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Phillies Overcome 7 Run Deficit To Beat The Dodgers
Before today's game against the Dodgers, Shane Victorino was activated off the DL and lefty Antonio Bastardo was sent to AAA to make room. Victorino did not start the game as Charlie Manuel had already told Ben Francisco he would start tonight. Victorino did pinch hit in the 8th and drew a walk. Francisco had a much more interesting game…more on that shortly.
Pitcher Joe Blanton started the game and sadly, had another Blah-anton-type outing. He allowed 3 runs right off the bat in the first inning. After 5 2/3 innings, Blanton had walked 4 batters, allowed 8 hits and 4 runs total. The hole was dug deeper by relief pitcher Chad Durbin who did not provide any relief. Durbin allowed a 2-run homer in the 7th to put the Phillies down 6-2.
But the damage did not end there. JC Romero pitched the 8th inning and while Romero has had trouble of late, this time it was the defense that let him down. Mike Sweeney missed a ground ball at first to start the inning. Carlos Ruiz had an error as well and two unearned runs scored. Jose Contreras came in to relieve Romero and gave up another run.
Down 9-2 going into the bottom of the 8th, it looked like this game was over. Then suddenly, the hits started coming. It began with 4 straight hits: singles from Placido Polanco, Sweeney, Jayson Werth and a double from Francisco. Wilson Valdez got another hit for the 4th run of the inning. The 9-6 score seemed a tad more manageable.
The Dodgers sent their closer in for the 9th, Jonathan Broxton. The same 4 players that ignited the 8th inning rally started another one in the 9th. Polanco was hit by a pitch; Sweeney and Werth both walked. Francisco got on base after an error and 2 runs scored. Just like that, the bases were loaded with no outs for Carlos Ruiz with a 9-8 score. Ruiz smashed a walk-off double to win the game!
The Phillies came back from a 7 run deficit to win the game and take 2 of 3 games in the series. When asked how he felt after the game, Ruiz told Gary Matthews, "I'm happy, I'm so happy." Well Chooch, we are SO happy too! Werth then ran up behind him and dumped a bucket of Gatorade over Ruiz's head. I supposed shaving cream pies are out of fashion now.
Next up: the Mets in New York for the weekend. Game time tomorrow is 7:10pm.
Photos by Jenn Zambri Photography
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How awesome was tonight!!! Congrats on your continued success in the Top MLBlogs standings! I enjoy all your work and enthusiasm. Enjoy the series with the Mets this weekend!
Bastardo, that name makes me giggle with great adolescent pride. Got to be one of the best odd, but poetically justified names in sports.
Seriosuly, great to see that Victorino is back in the Charlie's chicken coop and eager to get the Phillie's ship to the top again.
Going to be a fun 48-odd games, and hopefully the Phillies can regenerate some 2008-2009 magic and go again to the Postseason.
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I wa just sickiening how the Dodger bullpen gave up that game. UGHHHH
Good luck this weekend. No! I really mean it. Hope your team doesn't catch FlushingSuckusTeamImplodus Syndrome.
You might want to bring some boxing gloves, OFF, RAID, and if Johan is pitching….eh hem…some protection too.
Don't say I didn't warn you.
Jean, that was actually Jonathan Broxton who melted down in the ninth. Sherrill finished out the eighth for the Dodgers.
These games, like last night's, are what we live for being a Phillie fan. Their fighting spirit is just so incredible. I was "so happy" for Chooch. It was fun to see him so darn excited as well as the rest of the team. It's not over till it's over!! Barb


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Strong storms swept through the Pittsburgh area around 3:30 PM, putting batting practice in jeopardy. However, they moved off to the east and the skies cleared by 4:30, so BP was a go for today.
I came into today needing six balls to reach the exclusive 500 balls snagged in one season club. It had only been done twice, by Zack Hample in 2008 and 2009.
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My second ball was thrown to me by Chris Resop. That's the first ball that I ever got from Resop, so I was glad to add another player to my thrown list. Thanks Chris.
Season: 503 balls (243 hit, 116 thrown, 72 device, 72 found)
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Another Random Loss….But It Doesn't Matter, Right?
Yanks Lose To The Team I Now Hate
We lost again. That was our third loss in a row. But it doesn't matter, does it? We already clinched, so we are in for sure. But are these losses ruining the momentum of the Yankees? Are they trying their best? Is it wise to rest the players so much, or will they lose their groove at the plate? I don't know. I hope Girardi knows. The Yankees lost last night 5-3.
Pitching Analysis: Andy Pettitte started for the Yankees. He wasn't too good, but he wasn't too bad. They took him out early to give the relievers some work. Andy went 4 & 1/3 innings of 5 run ball (just 3 were earned). His line could have looked better if he pitched longer, but it was more important to test the relievers.
Andy's game face.
Alfredo Aceves and Chad Gaudin pitched in relief last night, and they both did an excellent job. If it wasn't for that error, maybe the Yankees would have had a chance to win.
Defensive Analysis: In the 5th after Andy was pulled for Aceves, something stupid happened. With 1st and 2nd and 1 out, Ace had the runner picked off who was breaking for 3rd. He threw to Hinske, and the ball went off the top of Hinske's glove, and into left field. 2 runs scored, and I was a bit annoyed. Those runs were charged to Andy, and the error was charged to Aceves. I thought it was Hinske's error, because he did get a glove on it. Whatever. The runs scored, it doesn't matter whose fault it was.
Offensive Analysis: The Yankees struggled at the plate once again. They scored just 3 runs on 9 hits. They out-hit the Rays, but they failed to get the big hit. I started to get mad at the Rays again. They hit Jerry Hairston twice, the first time in the kidney and the second time in the shoulder. Poor Jerry.
In the 5th, Johnny Damon got himself a much-needed RBI single, which was followed by an RBI single by Tex. In the 6th, Jerry had an RBi infield single. Other than that, the offense didn't do anything.
What I liked seeing last night was the running game. Gardner had 2 stolen bases, Guzman had one, and Jerry tried to steal but was caught. That's okay, though. I would rather see them get out stealing than just standing there on the base and letting the hitters make out. Stealing bases forces the other team to make the play. If they do, it is no fault on your part, they just deserve credit.
So the Yankees lost again, but I don't think Girardi managed the game to win. He put in all the second-string guys and he pulled Andy early. Is this a problem, though? Shouldn't he try to win so the Yankees have momentum going into the playoffs? Well, in 2000 the Yanks had a rough September and they won it all. This year, we aren't really having a rough September. We clinched early and now we are just casually heading into the postseason. I shouldn't be worrying. The Yankees are the best team; they will be fine. GO YANKEES!
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I think you're right about the whole momentum issue–you definitely want to have a strong momentum going into the playoffs. Then again, you want your starting pitchers to get all the bad out of them and then be ready for the playoffs. I think you'll be just fine!
Not to worry.. the boys are just resting. They'll be ready by mid week when they have to be ; )
I'm sure the Yanks will be fine, Virginia, but I'm a worrier like you. What I haven't liked lately is the offense (well, the pitching too, but that's another story). They don't seem to be taking good swings. Are the bats resting too?
I don't know what it means right now. The Yanks like I said "have half assed it through the end of the season." But just knowing the Yankees, they will come back and win in the first series of the playoffs. : )
Random loss. Hmmm….Ok then, thanks for the win?
We'll take it! Can't do much with it, but still…
Have fun in the postseason! Good luck!
I haven't decided if it's rest or injury prevention…the Phillies only put one starteer in the field today, played all their bench players…funny though they won after losing all week…:-)
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Losing sucks, even when losing or winning means nothing, but I don't think it was because they got outplayed. A part of it probably had to do with not wanting to go 100% against a team that is not in the playoffs when you personally have nothing to gain from it. I'm not saying they tanked on purpose…..maybe that they viewed the games as late ST games.
Virginia, maybe it is a combination of your team relaxing a little and the other team being the spoilers. The Yankees are such a fantastic team, they will come around.
For teams that have already qualified, the last game of the regular season is like a Spring Training Day. A time to relax and enjoy a game without any preasures.
It will all work out…the Yankees should go far in the playoffs! I am rooting for them :O)
Your guys are just relaxing a bit and getting ready for a big postseason. I can't wait for the playoffs! It's going to be so much fun cheering for the Red Sox🙂
Sorry, but the Rays need to show their true colors. I think the Yankees are still in good shape despite the losses.
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I was trying to comment on your latest post but it was giving me a "sorry,cant find….." that was weird. maybe you were taking that post off or updating it. I love reading your posts and I undestand your love for you Yankees. Will keep an eye out for the your future post in that link you gave out.
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I have a concern about a local antibiotic my dentist used today. I have some inflammation and mild infection in the gums around two of my teeth. She inserted a powdered antiobiotic (called Arestin which is a tetracycline/ minocycline) that will dissolve over the next several days. Unfortunately, I was not thinking and neglected to mention that I am nursing.
The Arestin website says it should not be used when pregnant or nursing (but it seems that so many medications simply say that just so they don't have to determine whether it can or cannot be safely used when nursing). Again, this is not an oral/systemic antibiotic, but was just inserted b/w my teeth and gums.
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Following a slew of conflicting court rulings, a federal appeals court has blocked the scheduled execution of a mass killer convicted of eight killings that jolted South Florida in the 1970s. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the stay.
The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' decision Tuesday came during a flurry of legal decisions over claims that 64-year-old John Errol Ferguson suffers from mental illness so severe he cannot be executed.
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Lt. Ronnie Jones of the Bee County Sheriff's Office reported that Sgt. Kevin Behr was sent to the scene of a vehicle accident on FM Road 3355 (Charco Road) at about 6:20 p.m. on March 17.
Behr arrived to find that two vehicles had crashed head-on in the roadway and the 33-year-old holding a handgun threatening to shoot himself.
Other law enforcement officers from the sheriff's office, Beeville Police Department and Highway Patrol arrived at the scene.
Behr tried to get the man to put down the gun but was unsuccessful.
The victim was rushed to Christus Spohn Hospital Beeville by emergency medical service technicians with the Angel Care Ambulance Service. He was pronounced dead shortly after arriving at the emergency room.
Deputy Investigator Lt. John L. Davis said an investigation revealed that the victim had left a note and other evidence in his vehicle that indicated he had planned to take his own life.
The man and his girlfriend also had a history of relationship problems.
According to information gathered at the scene, the victim was driving east on FM 3355 with his four children in the vehicle when he apparently saw his girlfriend coming the other way. The man crossed the center line and struck her vehicle almost head-on.
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Shortly after Behr arrived, bystanders were able to get the woman and the children away from the scene.
Davis said Investigator Sgt. Adam Levine is handling the investigation. He and Davis are being assisted by Sgt. Delilah Pier-Rodriguez, Sheriff Carlos Carrizales Jr. and Chief Deputy Alden Southmayd.
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Home List of Titles Fabrication of Al-based bulk metallic glass by mechanical alloying and vacuum hot consolidation
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- Fabrication of Al-based bulk metallic glass by mechanical alloying and vacuum hot consolidation
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- Wei, Xiu; Han, Fusheng; Wang, Xingfu; Wen, Cui'e
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- The Al75N10Ti10Zr5 bulk amorphous alloys have been synthesized by mechanical alloying and vacuum hot pressing. The as-milled powders and hot pressed samples were examined by X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, and differential scanning calorimetry. The Al75Ni10Ti10Zr5 amorphous powders with a high crystallization temperature of 790 K and a large supercooled liquid region of 49 K were prepared by ball milling elemental powder mixtures for 110 h. The bulk Al75Ni10Ti10Zr5 amorphous alloy was prepared by hot pressing at 733 K for 20 min under a pressure of 3 GPa. The Kissinger analysis indicated that the bulk metallic glasses exhibit high thermal stability. The Vickers microhardness of the bulk samples is in the range of 790-850 HV. The crack paths surrounding the indents of all these samples emanate from the indent corners, indicating that the propagation of cracks occurred by radiation.
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- Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Vol. 501, no. 1 (Jul 2010), pp. 164-167
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- 2010
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- Al-based alloy; Bulk metallic glass; Mechanical alloying; Thermal stability; Vacuum hot pressing
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I absolutely love my morning cup of black coffee. I drank way too much coffee before I got pregnant. I hate to be dependent on something, but I was definitely addicted and couldn't function without it.
Coffee has a profound affect on my mood as well. I feel like I'm unusually receptive to it for my dopamine levels or something. Yeah, I'm just making this up, but I swear it's true.
A couple times in my life, I've been instructed to completely eliminate caffeine, and I will say, after about 2-3 weeks and horrible withdrawals, my energy levels were much more stable and I had more energy overall.
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Personally I won't touch the stuff while I'm breastfeeding, but that's just me. I don't think the available research is comprehensive enough in terms of outcomes measured. But I do miss coffee so very much, oh well my body really has gotten used to life without caffeine.
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Well for all the people who think the ingest no caffine, I wonder if they stopped eating chocolate???? I drank only decaf while pregnant, & drank a mix of decaf & regular until I went back to work, but I'm back to 2 regular cups of coffee a day. I dont drink any soda & only herbal teas, so my major forms of caffiene are coffee & chocolate. I have noticed that it does effect my DS when I have too much.
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I've never noticed an effect on my baby. But all babies are different. It makes me feel happy too BUT it can also make me feel very anxious. It all depends on my mood overall I think. When my DD was little I had to stop drinking it because of the anxiety I had with leaving her to go to work - caffeine made it much worse.
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I honestly don't know why I am such an addict. I only have one cup every morning, but if I don't get that cup, watch out! Headaches, foggy mind, irritable, yuck!
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I drink mucho coffee. All day long. When I was nursing Nora I'd stop drinking it after about 2 pm because I noticed it would affect my her sleep. It didn't affect my son the same way.
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A walk that killed thousands. A moment to remember a dark day in history.
On Tuesday, veterans gathered on this Day of Valor at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl to pay their respects to Filipino and American soldiers who were forced to walk to their deaths.
"We mark this day because so many Filipino and Americans sacrificed their lives," said Philippine Consulate General Julius Torres.
Seventy-one years ago, tens of thousands of soldiers were forced to begin marching 66 miles under brutal conditions, in what became known as the Bataan Death March.
"Seventy-five thousand troops surrendered to the Japanese army and that was the start of the death march," said Torres.
With little food or water, nearly 10,000 Filipinos and Americans died walking from Bataan to a prisoner of war camp 66 miles to the north.
"They did not yield their spirit and their sacrifices were not in vain," said Lt. Gen. Thomas Conant.
While Sen. Brian Schatz could not attend the ceremony, he introduced a bill that would ensure that Filipino soldiers who fought for the U.S. during World War II are provided full veteran benefits.
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Here is a whole set of things around Governments becoming more effective that I just learned and wanted to share!!!
IBM has helped the DVLA to become the largest provider of electronic services in the UK public sector and one of Britain's top 10 online retailers. More than 40% of UK motorists now buy their car tax discs online or over the telephone.
IBM leads the International Technology Alliance (ITA) a collaboration with the UK's MoD and the US Department of Defense/US Army Research Laboratory that is tackling some of the most difficult fundamental science and technology challenges facing our armed forces. ITA in the UK is led by the IBM Emerging Technologies Laboratory in Hursley.
From the middle of 2009, the UK weather forecasts from the Met Office that you hear on the radio and see on your television will be brought to you from an IBM supercomputer. The supercomputer is supported by a new IBM data archive system which holds several petabytes of data and is one of the largest data repositories in the world - that's several million, million megabytes (or if you prefer several million, million, million bytes).
This is the first time in meteorological history that both of Europe's foremost weather forecasting centres - the Met Office and the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasting (ECMWF) - have selected the same supplier . Once operational, they will be the two most powerful systems in the UK and are expected to bring a socioeconomic benefit of hundreds of millions of pounds over the next few years from better forecasting and climate research.
Southwest One, the first shared services joint venture in the country that includes both Police and local authorities, is on target to save the tax payers of Somerset County Council and Taunton Deane Borough Council, £200 million over 10 years and help the Avon and Somerset Police Authority protect and improve front-line policing.
At the UK Border Agency, IBM's Semaphore system has tracked over 78 million passenger journeys through UK airports since 2005, and has issued over 33,500 alerts to the law enforcement authorities leading to more than 2,700 arrests.
IBM helps to keep the RAF fleet of over 500 aircraft in the air by tracking and controlling over 700,000 repairable assets and confirming that aircraft are serviceable for flight. Since 2004, IBM has helped the RAF protect UK Air Space through a real-time command and control system that at any moment in the day tracks the thousands of commercial and military aircraft in the skies above us, and enables the RAF to intercept any aircraft identified as potentially hostile or posing a terrorist threat.
Every month almost 100,000 MoD civil servants are paid through a system designed, built and supported by IBM. Every year, the Aeronautical Rescue Co-ordination Centre (ARCC) based at RAF Kinloss responds to more than 1,800 Search and Rescue incidents , saving lives through efficient co-ordination of information and assets through IBM Rescue Co-ordination System.
By the middle of 2009, four of the five worldwide top 100 supercomputers operating in the UK will be from IBM. They are at: the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasting (ECMWF), the Met Office, a public sector organisation and Bristol University . The only worldwide top 100 supercomputer in the UK not from IBM, and in third position, is at Edinburgh University.
The Institute of Life Science (ILS) at Swansea University's School of Medicine is using its IBM supercomputer, Blue C, to unlock unexpected insights from unstructured data - 20 new high quality research papers have been published in just over a year.
Cheshire County Council has achieved a 20% reduction in the time and cost required to perform in-home senior visits , and improved its ability to proactively manage the course of health and social care for senior citizens using a system designed and hosted by IBM.[Read More]
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Credomatic - An Innovative Bank in Central America
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While in Costa Rica, I had the pleasure of meeting with an innovative team for IT at Credomatic. Their leader & CTO, Alfonso Salvo, approaches the business with a focus on value.
Who is Credomatic? The company is a leader in Central America. Credomatic began its operations in Nicaragua in 1971. Subsequently, it expanded throughout Central America as the pioneer in the bankcard industry, forming Grupo Credomatic, a network of service providers of integrated credit card issuing and merchant acquiring services. The development of financial products and services combined with quality, state-of-the-art technology and experience has given Grupo Credomatic a leadership position in the Central American financial market. As one of the signature brands within the BAC Financial Network, Grupo Credomatic has been able to successfully adapt to changes in the competitive environment, thereby consolidating its leadership position in the payment systems industry in Central America. Grupo Credomatic has an extensive network of financial institutions across Central America, the Caribbean and Miami.
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I am here in Costa Rica meeting with our Partner GBM and customers and had the honor of being able to meet the President of Costa Rica -- Oscar Arias Sanchez. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his efforts to end civil wars in Central American countries. He is an amazing man well versed in IT.
Along with Gabriela Llobet, they gave us an overview of IT in Costa Rica. There are over 700 software companies here with over 10.6% of the country's GDP coming from ICT. Given they do not fund an army they invest in training and technology. They are the #1 high technology exporter in Latin American and the 4th largest in the world. They receive about $1.9B foreign investment in IT -- more than China, Brazil or Mexico.
They are super creative and technology focused. I was very impressed with the customers and partner I met here. In addition, I sat with Dr Roberto Sasso. He has helped Costa Rica with a digital strategy.Check it out!http://www.clubdeinvestigacion.com/
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Astronomers have conducted a remote reconnaissance of a distant solar system with a new telescope imaging system that sifts through the blinding light of stars. Using a suite of high-tech instrumentation and software called Project 1640, the scientists collected the first chemical fingerprints, or spectra, of this system's four red exoplanets, which orbit a star 128 light years away from Earth.
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What did extinct dinosaurs eat—and how do we know it? Find out more from Michael J. Novacek, the Museum's provost of science, and Mark A. Norell, chair of the Division of Paleontology, in a video.
A Walking Whale: Ambulocetus
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Like hippos, their closest living relatives, whales are descended from an ancestor that had four legs and walked on land, a transition explored in the upcoming exhibition Whales: Giants of the Deep, opening March 23.
Milstein Science Series Kicks Off March 10
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This spring, as the Museum celebrates the 10-year anniversary of the Irma and Paul Milstein Family Hall of Ocean Life, visitors can be transported to remote South Pacific coral reefs, the Cocos Island off Costa Rica, and other fascinating destinations as part of this season's Milstein Science Series.
Study: Bumble Bees Decline, Other Species Persist in Northeastern USA
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UPDATE: Thanks to everyone who tuned in to our live Google+ Hangout! Here's a replay of the chat.
Mark your calendars! This Tuesday, February 26 at 12:00 noon ET, we'll be chatting live with some of the stars behind Gilda's LaughFest in Grand Rapids.
LaughFest – happening in March 7 – 17, 2013 in Grand Rapids – is fast becoming one of the nation's "must attend" festivals, celebrating laughter for the health of it. Now in its third year, LaughFest features laughter in all forms including: comedy, live performance, improv, film, and a variety of other seriously funny stuff. Plus, there's a chance for attendees to help set a Guinness World Record! We'll be covering all the details in this 30 minute live Hangout!
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There's a deleted scene from the movie 10000 BC in which the affable character Tic'Tic remarks to D'leh that Evolet will probably pretend to have a headache the first night they're together after he rescues her if he doesn't ask her how her day's been. This shows that terrible observations about the different ways men and women think have existed for thousands of years. Or it would if I hadn't made that up and 10000 BC had been in any way factual or even remotely interesting, which of course it wasn't. But if I hadn't ruined it by pointing that out, that may have been a good setup for my premise here -- that there are some legitimate differences between the sexes that cannot be overcome or understood. There are things men will never understand about the world of women. But there are reasons why. Come, let us understand humanity's myriad differences together!
The vagina is a black morass of confusion. You can be a cyborg gynecologist and not fully understand that thing. If we had no standards on Cracked, I'd go into greater detail about the weird things I've seen on vagina-centric websites, but instead I'll say that, beyond the biology of the thing, it's really as hard to get a hold of as a unicorn.
Women menstruate. I learned this on a bus, you may have learned it elsewhere. That's fine. Ladies also require a method of dealing with this, and the result is the one-two sanitation punch of pads and tampons. Go, ladies! That said, I don't think any man, anywhere, fully understands pads. In fact, I'm willing to bet a lot of women don't. Have you seen the pad aisle in a store? It's fucking huge. How does that come to pass? How is there more than one kind? What the hell is the Poise pad that Kirstie Alley is trying to sell me?
The limit of my understanding, having been sent to purchase pads in the past -- if I were a more dishonest person, I would say it was for my beautiful fiery red-headed girlfriend, but I will concede it was actually for my mom -- is that there are a handful of different types that boil down to small, medium and large. Like drink sizes at Taco Bell, this is based on fluid retention. The big ones, you see, are for overnight, because when you sleep you're horizontal and the fluid levels even out, and tidal forces plus sphagnum cause excessive leakage. Or whatever. Medium are for business ladies and small are for chicks who have stuff written on their asses that we're not unsettled to read.
The reason men don't understand pads is pretty simple and can best be exemplified with the following graphic:
Logic dictates that a spill will require more or less effort to clean based on its size, but whether a dribble or a crotchy deluge, that small, medium or large should be able to cover it, and that should mean there's three kinds of pads. But good God, there's not three kinds of pads. Look at this screenshot from Kirstie Alley's house:
These things start at 7.5 inches. That means, to start, they're gauged by length, not fluid retention, which means it's not about how much juice your tomato is making, it's how big your hothouse is. For real? And then it goes up to 15.6 inches. Are you shitting me? Over a foot? You need over a foot of hoo-ha coverage? What kind of lawless crotch circus are you carting around with you? Do you know what else is about 15.6 inches? A size 22 shoe. Shaq could wear that pad on his foot.
The Always website gives you the option to navigate to like five different products. Infinity, Radiant, Tsunami Drop-Kick, the Red Fist of Rage ... God knows what else, because I refuse to click those links. They're just going to lead to more links and we all know it. Everything in the world of pads is needlessly complicated, probably for marketing and profit-based reasons. It's set up to be far too confusing for a man who never needs to use the things and thus has no vested interest in understanding them. But for real, you can get them as big as Shaq's foot.
If you're married, you should know your anniversary. Celebrating an anniversary may seem arbitrary, but if you place any value on your relationship, you're acknowledging that it had a set point in time when it began and you're celebrating that fact because you want to celebrate your relationship as a whole. It's a wonderful thing and you enjoy it and want to share it with the person you love.
There is no such thing as a two-week anniversary. That "ann" part in "anniversary" is taken from "annual," and the "iversary" part is Latin for "fuck a two-week anniversary." If you're willing to commemorate an event on a yearly basis, that shit better be awesome.
Men notoriously have trouble remembering important dates. There are probably numerous instances of Tim Allen making jokes about this. Oh no, I forgot my wife's birthday! Zoinks! Better get her a gift at the gas station! "Ha ha," laugh the soulless abominations in the audience. "Ha ha," laugh the vacant mouth-breathers around their banana pudding at home. "Ha ha," laughs no one else, especially you, because why would you be watching Tim Allen? Exactly. But that's not the point.
Ha ha ha! Wilson!
Men, even men with chromosomes more or less on a level with Tim Allen, are technically capable of remembering dates. We remember our own birthdays, we generally remember Christmas, we remember when we booked time off work to go see Guns N' Roses live and then Axl Rose freaked out and the show was cancelled and everyone had to riot.
Men have issues with those anniversaries, though for a real reason, in fact, not just bullshit I'm about to make up. It's because men remember things in a genetically different way than women. Look, I sourced it!
Dudes are better with spatial memory and facts. Trying to remember dates requires a whole different set of brains than what men have, so dates, especially dates they haven't had to remember since childhood, get pushed aside for facts about how many actors were hurt on set during the filming of Predator. Did you know they originally cast Jean-Claude van Damme as the alien, but he was too short? Ha ha, little Belgian!


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Nutrition and Wellness Programs
Menu Certification Resources
Certification Options
- Option 1, Nutrient Analysis – School Food Authority (SFA) submits:
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Certification Worksheets
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