marshals. Most of the demonstrators did carry pre-made signs, available in piles at the Washington Monument.
King gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial.
Law enforcement included 5,000 police, National Guardsmen and Army reservists.
No marchers were arrested and no incidents concerning marchers were reported.
Ten leaders of the civil rights march met with President John F. Kennedy, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz and Burke Marshall, head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, at the White House during the demonstration.
The march is widely credited with helping to pass the Civil Rights Act (1964) and the Voting Rights Act (1965).
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Automatic Transmission Repair Workshop Finder
The automatic transmission system is simply one kind of transmission system for a car or vehicle. The other type is the manual transmission system. Now, the main difference between the two is that with the automatic transmission system, you would not have to change your gear ratios for the system would do the thing for you as your go about driving your car. In fact, it simply means that the gear ratios would be done by the system itself as unlike the manual transmission system, you would be doing this task yourself manually.
Part of your cars automatic transmission system is the automatic transmission fluid and this is also known as the ATF. According to automobile experts, it is important that you do check this regularly, at most every month. However, if you do feel that your automatic transmission system is not shifting gears as smoothly as before, then it is recommended that you do check your cars ATF by going to the nearest automatic transmission repair workshop.
To check your cars ATF, you should first park your car on level ground. Then start up your engine. You should also leave the gear in neutral or in park. Have a little patience while your engine warms up.
When you have achieved so, try to locate the ATF dipstick. This is usually located at the back of your cars engine. You would know it is the ATF dipstick because it is much shorter compared to the engine oil dipstick. Pull the dipstick out and remove it. T
hen, wipe it off clean using a rag. After that, put it back in the engine and push it all the way. Then remove it again.
It is now time to scrutinize the dipstick tip. You would see that there are actually two marks there one is for cold readings while the other is for warm readings. You should set your sight on the one marked warm. You should see that the ATF should come up until the line that has been marked Full. If not, then it is time to add your ATF for your car.


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Another problem I have is with imported groups from Lastpass.
Say I have three logins for Amazon. In Lastpass I created a group called Amazon with inside the three logins, all three with a login name and a password.
When I import this into SP, SP creates an entry called Amazon with three passwords inside. The passwords do not have a login name or a URL.


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Mirror Music Preparing For The Eve Of NYE 2010- Hello 2011!!
Hands UP!
Those of us that have at some point turned up the music
Before going out and doing a little shuffle to some track that we simply can not get out of our heads
Some how I am feeling the turn into our new decade as something really special
True confession, until last year I really was not a NYE type of person
I however discovered through friends of mine (Thank you Philip Laffey) a great event that was amazing last year
I am going to a Black Tie 'Black and White Ball Down Town'
I have already worked out what I am wearing.
A black Tux, pure white shirt with cuff links and a satin Cadbury chocolate coloured purple tie.
So, tell me…
What are you going to be doing?
What will you be wearing and
And what are YOUR current favourite sound track options!
I do hope that these sounds will make the start of getting ready fabulously and wishing you an amazing start to 2011!!
Henry xx
Top 10 getting ready on the eve of NYE 2010 !!
1. Rock Wit You – Ashanti
Oh Goodness. You have either come out of the shower or you are in there and this track starts it all off. A 2003 soul and Funk classic, I love this tune. It transports you
Far away. It gets your grove on and it is one of those magic tracks that has no start and no end… it is seamless. If you are not in the shower then you are in your bathroom towel and you are digging it it it!!
2. Let Me Love You – Mario
Check the visuals, the styling starts to ooze sensuality from the minute the tune starts, ill get your groove into gear.
Good for testing out any outfit in the mirror just you and the Mirror!! Make sure you don't let your hair get too dry if you are applying product in it!
3. Girl Crazy Hot Chocolate- 70's FunKalicious
Super Funky- set on the streets of London in the 70's- Super Funk and of course have to get in a bit of Aerobics.
Somehow has smoldering, sexy vibe, hot is the Chocolate
4. Don't Stop – Michael Jackson
I remember making my mother taking my pants up so you could see my white socks! May be not quite the same a MJ… me being all of 17, still at Jewish Day School. What a tune, what a feeling and what great gas for your dance engine. At this point you have tried on your first look, and you may be having second thoughts!!
And I have to add as 4B! Michael Jackson- do you
Genius, funk, soulful and so so danceable and sensuous
5. Rhianna – Rude Boy
This has to be the artist of 2010 as far as I am concerned… This is so hot the visuals want you to get ready for the club SUPER fast.
There is something so suggestive and provocative and sultry and grinds, it all grids in front of my eyes.
5b and where it all started Rhianna Featuring Jay Z- Umbrella!
Tuning this on in 2007 we all knew that something special and Iconic was emerging from under all our Umbrellas
6. Lady Gaga – Dirty Rich
and Video Phone with Beyonce- Smoldering
Lady Gaga took our imaginations and the Dance floor over in 2010. The graphic styling is mind blowing and so I have to have two tracks here, could have been a million!
Loved the collaborations with Beyonce and Love the harder side of Gaga and Beyonce, practice those dance steps, perfect track. Slow and deliberate.
By now, I am hoping that you have stuck to your final look and now it is the finishing touches… Just saying!!
7. More Than a Woman- Saturday Night Fever – Bee Gees
The track that probably discovered the dance floor more than any other single track in History, still evokes romance, love, and finding true love on the dance floor… they saw each other across a crowded dance floor and Ka POW
8 I Feel Love – Bronski Beat Jimmy Somerville
Oh goodness, out of the vault and into your visual and hearing pleasure beyond. The MASTER of hip sounds and sexy on the dance floor rhythm. A genius of evocation!
By now, you are texting, googling and possibly even talking on your cell/ mobile. Last minute arrangements!
9 Chain Reaction – Diana Ross DIVA DIVA supreme
Oh Goodness, that image of Diana in the red Mermaid Frock with the fireworks behind her and it makes me want to jump off this computer right now and Dance on the streets of Manhattan in the Snow Slush right this very second !
10. All For You – Janet Jackson
Such a classic, up beat and so fabulous, the unfolding from the subway almost cartoon imagery to real life gets my dance feet moving every time !!
You are out the door ! Wishing you all a giant start to 2011. Whether it is quiet or quite large, be safe, be well and throw it down where ever your dance floor ends up. Be it in your own living room or out and about !


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Intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and stalking are important and widespread public health problems in the United States. On average, 20 people per minute are victims of physical violence by an intimate partner in the United States. Over the course of a year, that equals more than 10 million women and men. Those numbers only tell part of the story—nearly 2 million women are raped in a year and over 7 million women and men are victims of stalking in a year.
NISVS Summary Reports
Summary reports from the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey present data on the national prevalence of IPV, SV, and stalking among women and men in the United States. The ongoing NISVS survey provides data that will be used to track IPV, SV, and stalking trends over time.
NISVS Special Reports
Special reports on intimate partner violence and victimization by sexual orientation using data from the 2010 National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS).
NISVS Infographic
The infographic highlights key findings from the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey and presents facts everyone should know about Intimate Partner Violence, Sexual Violence, and Stalking.
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Since summer is actually over, and I'm starting to eat things like mushroom stuffed pumpkin, it's about time I posted my lemonade recipe. This post is long overdue, as my schedule seems to be more and more insane as the hours pass (but no excuses!). Regardless, this recipe was a special one I concocted for my trip to the gluten-free potluck in honor of Shauna and Danny's new book, The Gluten-free Girl & The Chef.
I think this was my first official blog outing, which made me incredibly anxious, but I knew I would be safe in an environment based around Shauna. Hers was the first blog I ever read, after becoming gluten-intolerant (or…finding out). I read her book and cried, laughed, and sat in amazement at her writing and ability to share herself. I so admire that, being an incredibly private and possibly paranoid person myself. I've followed her ever since, and was excited by the idea to not only meet her, but make something to bring. I knew it had to stand out from the potluck crowd, and as my concord grape obsession was led by the summer season, I made a lemonade. I previously made a blueberry lemonade, which I still love, but this is a more unique combination of flavors that luckily went over very well with all the attendees.
I read her book and cried, laughed, and sat in amazement at her writing and ability to share herself.
(The Gluten-free Girl & The Chef Book Promo – Not A Vegan or Raw Recipe Book)
Everyone I met there, was so great. It is still amazing to me, how much I am able to connect with people through, about and with food. I love it, and it was an amazing event that helped me invent a great beverage. For the end of summer, with no more concord grapes, and many more pumpkins…
For the Concord and Blackberry Lemonade
16 oz. fresh squeezed lemon juice
34 oz. filtered water
1 carton blackberries
1 carton concord grapes
1/4 cup brown rice syrup
1/3 agave or maple syrup
1/3 cup apple juice
1. Add concord grapes and blackberries to stove top and heat on low until they release their juices.
2. Strain through a sieve (use the leftover fruit as a compote). Set aside to cool.
3. In an extra large ball jar, combine lemon juice, water, syrups and apple juice. Mix well.
4. Add cooled blackberry & concord grape syrup. Add a few fresh concord grapes into glasses when you serve over ice.
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Lust Murder Box No. 2, 1920-1922
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2-1/8 x 5 x 3-3/4 in. (5.4 x 12.7 x 9.5 cm)
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Lust Murder Box No. 2 is one of a series of wooden boxes Schwitters designed and had constructed by Albert Schulze, a cabinet maker and master of the wood mosaic technique called intarsia. The wood veneer surface of the box resembles a puzzle and its interlocking abstract shapes recall Schwitters' collage forms of the 1920s. The box was created in response Germany's notorious sexual predator, Fritz Haarmann. Referred to as "The Vampire of Hanover," Harrmann was convicted in 1925 of committing 24 murders, but it was believed that he killed more than 50 men. During the trial Harrmann confessed to numerous gruesome activities. While Lust Murder Box No. 2 on display here is empty, Schwitters filled some of the boxes in this series with doll parts in reference to the victims.
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Few phrases in the English language are more powerful than "I dare you," particularly when uttered in the presence of alcohol and/or people under the age of 25. It's like reason's kryptonite, casting out all concepts of rational behavior and forcing otherwise semi-functional human beings into the most preposterously Darwinian circumstances imaginable, inevitably sending them to either the hospital or the police station (or both, in varying order).
6"I Dare You to Tape Yourself to This Carousel While We Spin It With a Car"
A man in Bavaria was loitering in a children's playground with three of his friends, because there is literally nothing else to do in Bavaria that doesn't involve chocolate castles and/or wish-granting forest trolls. He and his friends eventually happened upon a carousel, the one piece of equipment that is found in pretty much every playground despite the fact that it is virtually guaranteed to injure more children than a rusty jungle gym made of tetanus.
Pictured: Grade school's answer to Russian roulette.
After espying this whimsy-baited fracture machine, the morning's plans suddenly took shape. The man's friends dared him to tie himself to the carousel with packing tape (which they had presumably brought along because they were planning on killing him anyway) while they spun the carousel around as fast as they could. The man, honor bound to accept this challenge either by sheer boredom or because it was issued on a Sunday morning in Germany (a phrase here meaning "he was almost certainly drunk"), agreed, and he was lashed to a giant metal child's toy wrought from exceedingly low production standards with tape generally used to keep cardboard boxes from spilling Garfield books all over the floor.
The situation quickly escalated, as dares tend to do, and the man's friends decided that the best way to up the stakes and maximize everyone's enjoyment would be to spin the carousel using the car they'd driven to the playground. The man either agreed with them or was already choking on too much vomit to form a coherent objection, so they tied the car to the carousel and drove off as fast as they could, sending their friend into a gravity-negating spin typically reserved for astronaut training.
"... one giant leap for dumbass kind."
Predictably, the tape came loose, and the man was thrown from the carousel like Super Dave Osborne in a carnival explosion. He was killed more or less immediately, and his friends were treated at the hospital for shock before being charged with involuntary manslaughter. We assume that this means he "won" the dare, although we hasten to point out that he would've been awarded the exact same amount of nothing for "losing," with the added bonus of getting to still be alive.
5"I Dare You to Play Chicken Without a Car"
Chicken is a game invented by movies from the 1950s wherein two men hop into their cars and barrel toward each other at breakneck speed to see who swerves first (there are several variations to this core set of rules, most notably the Paula Abdul variant). It is a pastime based almost exclusively on dares and hand-wringing women in poodle skirts.
An 18-year-old man in Victoria, Australia, recently faced this time-honored challenge, but with a few extra conditions to spice things up, because Australians are crazy. The dare presented to him stipulated that A) he must participate in the proposed game of chicken without a car of his own and B) his opponents in the game would have no idea that they were playing chicken.
Non-Australians know this game by the name Vehicular Suicide.
So, not wanting to back down from this hero's trial for all the wisdom in the universe, he went out to a freeway ramp in the middle of the night, waited for a car to come speeding along, then jumped into the road and sprinted toward it. In his underwear. It is unclear whether that last detail was part of the original dare or just an added touch of personal flair.
"This was the original plan, but we didn't have enough for the deposit."
Despite whatever synth-driven 1980s victory montage was playing in the man's mind as he vowed to himself that he would not be the first to flinch, the scene ultimately boiled down to two sentences in a news article:
"[An] 18-year-old South Morang man is in the Royal Melbourne Hospital after he was struck by a Toyota Hilux on the Tullamarine Freeway near Flemington just before 1:30 a.m. He had been playing 'chicken' on the freeway on ramp as a dare when he was hit, police said."
This is another way of saying "Some idiot tap-danced out onto the freeway and ran headfirst into an SUV."
The driver of the Hilux had no idea what was happening (see condition B of the dare, above) and just saw some naked maniac suddenly appear out of the darkness like a heroin-addicted vampire. The resulting collision was enough to total the vehicle, but by some improbable alignment of the stars, the runner himself wasn't killed. The police give due consideration to his "utter stupidity," but nowhere in the article are any other bystanders mentioned. This suggests that either the man's mates (we're in Australia, remember?) assigned him the dare but then declined to actually watch him complete it, or that they had only ever existed in the alcohol-brined echoes of his own thoughts.


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Another court has weighed in on the matter of the Toronto Reservoir, and said that residents have the right to use a road in Chapin Estate to reach the recreational access area at the reservoir.
On May 9, the appellate court handed down a ruling essentially saying the lower court was correct when it ruled that the public is entitled to have access to the reservoir, a matter that was brought to a head when the company that owned the reservoir and related electricity generating plants moved to sell the system to another owner in 2009.
When Alliance Energy Renewables (AER) moved to sell the system to Eagle Creek Companies, the transfer of one of the licenses was blocked by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) because AER was not providing public access to the site, which was a requirement of the licensee. Developer Steven Dubrovsky and his company Woodstone Lake Development had blocked the road that leads to the access.
In January 2012, a lower court judge sided with AER and ruled that it could acquire an easement through Woodstone's land via eminent domain to fulfill the requirements of the license.
Woodstone appealed, saying among other things that the lower court erred because the roads in question were private. The appellate court agreed that they were private, but the deed to the land came with a provision allowing any company that owned the power generating system to use the roads for "any purpose, including without limitation the right to unrestricted travel along said roads with any vehicle, equipment or machinery."
Woodstone also charged that the lower court made a procedural mistake regarding a public hearing, and the appellate court again sided with the lower court, AER and FERC. The court also ruled against Woodstone in several other procedural matters.
There was a wide disparity between the two sides on the financial impact of the easement to the properties owned by Woodstone. A footnote in the decision read, "AER's expert ultimately determined the value of the impact of the public access easement to be $402,000, while respondents' expert opined that the diminution in the value of the affected property would be at least $30 million."
Woodstone charged the lower court had improperly assessed the value at the lower amount. But the appellate court wrote that after lower court "considered the widely divergent expert valuations submitted by the parties, and conducted a visual inspection of the subject easement, it rejected the opinion of respondents' expert as being speculative, particularly because it was based on the assumption that Woodstone's title to the property on which the easement ran was 'free of any encumbrances and/or defects or liens,' an assumption for which there was no evidentiary support."
The road to the access remains open to members of the public, who have been using the road and the reservoir at that spot for more than a year.


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Has anyone else been having this issue? It's been going on for at least 5 months now.
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But a woman with problems in her cycle needs to visit a physician because anovulation could be caused by problems related to the thyroid, pituitary and adrenal glands.
"Therefore, if you are not ovulating, you are better served by a basic simple workup," he writes. "If everything is OK, at least you know and then you can make a decision on how to proceed."
Licciardi fears that some women may not get the help they need.
He suggested if a woman is 32 and overweight and does not ovulate much, it is OK to get on a program and lose weight over a six-month period, start to ovulate, and avoid seeing a doctor. Women who are 38, however, may lose too much valuable time if they wait for a diet to take effect.
"Someone who is older doesn't have time to experiment," he said.
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Dr. Jeremy Groll, an Ohio expert in reproductive endocrinology and fertility treatment, wrote a book titled "Fertility Foods" in 2006 that provides information about nutrition, exercise and emotional support to help increase the rates of spontaneous ovulation and improving the uterine environment while decreasing the potential for miscarriage.
Groll pointed out that the water recommendation of the Fertility Diet is just a good lifestyle change.
"It is, in and of itself, not going to promote fertility," he said. "By drinking water you will remain hydrated, and it will serve as a filler and help with portion control."
For women trying to conceive, the diet may provide a glimmer of hope.
While diet may be a contributing factor to fertility, it is important to keep in mind age and other possible causes of infertility. Diet is a good place to start, but only a fertility specialist can determine if there are other problems precluding couples from becoming pregnant.


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I took DS #2 for his 9 month visit today. At 9 months he is 19.2 lbs and 28 inches, which are 28th and 40th percentile, respectively. He's been steadily declining on both - his weight was 90th percentile at birth, 47th at 3 months, 39th at 6 months. He started out at 60th on height.
My pedi does not seem concerned, but should I be? DS #2 was exclusively breast and pumped BM bottle fed until 6 months, when we started introducing solids. He loves everything we've given him and now eats 2-3 solid meals a day, in addition to either BF or getting a bottle of BM ~5-7x a day, depending on how many times he wakes up at night. He's had some reflux issues and continues to be a spitter though medication has taken away the pain. As a result, if we give him any more than 4 oz in a bottle at a time he spits it up, so I'm not sure how to increase BM intake (co-sleeping is not an option, as it is, I'd like to drop the 1-2 overnight feedings).
He started crawling at 7 months, pulling himself up and cruising at 7.5 months and now, at 9 months, will take a push toy and push it all over the house while walking behind it. The pedi's theory is that he's getting a lot more exercise than a typical 9 month old so that helps explain the trends. He is a very happy, engaged, active little boy, but I just want to make sure we're not missing anything.
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This beautiful set will delight any new Mom and baby!!!! Made from worsted weight yarn will make it easy to care for. Each square of the baby blanket has it's own ruffle, so once you have sewn it together, there is no need to put an edging on it; it's already done!!!!
The turtle has smaller ruffled spots on her shell and sports a ruffled hat. She's cuddly and soft and will surely make your little one smile.
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- Ethanol, Congress and tax credits
- Parties and regions
- Senate votes 73-27 to end ethanol tax credit.
- Agriculture groups outraged.
- Will House take up the legislation?
On Friday, June 16, the Senate voted 73-27 in favor of eliminating the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit (VEETC). The bipartisan vote, which reversed a Senate vote taken just two days prior, would discontinue a 45-cent-per-gallon tax incentive that goes to blenders and refiners when blending ethanol into gasoline.
For more, see ethanol.
Deeply unhappy about the Senate's move, many agricultural interests vilified the offending amendment pushed by Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn and California Sen. Dianne Feinstein.
For more, see Senate passes repeal of ethanol tax credit.
A second VEETC-related amendment – offered by Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar and South Dakota Sen. John Thune – is backed by ethanol proponents. The Klobuchar/Thune bill would allow a "variable VEETC" to function only when oil prices falls below $90 per barrel. This, claim proponents, would mean some $1 billion in savings while providing some $1.5 billion to small producer tax credits.
Shortly after the vote, Farm Press spoke with Chad Hart, Iowa State University assistant professor of economics, about the situation.
For more, see What impact ethanol subsidies?
Hart, who studies and follows the ethanol industry, spoke on the Senate's breach of tax legislation protocol, the Klobuchar/Thune alternative and how the House might react. Among his comments:
On the reason members of the House are agitated by the Senate's VEETC vote…
"Traditionally, any bill that deals with taxes starts in the House.
"When the Senate made this move on the VEETC, it was a tax change and should have started in the House. Procedurally, that's how Congress goes about it and is why the House is in an uproar."
On what Coburn was trying to accomplish…
"Coburn wanted to put a marker, if you will, in the sand. He wanted to say 'we'll have this vote and show there are enough votes in the Senate to eliminate this tax credit, right now.'
"I think he was thinking 'we'll get this vote, and we'll show the House we're serious. The House will pick it up and vote on it.'
"It's true this was a symbolic vote. But it was also a strategic vote. It is now established, by a sizeable majority, that there are enough votes in the Senate to completely get rid of the tax credit."
On the Klobuchar/Thune alternative and a "variable VEETC"…
"Coburn/Feinstein would completely eliminate the tax credit. Klobuchar/Thune would provide a 'scalable' tax credit, based on oil prices.
"Under Klobuchar/Thune, if oil prices are low – a bad situation for the ethanol industry – the tax credit will be viable. If oil prices are high, the tax credit would disappear. The tax credit would only pay out, if you will, when oil prices are low."


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Distinguishing Marks: Forms colonies, leaf surface smooth with prickly margins. Flowers at the ends of the stem.
Wanted For: Invading almost every place in Minnesota. Can grow in wet or dry soil, especially on roadsides and pastures.
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Distinguishing Marks: Prickly throughout especially on leaves and margins. Also look for hairs on the leaves, especially on the bottom.
Wanted For: Highly invasive in all soils, especially on roadsides and pastures.
Distinguishing Marks: Look for a prickly stem on this plant. The leaves are also very prickly. The flower heads are found singly or as clusters at the tip of the stem. No plume on the seeds.
Wanted For: Invading roadsides, pastures and waste places in Minnesota.
Distinguishing Marks: The flower bracts are purple, large and curve downward. The leaves are prickly with a wavy margin.
Distinguishing Marks: Yellow flowers at the ends of slender stems. Flowers look like dandelion flowers. Leaves near the ground with prickly margins.
Wanted For: Invading anywhere a seed can germinate. Will out-compete almost anything in its path.
Distinguishing Marks: Tight clusters of purple flowers, sharply edged stem and leaves opposite and whorled at each node distinguish this invader.
Wanted For: Invading almost any shallow water in the state. Can out compete almost any other plants.
Warning: Do not spray areas posted for biological control.
Distinguishing Marks: A vine up to 2 ft. long with large trumpet shaped white flowers and arrowhead shaped leaves mark this plant.
Wanted For: Invading established plant communities as well as form fields and roadsides.
Distinguishing Marks: Easily identified by leaf. Leaf is compound with 7 -9 leaflets which are toothed and have prominent veins.
Wanted For: Can be an intoxicant and is aggressive.
Distinguishing Marks: Look for leaves crowded on the stems with a whitish color. Look for a milky juice when the leaves or stems are broken.
Wanted For: Being a highly invasive weed, crowding out almost anything in its way, and being almost impossible to kill.
Wanted For: Causing sometimes severe rash in susceptible people. Poison Ivy is also an invasive weed.
Distinguishing Marks: First year plants consist of a cluster of 3 or 4 round, scallop edged leaves rising 2 to 4 inches in a rosette. Second-year plants generally produce one or two flowering stems with numerous white flowers that have four separate petals.
Wanted For: This plant is a major threat to the survival of Minnesota's woodland herbaceous flora and the wildlife that depend on it.
Distinguishing Marks: Look for rough hairy stem, often spotted. Leaves are alternate triangular shaped, sometimes toothed or lobed. Woody stout taproot.
Wanted For: Invading open fields, gardens, pastures and waste areas, especially where receding water has exposed previously submerged land.
Warning: Seedlings in cotyledon stage are poisons to livestock.
Distinguishing Marks: Look for alternate heart shaped leaves covered with soft velvety pubescence. Seed is found in cup shaped pod about an inch in diameter with a ring of prickles about the upper edge. Also known as Buttonweed.
Wanted For: Invasion of row crops, especially later in the season after cultivation.
Warning: May cause an allergic skin reaction in susceptible individuals.
Distinguishing Marks: Look for stiff stout course stem, freely branched above. Flowers are yellow ray with dark centers.
Wanted For: Invading cultivated fields, pastures, roadsides and waste areas.
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STARLIGHT, PA — "Winter Barn" by Diane Kimberley is among the works of art to be featured during the month of March for The Big D Arts and Crafts League member show in the gallery at the Inn at Starlight Lake. There will be oils, watercolors, photography, scratch boards as well as tiles. For more information, call 800/248-2519 or visit www.innatstarlightlake.com [1].


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by Gary Lambrecht | Special to Lacrosse Magazine Online | Lambrecht Archive
Now that the long-running rumor has come true, now that Dave
Cottle has been fired for the first time in his distinguished,
28-year run as a head men's lacrosse coach after failing in
nine attempts to win it all at the University of Maryland, what
does Maryland tell Cottle's successor?
Win the school's first national championship since 1975 in the next five years, or you're next in the guillotine line? Get to the NCAA tournament's final four at least once every other year, or else? If you dare miss the tournament, start cleaning out your desk?
At least Maryland didn't leave Cottle dangling, as the pain from Saturday's 7-5 loss to unseeded Notre Dame in the tournament quarterfinals set in for the third-seeded Terrapins, undone once again in a postseason failure by an offense gone missing.
Cottle had a pretty strong sense of what was waiting for him back in College Park, where he had been told following last May's quarterfinal loss to Syracuse that he needed to get deeper into the tournament in 2010 to secure his job. Instead, Maryland failed to reach its first final four since 2006 and fourth semifinal under Cottle.
"I knew what could happen [after the Notre Dame loss]. I didn't know what would happen," said Cottle, 54, who never mentioned his job security with his players throughout the school year. "First time in 30 years I've been whacked."
The whacking came in the form of a Sunday phone call from Maryland associate athletics director Michael Lipitz, running interference for athletics director Debbie Yow. He offered Cottle the choice to resign or get fired. Cottle, after winning 99 games and two Atlantic Coast Conference tournaments and taking the Terps to eight tournaments with one first-round loss, elected to step down.
While the speculation revs up over who will replace Cottle -- Notre Dame coach Kevin Corrigan is a hot commodity with strong ACC roots -- the deeper question is how much does Maryland expect from its lacrosse program? And are those expectations realistic in this era?
A dejected Dave Cottle walks off the field Saturday at Princeton Stadium, where third-seeded Maryland was upset by Notre Dame in the NCAA quarterfinals. The next day, Cottle was given the ultimatum to get fired or resign.
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There are 60 Division I men's lacrosse programs. Four
schools (Syracuse, Virginia, Princeton, Johns Hopkins) have shared
the national titles won over the past 18 years, which provides a
pretty good indicator of who enjoys critical recruiting advantages,
in terms of signing top-shelf talent.
Dating to 2000, only eight other institutions have made the tournament's final four and, of course, each has failed to win it all. Only Duke has been to the semifinals more than Maryland over that stretch.
Cottle, who replaced Dick Edell in 2001 at Maryland after building Loyola's Division I program from scratch and leading the Greyhounds to 14 consecutive NCAA tournaments, paid the price for various sins in the eyes of Yow and other Terrapin faithful starved for lacrosse glory.
He never got Maryland to the title game for the first time since 1998. His senior-laden squad fell flat in an 8-5, final four loss to unseeded UMass in 2006. His 2007 team flopped in the first round against little sister school UMBC, the first of three galling losses in a row to the Retrievers. His offenses could be maddeningly structured. And his teams picked some of the worst times to play tight and shoot poorly. His final four teams in 2003, 2004 and 2006 lost by a combined score of 40-18.
The first rule of Project Mayhem: don't ask questions.
Still, the decision to can Cottle circles back to how Maryland
perceives its place in the sport.The Terps no longer live in the
1970s, and have not been among the game's true elite for
quite a while.
Still, the game circles back to expectations. At Towson University, for example, sources have confirmed that 12-year coach Tony Seaman and the school have agreed in principle to a new, multi-year deal. Seaman is the Colonial Athletic Association's Coach of the Year and is coming off of back-to-back losing seasons.
At Georgetown, which routinely wins recruiting battles with schools such as Virginia, Duke, Hopkins and North Carolina, 21-year coach Dave Urick rolls merrily along, despite missing three straight NCAA tournaments and reaching the final four once. At Penn State, coach Glenn Thiel stepped down after 33 years and a grand total of two NCAA tournament trips. Will that program ramp up -- possibly behind someone such as Cottle -- or are the Nittany Lions content with a winning season?
"There's more really good [high school] players out there than ever, but there really aren't any more blue-chippers for the big schools to fight over," said Seaman, who got axed at Hopkins in 1998 after eight seasons that featured four final fours but no NCAA titles. "Some really good ones who aren't in that top tier are left for schools like Maryland and Notre Dame. The rest of what's left go to schools like ours.
"I'm very disappointed that expectations have gotten so high that someone with [Cottle's] body of work over nine years at Maryland could be let go. Who out there is going to replace him?"
Whoever it is apparently had better win the Big One, or at least play in one or two title games relatively soon. Spanning his time at Loyola and Maryland, Cottle coached in 22 NCAA tournaments, tying him with Virginia's Dom Starsia for most ever. Cottle won 280 games. His only losing year was in 1983, his rookie season at Loyola.
Said Cottle: "When you put your head down on the pillow, and you know you've treated your kids right, and you know you have a team and a program that's in better shape than it was when you started, it's a pretty good feeling."
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When that one game exposes a rudimentary flaw that I have been gripin' about for over three years now, then that's when trouble starts. That's when walls in my apartment become punch-holed and that's when my neighbors consider burning me at the stake for my insane bouts of baseball rapture.
Ryan Franklin… brother… I love ya… and I know you only blew two saves last year, but you ain't a closer.
Pitching to contact is fine if you're Derek Lowe. It's fine if you're a starter. Heck, it's fine if you're guaranteed that the batted balls are going straight into someone's glove. But in the 9th inning, with a one run lead… I don't want ANYONE ON BASE. NO ONE.
Ya hear me?
When I bring a guy in to close a game, I want someone with firepower, someone with strikeout potential… someone who throws GAS, someone with a wicked slider, someone with an impossible-to-hit cutter.
Think Mo Rivera. Think Dennis Eckersely. Think Neftali Feliz.
The closer's job is to come in and close the game, not to let 'em hit it and hope your defense saves you.
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If this is normal behavior for you, even just a few times a season, your neighbors probably have a Cardinal loss emergency plan. You know, like our earthquake plans in California? They'll have preventative measures. No artwork or important photos on the shared walls. Strap the bookshelves to the walls, Keep the heirloom china in the next room, that sort of thing. Then there is the plan itself. Apartment exit maps. Assigned buddies to make sure the youngest and oldest neighbors get out safely. And a designated meeting place, most likely a bar, where they can all regroup and imbibe therapy until the building stops shaking…eh, I think anyone who knows the "special" pain of a closer failing to close would agree, losses like that are some of the worst.
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Drop him and Schofield and Irvine and whoever a tweet asking if they have bought their ticket yet? After all that's how seats get filled.
I might drop him a tweet and point out that we can't compete with international football either for that matter.
Sometimes these incessent doom-mongers are such a pain "telling it like it is".
Don't sit on sidelines and swipe just because you're not famous anymore, help, you know so there is a bright future in this bleak ###### country.
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SANFORD, Fla. — George Zimmerman's defense attorney insisted during several testy exchanges with a key prosecution witness Thursday that Trayvon Martin injected race into a confrontation with the neighborhood watch volunteer and insinuated the young woman was not believable because of inconsistencies in her story.
However, 19-year-old Rachel Jeantel stood firm in her testimony about the night Zimmerman shot the unarmed black 17-year-old after a fight that Jeantel said she overheard while on the phone with Martin. Jeantel has said Martin told her he was being followed by a "creepy-ass cracker" — implying Martin was being followed by a white man because of his race.
Zimmerman identifies as Hispanic. Race has permeated nationwide discussions of the case since the February 2012 shooting, which prompted nationwide protests and claims from critics that police took too long to arrest Zimmerman.
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Defense attorney Don West also zeroed in on slight differences among three different accounts of what happened before Martin's killing, in an apparent effort to discredit her. Jeantel has described what she heard over the phone in a deposition; a letter to Martin's mother; and an interview with the Martin family attorney. Among the differences highlighted by West:
n In some accounts, she said race was an issue but not in others.
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Jeantel testified Thursday that she thought race was an issue because Martin told her he was being followed by a white man.
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She answered no.
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"You don't know that? Do you? You don't know that Trayvon got hit," West answered angrily. "You don't know that Trayvon didn't at that moment take his fists and drive them into George Zimmerman's face."
Later in the morning, West accused Jeantel of not calling police after Martin's phone went dead because she thought it was a fight he had provoked.
"That's why you weren't worried. That's why you didn't do anything because Trayvon Martin started the fight, and you knew that," West said.
"No sir!" Jeantel said. "I don't know what you're talking about."
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Thursday's testimony began with a more subdued tone that it did a day earlier, when Jeantel frequently bristled at West's questions and she at one point told him to move on to the next question: "You can go. You can go."
West took note of her calmer demeanor in the morning. She answered many of West's early questions by repeating "yes, sir," almost in a whisper.
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"I got some sleep," she answered.
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I have bob's red mill 8 grain cereal, is it ok to let my 6.5 month old son try it? I looked at the ingredients on baby cereal and I don't like all the chemical playing with the ingredients. Thanks for any tips!
I have bob's red mill 8 grain cereal, is it ok to let my 6.5 month old son try it? I looked at the ingredients on baby cereal and I don't like all the chemical playing with the ingredients. Thanks for any tips!
8 grain may be a little too harsh on your lo's tummy. With that said though, I completely agree about baby cereal. We skipped cereal altogether and went straight to avocado, banana, and sweet potato. When he was a little older we cooked steel cut oats and let him feed himself (we also put some avocado in there once he decided he didn't like avocado )
If you want to give cereal though, homemade rice cereal is gentle on their tummies. And it's super EASY you just buy plain long grain brown rice, put it in your blender before cooking so it turns into a powder. Then you add a tablespoon of the power with some water and cook on the stove until it's creamy. You can thin it out with a squirt of breastmilk or a little more water You can also store the leftover powder in your fridge for a week.
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Thanks for the tips! He loves a lot of solid foods already, but he is always really into eating what we are eating, and since we eat a lot of oatmeal, hot cereal, cold cereal, etc in the mornings we thought if we give him something that looks like what we're eating he would be happy. I will try the brown rice. We have a baby bullet, so I will make some in there!